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9:25 AM ET, December 20, 2007

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Heather Hollingsworth / Associated Press:
Giuliani OK after checkup at hospital  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Republican Rudy Giuliani planned to head home to New York City on Thursday after spending the night in a St. Louis hospital getting checked out for flu-like symptoms, his campaign said.  —  “After precautionary tests …
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John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Loses Lead In Republican Race  —  Ex-Mayor Is Tied With Romney In National Poll of Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani has lost his national lead in the Republican presidential race, creating the party's most competitive nomination fight in decades just two weeks before voting starts.
CNN Political Ticker:
Down to the wire in Iowa: Dems in a dead heat  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses and it  —  appears to be a dead heat in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in the Hawkeye State, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Thursday morning.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Post / Washington Post:
Clinton Advisers Say Edwards Is a Threat  —  2-WAY RACE?  DO I HEAR 3?  —  Clinton Advisers Say Edwards Is a Threat  —  INDEPENDENCE, Iowa — Advisers to Hillary Clinton have been pushing the notion that John Edwards poses a growing threat in the Iowa caucuses, suggesting …
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton toeing the line of campaign negativity
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
The Blotter:
Whose Push Poll Is It Anyway? …
Tom Tancredo / You Decide 08!:
TOM TANCREDO TO DROP OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE  —  Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo plans to drop out of the race during an announcement Thursday afternoon in Des Moines, Iowa, GOP sources close to the campaign have told FOX News.  —  Tancredo, who has aggressively pushed …
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George Merritt / Associated Press:
Tancredo to abandon presidential bid
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
“Slim” chance Tancredo will remain in presidential race
Discussion: Democratic Strategist and TalkLeft
Reuters:
Powerful Iraq cleric may extend freeze on militia  —  NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is considering extending a freeze on the activities of his powerful Mehdi Army militia, his official spokesman said.  —  “Yes, there is a chance that the freeze on the Mehdi Army …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Sadr May Extend Sidelining
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Taking a Turn for the Weird  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Maybe it's the rush of pre-Christmas preparations.  Or maybe it's the effects of too many holiday parties.  But life has suddenly become very confusing on the way to the 2008 presidential election.  —  A bit over a week ago, almost everything seemed normal.
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
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Washington Post:
Congress's Mixed Results  —  FOR CONGRESSIONAL Democrats, the first session of the 110th Congress offered a sobering lesson in the practical limits of majority control.  Democrats delivered part of what they had promised to the voters who returned them to power last November and recorded some significant achievements.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
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Rod Dreher / Real Clear Politics:
Mike Huckabee's Legacy  —  Huckenfreude!  That's blogger Ross Douthat's splendid word - taken from schadenfreude, the German term for taking pleasure in the misfortune of others - to describe glee over the miseries Mike Huckabee's candidacy is inflicting on the GOP establishment.
Discussion: Right Wing News and Redstate
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Micah Zenko / Washington Post:
A Nuclear Site Is Breached  —  South African Attack Should Sound Alarms  —  An underreported attack on a South African nuclear facility last month demonstrates the high risk of theft of nuclear materials by terrorists or criminals.  Such a crime could have grave national security implications …
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Official: Justice Dept. slowed probe into phone jamming  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department delayed prosecuting a key Republican official for jamming the phones of New Hampshire Democrats until after the 2004 election, protecting top GOP officials from the scandal until the voting was over.
New York Times:
In Charity and Politics, Clinton Donors Overlap  —  Over the last decade, former President Bill Clinton has raised more than $500 million for his foundation, allowing him to build a glass-and-steel presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and burnish his image as an impresario of global philanthropy.
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 …
Discussion: Right Wing News
Gay Patriot:
Sondra K-Grande Conservative Blogress Diva 2008  —  When we launched the Grande Conservative Blogress Diva contest this year, we expected to have a number of blogresses nominated and seconded as we did.  So, we assumed a run-off would be necessary.  —  What we did not anticipate was the number of glitches in this year's competition.
Discussion: Tammy Bruce
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA Chief Denies Calif. Limit on Auto Emissions  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson yesterday denied California's petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, overruling the unanimous recommendation of the agency's legal and technical staffs.
Discussion: Gristmill
 
 
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Charles Kesler / Real Clear Politics:
Real-Deal Conservatism Missing From Race
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
To Be or Huckabee  —  The Republican party's question.
Gabriel Sherman / The New Republic:
Bad Huck  —  The unhinged correspondence of Mike Huckabee.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
IN OUR PODCAST INTERVIEW EARLIER THIS WEEK, John McCain delivered a lot of I Told You Sos.
Dareh Gregorian / New York Post:
HILL'S BROTHER A DEADBEAT
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
THE BLAWGOSPHERE IN 2007: In the 2003-06 period, it looked …
Megan McArdle:
Did Ron Paul “school” Ben Bernanke?
Kate Sheppard / American Prospect:
C-SPAN TILTS RIGHT.
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CBS News:
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Discussion: TalkLeft and The Page
The Corner:
Curious Huck  —  Mike Huckabee is now becoming a very divisive figure …
Discussion: Hot Air
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Did Huckabee Have Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Tucker Attacks John Edwards For Remembering Homeless Vets In Holiday Ad
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Huckabee Iowa Manager: ‘War on Terror a Theological War’
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A Moment of Idiocy, of Real Idiocy
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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