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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senators Agree on Detainee Rights  —  A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise yesterday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects by granting them a final recourse to the federal courts but stripping them of some key legal rights.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Senate GOP Plays Smart Tactics, Not Surrender
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:   TODAY'S WAR NEWS....Hmmm.  Very interesting news on the war front tonight.
Don Surber:
Bush Whacks Situational Hawks  —  Welcome Malkin readers.  I'm flattered. … "Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism.  Whatever we choose to call this enemy, we must recognize that this ideology is very different from the tenets of the great religion of Islam.
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William J. Bennett / National Review:
Rockefeller's Confession  —  What was the West Virginia Democrat doing as a freelancing prewar diplomat?  —  Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, the following exchange took place between Chris Wallace and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Discussion: TAPPED, Betsy's Page and Power Line
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators.
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Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Review of 'Plan B' Pill Is Faulted
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Another Set of Scare Tactics  —  Mr. President, it won't work this time.  —  With a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll finding 57 percent of Americans agreeing that George W. Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq," the president clearly needs to tend to his credibility problems.
New York Times:
Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials  —  To avoid having to account for his administration's misleading statements before the war with Iraq, President Bush has tried denial, saying he did not skew the intelligence.  He's tried to share the blame, claiming that Congress had the same intelligence he had, as well as President Bill Clinton.
USA Today:
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon  —  WASHINGTON — The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell.  —  "We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
I Was Wrong, but So Were You  —  Parsing Bush's new mantra.  —  Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up to get all of Slate's free daily podcasts.  —  President George W. Bush has suddenly shifted rhetoric on the war in Iraq.  Until recently, the administration's line …
Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Senate Weighs Measures Urging Bush Set Limits in Iraq (Update1)  —  Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate opened debate today on measures that would put the chamber on record for the first time asking President George W. Bush to set limits for keeping American troops in Iraq.
Discussion: Pandagon
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:   Rep Senators Screw Us All
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
U.S. Widens Offensive In Far Western Iraq  —  Insurgent Positions Near Syria Targeted  —  BAGHDAD, Nov. 14 — The U.S. military broadened its offensive in western Iraq on Monday, launching a major attack on insurgent positions in the town of Ubaydi near the Syrian border and killing …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Habeas and Guantanamo: Breaking News  —  All right.  There are two new amendments:  —  Graham has proposed an amendment to his own amendment, which is co-sponsored by Carl Levin and John Kyl.  Here is a PDF of it.  It still cuts off habeas but it allows more judicial review than the version …
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Retired military leaders, human-rights activists outraged by Graham amendment
Discussion: Inflatable Dartboard
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Chillin' with Chalabi: My Journey into the Surreal  —  Ahmad Chalabi's Washington visit hit the top floor today, as he met with Don Rumsfeld in the morning and Dick Cheney in the afternoon.  —  No official word on what they discussed — but I got a sneak peek Friday night over the course …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Gawker
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Parents Carry Burden of Proof in School Cases, Court Rules  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - The Supreme Court ruled in a closely watched education case on Monday that parents who disagree with a school system's special-education plan for their child have the legal burden of proving that the plan will not provide the …
Discussion: Washington Post, Eduwonk.com and Wampum
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Battle in Ubaydi  —  The insurgents and al Qaeda in Iraq appears to have made a stand in Ubaydi as Coalition forces press the fight in Operation Steel Curtain.  Coalition forces have engaged bands of terrorists while entering the city in what is described as "sporadic but heavy fighting."
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New York Times:
2 Marines Die in Assault on Small Iraqi Town
Washington Post:
No Right to Abortion, Alito Argued in 1985  —  Reagan-Era Papers Show Staunch Conservatism  —  As a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," declared his firm opposition …
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Pentagon's Fuel Deal Is Lesson in Risks of Graft-Prone Regions  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - Soon after the American invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, the Pentagon opened an air base in neighboring Kyrgyzstan and made a deal to get jet fuel from the only two suppliers in the country.
Discussion: Tim Worstall
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Ginsburg Fallacy  —  To hear some Republicans tell it, letting Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court was a tough pill to swallow.  She was an ACLU-loving, bra-burning feminazi, but they supported her anyway, dutifully respecting the president's right to put his own stamp on the high court.
Andrew Leigh / National Review:
Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries  —  A year ago, Jonathan Klein, current president of CNN, airily dismissed the bloggers who dethroned Dan Rather.  "These bloggers have no checks and balances... You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at 60 Minutes] …
Discussion: Roger Ailes and Daimnation!

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