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2:45 PM ET, December 20, 2007

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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Clinton Launches Obama Attack Web Sites  —  Clinton Campaign Registered Names of Two Web Sites to Attack Ill. Senator  —  ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Democrats in a dead heat in Iowa  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Just two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be in a dead heat in the Hawkeye State, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.  —  Thirty percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers support …
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Senior Qaeda Theologian Urges His Followers To End Their Jihad  —  WASHINGTON — One of Al Qaeda's senior theologians is calling on his followers to end their military jihad and saying the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a “catastrophe for all Muslims."  —  In a serialized manifesto written …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Al-Qaeda Philosopher: Zawahiri Is A Snitch
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Romney fields questions on King  —  Campaign says claim not literal  —  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr.
Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Kerrey apologizes to Obama for Muslim comments  —  (CNN) — Former Sen. Bob Kerrey sent a letter to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Wednesday in which he apologized for raising the issue of the Illinois senator's Muslim heritage on the campaign trail several days ago.
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Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Now the Okie Napoleon is banning ‘Christmas’  —  Oklahoma attorney general Drew Edmondson drew national scorn earlier this year when he arrested Paul Jacob of the Sam Adams Alliance and Citizens in Charge, and two colleagues on trumped-up charges that they violated a discredited state law requiring …
Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Huckabee: Romney's campaign in ‘desperate position’  —  IOWA (CNN) — Republican Mike Huckabee is going on the offensive in response to presidential rival Mitt Romney's latest attack: that as Arkansas governor, he was too lenient on the state's criminals.  —  At Iowa campaign stops Wednesday …
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David Keene / The Hill:
The Flavor of the Month  —  Having just returned from Iowa …
Discussion: The Swamp
Drudge Report:
MEDIA FIREWORKS: MCCAIN PLEADS WITH NY TIMES TO SPIKE STORY  —  Just weeks away from a possible surprise victory in the primaries, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz has been waging a ferocious behind the scenes battle with the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: UP FOR GRABS  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** Up for grabs: While the big headlines from the latest national NBC/WSJ poll are Giuliani's 13-point decline (from 33% last month to 20% now) and Huck's nine-point gain (from 8% to 17%) …
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Baptists Not on Board  —  When Mike Huckabee went to Houston on Tuesday to raise funds for his fast-rising, money-starved presidential candidacy, a luncheon for the ordained Baptist minister was arranged by evangelical Christians.  On hand was Judge Paul Pressler, a hero to Southern Baptist Convention reformers.
Matthew Yglesias:
Welcome to America  —  Via Andrew Sullivan, a young Icelandic woman recounts her experiences with the new home of the free: … You see, in 1995 she overstayed a visa for three weeks.  I remember standing in the Reykjavik airport on a security line with my shoes off, held in my left hand …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Michael C. Desch / The American Conservative:
Declaring Forever War  —  Giuliani has surrounded himself with advisors who think the Bush Doctrine didn't go nearly far enough.  —  Like most Americans, I knew little about Rudolph Giuliani, save that he had been the very successful mayor of New York City catapulted to iconic status …
amnation.com:
MCCARTHY VS. AUSTER ON WHETHER GIULIANI'S BEHAVIOR DISQUALIFIES HIM FOR THE PRESIDENCY  —  This past February I posted an entry about Andrew McCarthy's support for Giuliani.  In that thread I quoted what Giuliani' lawyer Raoul Felder said on Mother's Day 2001.
Discussion: The Corner and Ross Douthat
Frank James / Baltimore Sun:
Ron Paul's thought-provoking choice on racist's $$$  —  You have to hand it to Ron Paul.  Most presidential candidates who weren't running as white supremacists themselves would reflexively return a donation from a self-proclaimed racist so fast they would break speed records for financial transactions.
Tucson Citizen:
Crackdown has illegal immigrants leaving Arizona  —  NOGALES, Sonora - It's a common scene this time of year: streams of overloaded cars, pickups and vans with U.S. license plates crossing into Mexico for the holidays.  —  Most are filled with Hispanic families from Arizona and other states …
The Corner:
Steyn's Accusers Speak  —  Today, the Muslim law students who have lodged a human rights complaint against Maclean's, have published an article defending themselves in Canada's National Post.  They claim to be believers in the marketplace of ideas, merely seeking a chance to respond to Mark Steyn.
Discussion: PoliGazette
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
TALK, BUT DON'T TRUST.  —  I'd like to believe, as Joe Klein does …
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
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Matthew Yglesias:
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CNN:
Torture house, mass graves discovered in Iraq
Michael Howard / Guardian:
Iraqis take back the streets  —  Attacks plummet as Shias join Sunnis …
Gabriel Sherman / The New Republic:
Bad Huck  —  The unhinged correspondence of Mike Huckabee.
 

 
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Ellen Clegg / What Works:
After The Minnesota Star Tribune decided last summer not to endorse anyone for president, 15 former opinion staffers posted their own endorsement online

 
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