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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 …
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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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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Bush weighs changing course in Iraq, Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the war and want most U.S. troops withdrawn within a year, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday says.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" …
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Dems keep Jefferson off Ways and Means — WASHINGTON - House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided Tuesday that Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record) will not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.
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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 …
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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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Paul Hughes / Reuters:
Iran president says Israel's days are numbered — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days were numbered. — Ahmadinejad, who has sparked international outcry by referring …
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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 …
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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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 …
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.
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 …