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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Romney Strategy in Peril With Huckabee's Ascent — Bid for Early States Appears in Jeopardy — DES MOINES — A year ago, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney gathered his campaign team for the first time at his suburban Boston home. There were PowerPoint presentations, and Ann Romney made sandwiches.
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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Romney's lead slipping in N.H. too — WHAT ELSE IS FALLING? Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney checks for rain as he makes a campaign stop with his wife Ann at Foodee's restaurant in Milford, N.H. — He comes out swinging in the Granite State as a poll finds McCain on his heels.
Peter Wehner / Washington Post:
Huckabee's Co-Pilot — Some of us — in my case, a political conservative and evangelical Christian — are getting a queasy feeling when it comes to the presidential campaign of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and much of it has to do with his use of faith in this political campaign.
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Bruce Bartlett / Opinion Journal:
Whitewash — The racist history the Democratic Party wants you to forget. — In his new book, “The Conscience of a Liberal,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes a strong case for his belief that the political success of the Republican Party and the conservative movement …
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The Jawa Report, Matthew Yglesias, Marginal Revolution, Blue Crab Boulevard and Macsmind
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
State of the Unions — Once upon a time, back when America had a strong middle class, it also had a strong union movement. — These two facts were connected. Unions negotiated good wages and benefits for their workers, gains that often ended up being matched even by nonunion employers.
Jesse Wendel / Group News Blog:
The More Things Change... Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand Trashed At Christmas — For Being Pregnant — First term Congresswoman Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY20), in a highly-vulnerable district in New York's Hudson Valley, is being attacked, not for her politics, not for her stand against the Iraq war …
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Lawyers, Guns and Money
Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
Bush Seeks to Restore Tattered U.S. Image With Heavy '08 Travel — Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush's diplomatic passport will acquire a slew of new country stamps during his final year in office as he tries to rebuild the U.S.'s international standing and create a foreign-policy legacy beyond Iraq.
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Warnings Unheeded On Guards In Iraq — The U.S. government disregarded numerous warnings over the past two years about the risks of using Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq, expanding their presence even after a series of shooting incidents showed that the firms …
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TPMmuckraker, Matthew Yglesias, DownWithTyranny!, Prairie Weather and Buck Naked Politics
The Corner:
Atheist Demographics — Let's see ... 3 plus 2 plus 1 plus zero is, er, 6; and 6 divided by 4 is ... 2, right? Well, to one significant digit. — Sorry about that. A little too much Christmas spirit. I really should stay away from applied. The correct TFR for our Four Horsemen …
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Vox Popoli
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
A Green Light for Common Sense — To Slow Drivers, German Town Drops Traffic Signals and Lane Markers — BOHMTE, Germany — Like countless other communities, this west German town lived for years with a miserable traffic problem. Each day, thousands of cars and big trucks barreled along …
ToddSeavey.com:
Book Selection of the Month: “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Golderg (plus war and globalism) — ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg — Happy Kwanzaa — or should I say fascist Kwanzaa?
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Sadly, No!
Elie Leshem / Jerusalem Post:
‘Israel could survive nuclear war’ — If a nuclear war between Israel and Iran were to break out 16-20 million Iranians would lose their lives - as opposed to 200,000-800,000 Israelis, according to a report recently published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies …
Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Politico's populist pop quiz — At first glance, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee seem like complete opposites. The Democratic trial lawyer and Republican preacher seem straight out of central casting, ready-made rivals for a clichéd Hollywood take on the electoral process.
T.W. Farnam / Wall Street Journal:
A Web Troll's Toll on the Clinton Campaign — FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — In Norse mythology, trolls steal babies and leave their own shape-shifting offspring behind. On the Internet, they just steal attention. — As candidates increasingly use the Internet to build political bridges …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Sums It Up for Viewers in 2 States — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, began running the following new 30-second advertisement in New Hampshire on Thursday and in Iowa on Friday. — Producer Clinton campaign media team — TITLE “Make It Happen”
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