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10:25 AM ET, December 15, 2006

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Washington Post:
Rice Rejects Overture To Iran And Syria  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the United States seek the help of Syria and Iran in Iraq, saying the "compensation" required by any deal might be too high.
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Charles Krauthammer / Townhall.com:
What did the Iraq Study Group tell us?  —  As a result of the Iraq Study Group, President Bush has been given one last chance to alter course on Iraq.  This did not, however, come about the way James Baker intended.  It came about because the long-anticipated report turned out to be such a widely agreed-upon farce.
Independent:
Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war  —  The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Discussion: NewsHog
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David Corn:   More Evidence of a Cooked-Up Case for War
Independent:   The full transcript of evidence given to the Butler inquiry
Wall Street Journal:
What the Fate of Johnson's Seat May Portend  —  If a Republican Succeeds Ill Senator,  —  Power Shift Would Bolster Bush,  —  Alter Tenor of Committees  —  WASHINGTON — "There isn't a thing that's changed," Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said yesterday after visiting his stricken colleague …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Senate Democrat Called 'Responsive' After Surgery
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
General Says Army Will Need To Grow  —  Iraq and Afghanistan Are Straining the Force, Chief of Staff Warns  —  Warning that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 …
Discussion: Political Animal
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Army moves to reduce strain on troops
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
C-SPAN presses Pelosi on transparency  —  Noting that Democrats have pledged to increase transparency and accountability in government, C-SPAN Thursday called on House Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to give television viewers the same real-time access to views of the House floor as anyone sitting in the gallery would have.
Discussion: CNN
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Democrats Planning New Intelligence Oversight
Discussion: Washington Post
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
New U.N. Leader Is Sworn in and Promises to Rebuild Trust  —  Ban Ki-moon of South Korea was sworn in Thursday as the next secretary general of the United Nations, and he pledged to rebuild faith in an organization that has been tarnished by scandal and riven by disputes between rich and poor nations.
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   A New Era At The UN ... We Hope
Political Radar:
Bush's First Comments on Cheney Grandchild  —  ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: The President and First Lady sat down last week for their annual interview with People featured in their end-of-year issue now on newsstands.  (Note: The Bush's did not get the cover; that honor went …
Alex Hutchinson / Popular Mechanics:
10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007  —  From concrete that can flex to sensors that you swallow, here are the technologies you'll be talking about.  —  Bendable concrete is 40 percent lighter than regular concrete and 500 times more resistant to cracking under pressure.  (Photograph by ACE-MRL)
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Death Sentences Decline, and Experts Offer Reasons  —  The number of death sentences in the United States has dropped to its lowest level in decades, according to recent studies, including one released Thursday that predicts the trend will continue because of publicity about cases in which people are wrongly accused of crimes.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Run Now, Obama  —  New Hampshire was recently brightened by the presence of Barack Obama, 45, who, calling the fuss about him "baffling," made his first trip in 45 years to that state, and not under duress.  Because he is young, is just two years distant from a brief career as a state legislator …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
'The Man From Nowhere'  —  What does Barack Obama believe in?  —  We are getting very excited.  Barack Obama is brilliant, eloquent and fresh.  He is "exciting" (David Brooks), "charming" (Bob Schieffer), "my favorite guy" (Oprah Winfrey), has "charisma" (Donna Brazile), and should run now for president (George Will).
Discussion: Hyscience, TIME and Althouse
rushlimbaugh.com:
MoDo and Barack Hussein Odumbo  —  RUSH: Here we go with Barack Obama.  As you know, he was up in New Hampshire — do you know, by the way, TV ads for Barack Obama are going to start airing this weekend?  Presidential ads for Barack Obama in New Hampshire start airing this weekend.
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Obama: Not 'the un-Hillary'  —  On the cusp of a historic decision over whether to run for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that he believed he would be a "viable candidate" for president who could move the nation beyond the generational politics that have defined the last 40 years.
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney masters the slip  —  As the well-scripted governor prepares to leave office, he is trading in the high media visibility of his early days for a much lower profile  —  For nearly four years, Governor Mitt Romney has dazzled and befuddled Massachusetts with his on-message …
Discussion: The Caucus
New York Times:
U.S. Is Dropping Effort to Track if Visitors Leave  —  In a major blow to the Bush administration's efforts to secure borders, domestic security officials have for now given up on plans to develop a facial or fingerprint recognition system to determine whether a vast majority of foreign visitors leave the country, officials say.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and The Swamp
 
 
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