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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rangel says men join the army only if they can't have "a decent career" — Hence his support for the draft. If even our volunteers are there involuntarily, why shouldn't everyone be? … This won't get as much attention as what Lurch said (or was understood to have said) a few weeks ago.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
We Gotta Draft 'Em Because They're So Dumb
We Gotta Draft 'Em Because They're So Dumb
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Flopping Aces
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Iraq Study Group Weighs Overture to Iran and Syria — A draft report on strategies for Iraq, which will be debated here by a bipartisan commission beginning Monday, urges an aggressive regional diplomatic initiative that includes direct talks with Iran and Syria but sets no timetables …
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Power Line, Political Animal, PBD, Israel Matzav, LiberalOasis, PoliBlog (TM), Daily Kos, Unqualified Offerings and Matthew Yglesias
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Louise Roug / Los Angeles Times:
Angry Shiites hurl stones at Maliki's motorcade — BAGHDAD — Angry Shiite Muslims pelted Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's motorcade with stones today after the Iraqi leader pleaded for national reconciliation at a memorial in Sadr City held for victims of a large-scale bombing attack last week.
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Times of London:
Obama lifted by hand of God — Rising black star of Democrats connects with evangelicals — IN THE latest sign that the "God gap" between Republicans and Democrats is narrowing, one of America's biggest evangelical churches will this week welcome Senator Barack Obama …
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TalkLeft
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
At the Inquirer, Shrink Globally, Slash Locally? — Brian Tierney, a onetime critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer who wound up buying the paper, is determined to take his new property in a different direction. — "We don't need a Jerusalem bureau," he says. "What we need are more people in the South Jersey bureau."
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.
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MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Nov. 25 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: One year ago the Republican governor of California had an approval rating of just 32 percent. His disapproval: sky-high at 58 percent. And yet, two weeks ago, in the midst of a national Democratic landslide, he was overwhelmingly re-elected.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
How many pecks of pickled peppers did Friedman pick?
How many pecks of pickled peppers did Friedman pick?
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Eschaton
Mary Lynn Smith / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
'Makings of bomb' found in airport car — A worker discovered the device in the trunk of a returned rental car. It didn't contain explosives but the FBI is investigating. — A bomb-like device was found in a rental car Sunday morning at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport …
Neil Johnson / TBO.com:
Hurricane Predictions Off Track As Tranquil Season Wafts Away — More from this channel: — This feature requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin. Please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/ getflashplayer to download this plugin. — It was not the hurricane season we expected, thank you.
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Bring back Saddam Hussein — Restoring the dictator to power may give Iraqis the jolt of authority they need. Have a better solution? — THE DEBATE about Iraq has moved past the question of whether it was a mistake (everybody knows it was) to the more depressing question of whether it is possible to avert total disaster.
Mike Allen / Time:
Can a Mormon be President? — Why Mitt Romney will have to explain a faith that remains mysterious to many — A mormon church official and a public relations executive shuttled recently from the Fox News Washington bureau to the Washington Post to the online political digest the Hotline.
Fiona MacRae / Daily Mail:
UK scientists invent male 'pill' that can be taken hours before sex — British scientists have developed a revolutionary pill that men could take as a one-off contraceptive just before a date. — The tablet would prevent a man from being able to impregnate a woman, but within a few hours his fertility would return to normal.
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Don Surber
David Wise / Los Angeles Times:
Is Russia back to its old poisonous tricks? — The death of a prominent Russian defector is reminiscent of the Soviet KGB's penchant for using poison to kill its enemies. — THE COLD WAR was supposed to have ended 15 years ago, but the death in London of Alexander V. Litvinenko presents Scotland Yard …
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Decision '08
Brian Ellsworth / Reuters:
Chavez vows to beat the "devil" — CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington.
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Classical Values