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National Review Online:
Romney for President — Many conservatives are finding it difficult to pick a presidential candidate. Each of the men running for the Republican nomination has strengths, and none has everything — all the traits, all the positions — we are looking for. Equally conservative analysts can reach …
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Drudge Report:
DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION — Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. — The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Poll: Huckabee would lose to top Democrats — WASHINGTON (CNN) — While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Wallace: Dems are 'fools' to boycott Fox — When Chris Wallace replaced Tony Snow as the host of "Fox News Sunday" in December 2003, the network appeared to take a more moderate approach to Sunday talk. — Unlike Snow, a former Republican speechwriter, Wallace's broadcasting résumé …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Huckabee And Thompson: Global Warming Is 'Overblown' — Tonight on CBS Evening News, each of the 10 leading presidential candidates will be asked, "Do you think the risks of climate change are at all overblown?" According to an advance transcript, every single candidate acknowledges the threat …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Shifting Preferences Shake GOP Race; Dem. Contest is Stable, Bush Stays Low
POLL: Shifting Preferences Shake GOP Race; Dem. Contest is Stable, Bush Stays Low
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Let it snow, let it snow: Campaigning in the tubes
Let it snow, let it snow: Campaigning in the tubes
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Democrats Pull Budget Offer — The GOP Is Negotiating In Bad Faith, Obey Says — A Democratic deal to give President Bush some war funding in exchange for additional domestic spending appeared to collapse last night after House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
White House Seeks Change in Mileage Measure
White House Seeks Change in Mileage Measure
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Toronto Star:
Dad charged in teen's death — A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder after an attack in a Mississauga home. — Aqsa Parvez, a student at Applewood Heights Secondary School, had been on life support in hospital since yesterday morning.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Hijab Politics — The Toronto Star reports today on the tragic story …
Hijab Politics — The Toronto Star reports today on the tragic story …
The Politico:
Liberal views could haunt Obama — When Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was seeking state office a dozen years ago, he took unabashedly liberal positions: flatly opposed to capital punishment, in support of a federal single-payer health plan, against any restrictions on abortion …
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Larry O'Donnell admits he's afraid to criticize Islam publicly — Consider this post a companion post to Allah's, about the Muslim man who murdered his daughter because she wouldn't wear the hijab. If you criticize the man and/or his religious motivation, consider yourself more courageous than one of the MSM's prominent pundits.
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Bush to tap Glassman to shape US image — WASHINGTON - President Bush intends to name a well-known conservative commentator and journalist to lead the State Department's struggling efforts to improve the U.S.'s image abroad, replacing long-time confidante Karen Hughes, who is leaving government …
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Reuters:
NBC refunds advertisers as ratings plunge — NEW YORK (Media Week) - Fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers an average of $500,000 each for failing to reach guaranteed ratings levels, the first time a network has taken such a step in years, media buyers said.
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
How Ron Paul Can Ruin Fred Thompson — There's been a lot of buzz over Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen's crusade against the possibility of campaigns organizing non-Iowa resident college students to caucus. Most of the talk has been about whether Obama will pull in loads of Illinois college kids.
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Frank James / The Swamp:
Clinton camp bludgeons Obama on WH readiness — Today's New York Times/CBS News poll might as well be a big stick, the way Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is trying to bludgeon Sen. Barack Obama with it. — The poll found more than double the voters—83 percent …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Abolish the CIA — DESTROYING THE INTERROGATION TAPES AMOUNTS TO MUTINY AND TREASON. — It seems flabbergastingly improbable that President George W. Bush learned of the National Intelligence Estimate concerning Iranian nuclear ambitions only a few days before the rest of us did …
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Associated Press:
Police: N.Y. subway riders beaten after 'Happy Hanukkah' greeting — Four Jewish subway riders who wished other people Happy Hanukkah were — pelted with anti-Semitic remarks before being beaten, New York police and prosecutors said. The incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Reuters:
Bush issues 29 pardons but Libby not among them — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush granted pardons to 29 people on Tuesday but Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was not among them. — There has been speculation that before he leaves office …
Simon Caldwell / Daily Mail:
The Pope condemns the climate change prophets — Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology. — The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested …
Scott Lindlaw / Associated Press:
Clinton, Buffett denounce income gap — SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday warned of the dangers of a growing gap between rich and poor and a tax system that disproportionately helps people he calls "these super-rich" — and he's one of them.
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Editor and Publisher:
GALLUP: Romney Speech Flopped? Many Still Say Won't Vote for Mormon — NEW YORK A new Gallup Poll finds that better than one in six Americans, including similar numbers of Republicans and Democrats, indicate they would not support their party's nominee for president if that person were a Mormon.
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