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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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New York Times:
Obama's Vote in Illinois Was Often Just ‘Present’ — In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it …
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 …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
PRO-CLINTON GROUP DISGUISING ITS ATTACK?
PRO-CLINTON GROUP DISGUISING ITS ATTACK?
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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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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 …
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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 …
The Flavor of the Month — Having just returned from Iowa …
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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%) …
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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 …
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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.
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 …
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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.
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