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3:45 PM ET, December 29, 2007

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CNN:
Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto's political party exhuming the slain opposition leader's body if they see a need to do so, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Remarks on Pakistan Are Tailing Huckabee  —  In discussing the volatile situation in Pakistan, Mike Huckabee has made several erroneous or misleading statements at a time when he has been under increasing scrutiny from fellow presidential candidates for a lack of fluency in foreign policy issues.
Washington Post:
The Pakistan Test  —  Some presidential candidates show they can respond quickly to a foreign policy crisis.  Some flunk or foul.  —  THE ASSASSINATION of Benazir Bhutto presented U.S. presidential candidates with a test: Could they respond cogently and clearly to a sudden foreign policy crisis?
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, TalkLeft and CNN
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY....In October, David Brooks …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
What Gore, Clinton and Democrats Can Learn from Benazir Bhutto
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
Huckabee Slipping  —  WASHINGTON — While public polls show Mike Huckabee leading Mitt Romney in Iowa, a new survey of an oversized sample shows Huckabee slipping and no longer ahead of Romney.  —  A private corporate interest commissioned a phone bank survey of 15,000 Iowans …
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Washington Post:
Romney Eyes Huckabee Lead  —  Onetime Favorite Launches 11th-Hour Attacks  —  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched a fresh attack Friday on rival Mike Huckabee, raising the stakes in the tense two-person contest in Iowa that could prove critical to both candidates' hopes of winning the GOP nomination.
New York Times:   Candidates Digging for a Deeper Pool of Iowa Voters
Marc Hansen / Des Moines Register:
McCain could be comeback codger
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and The Caucus
Faiz / Think Progress:
Kristol: The New York Times ‘Should Be Prosecuted,’ 'It Isn't A First-Rate Newspaper'  —  For years, Bill Kristol has been at the forefront of a vitriolic right-wing crusade against the New York Times.  Sadly, the Times has chosen to reward him for it.  —  After the New York Times …
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Matthew Yglesias:
All's Well  —  When I heard that Bill Kristol was leaving Time I got seriously worried about the state of the world.  After all, everyone knows that conservative pundits don't get held accountable for saying tons and tons of wrong stuff — that's not how it works.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Kristol gets an unearned promotion  —  Recently cast off from Time magazine, presumably for writing shallow, predictable tripe, the Weekly Standard's William Kristol is getting a promotion of sorts. … If the report is accurate, and Kristol is joining the Times' roster …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Invisible Blogger  —  The sidewalks of Harlem's main thoroughfares are wide and inviting, and in the 1960s the kids playing “boxball” shared the asphalt squares with some of the greatest orators in creation.  The most famous spot for speechifying was the “Speakers' Corner” …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“You may have seen that some Hillary Clinton ‘sock puppets’ were recently outed on a New Hampshire blog, to the campaign's great embarrassment."  —  Thanks, Matt Bai, NYT Magazine writer who is now also blogging on the NYT website.  I'm extremely interested in that story, which I missed.
Jesse Wendel / Group News Blog:
NY Times Magazine: Steven Gilliard Jr.
Discussion: driftglass
Aaron Keith Harris / xeniagazette.1upmonitor.com:
Hobson helps make gas station a reality  —  WILBERFORCE — More than 25 years after he nearly ran out of gas there, Rep. Dave Hobson was finally able to fill up in Wilberforce Thursday at a new Speedway SuperAmerica gas station at U.S. Route 42 and Brush Row Road.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Because Oil Companies And Pizza Hut Couldn't Afford It
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Rudy Giuliani / You Decide 08!:
RUDY GIULIANI VETERANS' CO-CHAIRMAN RESIGNS OVER MUSLIM REMARKS  —  A co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani's veterans' coalition in New Hampshire resigned Saturday after telling a British newspaper that Muslims need to be chased “back to their caves."  —  The response was swift …
Jim Himes / Firedoglake:
Blue America Welcomes Jim Himes  —  (Jim Himes is running against Chris Shays in CT-04.  Please welcome him in the comments, and you can make a valuable end-of-quarter contribution to his campaign here — the goal is 500 contributors by Monday night, so even $5 would be great! — jh)
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
The Most Popular Opinions of the Year  —  The Opinions section of washingtonpost.com is not immune to that affliction so common in journalism this time of year: toptenitis.  What follows is a list of the 10 most popular stories of the year, ranked by number of page views.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
 
 
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White House:
Press Briefing by Conference Call by Senior Administration Officials …
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PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
Torture — what's it good for?  —  One little post …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Matthew Yglesias:
The Case for Polarization  —  Everyone's gotten to the fact …
Discussion: The New Republic
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Military.com:
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Janny Scott / New York Times:
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