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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.
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Romney Spokesman Won't Say If Atheists Have Place In America — A spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign is thus far refusing to say whether Romney sees any positive role in America for atheists and other non-believers, after Election Central inquired about the topic yesterday
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:Boldness, Watered Down — It's not easy being a politician …
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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 …
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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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:C.I.A. Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogations
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Faiz / Think Progress:Hayden: Destruction Of Tapes Was 'In Line With The Law' Because …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:Rockefeller, Harman: We Kinda Sorta Knew About CIA's Torture Tapes
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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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Edwards has clear vision for America — Over the next few months, newspapers all over the country will offer their arguments about which political candidates deserve your support and why. With the war in Iraq still raging and domestic problems like health care and poverty now at the forefront …
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 …
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