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10:45 PM ET, December 17, 2007

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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill  —  Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance.
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Think Progress:
Dodd filibuster threat causes Reid to withdraw FISA bill.  —  "Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance."
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: REID PULLED TELECOM BILL  —  Harry Reid just pulled the telecom bill.  The Senate will take it up again after the first of the year, but for now there will be no retroactive telecom immunity.  —  Karen Tumulty wrote over at Swampland earlier in the day: … I guess he did.
Matt Browner-Hamlin / Chris Dodd National Blog:
Constitution Protected...For Now  —  Majority Leader Harry Reid has just pulled the FISA bill from consideration in this session.  It will be brought up at some point next month.  —  Without Senator Dodd's leadership today, it is safe to assume that retroactive immunity would have passed.
David Stout / New York Times:
Telecom Industry Wins a Round on Eavesdropping  —  WASHINGTON — Telecommunications companies won a skirmish in the Senate on Monday as a bill to protect them from lawsuits for cooperating with the Bush administration's eavesdropping programs easily overcame a procedural hurdle.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Harry Reid — compare and contrast  —  ***** Update V: Reid pulls bill until next year)  —  Russ Feingold, today, on the effects of Harry Reid's pro-administration dirty work: … All of this stems from Reid's refusal to honor the "hold" placed on that bill by Chris Dodd, who has been in the Senate for 24 years.
Matt Browner-Hamlin / Chris Dodd National Blog:
Dodd, Blogs Celebrate FISA Victory
Discussion: AMERICAblog
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Dodd Does It. Reid pulls Telecom Immunity bill off the table
Discussion: Firedoglake
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Senate: Deflating Democrats' Dream of 60 Seats
Discussion: Power Line
Michelle Malkin:
Blue-on-blue catfight: Kos turns on Harry Reid; Update: Dodd …
Discussion: CBS News and Pirate's Cove
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Telecom Immunity Gets Bipartisan Support
Discussion: Reuters
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Obama racial subtext surfaces in Iowa  —  Edwards parries a voter's question about Obama and the O.J. verdict  —  Presidential hopefuls former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., await the start of last Thursday's Des Moines Register Presidential Debate in Iowa.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
That picture of Hillary on Drudge right now.  —  Have you seen it?  —  Caption: "The Toll of a Campaign."  It seems so cruel.  Immodest Proposals writes: … My first reaction to that picture is simple disbelief.  How can she suddenly look that much older?
Sadly, No!:
A tantalizing peek at history's greatest book  —  Thanks to a certain Christmas elf who sent us this early present:  —  Personally, I think the chapter about liberals being seKKKret racists will be the most LOL-worthy, although "The 1960s: Fascism Takes to the Streets" should be good for giggles as well.
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Matthew Yglesias:
Quintessential Fascism
USA Today:
USAT/Gallup Poll: Giuliani & Clinton hold slightly wider leads  —  Fresh off the presses, so to speak — the latest numbers from the national USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, taken over the weekend.  They appear to show that the front-runners are still front-running:  —  Republicans.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
IT'S PERFECTLY REASONABLE TO REJECT A CANDIDATE BECAUSE OF HIS RELIGIOUS VIEWS.  —  Just before this gets completely out of hand and becomes a mantralike repetition, let us please recall what the careful phrases of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution actually and very carefully and deliberately say:
The Corner:
Re: Mark Steyn is losing  —  Stanley, you may be right.  The Canadian Islamic Congress is arguing that my article is a "crime".  By accepting the case, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has indicated it's prepared at least to consider the possibility that it's a "crime".
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Spectator:
The blood runs cold
Discussion: New York Post and The Corner
Abdullah Shihri / Associated Press:
Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A woman sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang-raped has been pardoned by the Saudi monarch in a case that sparked an international outcry, including rare criticism from the United States, the kingdom's top ally.
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Katherine Zoepf / New York Times:
Pardon Reported for Saudi Rape Victim
Ilya Blanter / The Daily Princetonian:
Nava '09 admits to fabricating assault, threat e-mails  —  Francisco Nava '09 has admitted to fabricating an alleged assault on him that he said occurred Friday evening and to sending threatening emails to himself, other members of the Anscombe Society and prominent conservative politics professor Robert George.
Ruben Navarrette Jr / CNN:
Navarrette: Attempts to destroy Obama backfire  —  SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — Ever since Barack Obama began to pierce the inevitability that we were told surrounded the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, I've wondered how the Clintonistas would react.  Now we know: not well.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Ron Paul For The Republican Nomination  —  By now, readers will know who I favor in the Democratic race.  Here's my most considered case.  But what of the GOP?  For me, it comes down to two men, Ron Paul and John McCain.  That may sound strange, because in many ways they are polar opposites …
 
 
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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Witnesses in Colorado fear paying ultimate price
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