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9:35 AM ET, December 16, 2007

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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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Des Moines Register:
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.
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 …
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.
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Boston Globe endorses Obama, McCain
Discussion: New York Times
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama: 'I hardly think that I've been under exposed'
Discussion: Wizbang and New York Times
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.
Discussion: Boston Globe
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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.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
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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.
Discussion: 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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Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Obama in the 'Loo responds to Clinton camp
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: The Sideshow and NewsBusters.org
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.
 
 
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Daily Mail:
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Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Tim Lynch / Cato-at-liberty:
Bill of Rights Day  —  Since today is Bill of Rights Day …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Michael Coren / Toronto Sun:
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New York Times:
A Long Time Coming  —  It took 31 years, but the moral bankruptcy …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
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Joseph Weisberg / Washington Post:
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Crackdown on Child Pornography
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