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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? — President Bush leaves for Europe on Monday uncertain of the Washington he will return to, or even his place in it. — Certainly the pressure is on for Mr. Bush to right a presidency mired in low poll ratings, beset by an unpopular war …
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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Danny / Beltway Blogroll:
In The Blog's-Eye: The Impeached Former Judge — To voters in Florida's 23rd District, Democrat Alcee Hastings is their representative in the House. They first elected him by 59 percent of the vote in 1992 and subsequently have returned him to Congress by margins ranging from 73 percent to 100 percent.
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 …
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 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell: Centcom says AP's Iraqi police source isn't Iraqi police; Update: New AP story alleges U.S. massacre in Baghdad suburb — I laid off this post at Flopping Aces initially because I didn't think there was anything particularly suspicious about the cop.
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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Aljazeera:
Olmert offers prisoner swaps — Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has said Israel is ready to "withdraw from considerable territory", free Palestinian prisoners and release funds to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for the return of a soldier seized in June.
Independent:
Litvinenko: police probe claims he may have killed himself — Detectives investigating the death of Alexander Litvinenko were last night examining the possibility that the former spy killed himself to discredit Vladimir Putin. — Increasing concerns over the reliability …
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Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events:
Is Putin Being Set Up? — PARIS—Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko …
Is Putin Being Set Up? — PARIS—Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko …
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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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Barney Frank to Chris Wallace: "You have an odd view of balance" — Following President Clinton's lead, Barney Frank criticized Chris Wallace yesterday of having an "odd view of balance" after asking questions about pressure from liberal activists, tax increases on the rich, abortion …
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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.
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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"?
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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 …
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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David Paul Kuhn / Washington Post:
The Gospel According to Jim Wallis — For Democrats to win back the White House, they may well have to rely on the power of the Almighty. And it's not Bill Clinton. — JIM WALLIS IS PREACHING ABOUT A BIBLE TORN APART. Wallis tells the crowd at the Seattle Pacific University chapel …
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.
Bruce Bawer / New York Sun:
Sending a Grim Message — The Nobel Peace Prize Concert will be held in Oslo on December 11 and broadcast around the world. The Norwegian Nobel Committee doesn't much care for Americans these days (except for 2002 laureate Jimmy Carter), but it knows who's an international draw and who isn't …
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.
Ben Stein / New York Times:
In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning — NOT long ago, I had the pleasure of a lengthy meeting with one of the smartest men on the planet, Warren E. Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, in his unpretentious offices in Omaha. We talked of many things that, I hope, will inspire me for years to come.
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Associated Press:
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES INTERNAL PROBE OF ROLE IN NSA'S DOMESTIC WIRETAP PROGRAM — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Monday it has opened an investigation into the agency's use of information gathered in the government's warrantless surveillance program.
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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.
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