memeorandum: Excerpts From Gore's Nobel Prize Speech (Associated Press)

11:55 PM ET, December 10, 2007

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Security Guard: 'God Guided Me And Protected Me' — Jeanne Assam Stopped Gunman At New Life Church — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jeanne Assam appeared before the news media for the first time Monday and said she "did not think for a minute to run away" when a gunman entered the New Life Church …

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Hindrocket / Power Line:

SPEAKING OF HATE CRIMES... The man who shot up a training center for missionaries and a church in suburban Denver, killing four people and wounding a number of others, has been identified: … It is perhaps worth noting that the toll in Sunday's shootings exceeded the combined total in all …

Discussion: TBogg, Sadly, No!, Right Voices and Associated Press

CNN:
Source: One gunman responsible for Colorado shootings

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Tom McGhee / Denver Post:
Church gunman "hated Christians"

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Kieran Nicholson / Denver Post:
Vet lauds female guard who felled gunman

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Alan Gathright / Rocky Mountain News:
Gunman sent 'hate mail' to Arvada missionary center

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ABCNEWS:

Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture — Former Agent Says the Enhanced Technique Was Used on Al Qaeda Chief Abu Zubaydah — A leader of the CIA team that captured and interrogated the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.

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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

CIA Interrogator Tells ABC He Supervised 'Necessary' Torture of Abu Zubaydah — Paging Michael Mukasey. The leader of the CIA interrogation team that handled Abu Zubaydah, head of al-Qaeda's military committee, says he had Abu Zubaydah waterboarded — which was torture, and, he says, necessary to prevent "maybe dozens of attacks."

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
TWO STORIES....After the United States captured al-Qaeda operative …

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ABCNEWS:

Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR — KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says — A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:

The Perfect Victim Meets the Perfect Villains — I know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, but this story just sound so.... well.... er ... far-fetched. — Not the rape part—rape happens all the time (gang rapes, not so much, but occasionally). Not the cover up part—cover ups happen all the time.

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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:

New poll shows big shake-up in GOP race — DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) — Mike Huckabee's dramatic jump in the polls is going nationwide. The former Arkansas governor is in a virtual tie with Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll out Monday.

Discussion: MyDD and TPM Election Central

Dalia Sussman / The Caucus:

New NYTimes/CBS Poll: Explain, Don't Attack — The latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds voters give the presidential candidates positive marks on at least one score at this stage in their campaigns: They credit them with spending more time explaining what they would do as president rather than attacking their opponents.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, rubber hose, Taylor Marsh, CNN Political Ticker and TPM Election Central

CNN Political Ticker:

Gore: I'd only consider White House bid — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Vice President Al Gore denied again that there were any campaign plans in his immediate future, but told CNN Monday that he hadn't "ruled out getting back into the political process at some point" — and that if he did return …

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Michael Fechter / Articles by the Investigative …:

EXCLUSIVE IPT INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS HLF JURY ROOM BULLYING — DALLAS - She felt the men were guilty and tried to explain why to the 11 other jurors. When she finished, one juror spoke up in an angry tone. — "If you're going by the evidence in this room," she recalls him snapping, "then you need to go home."

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Jihad Watch, Hot Air and Counterterrorism Blog

Byron York / The Corner:

McCain Attacks Romney's Attack on Huckabee — Here's an interesting one. The Romney campaign is set to release the first negative ad of the season in Iowa tomorrow - an attack on Mike Huckabee on the immigration issue. Huckabee will certainly respond - and now, he has help from another candidate, John McCain.

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney to launch GOP's first attack ad

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MotherJones.com:

Huckabee Hides His Full Gospel? — WASHINGTON DISPATCH: Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches. Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won't make his sermons available to the media and the public.

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Ben Craw / Talking Points Memo:

RUDY GIGGLIANI! — Ask and ye shall receive... Late Update: The Rudy Giggle: the next Hillary Cackle?

Discussion: The Coffee House, Eschaton, No More Mister Nice Blog and Shakespeare's Sister

Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Pundits Lavish Tons Of Attention On Rudy's "Cackle"

Discussion: Political Machine

Chris Bowers / Open Left:

What Really Bothers Me About Obama (Updated) — Barack Obama is simultaneously the best and worst Democratic candidate for new progressive media and new progressive institutions. Where his campaign is good, it is very good in this area, especially around media policy and earning support from users of new media.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Liberal Values, Eschaton, Democratic Strategist and MSNBC

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign Denies Collecting "Oppo Research" On Progressive Bloggers

Discussion: Open Left

Al Gore / Al's Journal:

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech — SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DECEMBER 10, 2007 OSLO, NORWAY — Click To Play — Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen. — I have a purpose here today.

Discussion: Think Progress, Crooks and Liars, Obama HQ and Facing South

Associated Press:
Excerpts From Gore's Nobel Prize Speech

Discussion: Whiskey Fire and The Moderate Voice

Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:

Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt — Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — To appreciate Hillary Clinton's fundamental political problem, consider the 11 Democrats from Philadelphia who gathered last week to discuss the U.S. presidential race, almost all of whom would vote for her in a general election.

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Robert Verkaik / The Independent:

CIA photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured' — Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA agents that they say show their client suffered horrific injuries under torture.

Discussion: The Newshoggers and At-Largely

David Wooding / The Sun:

Happy Xmas, your war is over! — GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: "Happy Christmas - war is over." — The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end "within two weeks".