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National Enquirer:
NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL! — The woman linked to Presidential candidate John Edwards in a cheating scandal is more than six months pregnant and telling a close confidante that Edwards is the father of her unborn child, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
A Clinton link to a John Edwards' Love Child Scandal? — Updates below — including the Clinton link to the National Enquirer and an alleged girlfriend named by several investigative reporters. — Drudge just broke the story about a forthcoming National Enquirer shocker. Granted, it's the Enquirer.
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Tom Baxter / Southern Political Report:
Edwards takes lead in InsiderAdvantage Iowa poll — John Edwards has leapfrogged over his rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and leads the Democratic field in Iowa, according to the latest InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll. In the Republican caucus race, Mike Huckabee continues to hold a narrow lead over Mitt Romney.
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The Moderate Voice, Taegan Goddard's …, MyDD, Open Left, Liberal Values and TPM Election Central
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
New Fred Thompson Video: Kill. Protect. Punch. — If Fred wants to win the election, all he has to do is put this in constant rotation in Iowa and his victory would be guaranteed...or he would actually drop into last place. One or the other.
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Little Miss Attila, The Sundries Shack, The American Mind, Redstate, Macsmind, Wizbang and Hot Air
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Huckabee touts ‘the celebration of the birth of Christ’ in ad — By all indications, American presidential campaigns have featured television campaigns for about six decades. Over that period, presidential hopefuls have made just about every appeal imaginable, but it appears that none have ever actually used the word “Christ.”
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ron Paul on Huck's Christmas ad: When fascism comes, it'll come bearing a cross
Ron Paul on Huck's Christmas ad: When fascism comes, it'll come bearing a cross
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THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, The Campaign Spot, Confederate Yankee, Riehl World View and Ed Driscoll.com
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both “Aberrant Behavior,” But They're At “Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum" — By Greg Sargent - December 18, 2007, 4:57PM — Oh, man. One of Mike Huckabee's chief advisers has just attempted to clarify …
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New York Times:
Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes — WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda …
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Reid: The American people are losing — If this is what winning looks like, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants no part of it. — Tired of Republican crowing about winning on Iraq funding, the budget battle and the energy bill, Reid (D-Nev.) shot back on Tuesday afternoon.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Reid: Al Qaeda Still Winning In Iraq — Harry Reid doesn't know when to give up, or more precisely, when to give up on giving up. After spending the last several months trying to live down his declaration of America's defeat in Iraq on the Senate floor, Reid once again gave al-Qaeda …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House to vote on $70 billion for wars — WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House is expected to give President Bush an end-of-session victory in his yearlong battle with anti-war lawmakers over Iraq by approving $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.
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Reuters:
New York Times in Iraq: “Blackwater shot our dog” — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards — this time of the New York Times's dog. — Staff at the newspaper's Baghdad bureau …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: Senator Chris Dodd On The FISA Victory — Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Chris Dodd, appeared on Tuesday's Countdown to discuss his victory on the Senate floor yesterday, by forcing an amendment to the FISA legislation that would have given retroactive immunity …
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Mickey Kaus / Slate:
THE ENQUIRER DROPS ANOTHER EDWARDS SCANDAL BOMB. — What to expect when you're expecting: Drudge teases the National Enquirer ... Update: The Enquirer posts the gist..... One initial point: There's no reason to conclude this story was planted by one campaign or another.
Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Elder Bush nixes Clinton trip idea — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former President George H.W. Bush has shot down his successor Bill Clinton's idea of a diplomatic mission under a Hillary Clinton presidency that would send him and other notables abroad to assure other nations that “America is open for business and cooperation again.”
Marc Ambinder:
Huck = Harriett Miers? — Huck = Harriett Miers? — A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs. — The same forces that joined to force the White House to withdraw Harriett Miers' Supreme Court nomination …
Charles Paul Freund / American Spectator:
A Brutalist Bargain — How many dollars does it take to change a light bulb? Well, if the defunct bulb you're replacing has been illuminating the Third Church of Christ, Scientist in downtown Washington, you could be looking at a bill of up to $8,000. That's because unscrewing a blown bulb …
Andrew Tilghman / Washington Monthly:
The Army's Other Crisis — Why the best and brightest young officers are leaving — Matt Kapinos was born into the military, at a U.S. Army hospital outside Frankfurt, Germany. It was 1979, and his father was an Army officer, one of thousands of soldiers stationed along the plains of central Europe.