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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Clinton Rules Redux — Man are these catty little MSNBC snots enjoying their full-on Demo bitch fest. They are partying like it's 1999. Norah O'Donnell, Lawrence O'Donnell, Mary Ann Akers and some other person I don't know have just spent half an hour discussing the fact that Nancy Pelosi ruined …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Beltway attacks on Nancy Pelosi — The mindless group-think driving the media's caricatures of Nancy Pelosi is truly astounding to behold, even considering the source. She's not even Speaker yet, and they've already pronounced her to be a bitchy, vindictive shrew incapable of leading …
New York Times:
Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster
Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraq Issues Warrant for Arrest of Sunni Cleric — An Iraqi at the Baghdad morgue inspects the coffin of a victim in a shooting at a bakery Thursday morning. Nine people were killed in that attack. — The government issued an arrest warrant late Thursday for Sheik Harith al-Dhari …
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Frank Brieaddy / beliefnet:
Philanthropy Expert: Conservatives Are More Generous — SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is about to become the darling of the religious right in America — and it's making him nervous. — The child of academics, raised in a liberal household and educated …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Tells Conservatives G.O.P.'s Defeat Was Payback for Losing 'Our Principles' — Senator John McCain said Thursday that Republicans had lost the midterm elections because "we abandoned our principles" on fiscal policy and government restraint, inviting a backlash from Americans over what they saw as widespread hypocrisy.
Washington Post:
GOP Chooses Boehner as Minority Leader — House Republicans this morning voted to return two of their top officials to high-ranking leadership posts in the next Congress, despite challenges from representatives who said the party's defeat at the polls 10 days ago warranted putting new people at the helm.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
REPORT: Karl Rove May Be Leaving The White House In 'Weeks, Not Months' — The White House Bulletin, a service of Bulletin News, reports that White House senior political adviser Karl Rove — aka "Bush's Brain" — may soon be on his way out: … Early this year, Rove gave up his role …
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David Lazar / Daily Bruin News Headlines:
Beware of easy knee-jerk reactions — Police are here for our safety, so resist the urge to pass judgment until you know all the facts — In my opinion, he was asking for it. — When Mostafa Tabatabainejad refused to present his BruinCard in Powell Library when asked during a routine check …
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Holcomb B. Noble / New York Times:
Milton Friedman, 94, Free-Market Theorist, Dies — Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward less government and greater reliance on individual responsibility, died yesterday. He was 94 and lived in San Francisco.
Carrie Budoff / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Santorum: No oval office run — Some backers sought an '08 campaign, but he said: "Absolutely, positively not." — Don't expect to see Sen. Rick Santorum's name on the 2008 presidential ballot. — "Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely not," Santorum said yesterday on The Michael Smerconish Show on WPHT-AM (1210).
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Guardian:
Cracked it! — Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes? — Six months ago, with the help of a rather scary computer expert …
Reuters:
Israel developing anti-militant "bionic hornet" —Text+JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
Daily Mail:
Jedi Knights demand Britain's fourth largest 'religion' receives recognition — With their vast intergalactic knowledge and ability to harness the Force, the task of convincing UN officials to recognise their cause should be a walkover for a pair of Jedi Knights.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Issues Front and Center — Big Ideas for Democrats: Health Care, Energy and Economic Inequality — The Democrats now have the opportunity the Republicans spurned, which is to build a broad coalition in the center and become once again the nation's governing party.
Andrew Bridges / Associated Press:
Ban on Silicone Breast Implants Lifted — WASHINGTON — The government ended a 14-year virtual ban on silicone-gel breast implants Friday despite lingering safety questions, making the devices available to tens of thousands of women who have clamored for them.
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
OUR ENEMIES' GLEE — ISLAMISTS DREAM BIG AFTER U.S. ELEX — RADICAL elements across the Middle East see last Tuesday's defeat of President Bush's Republican Party as their victory. — Calling the election "the beginning of the end for Bush," Ayatollah Imami Kashani told a Friday congregation …
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The Carville Claims: A Closer Look — James Carville has been generating a wave of publicity in criticizing DNC Chair Howard Dean for not sufficiently funding competitive House races. He's claimed the Democrats could have won another dozen seats if the DNC allocated more money in the campaign's final weeks.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Digg it: How you can help conservative blogs; Update: Readers weigh in — I've been meaning to write about this for awhile and now lazy Friday's given me the chance. — People occasionally e-mail us asking for a PayPal button so that they can donate. That's kind of them …
Bull Moose:
Hibernating Moose — For now, the Moose bids adieu to his Mooseketeers. — It's been a good run. The Moose has tremendously enjoyed musing, observing and holding forth on the issues of the day. But, for the time being, this cervine creature will not be seen in cyberspace.
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Senate Approves Nuclear Cooperation With India — The Senate gave overwhelming approval late Thursday to President Bush's deal for nuclear cooperation with India, a vote that expressed that a goal of nurturing India as an ally outweighed concerns over the risks of spreading nuclear know-how and bomb-making materials.
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Jim Suhr / Associated Press:
Gay penguin book shakes up Ill. school — SHILOH, Ill. - A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents who worry about the book's availability to children — and the reluctance of school administrators to restrict access to it.
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