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11:25 AM ET, November 22, 2006

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Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
Response to the Terrorist assassination of Pierre Gemayel  —  "Removing Lahoud and applying Chapter 7"  —  The assassination of Minister Pierre Gemayel in Beirut is another war crime against the democratically elected Government and Parliament of Lebanon, and another strike in the Terror War waged …
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Opinion Journal:
Assassins and Diplomacy  —  Another murder in Beirut for Jim Baker to contemplate.  —  Former Secretary of State James Baker has been saying that, when it comes to diplomacy, you don't "restrict your conversations to your friends"—shorthand for the view that the U.S. should engage Syria …
Editor and Publisher:
New Survey: Iraqis Want a Speedy U.S. Exit — and Back Attacks on Our Forces  —  NEW YORK Past surveys have hinted at this result, but a new poll in Iraq makes it more stark than ever: the Iraqi people want the U.S. to exit their country.  And most Iraqis now approve of attacks on U.S. forces …
Discussion: Donklephant
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Bomb Blasts Speaker's Car in Green Zone  —  A bomb exploded in an armored car among those belonging to the speaker of Parliament, wounding the American security guard who was driving it out of a parking area in the government Green Zone and disrupting a meeting of lawmakers nearby, a parliamentary aide said.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
U.N.: Iraqi civilian deaths at new high
Discussion: Democrats.com
Tom Hayden / The Huffington Post:
U.S. Retreat from Iraq? The Secret Story
Discussion: Informed Comment
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
An Ideologue for Hire Gets New Alliance  —  Senator Joseph I. Lieberman announced Tuesday that he had hired a new spokesman, which is not in itself that noteworthy, except that the said spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, is one of the great career vagabonds, ideological contortionists …
Libby Sander / New York Times:
6 Imams Removed From Flight for Behavior Deemed Suspicious  —  Six Muslim religious leaders were taken off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis on Monday evening and detained for several hours after some passengers and crew members complained of behavior they deemed suspicious, including prayers at the gate.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: U.S. Secretary of Education loses big on Celebrity Jeopardy  —  What's more embarrassing than being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy?  Being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy by Lenny from "Laverne & Shirley."
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Nancy Zuckerbrod / Houston Chronicle:
Ed. secretary places 2nd on 'Jeopardy'  —  WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night's airing of "Celebrity Jeopardy!"  —  "I didn't want to be the education secretary who didn't know how to spell potato," Spellings joked …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
WSB-TV:
Elderly Woman Killed; 3 APD Officers Wounded  —  ATLANTA — Three Atlanta police officers were shot and wounded and an elderly woman killed at a house in northwest Atlanta Tuesday night.  —  The woman, who relatives say was 92-years-old, opened fire on the officers from the narcotics division …
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Radley Balko / Reason Magazine:
Here We Go Again  —  Police in Altanta have apparently shot …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Some Curbs on Sex Offenders Called Ineffective, Inhumane  —  As convicted sex offenders go, they seem to pose little danger.  —  One is 100 years old.  Another can barely walk and is in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease.  Another is dying of heart disease in a nursing home.
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
HHS Nominee Has Prescribed Birth Control  —  Spokeswoman Stresses Keroack's Private Practice Over Role in Christian Group  —  Despite his work for a Christian pregnancy counseling group that opposes contraception, the physician who yesterday began overseeing federal family-planning programs …
Discussion: Feministing and TBogg
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Associated Press:
Republicans Clinch House Races in Ohio, New Mexico  —  More than a week after Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-N.M.) claimed a razor-thin election victory, her Democratic challenger conceded yesterday, saying that a recount would cost too much and that there was no guarantee it would reverse the result.
Discussion: TAPPED and TIME
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Reno Joins Criticism of Anti-Terror Strategy  —  Former Prosecutors Urge Court to Act Against Indefinite Detention of Suspects  —  Former attorney general Janet Reno has taken the unusual step of openly criticizing the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy — joining seven …
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Pass a Drumstick, and an Olive Branch  —  COOKS can control the Thanksgiving menu, but when the dishes leave the kitchen, things can unravel fast.  —  Family grudges buried by time and distance resurface.  New girlfriends meet ex-husbands.  Prius drivers make small talk with S.U.V. owners.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Spoils of Prime Office Space Go to Democrats  —  Forget those pesky leadership fights.  The folks who run Congress are now getting down to what really matters on Capitol Hill: dividing up the office space.  —  In something of a break with recent tradition, the incoming Democratic speaker …
Discussion: The Right Angle
BBC:
Israel to probe cluster bomb use  —  The Israeli army is to investigate the way cluster bombs were used during the recent conflict with Hezbollah.  —  The chief of the defence staff has said he prohibited the wide use of the munitions during the conflict.  —  But human rights observers …
Discussion: Biased BBC and The Big Pharaoh
 
 
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