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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
BUSH: WE ARE ALL TERRORISTS NOW — Bush has lost his mind and his moral compass. This statement is an outrage. A lie and a blood libel. Israel has never committed any acts of terrorism. What a tool of Islamic jihad. Based on that, Bush is a terrorist, anyone that defends himself, his family, his country is a terrorist.
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New York Times:
Text of Bush's Remarks at Annapolis Conference — Here are the remarks President Bush delivered today at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., as transcribed by Federal News Service, Inc., a private firm not affiliated with the government. — Mr. Bush's remarks opened a meeting …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Bill Clinton Flatly Asserts He Opposed War at Start — During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said flatly yesterday that he opposed the war in Iraq "from the beginning" — a statement that is more absolute than his comments before the invasion in March 2003.
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Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Rewrites History on Iraq? — ABC News' Teddy Davis, Eloise Harper, and Nancy Flores Report: Former President Bill Clinton portrayed himself as having been against the Iraq war "from the beginning" while campaigning Tuesday for his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, in Iowa.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell — (updated below - Update II - Update III) — Time Magazine has done a superb service for the country by illustrating everything that is rancid and corrupt with our political media.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Important: "Reclusive, neurotic, over-the-hill vocalist" endorses Hillary — I'm quoting, as you'll shortly see. Her statement begins, predictably, not with a tribute to Hillary's qualifications but with an identitarian ode to What It Means: … Not unexpected (really not unexpected?) …
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Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
Obama's Amnesia Problem — It's a cultural cliche: Americans don't care about the past. De Tocqueville noticed it in the 1830s, speculating that in 50 years Americans would know less about the America he visited than the French knew about the Middle Ages. Nearly two centuries later, people are still making the point.
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Bloomberg:
Citigroup to Raise $7.5 Billion From Abu Dhabi State — Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi to replenish capital after record mortgage losses wiped out almost half its market value.
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Fritz Wenzel / Zogby:
Mark Penn: Buckling Under the Pressure of an Unfavorable Poll — All is fair in love and war, the centuries-old proverb states. Politics is not included, but given the way the game is played in modern-day America, maybe it should be. That's the sense I had again this morning watching Mark Penn …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Exclusive: Romney Opposed Naming Muslim To Cabinet On Second Occasion, Witnesses Say — Presidential canidate Mitt Romney has discounted appointing Muslims to his cabinet on more than just the one occasion reported in a CSM op-ed yesterday. — TPM Election Central has learned …
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David Burge / iowahawk:
BOXBUX SUX AS STIX HIX NIX XMAS FLIX — Los Angeles - Despite critical acclaim and massive promotional budgets, a wave of anti-Santa holiday pictures floundered at the box office over the Thanksgiving opening weekend, leading some entertainment industry analysts to question whether Hollywood …
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Hillary's Secret Weapon: Colin Powell? — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been talking for some time now about how, if she is elected president, she will ask both Democratic and Republican statesmen to hit the road on her behalf to declare that "bipartisan foreign policy is back" in post-George W. Bush America.
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Gateway Pundit:
Venezuelan Students Fired On By Regime- One in Critical Condition — Clashes in Venezuela... Protesters battle in the streets of Puerto La Cruz in run-up to the Chavez referendum for absolute power. — An opponent to President Hugo Chavez, left, uses an iron stick to hit a Chavez supporter during …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Senate Race That Fizzled Honed Skills for '08 Stage — By the time Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York stepped before a wall of television crews in the Public Hearing Room at City Hall on May 19, 2000, there were no surprises left. — In the course of three tumultuous weeks …
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
All You Need to (Not) Know About the Proposed FISA Fix — Seventeen years ago, the very first Bush (41) Administration was considering whether to ask Congress for an amendment to FISA very similar to the one the current Administration is now seeking. Mary Lawton, the FISA guru within DOJ at the time …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
To Muslim Girls, Scouts Offer a Chance to Fit In — MINNEAPOLIS — Sometimes when Asma Haidara, a 12-year-old Somali immigrant, wants to shop at Target or ride the Minneapolis light-rail system, she puts her Girl Scout sash over her everyday clothes, which usually include a long skirt worn over pants as well as a swirling head scarf.