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8:10 AM ET, November 14, 2007

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CBS News:
Poll: Top Democrats Deadlocked In Iowa  —  Huckabee Catching Up To Romney Among Hawkeye State Republicans  —  (CBS) Democrats and Republicans are both headed toward heated showdowns in Iowa, where, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, Hillary Clinton holds a statistically insignificant lead …
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Markpreston / CNN Political Ticker:
Democrats hoping to hit the union jackpot
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Spitzer Dropping His License Plan  —  Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy.  —  The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause  —  Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect …
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The Smoking Gun:   Judith Regan Sues Murdoch Empire
Kos / Daily Kos:
Newsweek  —  Remember that big announcement I promised earlier?  Well, it's now official. … Yeah, there's a lot of heads exploding in wingnutlandia today over this bit of news.  But Newsweek is "balancing" me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode.
Amy Doolittle / FederalTimes.com:
President vetoes bill funding Labor, HHS and Education in '08  —  President Bush, as expected, vetoed a $150.7 billion funding bill for the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education departments, but he signed into law a $460.3 billion bill funding the Defense Department.
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The Hill:
Senate Dem leaders float plan for forced filibuster
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Display of Anti-Bush Sign Has Competitive Bridge World in an Uproar  —  In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy.  But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003 …
Discussion: Truthdig and Jon Swift
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Britain Takes Tougher Stance on Sanctions Against Iran  —  Britain will push for a worldwide ban on foreign investment in Iran's oil and gas industry and other financial sanctions unless two reports due this month show that the Tehran government is ready to abandon efforts to acquire nuclear weapons …
Discussion: Fausta's blog
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CBS News:
Ex-FBI Agent Accused Of Security Breach  —  Woman Pleads Guilty To Charges Involving Improper Access Of Information  —  (CBS) A 37-year-old woman who previously worked as an FBI agent and a CIA analyst, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving improper access of information, CBS News has learned.
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Henry Rearden / Arkansas Journal:
UPDATE: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Huckabee—Whatever Tax You Pass, "You Will Have Nothing But My Profound Thanks" … Jump forward to the present day, Mike Huckabee running for the Republican presidential nomination has signed a no-tax pledge and jumped on the Fair Tax bandwagon.
Washington Times:
Are we winning the war?  —  No one is declaring victory, but cautious optimists on the U.S.-led war in Iraq suddenly find themselves armed with a growing number of indicators that the fighting has taken a new, more hopeful turn.  —  U.S. military fatalities are down sharply, from 101 in June to 39 in October.
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
CIA admits to recording interrogations of top al Qaida captives  —  WASHINGTON — The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the case against terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Full Video: McCain Says Supporter's "Bitch" Query About Hillary Is "An Excellent Question"  —  Below we noted that a local Fox affiliate had reported on a John McCain event in South Carolina where he'd stood by while one of his supporters called Hillary a "bitch."
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Scott Horton / Harper's:
Is the Roll-Out Sputtering?  —  Tracking the roll-out for the Iran war through the last week, we have seen some high profile developments.  We learned that the pressure is on military intelligence officers and other key nodes of the intelligence community to come up with evidence …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant?  —  In 2005, a year after Ellie Grossman, a doctor, met Ray Fisman, a professor, on a blind date, she was talking to her grandmother about her guy.  —  "Never let a man think you're smarter," her grandmother advised.  "Men don't like that."
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
GOP Primary Story Stars a Democratic Antagonist  —  They mock her proposals, utter her name with a sneer and win standing ovations by ridiculing her ideas as un-American, even socialistic.  She has become the one thing the Republican candidates for president can agree on.  —  Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise  —  Aims To Collect Levies on Sales Over Internet  —  New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer, who is moving aggressively to collect Internet sales taxes that have gone widely unenforced.
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
 
 
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National Review Online:
End the Whitewash  —  From the moment Hillary Clinton walked onto …
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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