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Think Progress:
Brownback Knocks Down Lieberman Claim That Iraq Resolutions 'Encourage The Enemy' — This morning on Fox News, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) echoed the Bush administration and claimed that people who oppose escalation in Iraq are emboldening terrorists. "[I]t will discourage our troops …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Lieberman says he'll consider voting Republican in '08 — Does this come as a shock to you? CT voters should think long and hard about their beloved Holy Joe. He keeps lying about the November election. It refuted the GOP completely. but he seems to think it was a call for bi-partisanship...My god..
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Grand Delusion — It's quite a juxtaposition. In Iraq, American soldiers are finally beginning the hard job of establishing a measure of peace, security and order in critical sections of Baghdad — the essential prerequisite for the lasting political solution everyone claims to want.
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The Heretik, The Glittering Eye, Lifelike Pundits, Blue Crab Boulevard and Rising Hegemon
Jonathan Darman / Newsweek:
A Reluctant Rebel's Yell — From Vietnam to Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel has never been afraid to fight. Now he talks about what could be his biggest battle yet: a run for the White House. — Chuck Hagel wears pain on his face. The senior senator from Nebraska earned two Purple Hearts in Vietnam …
Washington Post:
5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture — They don't rate up there with cancer and al-Qaeda — at least not yet — but suburban sprawl and automobiles are rapidly acquiring a reputation as scourges of modern American society. Sprawl, goes the typical indictment, devours open space …
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Economist's View
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Clinton concedes role in authorizing war — DES MOINES, Iowa - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton blamed President Bush on Saturday for misusing authority given him by Congress to act in Iraq, but conceded "I take responsibility" for her role in allowing that to happen.
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Dinesh D'Souza / Washington Post:
Bin Laden, The Left and Me — As a conservative author, I'm used to a little controversy. Even so, the reaction to my new book, "The Enemy at Home," has felt, well, a little hysterical. — "Ratfink writes new book," James Wolcott, cultural critic for Vanity Fair, declares in his blog.
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
Accurate, but Not the Whole Story — Accurate stories can be misleading. Two recent Page 1 stories — one on the Fairfax County libraries and the other on the sale of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards's Georgetown house — brought complaints that there was less there than met the reader's eye.
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush Rallies Conservatives at Summit — Non-Candidate Shows Ability to Excite the Party — At a time when the conservative movement is looking bereft, humbled by midterm-election defeats and hungering for a presidential candidate to rally around, Jeb Bush delivered yesterday in Washington …
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq cultivates ties to Democrats — Expecting both U.S. parties to play a role in shaping policy, Baghdad starts building new relationships. — BAGHDAD — Representatives of Iraq's government are hedging their bets on America's political future, hoping to keep U.S. support for their country strong …
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Pelosi, Maliki Discuss Timing of Drawdown
Pelosi, Maliki Discuss Timing of Drawdown
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Taylor Marsh
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
It Has Unraveled So Quickly — A PAINFUL measure of just how much Iraq has changed in the four years since I started coming here is contained in my cellphone. Many numbers in the address book are for Iraqis who have either fled the country or been killed. One of the first Sunni politicians: gunned down.
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Hamas, Fatah Clashes Continue in Gaza — Gunmen from rival Hamas and Fatah movements battle each other in Gaza; 25 dead since Thursday — (AP) Hamas and Fatah gunmen battled each other in the streets Sunday, having sent civilians fleeing from their homes in an increasingly bloody power struggle …
Ruth Elkins / Independent:
Muslims urged to refuse 'un-Islamic' vaccinations — A leading Islamic doctor is urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella because they contain substances making them unlawful for Muslims to take.
Michael Pollan / New York Times:
Unhappy Meals — Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. — That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay …
D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
Still Standing (Technically) — This isn't a slam, Michelle. No, really: It's just a critique on a few minor points of your Iraq reporting — some constructive criticism for the next time that you and your boy ward set out to demolish the liberal MSM's war coverage during a couple of days in-country.
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Hot Air
Peter Beaumont / Observer:
Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders — Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war — Iran's efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country …