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Dante Chinni / Christian Science Monitor:
The value of a pro-war blogger's reports from Iraq — Bill Roggio's accounts bring home a feel for what US troops are facing in Iraq. — WASHINGTON - In recent months, the gruesome images and stories emanating from Iraq have hardened the public's perception about the conflict there.
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Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Public Trusts Iraq Study Group More Than Bush on Iraq — Americans favor group's key recommendations — PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans have not been closely following news of the newly released report from the Iraq Study Group — a group led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton …
USA Today:
USA more pessimistic on Iraq war — WASHINGTON — As President Bush weighs changing course in Iraq, Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the war and want most U.S. troops withdrawn within a year, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday says.
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WorldNetDaily:
A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals — There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular. — Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic …
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Robert B. Bluey / Human Events:
DeLay: 'Hillary Will Be the Next President' — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senate colleague Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) as her running mate. — DeLay met with conservative bloggers …
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Think Progress:
Tom DeLay: I Don't Write My Own Blog — Criminally indicted ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) launched a personal blog yesterday. The new site seemed to mark a shift for DeLay: last year, he said he found the fact that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy "does his own research on the Internet" …
Washington Post:
Pelosi May Give Jefferson a Lesser Committee Assignment — House Democratic leaders, who have vowed to run a more ethical Congress, are struggling with how to respond to the reelection of Rep. William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat whose Washington home freezer once held $90,000 in alleged bribe money.
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Washington Post:
A Dictator's Double Standard — Augusto Pinochet tortured and murdered. His legacy is Latin America's most successful country. — AUGUSTO PINOCHET, who died Sunday at the age of 91, has been vilified for three decades in and outside of Chile, the South American country he ruled for 17 years.
Sara Bonisteel / Fox News:
STUDENTS 'LOVE' COP KILLER HONORED AT NEW YORK COLLEGE — NEW YORK — New York City college students who share a community room named for an escaped cop killer called the fugitive their hero Tuesday as the school's officials demanded the removal of the honor.
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CNN:
THE SITUATION ROOM — President Bush Stops At State Department To Show He's Listening To New Ideas About Iraq; Rumors Say There May Be Some Effort To Get Rid Of Nouri Al-Maliki; Space Shuttle Discovery Docking With International Space Station In Series Of Dangerous Maneuvers …
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Jim Snyder / The Hill:
Business lobbyists flock to Centrist Democrats — One of the earliest signs that life for Democrats would be different in the majority came at a post-election event sponsored by the New Democrat Coalition, the pro-business group of centrist Democrats. — Previous affairs drew at most 20 lobbyists …
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves Washington — Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, flew out of Washington yesterday after informing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and his staff that he would be leaving the post after only 15 months on the job …
Kevin Carey / The Quick and the Ed:
Why Is It So Important That American Students Learn a Foreign Language? — I ask this after reading the summary of the new Time magazine cover story, "How to Build a Student for the 21st Century." In quoting the chairman of UPS it says that country needs:
BBC:
Why are Jews at the 'Holocaust denial' conference? — The Magazine answers... Orthodox Jews at the controversial Tehran debate — Why are Jews attending a conference on the Holocaust in Tehran at which star guests include deniers of the genocide? Clue: they also want an end to the Israeli state.
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Pastor Quits After Revealing Same-Sex Relations — The senior pastor of a suburban Denver evangelical church resigned Sunday after admitting to having had sexual relations with men. The move apparently came after the pastor was confronted by another minister in his church who had been alerted …
Shana Ting Lipton / RADAR:
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FASCIST — The decadent whims of the world's wackiest despots — They're quirky, vibrant, and they march to the beat of their own military drums, when they're not off committing crimes against humanity. Since time immemorial, autocrats, absolute monarchs …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Trying to Understand Clinton Legacy — The legacy of Bill Clinton's presidency is a complicated one for the progressive movement, and for the Democratic Party. On the positive side, he was a Democrat who actually occupied the White House, something that not many Democrats have been able to do since 1968.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns — Warbloggers endured a bleak November, watching their political heroes suffer the loss of both houses of Congress, while President Bush's approval ratings fell toward Nixonian levels, the mainstream media finally conceded the battle for Iraq …
Arizona Republic:
From a Muslim outlook, imams have missed the point on flight behavior — The first thing one must understand about this whole hullabaloo with the Muslim imams taken off a Phoenix-bound plane in Minneapolis is that it most definitely was not about the right to prayer or freedom of worship.
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