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David Brooks / New York Times:
Faith vs. the Faithless — Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and the author of "American Gospel," which describes the history of religious liberty in the United States. Richard John Neuhaus is the editor in chief of First Things and the author of "The Naked Public Square," …
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Boldness, Watered Down — It's not easy being a politician from a minority faith, especially when it comes to explaining your own traditions — sometimes even to yourself. — Al Smith, the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party, found his faith under vicious attack in the 1928 campaign.
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Mormon in America — How Mitt Romney came to give The Speech—and how he did. — Did Mitt Romney have to give a speech on religion? Yes. When you're in a race so close you could lose due to one issue, your Mormonism, you must address the issue of your Mormonism.
Washington Post:
No Freedom Without Religion? — RELIGIOUS liberty is, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared yesterday, "fundamental to America's greatness." With religious division inciting violence across the globe, he is right to celebrate America's tradition of religious tolerance.
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Fred Clark / slacktivist:
Mitt vs. atheists, martyrs … I'll probably want to discuss Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech at greater length later, but the quote above was the sound bite so let's deal with that first. — That's a nice bit of parallelism. It pleases the ear even as it disturbs the brain.
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogations — The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program …
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Michelle Malkin:
The CIA's destroyed interrogation videos, what the Dems knew, and when — It's the top news at Memeorandum this morning. The New York Times reported yesterday: … The newspaper expresses its explicit hope that its scoop on the tapes will "reignite the debate over the use …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations
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Judith Nathan got security earlier — Judith Nathan got taxpayer-funded chauffeur services from the NYPD earlier than previously disclosed - even before her affair with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was revealed, witnesses and sources tell the Daily News. — "It went on for months before the affair …
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Washington Post:
Review of Iran Intelligence to Be Sought — As Conservatives Reject New NIE, Republican Senators to Urge Congressional Panel — Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran …
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / New York Times:
Islam's Silent Moderates — The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with 100 stripes: Let no compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. (Koran 24:2) — IN the last few weeks …
The Washington Post / The Trail:
For Some, Negative Turn is a Turn-Off — DES MOINES — Once, Garry Thomas counted himself a Hillary Clinton supporter — even signing up to be one of her 25 co-chairs in Iowa alongside with former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack. — But Thomas now says he felt obliged to switch sides in recent weeks.
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
On Mortgage Relief, Who Gains the Most? — At least one thing is clear about President Bush's plan to help people trapped by the mortgage meltdown: it is an industry-led plan, not a government bailout. — Although Mr. Bush unveiled the plan at the White House on Thursday …
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Senate passes AMT patch — The Senate late Thursday passed a one-year fix to the alternative minimum tax (AMT), setting up a potential confrontation with the House, which passed a much different version of the bill earlier. — Democrats want to offset the cost of the patch …
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Richard Simon / Los Angeles Times:House passes a sweeping energy bill
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting this morning on the way to work, and I realized I haven't posted on it. I don't really have anything to say that I haven't said before. But it's worth noting — since apparently most of the media reports haven't — that this was another mass shooting in a "gun-free" zone.
David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Candidate Ron Paul's devotees a mixed bag — WASHINGTON — If Ron Paul's supporters got together for a family portrait, it would be one of those pictures in which no one seems to resemble anyone else. — "You have old-school Republicans, the conservatives who backed Barry Goldwater (in 1964).
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Huckabee Second in National GOP Race — WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, riding a burst of support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, a poll showed Friday. — The upsurge by the former Arkansas governor …
Faye Fiore / Los Angeles Times:
Bush loses ground with military families — A majority disapprove of the president's handling of the war in Iraq and are more in line with the views of the general public. — WASHINGTON — Families with ties to the military, long a reliable source of support for wartime presidents …
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