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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
CIA Still At War With Bush — The CIA is still leaking like a sieve to the liberal media and endangering our national security. Seymour Hersh - who hates America - is at it again. He uses basically useless intelligence (satellite images) to conclude there is no effort by Iran to create a nuclear bomb.
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Pentagon Review Sees Three Options in Iraq — More Training of Iraqi Troops a Likely Focus — The Pentagon's closely guarded review of how to improve the situation in Iraq has outlined three basic options: Send in more troops, shrink the force but stay longer, or pull out, according to senior defense officials.
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PR Newswire:
Rep. Rangel Will Seek to Reinstate Draft — A senior House Democrat said Sunday he will introduce legislation to reinstate the military draft, asserting that current troop levels are insufficient to sustain possible challenges against Iran, North Korea and Iraq.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Amid Uproar Over War, Rangel Renews Call for Draft — Both Parties Grapple With Iraq As They Await Study Group's Report — The incoming Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said yesterday that he will push to renew the military draft, as lawmakers in both parties sharpened …
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Kerry: Botched Joke Won't Affect 2008 — Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry insisted on Sunday his "botched joke" about President Bush's Iraq policy would not undermine a possible White House campaign in 2008. — "Not in the least," Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in said when asked …
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Paul J. Gough / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Channel preps right-leaning satire — Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a "Daily Show"-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility that it could become a weekly show for the channel.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Preferences Forever? — The University of Michigan's president does her best George Wallace impersonation. — Michigan voters struck a blow for equality this month, when 58% of them approved an amendment to the state constitution banning racial discrimination in public universities and contracting.
TMZ.com:
"Kramer's" Racist Tirade — Caught on Tape — WARNING: WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS PROFANE AND RACIAL — Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The 'Confession' — An illiterate double-murder's killer book. — Just thinking aloud here, but what do you suppose the reaction of Fox News and the Murdoch press would be if Black Entertainment Television had commissioned a lucrative tie-in for O.J. Simpson, and had sat …
Thomas F. Schaller / The Gadflyer:
Why Does the Non-Southern Strategy Drive People Batty? — It is increasingly clear to me that either my non-southern strategy argument causes people to take leave of their senses (particularly their mathematical abilities), or they simply refuse to accept compelling and mounting evidence as fact.
Telegraph:
Republicans plot to bring down Pelosi ... and Clinton with her — New Speaker's embarrassing week has made it easier for her opponents to attack — Republican strategists plotting their party's comeback after it lost control of Congress have identified the "first lady" …
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David Seifman / New York Post:
CRITICS TO KICK RUDY PATOOTIE — NY FOES TARGET 'AMERICA'S MAYOR' IMAGE — Some of Rudy Giuliani's fiercest city critics are set to launch "swift boat"-type strikes to inform voters around the nation about the former mayor's behavior before 9/11, The Post has learned.
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WCBS-TV:
Anti-War Activists Plan 'Global Orgasm For Peace' — (CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. — But they don't want you marching in the streets. They'd much rather you just stay home.
BBC:
Saddam trial 'flawed and unsound' — The trial of Saddam Hussein was so flawed that its verdict is unsound, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch says. — HRW said "serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects" meant the 5 November trial for crimes against humanity was not fair.
Patrick / FishBowlDC:
BREAKING: VandeHei, Harris Leave Washington Post To Start New, Multimedia News Venture — And Capitol Leader, as you thought you knew it, is not what it used to be. — Some of you may have looked at Capitol Leader's decision to push back their publication launch as, well, a sign that they may not have had their act together.