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10:45 AM ET, December 7, 2007

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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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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.
Discussion: National Review and The Corner
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.
David Frum:
That Dog Won't Hunt  —  Sorry to dissent from my colleagues …
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
Discussion: Sadly, No! and The Blotter
Washington Post:
CIA Destroyed Videos Showing Interrogations
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Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
CIA says interrogation tapes were destroyed
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
This Is A Banana Republic
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Angry Bear
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Lawmakers Back Limits on Interrogation Tactics
Discussion: Salon and Guardian
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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NY Daily News:
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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Nicholas Wapshott / New York Sun:   Sliding Poll Numbers Force Giuliani To Retool His Campaign
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 …
Discussion: PoliGazette and A Blog For All
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.
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 …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC Nabs Latest Media Player From Bush Team, Matthew Dowd  —  Matthew Dowd started out as a Democratic operative, then helped engineer George W. Bush's winning White House campaigns before growing disenchanted and publicly breaking with the president.  Now he's reinventing himself once again.
Discussion: Romenesko
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).
Discussion: The Swamp and Prairie Weather
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.
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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Corner
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Oprah stumps for Obama in early states
Discussion: TIME
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Huckabee Tries to Shoot the Messenger, But Wounds His Campaign Instead
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown Special Comment: The NIE Reflects An "Unhinged …
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