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Gore, U.N. body win Nobel Peace Prize — OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

CNN Political Ticker:

Source: Gore thinks Clinton unstoppable — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A source involved in Gore's past political runs told CNN that he definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president. — But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Pajamas Media

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

On Gore — First, before any other yapping and commentary, a big congratulations to Al Gore. — There are several layers of irony and poetic justice wrapped into this honor. The first is that the greatest step for world peace would simply have been for Gore not to have had the presidency stolen from him in November 2000.

Discussion: The Opinion Mill

Iain Murray / The Corner:
Who Else Should Al Gore Share the Prize With?

Discussion: Think Progress, The Talent Show and Sadly, No!

Damian Thompson / Telegraph:
What has Al Gore done for world peace?

Discussion: New York Post and PrairiePundit

CNN: Gore's prize splits opinion

EUX.TV, the Europe channel:
Czech president Vaclav Klaus: "surprised" at Nobel prize for Gore

Discussion: VodkaPundit, The Radio Equalizer and IMAO

Al Gore / Al's Journal:
I am deeply honored

Discussion: Think Progress, Facing South, The Washington Note, Telegraph, Firedoglake and The Democratic Daily

USA Today:
The Enron whistle-blower who wasn't — Lynn Brewer …

Discussion: Wizbang and Cold Fury

Michelle Malkin:
White House praises Gore for Nobel Peace Prize

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Orcinus

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE WEST WING...:

Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Carpetbagger Report

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Prize Caps Year of Highs for Gore

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gore's Nobel boosts talk of White House run

Discussion: The Hill, The Swamp, The Hill Blog, Dr. Sanity, FP Passport and Tom Watson

Walter Gibbs / New York Times:
Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Spiegel Online, MSNBC, BuzzFlash.org, Associated Press, My Left Wing, About.com Liberal Politics, Taylor Marsh, INTEL DUMP, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Liberal Values and Gawker

Michelle Malkin:

Question for grown-ups: Who deserves government-subsidized health insurance? — This question is for grown-ups only: Who deserves government-subsidized health insurance? — What if I told you I drove these three cars (photos are showroom models): — A Volvo SUV... A GMC Suburban...

Discussion: The Corner, Power Line, If I Ran the Zoo, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Wizbang, Booman Tribune, New York Times, Flopping Aces, Riehl World View, Wake up America, D-Day, Sister Toldjah, The Carpetbagger Report, The Mahablog, protein wisdom, Left in the West and WorkingForChange

Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:

Associated Press Is Outdone In Accuracy By...Fox News! — It's a very sad day for a reputable news organization when it finds itself badly outdone on accuracy by Fox News, but that's exactly what happened to the Associated Press today. — The AP is running with a story right now that strains …

Discussion: The Politico, HillaryClinton.com, The Caucus, The Atlantic Online and Taylor Marsh

CNN Political Ticker:
Obama: Clinton doesn't know where she stands

Discussion: The Swamp

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Mondale to endorse Clinton

Discussion: The Politico, Washington Wire, The Swamp, CNN Political Ticker, NY Daily News, MSNBC and TIME

Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
Tommy Thompson endorses Giuliani

Discussion: Iowa Independent, Associated Press and The Carpetbagger Report

Daniel Pipes Weblog:

Newsweek's Jaw-Dropping Erratum — The editor of Newsweek has added a remarkable erratum to the sidebar to a nasty article by Michael Hirsh about the Giuliani campaign, "Would You Buy a Used Hawk From This Man?" First, here is the sidebar: … The subsequent correction warrants a place in Guinness World Records.

Discussion: The Corner

Martin Kramer / Sandbox: Our sorcery exposed! — The neocon conspiracy embedded …

The Atlantic Online:

Who Cares Why? — Related to the inequality post below, one thing that bugs me about the way liberals often approach these issues is a tendency to get bogged down into picayune controversies about exactly why inequality has exploded. Was it the skill-biased technological change?

Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
Income-Inequality Gap Widens

Discussion: The Corner, FP Passport, Angry Bear, CBS News, culturekitchen, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Matt Zeitlin, Ezra Klein, TaxProf Blog and The Carpetbagger Report

Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:

Prosecutors expected to file charges against Bernard Kerik — Bernard Kerik's legal nightmare is about to get worse, with federal prosecutors expected to file charges against the former police commissioner that will likely include allegations of bribery, tax fraud and obstruction of justice, the Daily News has learned.

Discussion: TIME, The Carpetbagger Report, Crooks and Liars, Think Progress, Conservative Belle, MSNBC, Wonkette, MyDD, TalkLeft and race42008.com

CNBC.com:

An Open Letter to the Ron Paul Faithful — Editor's Note: — Dear folks, — You guys are good. Real good. You are truly a force on World Wide Web and I tip my hat to you. — That's based on my first hand experience of your work regarding our CNBC Republican candidate debate.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Comments from Left Field, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and Weasel Zippers

Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:

The GOP's 20% Problem — How do candidates distance themselves from Bush without alienating his die-hards? — Fred Thompson gives "a very incoherent and not very concise stump speech," peaked months ago, and is the campaign's "biggest dud." Mitt Romney has "an authenticity problem"; he is "almost too mechanical about the issues."

Tim Lambert / Deltoid:

An 'error' is not the same thing as an error — A UK High Court judge has rejected a lawsuit by political activist Stuart Dimmock to ban the showing of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in British schools. Justice Burton agreed that … There were nine points where Burton decided …

Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and Gristmill

Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:

The Great Navigator — Bill Clinton's greatest domestic achievement, aside from abolishing welfare, was free trade. The crown jewel was the North American Free Trade Agreement. He got that through Congress over sustained union opposition in 1993. Monday, Sen. Hillary Clinton proposed …

Discussion: Publius Pundit, democracyarsenal.org, Horses Mouth and Riehl World View

Scott Horton / Harper's:

WaPo's Continuing Editorial Slide — I am a compulsive reader of the New Yorker and of the magazine's deep ranks of talent, there are few more gifted writers and editors than Rick Hertzberg. In a recent interview in Radar, Hertzberg offers some surprising perspectives.

Discussion: The Washington Note and Salon

Jim Wallis / Beliefnet:

Dinner with the Antichrist — Last evening I attended a reception and dinner in Washington for evangelical Christian leaders, which is not an unusual event here. But the topic and, especially, the main speaker would seem highly unusual to many. The event, called "A Global Leaders Forum …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Washington Note and The Moderate Voice

New York Post:

TEHRAN'S PRICE FOR 'SOLIDARITY' — MULLAHS SEEK USEFUL MARXIST IDIOTS — ANXIOUS to create what they call "a global progressive front," Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela are sponsoring projects to underline "the ideological kinship of the left and revolutionary Islam."

Discussion: Little Green Footballs