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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.
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.
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New York Times, Time, Boston Globe, democracyarsenal.org, Liberal Values, New York Times, Stumper, Real Clear Politics and Vox Popoli
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
CIA Channels Rose Mary Woods (Updated & Bumped) — The CIA finds itself under fire today after the New York Times forced Director Mike Hayden to admit that the agency destroyed two videotapes in 2005 showing terrorists undergoing waterboarding. The agency had previously denied any such tapes existed to all but a handful in Congress.
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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 …
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Hot Air, The Atlantic Online, Sadly, No!, Harper's, Comments from Left Field and Shakespeare's Sister
Faiz / Think Progress:
Hayden: Destruction Of Tapes Was 'In Line With The Law' Because …
Hayden: Destruction Of Tapes Was 'In Line With The Law' Because …
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Guardian
Yossi Klein Halevi / The New Republic:
An Insult to Intelligence — The Israeli defense community responds to the NIE. — Since the early 1990s, when Israel first began preparing for a possible military strike against Iran's nuclear program, its security establishment has been divided not about the threat Iran posed …
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran — Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program …
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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SHAG-IER AND SHAG-IER — Imagine that. Rudy's caught …
SHAG-IER AND SHAG-IER — Imagine that. Rudy's caught …
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Spin Cycle
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 …
Washington Post:
Senate Waives Pledge, Approves Tax Bill — Eleven months after adopting stringent new rules aimed at reining in the federal deficit, the Senate last night shrugged off its pledge of fiscal rectitude and overwhelmingly approved a measure to spare millions of families from the growing reach …
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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.
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The New Republic, Ben Smith's Blogs, The Carpetbagger Report, TIME: Swampland and Blue Crab Boulevard
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 …
Tom Tancredo / MiamiHerald.com:
Why I won't do Spanish debate — I declined the invitation to participate in the Spanish-language Republican presidential debate on Sunday because I do not want to endorse the further Balkanization of American political life. — The debate is being sponsored by Univisión …
The Tank:
An Open Letter to NRO Readers [W. Thomas Smith Jr.] — Dear Readers, — After much reflection and consideration, I am withdrawing from my professional relationship as a regular freelancer with National Review Online. — This is my own decision. No one at NRO has asked me to do this …
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Captain's Quarters
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Pelosi calls Cheney swipe undignified — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says a swipe that Vice President Cheney took at Democratic House leaders is "beneath the dignity of his office." — Capitol Hill was abuzz Thursday with discussion of the vice president's assertion in an interview …