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10:30 AM ET, December 12, 2007

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Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"  —  The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine …
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Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
CNN N.H. Poll: Obama, Clinton tied; Romney remains strong  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire, and the two Democratic presidential hopefuls are now locked in a statistical tie less than one month before the first-in-the-nation primary, a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday shows.
Zev Chafets / New York Times:
The Huckabee Factor  —  Mike Huckabee walked into the lobby of the Des Moines Marriott at 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, deposited an armful of dirty laundry at the desk and checked to make sure he was being credited with Marriott Rewards points toward his next stay.  Then, accompanied by his wife …
New York Times:
Feeling Heat, Clinton Tries Iowa Up Close  —  DES MOINES — Ten months ago, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton went to East High School here on her first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate and laid out a case for her candidacy to a cheering crowd in a packed gymnasium.
NY Daily News:
Bill Clinton to aid Hillary's campaign  —  WASHINGTON - Bubba to the rescue!  —  Alarmed by his wife's slide in the polls and disarray within her backbiting campaign, a beside-himself Bill Clinton has leaped atop the barricades and is furiously plotting a cure - or coup.
WMUR:
Poll: Clinton Loses Lead, Romney Out In Front  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — A new poll shows that while the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president holds a comfortable lead in New Hampshire, the Democratic race has tightened dramatically.  —  According to the latest WMUR/CNN poll …
Discussion: Raising Kaine and Brendan Nyhan
Washington Post:
In Poll, Huckabee Closes on Giuliani  —  Three weeks before the first contest of the 2008 campaign, Republicans remain sharply divided over whom to choose as their presidential nominee and which of the five leading candidates best embodies the core values of a fractured GOP, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Mark Preston / CNN:   CNN Poll: Obama catches Clinton in New Hampshire
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
New N.H. poll: Clinton and Obama in a dead heat
Discussion: The Hill
National Review Online:
Romney for President
Michael B. Mukasey / Los Angeles Times:
A FISA fix  —  One of the most critical matters facing Congress is the need to enact long-term legislation updating our nation's foreign intelligence surveillance laws.  Intercepting the communications of terrorists and other intelligence targets has given us crucial insights into the intentions …
Discussion: Don Surber
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Newsweek:
Paper Trail  —  Who authorized the CIA to destroy interrogation videos?  —  NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE  —  The CIA repeatedly asked White House lawyer Harriet Miers over a two-year period for instructions regarding what to do with "very clinical" videotapes depicting the use of "enhanced" …
Discussion: Firedoglake, Emptywheel and NO QUARTER
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ABCNEWS:
Bush: 'I Doubt I'd Be Standing Here If I Hadn't Quit Drinking Whiskey'
Discussion: Political Machine
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Inside The White House
Discussion: The Page
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Republicans win in Va., Ohio elections  —  Republicans retained two House seats in special elections Tuesday, including a hotly contested Ohio race that the two parties spent nearly $700,000 trying to win.  —  Republican officials immediately pointed to the issue of immigration …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Republican Special Election Performance A Harbinger For 2008?
Bob Lewis / Hampton Roads Daily Press:
GOP's Wittman routs Democrat to win Virginia seat in Congress
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Dream Is Dead  —  The man crowned by Tommy Franks as "the dumbest [expletive] guy on the planet" just made the dumbest [expletive] speech on the planet.  —  Doug Feith, the former Rummy gofer who drove the neocon plan to get us into Iraq, and then dawdled without a plan as Iraq crashed into chaos …
Discussion: Eschaton and Lance Mannion
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 …
Sommer Mathis / DCist:
Worst Headline of the Day Award  —  The thinly veiled sexism oozing out of today's Examiner column by veteran local politics observer Harry Jaffe is hard enough to take, but to whomever thought up this gem of a headline, be they copy editor or author, DCist salutes your willingness to go boldly …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
WHAT HAPPENED TO JAMIE LEIGH JONES IN BAGHDAD?  —  Bob Owens takes a close look at the allegations of a gang rape in Iraq's Green Zone in 2005 by employees of KBR, and finds some omissions and inconsistencies in the ABC News scoop.  —  Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Losing Weight in the Gulf  —  Growing up in Minnesota, one of my favorite things was going to the state fair each summer and watching the guy who would guess your weight within 5 pounds.  If you fooled him, you won a stuffed animal.  —  Out here on the Persian Gulf, where small countries learn quickly …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Alan Greenspan / Opinion Journal:
The Roots of the Mortgage Crisis  —  Bubbles cannot be safely defused by monetary policy before the speculative fever breaks on its own.  —  On Aug. 9, 2007, and the days immediately following, financial markets in much of the world seized up.  Virtually overnight the seemingly insatiable desire …
Discussion: Economist's View and EconLog
 
 
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Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
For Biden, it's the résumé over the rallying cry
New York Post:
JEWS' SUBWAY HERO A MUSLIM
Megan McArdle:
How can markets be efficient if people are such morons?
Los Angeles Times:
GOP rivals veer right on immigration
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Bigger Than Life  —  Freddie Thompson hit full height …
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Jeremy Clarkson / Times of London:
Britain's breach of honour over Iraq interpreters
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon Critical Of NATO Allies
Discussion: The Swamp and PoliGazette
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Remaking The Journal  —  In the last few months, Rupert Murdoch …
Discussion: Truthdig
Associated Press:
Bush Pardons, Commuted Sentence
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Deacon / Power Line:
THE DUMOND FILE — WHAT MORE DID HUCKABEE NEED TO KNOW?
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

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