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Michelle Malkin:
The media fog of war — ***4:30pm Eastern update: when it rains, it pours...here's a third must-read from milblogger John Noonan raising questions about AP stringer Bassem Mroue. One of the top stories over the Thanksgiving holiday came from the Associated (with terrorists) Press …
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Willful Suspension of Disbelief, redux — From Curt at Flopping Aces comes the news many of us quietly expected: Centcom has confirmed that Capt. Jamil Hussein, the primary source for the recent kerosene mosque murder reports—and for a whole host of reports of Shia massacres recounted by the AP …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell: Centcom says AP's Iraqi police source isn't Iraqi police; Update: Fake cop linked to AP reporter? — I laid off this post at Flopping Aces initially because I didn't think there was anything particularly suspicious about the cop. Centcom was disputing his report …
SeeDubya / JunkYardBlog:
Does AP Iraqi writer Qais al-Bashir have super powers?
Does AP Iraqi writer Qais al-Bashir have super powers?
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Flopping Aces
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The media's sudden intense interest in the House Intelligence Committee — The New Republic's Michael Crowley last night noticed something about Jane Harman that has evaded most Beltway commentators, including those who have suddenly developed such a bizarre and uncharacteristic interest …
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The New Republic:
Click Here to Subscribe Today … 1- — Crowley on staff before the war? — I believe Crowley has been at TNR for a decade or so. I read that he was hired by Mike Kelly to be a fact checker in 1996, but he must have been promoted immediately — otherwise he would have been a fact checker during …
The Blotter:
U.S. Embassy Asks Bush Twins to Leave Country — Joe Goldman and Rhonda Schwartz Report: — Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials "strongly suggested" President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues …
Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
W library in record book — $500M center would be priciest for a Prez — DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF — WASHINGTON - He may be a certified lame duck now, but President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In Need of New Moves, but in Which Direction?
In Need of New Moves, but in Which Direction?
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side — Militia Seen as Heroic In Aiding Bomb Victims — In the chaos, Ayad al-Fartoosi thrived. — Against a backdrop of death and panic in Sadr City last Thursday, he strode confidently through streets littered with burning cars and charred bodies.
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Haaretz:
Erekat: Despite violation, truce can and must hold — By Haaretz Service and News Agencies — Palestinian lawmaker Saeb Erekat on Monday condemned a Qassam rocket strike on Israel from Gaza earlier in the day, but said that the day-old cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians "can work, and I believe we have to make it work."
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Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events:
Is Putin Being Set Up? — PARIS—Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin. — Which leads me to believe Putin had nothing to do with it.
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Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices — A decade into the practice of medicine, still striving to become "a well regarded physician-scientist," Robert H. Glassman concluded that he was not making enough money. So he answered an ad in the New England Journal of Medicine from a business consulting firm hiring doctors.
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Althouse, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, The Democratic Daily, Greg Mankiw's Blog, The American Scene and EconLog
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Los Angeles Times:
On drug prices, are Democrats in a fix? — WASHINGTON — With millions of seniors facing premium hikes for their Medicare prescription plans, Democrats say they have a solution: Use the government's massive buying power to bargain for rock-bottom drug prices.
USA Today:
Democratic gains in suburbs spell trouble for GOP — WASHINGTON — Democrats made large gains in suburbia in this month's elections, pushing Republican turf to the outer edges of major population centers in a trend that could signal trouble for the GOP, an analysis shows.
Bloomberg:
Ahmadinejad Predicts Collapse of Israel, U.S., U.K. (Update1) — Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the collapse of Israel, the U.S. and Britain, attacking what he called their ``oppressive behavior.'' — ``The Zionist regime is on a steep downhill towards collapse …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
A Fix for Social Security? — How Personal Accounts Could Please Both Sides — The next six months could be a productive time for economic policy. After a wasted 2005-06 cycle, in which the Bush administration approached entitlement reform too confidently and Democrats refused to talk, both sides may return to the table.
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
A G.O.P. Breed Loses Its Place in New England — It was a species as endemic to New England as craggy seascapes and creamy clam chowder: the moderate Yankee Republican. — Dignified in demeanor, independent in ideology and frequently blue in blood, they were politicians in the mold …
Saeed Ahmed / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Informant in shooting says he never bought drugs at house — Says he was asked to lie — The confidential informant on whose word Atlanta police raided the house of an 88-year-old woman is now saying he never purchased drugs from her house and was told by police to lie and say he did.
Robert Weller / Associated Press:
Woman faces fines for wreath peace sign — DENVER - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti- Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Interview With Bob Woodward — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): "State of Denial." The best- selling author who says the Bush administration has bungled the war talks …
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
MAD AS HELL — Regular viewers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight," on CNN, might be surprised at the venue that Dobbs chose for lunch not long ago: the Grill Room of the Four Seasons, a midtown bastion of the very same political and business "élites" that he denounces daily on his television program.
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
NBC Declares 'Civil War' In Iraq, McCaffrey: WH Rejection of Term 'Nonsense' — My antenna went up when Matt Lauer opened this morning's "Today" with these words: "Good morning. Civil war. A bloody weekend of sectarian clashes in Iraq and no sign it's letting up." — "Civil war"?
Sfarber / the talking dog:
TD Blog Interview with Michael Berube — Michael Berube writes the very popular eponymous blog of that name, teaches English (holding a chair as Paterno Family Professor of Literature at the Pennsylvania State University), is the author of "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?" …