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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

'Convert or die' game divides Christians  —  Some ask Wal-Mart to drop Left Behind  —  Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart …

Gore's Presidential "Un-Campaign?"  —  Via this dkos diary by a gnostic, we have this from the AP: … The second sentence there seems like a slight rhetorical advance from the first sentence, which he's been saying for a while now.  Why include it?  This is all speculation …

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 …

Annan chides U.S. in farewell speech … INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (CNN) — Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations.  —  Throughout the address, given at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library …

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Dec. 11  —  Guests: Tom DeLay, Mike Allen, Jim Warren, Hilary Rosen, Susan Molinari  —  MIKE BARNICLE, GUEST HOST: Tonight, six days after the Iraq commission report and 22 more U.S. troops have died.  Let's play HARDBALL.  —  Good evening.

Draft Democrats to help run Iraq  —  The president can one-up the Baker-Hamilton commission by establishing a bipartisan war council.  —  PRESIDENT BUSH should spend less time worrying about the tangled politics of Iraq and more time mastering the equally fractured politics of Washington.

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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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.

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 …

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 …

Car Bombing Kills at Least 59 in Baghdad  —  A powerful car bomb exploded in central Baghdad early Tuesday morning near a crowd of mostly Shiite day laborers, killing 59 people and wounding 149, Lt. Col. Mahmoud Abdul Aziz of the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

Correcting the Record  —  David Sirota recently posted some misrepresentations of my economic viewpoint.  I should note that Mr. Sirota did not attempt to get in touch with me—either to speak with me about my ideas, or to get a fuller representation of them—and instead relied on referencing one quote from a newspaper.

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.

Obama's magic  —  With his rock star visit to New Hampshire, the highflying senator continues to tantalize Democrats with intimations of a White House run — and a buzz not felt in American politics since JFK.  —  Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., acknowledges the crowd at the state Democratic election celebration …