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CNN Political Ticker:
Columnist/Author released after being arrested in Spin Room — MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN ) - Columnist and author Eric Alterman has been released after being arrested Sunday night inside the debate spin room. He was charged with criminal trespass after police say he refused repeated orders to leave.
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New York Times:
Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal — Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation …
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Washington Post:
After the Surge — THE BUSH administration's invocation of South Korea as a model for the future of the U.S. military mission in Iraq is misleading in some ways. Opponents of the war, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), tend to jump to the conclusion that President Bush hopes …
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CNN:
Grading Democrats on debate … MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — Democratic presidential hopefuls traded barbs over the war in Iraq Sunday night in New Hampshire, with former Sen. John Edwards blasting two rivals for not taking the lead on a recent war spending bill.
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Washington Post:
Democrats to Face Off in Second Debate — Iraq War, Health Care Issues Likely to Dominate Discussion — The Democratic presidential candidates meet here Sunday night for their second debate of the young campaign season, with Iraq and health care likely to dominate much of the discussion.
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Live-Blogging the New Hampshire Debate — 9:15 p.m. With the debate over, most of the candidates have left, many to go to the Spin Room, or to mingle with the audience down on the floor. But here is where the rock stars separate themselves from the pack: Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton have moved …
Newsweek:
Cheney vs. Rice: A Foreign-Policy Showdown — Condoleezza Rice has steered the administration back toward diplomacy, but she's still being harried by hard-liners. — Newsweek International — Condoleezza Rice seems in control of everything—except events.
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Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
Unreasoning Hysteria as the Default Position: Joan Crawford Does Foreign Policy — With regard to the fearsome plot that might have, maybe, perhaps, in some other world subject to significantly different scientific laws, resulted in the Destruction of All the Universes for All Time Forevermore The End Period …
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Reuters:
Iran president sees "countdown" to Israel's end — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a "countdown button" to bring an end to Israel. — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel …
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Lawrence Solomon / National Post:
They call this a consensus? — "Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled." — S o said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Valerie Plame's Pension Benefits Track Her Service Abroad — Groan! Now we are going to hear about Valerie Plame's pension? Tedium, thy name is... Just One Minute - this is important stuff! The issue of whether Ms. Plame was actually a "covert agent" as defined by the Intelligence …
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Matt Browner-Hamlin / Chris Dodd for President:
Talk Clock — Want this on your site? copy the code below! — Seriously, keep making stuff like this. It's awesome.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
ABCNews.com: 'Murtha Ties Foiled JFK Plot to U.S. in Iraq' — On Saturday, a NewsBusters headline asked the following question: "JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrests?" — Well, Sunday morning, ABCNews.com actually went one better by using a statement made by John Murtha …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Soviet-Style 'Torture' Becomes 'Interrogation' — HOW did the United States, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, come to adopt interrogation techniques copied from the Soviet Union and other cold war adversaries? — Investigators for the Senate Armed Services Committee are examining how the methods …
Libby Spencer / The Newshoggers:
Is America ready for a trophy wife as First Lady? — Fred Thompson made a big splash at a recent fundraiser. Of course, being a professional actor, he delivered his lines perfectly, but didn't say anything particularly noteworthy. As the WaPo reports, "Thompson managed to hit …
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Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
In Memory of a Blogger — Most of you have probably never heard of Steve Gilliard. Steve was a Daily Kos front-pager, and then when his time there expired he formed his own blog. I always thought he was the most gifted wordsmith in the left half of the blogosphere.
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Kos / Daily Kos:Steve — In the early days of Daily Kos, when I was writing …
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