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Disinformation, secrecy, deception: How the Gaza offensive came about — Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public - all these stood behind the Israel Defense Forces “Cast Lead” operation against Hamas targets …
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Firedoglake, Aljazeera, Associated Press, New York Times, Xinhua News Agency, english.ramattan.net, kuna.net.kw, TPMCafe, The Seminal, Macsmind and Israel Matzav
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Bradley Burston / The worst anti-Israel charges you'll hear in wartime — It is, abruptly and again, wartime. Across the globe, the selective pacifists of the left and the recliner Rambos of the right are spoiling for their next battle, the war in Gaza. — They will fight one another …
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IDF Releases Photos of Hamas Targets, Terror Training Facilities — (IsraelNN.com) The IDF on Saturday night released aerial photos of Hamas facilities targeted by IAF fighter pilots on Saturday in Operation ‘Cast Lead.’ — The photos show the military training facilities Hamas has developed in Gaza …
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Eyewitness: Chaos in Gaza — The BBC's Rushdi Abou Alouf in the Gaza Strip described the chaos as Israeli warplanes fired missiles at Hamas targets, killing at least 155 Palestinians. — Israeli planes are still flying over Gaza and they have just targeted another Hamas [security] …
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Israel Strikes Back — I will be updating this post. Scroll down for news posts and updates. — I have logged on to my computer after the Jewish Sabbath and discovered that the Israeli government has finally done something it should have done a very long time ago. — We have hit Hamas hard.
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Jerusalem Post, Gateway Pundit, CNN, Ynetnews, Mere Rhetoric, Time, Firedoglake, Yourish.com, Israel Matzav, Solomonia and Jules Crittenden
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IDF amasses forces near Gaza ahead of possible ground op.
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Ynetnews, Israel Matzav, Reuters, Yourish.com, Power Line, Mere Rhetoric, Associated Press and Buck Naked Politics
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Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Strip Imperil Obama's Peace Chances
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Army Wife
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Israeli Attack Kills Scores Across Gaza
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The New Republic, Associated Press, Firedoglake, Jerusalem Post, Crooks and Liars, Ynetnews, Matthew Yglesias, Feministe, The RBC, Alas, a blog, Jihad Watch, rubber hose, TIME.com, CNN, Haaretz, Israel Matzav, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Gateway Pundit, American Power, Blogs and Stories, Washington Monthly, PoliBlog, Hot Air, Stop The ACLU, A Blog For All, War and Piece, Booman Tribune, PERRspectives Blog and bastard.logic
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GOP chair ‘appalled’ by ‘Magic Negro’ CD — Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan issued a statement Saturday distancing the party's leadership from one of the GOP's best-known operatives, Chip Saltsman, who distributed a CD containing “Barack the Magic Negro” …
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New York Times, Associated Press, The Swamp, Ben Smith's Blogs, Buck Naked Politics, Political Machine, Raleigh News & Observer, The Gun Toting Liberal, The Skepticians, Firedoglake, Fox News, Comments from Left Field, The Other McCain, The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and Think Progress
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RNC chairman condemns ‘Magic Negro’ song — (CNN) — The chairman of the Republican National Committee said he was “appalled” by a song called “Barack the Magic Negro” on a CD distributed by one of his political rivals. — “The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach …
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As a Candidate, Kennedy Is Forceful but Elusive — Caroline Kennedy, the woman who would be New York's next senator, is sure of one thing. Among all the hopefuls seeking to succeed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, she said on Saturday, there is no better choice.
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NY Daily News, Gawker, The New Republic, Don Surber, Commentary, Connecting.the.Dots and Ben Smith's Blogs
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The Disaster In Tennessee — I'm late to this story, but: what's happening in Tennessee sounds horrific: … This is much bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill. You can see aerial video here. I find it disturbing that the amount of fly ash now thought to have been released is over twice …
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The Net-Zero Gas Tax — A once-in-a-generation chance. — Americans have a deep and understandable aversion to gasoline taxes. In a culture more single-mindedly devoted to individual freedom than any other, tampering with access to the open road is met with visceral opposition.
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AmSpecBlog
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Samuel Huntington, 81, political scientist, scholar — ‘One of the most influential political scientists of the last 50 years’ — Samuel P. Huntington - a longtime Harvard University professor, an influential political scientist, and mentor to a generation of scholars in widely divergent fields - died Dec. 24 on Martha's Vineyard.
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The GOP Goes South — As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 2001, George W. Bush decided to name as transportation secretary Norman Mineta, a former representative from California …
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Ending Impunity For Rape — I have a project for Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton to work on together: ending impunity for rape. Rape-conviction rates are appallingly low across the globe. I don't mean only in countries that many would think of as lacking good justice systems …
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Washington Monthly
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By Saying Yes, WaMu Built Empire on Shaky Loans — “We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs and Lowe's-Home Depot did to their industry. And I think if we've done our job, five years from now you're not going to call us a bank.”
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Eschaton
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After Bush, will MoveOn live up to its name? — After more than a decade spent railing against the Republican machine, MoveOn wants to move on —even if it means leaving some of its high-minded ideals behind. — Last week, the group's members chose their top four priorities for the organization …
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Patterico's Pontifications
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Bailout of Long-Term Capital: A Bad Precedent? — THE financial crisis is a result of many bad decisions, but one of them hasn't received enough attention: the 1998 bailout of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund. If regulators had been less concerned with protecting the fund's creditors …
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Marginal Revolution
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