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Des Moines Register:
The Register's caucus endorsements: McCain, Clinton — The Des Moines Register's editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses. — The Register, Iowa's statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates …
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Democratic endorsement editorial: Why Clinton — THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD — A deep, talented field in the Democratic caucus race offers both good and difficult choices. — No fewer than three candidates would, by their very identity, usher the nation to the doorstep of history.
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Boston Globe:
Globe endorses McCain, Obama — Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire. — The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for …
Des Moines Register:
Republican endorsement editorial: Why McCain — THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD — The leading candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president present an intriguing mix of priorities, personalities and life stories. — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani inspired the city …
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Boston Globe:
For the Democrats: Barack Obama — From the endorsement editorial: — The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global. America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Spotlight on John Edwards — John Edwards makes the cover of Newsweek and is the subject of a five page article. He's also on several of the Sunday morning shows today. — He's still fighting hard in Iowa, touting his willingness to fight for Democrats.
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John Cochran / ABCNEWS:
Congress Defies Bush on CIA Tape Probe — House Will Continue Investigation Despite White House Request to Drop It — House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes told ABC News today that he will ignore the Bush administration's request to drop its investigation of why CIA interrogation tapes were destroyed.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Destruction of CIA Tapes Defended — The Bush administration has told a federal judge that its 2005 destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes did not violate a court order because the captives in question were being kept in secret prisons at the time, not at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Prairie Weather
Helena DeMoura / CNN:
Four Bolivian regions declare autonomy from government — (CNN) — Tensions were rising in Bolivia on Saturday as members of the country's four highest natural gas-producing regions declared autonomy from the central government. — Thousands waved the Santa Cruz region's green-and-white flags …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Latter-Day Republicans vs. the Church of Oprah — THIS campaign season has been in desperate need of its own reincarnation of Howard Beale from "Network": a TV talking head who would get mad as hell and not take it anymore. Last weekend that prayer was answered when Lawrence O'Donnell …
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Michael Leahy / Washington Post:
Pledging Allegiance — New York was warm on that spring day in 1961, remembers Jack O'Leary, a teacher and role model for 17-year-old Rudy Giuliani, and a confidant for the boy's father, Harold Giuliani. Harold had asked O'Leary, then a member of the De La Salle Christian Brothers …
Dave Kopel / Rocky Mountain News:
Reducing the risk of copycat killers — How papers can avoid glorifying perpetrators — The way the media cover an event influences whether there will be repetitions. For example, if a fan runs onto the field during a baseball game, the broadcast cameras usually avoid showing pictures of the fan.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
PBS:
Bill Moyers talks with MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. — BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the journal. We have a lot of ground to cover in this hour - from journalism and media merger mania to politics and race. First, despite the clutter and conglomeration in commercial broadcasting …
Charles Moore / Telegraph:
Newsnight told a small story over a big one — It is a weakness, no doubt, in a journalist, but I normally do not watch Newsnight, the BBC's "flagship" current affairs programme. — The programme's strange menu of preachy reports followed by all-in wrestling with Jeremy Paxman, does not, for me, round off the day pleasantly.