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3:20 PM ET, January 2, 2007

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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
AP Again Challenged on Iraqi Source — Continues to Stand By Reporting  —  NEW YORK A long-running dispute between The Associated Press and critics over one of its Iraqi sources show no signs of abating, despite at least two lengthy rebuttals by the news organization.
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Confederate Yankee:
Gone in 60 Stories: The Grunt Work  —  It has long needed to be done, and I kept hoping someone else would do it: checking out the list of 61 Associated Press stories ferreted out by Curt at Flopping Aces, where the AP used Iraqi Police Captain Jamil Hussein as a source.
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
"It's Just A Scratch"  —  In a display of clueless arrogance unmatched since the Black Knight refused to yield to King Arthur, the AP replies to its critics on l'affaire Jamail Hussein: … Here's the problem, Ms. Carroll.  We don't believe he exists.  If he doesn't exist, much of your reporting from Iraq is subject to dispute.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Confederate Yankee:
Gone in 60 Stories  —  On December 5 of this year, I wrote a blog post entitled 60 Billion Minutes, where I wrote: … In the weeks since that date, the Associated Press has maintained that the stories they originally reported on November 24-25 of burning mosques and burning men is true …
Virgil Goode / USA Today:
Save Judeo-Christian values  —  Immigration leaves USA vulnerable to Muslim extremists' infiltration.  —  A letter I sent in early December was written in response to hundreds of e-mails from constituents upset about Rep.-elect Keith Ellison's decision to use the Quran in connection with his congressional swearing-in.
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USA Today:
Ugly voices tarnish debut of Congress' first Muslim
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
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Associated Press:
Iran vows to 'humiliate' U.S.
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT
NY Daily News:
Revealed: Rudy's '08 battle plans  —  It's clearly laid out in 140 pages of printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets: The top-secret plan for Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House.  —  The remarkably detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fund-raising plans that will underpin …
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Agence France Presse:
Presidential hopeful Giuliani leaves battle plans in hotel: report
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Times:
Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary  —  With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States.  —  Until recently the Bush administration …
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New York Times:
Chaos Overran Iraq Plan in '06, Bush Team Says  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — President Bush began 2006 assuring the country that he had a "strategy for victory in Iraq."  He ended the year closeted with his war cabinet on his ranch trying to devise a new strategy, because the existing one had collapsed.
Washington Post:
Democrats To Start Without GOP Input  —  As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking.  —  House Democrats intend to pass …
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Editor and Publisher:
AP Asks: Why So Many Upset by Iraq Death Toll?  —  PHILADELPHIA The country largely kept the faith during World War II, even as about 400,000 U.S. forces died - 20,000 just in the month long Battle of the Bulge.  Before turning against the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Americans tolerated thousands more deaths than in Iraq.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Offensive against al-Sadr coming soon?
Discussion: MSNBC
Andrew Ward / Financial Times:
Jeb Bush quiet about long-term plans  —  When Jeb Bush was asked recently how he planned to spend his first day after stepping down as governor of Florida, he reeled off a checklist of things he wanted to do: "I hope to wake up.  Work out.  Maybe read the local paper.  Sports page probably.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Daily Pundit
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Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Ponders Future, Not Knowing What It Holds
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
CNN apologizes for Obama gaffe in Bin Laden graphic  —  Print page sponsored by Velvet Revolution.  —  Update: Senator Obama's office called RAW STORY to comment on the incident and CNN's apology, which can be found at the end of the story.  —  A Monday night broadcast of CNN's Situation Room …
Examiner:
Is Pelosi serious about cleaning up the House?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will make history this week when she becomes the first woman elected as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Discussion: Power Line and Captain's Quarters
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
TRY SOME DELICIOUS DANISH?  Some interesting discussion between Tyler Cowen and Matt on whether we can scale up Denmark's mixture of economic security and dynamism for a country the size of the US.  The basis for this discussion is Jon Cohn's excellent examination of the development and success …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:   Can we just scale up Denmark?
John M. Shalikashvili / New York Times:
Second Thoughts on Gays in the Military  —  TWO weeks ago, President Bush called for a long-term plan to increase the size of the armed forces.  As our leaders consider various options for carrying out Mr. Bush's vision, one issue likely to generate fierce debate is "don't ask, don't tell …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2006  —  It is time for this blog's fourth annual review of the performance of the Los Angeles Times, which long-time Patterico readers know as the Los Angeles Dog Trainer.  The first annual review was posted here.
 
 
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Nico / Think Progress:
Brokaw: Hussein Execution 'Resembled The Worst Kind Of Nightmare …
Wall Street Journal:
Calibrating a Troop 'Surge'
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Michelle Malkin:
All the abortion lies fit to print
Mark Bowden / Opinion Journal:
So, Saddam Is Dead . . .  But the way of the world remains Saddam's.
Washington Post:
With Iraq War Come Layers of Loss
Discussion: HACKED and Daily Kos
The Nation:
Kristol Clear at Time  —  The market doesn't work …
The Hedgehog Blog:
Gerald Ford And The News Media: Then And Now
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Liz Bowie / Baltimore Sun:
Can less equal more? … Teacher Jennifer Dial Santoro asked …
Discussion: The Corner and Joanne Jacobs
James Bone / Times of London:
Number 3,000: the soccer-mad dropout who dreamt of going back to college
Discussion: TalkLeft and CorrenteWire
Associated Press:
Islamist fighters offered amnesty
Discussion: Reuters and DEBKAfile
Justin Webb / BBC:
Bush 'to reveal Iraq troop boost'
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
NRA Sounds Alarm of Not-So-Imminent Threat
Nir Rosen / iraqslogger.com:
Hijacking Eid and Hanging Saddam