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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Huckabee not aware of NIE report on Iran — My colleague David Paul Kuhn attended an on-the-record dinner with Mike Huckabee and a group of reporters tonight in Des Moines. — The transcript speaks for itself:
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Think Progress:
Hersh: Bush Told Olmert Of NIE Two Days Before President Was Allegedly First Briefed On It — Yesterday, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters that President Bush was first briefed on the National Intelligence Estimate's conclusions on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
Washington Post:
Intelligence on Iran — THE NEW National Intelligence Estimate on Iran contains some unambiguously good news: that Tehran halted a covert nuclear weapons program in 2003, and that it is responsive to the sort of international pressure applied by the United States and other Western governments.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Bush: DNI Told Me 'We Have Some New Information, He Didn't Tell …
Bush: DNI Told Me 'We Have Some New Information, He Didn't Tell …
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Boston Globe:
Lawn work at Romney's home still done by illegal immigrants — Ricardo Saenz, owner of the company that employed illegal immigrants, worked on Romney's lawn recently. — By Maria Cramer and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff; and Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent
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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Watch out Rudy, here comes Huck! — A new national Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll released a minute ago reveals that the Mike Huckabee phenomenon has exploded far beyond Iowa; the former Arkansas governor is now threatening the national lead of longtime Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani.
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
Huckabee-ing and Nothingness — Bill Kristol says flatly …
Huckabee-ing and Nothingness — Bill Kristol says flatly …
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Deacon / Power Line:
MIKE HUCKABEE — TOO MORALISTIC TO PROTECT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
MIKE HUCKABEE — TOO MORALISTIC TO PROTECT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
Democrats Set to Debate in Iowa as Race Tightens — Listen Live Here Beginning at 2 p.m. EST — · All of the major Democratic presidential candidates will meet in Iowa on Tuesday for a two-hour debate, as an extremely close race is shaping up in the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
NPR's Democratic Debate: Winners and Losers — Seven of the eight Democratic presidential candidates gathered in Des Moines this afternoon for a radio debate sponsored by National Public Radio. — The debate focused exclusively on three issues: Iran (and the echoes of Iraq), China and immigration.
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
'Green Hanukkia' campaign sparks ire — In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment. — The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Sweet Neocons — I have been writing for years that the neocons are always wrong about everything and this new NIE basically stating that the Iran threat has been vastly overstated drives that home once more. It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. — The crux of their argument …
The Blotter:
Mom: 'Carol Sue Would Be Alive Today' If Not for Huckabee — Brian Ross and Anna Schecter Report: — A Missouri mother says she will do "whatever it takes" to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter, Carol Sue Shields (pictured).
Paul Jeeves / Daily Express:
NURSES TOLD TO TURN MUSLIMS' BEDS TO MECCA — OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients' beds so they face towards Mecca. — The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing fresh bathing water, is creating turmoil among overstretched staff on bustling NHS wards.
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Pakistan to deport Code Pink protesters — Pakistan authorities today ordered the deportation of the leader of the feminist U.S. antiwar group Code Pink, who was in Lahore to join protests against the emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, according to a spokeswoman for the group.
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Dirty Tricksters Caught on Video: CBS Evening News Edition — Guest post by Julia Rosen. Julia is the Online Political Director for the Courage Campaign and an editor at Calitics. — It is not every day that something from a blog post ends up in the CBS Evening News …
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The Corner:
Wicked Idiots — I used the phrase a few months back when Ron Paul supporters jeered Giuliani on the Mackinac ferry, asking him what he did with the gold that was in the World Trade towers, before the U.S. government destroyed them. That is both wicked and idiotic.