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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Gates Says U.S. Is Not Winning Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert Gates, the White House choice to be the next defense secretary, conceded Tuesday that the United States is losing the war in Iraq and warned that if that country is not stabilized in the next year or two it could lead to a "regional conflagration."
CNN:
Senate committee approves Gates nomination … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved President Bush's defense secretary nomination Tuesday and sent it to the full Senate for approval, the committee's outgoing chairman said.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Kiko's House
The Daily Dish:
The Gathering Storm  —  Sanity in this White House?  It's possible.  One feels a sense of great relief to hear the candor of Bob Gates in his Senate hearings.  We are losing the war in Iraq; and our incompetence may have triggered the beginning of a massive regional conflagration.
New York Post:
'I'M GOING TO GO FOR THIS'  —  HILLARY IS JUMPING INTO RACE FOR PREZ  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday answered the question on everyone's mind - telling one New York lawmaker flat out: "I'm really going to go for this."  —  Clinton dropped the much-anticipated presidential bombshell during …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Affirmative Inaction  —  ANTHONY KENNEDY IS SORT OF HORRIFIED BY VOLUNTARY SCHOOL DESEGREGATION.  —  Listen to the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes.  —  The two cases heard at the Supreme Court today, Parents Involved …
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Matthew Yglesias / American Prospect:
Bridge to Nowhere  —  Political consensus isn't going to solve America's Iraq problem.  —  Reading major American newspapers is a bit like trying to decipher an archeological text written in a dead language.  Well-informed reporters bring you the facts you need to know …
Discussion: The American Street
Examiner:
How to end AP's "60 Minutes Moment" on Iraqi Sources  —  You've probably not read much about it because only a handful of mainstream media outlets have covered it, but the Associated Press - for decades America's largest and most trusted wire news service - is at the center of a credibility crisis largely of its own making.
jules crittenden:
A Dream of Mature Nations  —  A number of Canadians took offense recently to a Boston Herald column in which I slammed Canada and Europe in general for failing to hold up their end in this war for democracy, freedom and security.  Specificially, I slammed them for being smug democracies …
Kos / Daily Kos:
2008: If Obama runs, he wins  —  Standard caveats aside (it's early, we don't have a set field, blah blah blah), it's hard to see how Barack Obama loses the nomination barring scandal or the mother-of-all gaffes.  —  I've been working up a few scenarios given the primary calendar …
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Hardliners turn on Ahmadinejad for watching women dancers  —  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who flaunts his ideological fervour, has been accused of undermining Iran's Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Military and The Media  —  FALLUJAH, IRAQ: I've completed the first leg of the journey to Iraq, after having moved through Dubai, Kuwait and Baghdad.  I am now at Camp Fallujah.  While in Fallujah, I'll embed with a Marine Police Transition Team (PTT) and also meet with the Civil Affairs Group.
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
No, the Cops Didn't Murder Sean Bell  —  And here's what decent black advocates would say.  —  New York's anti-cop forces have roared back to life, thanks to a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man a week ago.  The press is once again fawning over Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry …
Raymond Ibrahim / Los Angeles Times:
Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered  —  What they capture, they keep.  When they lose, they complain to the U.N.  —  IN THE DAYS before Pope Benedict XVI's visit last Thursday to the Hagia Sophia complex in Istanbul, Muslims and Turks expressed fear, apprehension and rage.
Discussion: Riehl World View
BBC:
Veiled woman to give C4's speech  —  A veiled Muslim woman will deliver this year's alternative Christmas speech on Channel 4, the broadcaster has said.  —  Khadija, a Zimbabwean-born British citizen who has been wearing the full veil - or niqab - for 10 years, has been given the slot.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Daniel Zwerdling / NPR:
Soldiers Say Army Ignores, Punishes Mental Anguish  —  Medical records show that when Tyler Jennings returned from Iraq last year, he was severely depressed and used drugs to cope.  When the sergeants who ran his platoon found out, they started to haze him.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
'Civil war' and the real press scandal  —  The excited news coverage surrounding the decision by NBC, as well as other media outlets, to finally label the bloody chaos inside Iraq for what it really is, a civil war, came tinged with a strange, self-congratulatory tone, as if the journalists involved …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Sirotablog
Timothy Noah / Slate:
Breakdown at the New York Times  —  UNPRECEDENTED DUMBNESS STRIKES THE GOOD GRAY BROADSHEET.  —  The Dec. 4 New York Times contains the single stupidest sentence to appear in that newspaper since I began reading it more than three decades ago.  It's in a news story by Holli Chmela …
Discussion: New York Times and Wonkette
 
 
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