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New York Times:
Former Aide to DeLay Pleads Guilty in Conspiracy Case  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 - Michael Scanlon, former aide to a powerful congressman and onetime partner of a wealthy lobbyist, pleaded guilty today to a federal conspiracy charge as part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with an investigation …
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Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Scanlon, Abramoff `Backroom Guy,' Points Probers at DeLay, Ney  —  Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — For more than a year, Michael Scanlon has been a shadowy presence behind former partner Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist at the center of a corruption probe.  Now, Scanlon may help prosecutors raise the investigation to a higher level.
Bloomberg:   Scanlon Pleads Guilty, Cooperates in Abramoff Probe (Update2)
Pete Yost / Associated Press:   Ex-Aide to DeLay Pleads Guilty in Conspiracy
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
The Revolution will be blogged, 5  —  Vice President Dick Cheney's latest speech to the American Enterprise Institute takes on his media critics who chose to frame his recent remarks about Democratic war critics as an "attack" on their patriotism.  A few excerpts:
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White House:
Vice President's Remarks on the War on Terror  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning, and thank you all very much.  And thank you, Chris.  It's great to be back at AEI.  Both Lynne and I have a long history with the American Enterprise Institute, and we value the association …
Drudge Report:
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH  —  At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington — when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face!
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Cheney Accuses Iraq Critics of Shameless Revisionism
Nico / Think Progress:
Declassified Pentagon Document Describes White Phosphorus As 'Chemical Weapon'  —  To downplay the political impact of revelations that U.S. forces used deadly white phosphorus rounds against Iraqi insurgents in Falluja last year, Pentagon officials have insisted that phosphorus munitions …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Seeing the Forest
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Genie In A Bottle by di  —  Genie In A Bottle  —  Nobody is going to ask me who should be hired at The New York Times to replace Judith Miller, but if they did I would say that they should hire the best and most unsung national security reporter in the country —  Jason Vest.
Discussion: The Sideshow
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Crooks and Liars:
Neo-Con Kool-aid  —  Dick Cheney Speech Today  —  Neo-Con Kool-aid?  —  I'm a little under the weather so I'll leave the analysis up to you as you watch the Vice President and his speech on Iraq.  Cheney did say a few things that were a little unnerving.
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Confederate Yankee:
Armando: Zarqawi Wasn't a Problem  —  Ever willing to downplay any strides towards peace or a more stable Iraq, Armando at Daily Kos is downplaying the significance of Musab al-Zarqawi's possible death after a protracted gunbattle today in Mosul: … Will the death of Musab al-Zarqawi (if confirmed) put an end to all violence in Iraq?
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Jerusalem Post:   Iraqi FM: Al-Zarqawi thought to be dead
Caroline Alexander / Bloomberg:
Iraqi Leaders Urge a Timetable for Eventual Troop Withdrawal  —  Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Iraqi leaders, meeting at a reconciliation conference in Cairo, urged an end to violence in the country and demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq.
torontosun.canoe.ca:
Hatred blinds U.S. to truth: Journalist  —  Four years after 9/11 and the "crazy zeitgeist" that permeated the United States, most Americans have still not learned to know their enemies instead of just hating them, U.S. political journalist Chris Matthews says.
OSM:
Look back, in pajamas  —  Edited by Glenn Reynolds, Chair, OSM Editorial Advisory Board  —  A CARNIVAL OF PRE-WAR INTELLIGENCE: WHAT WE KNEW, WHEN WE KNEW IT, AND WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN GOING INTO THE IRAQ WAR.  —  On Friday, OSM extended an open-invitation to bloggers everywhere …
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Who Is Mean Jean's Marine?  And Why Does He Think Murtha's A Coward?  —  On Friday, freshman Republican Rep. "Mean Jean" Schmidt mounted one of the fiercest, most personal assaults Congress has witnessed since Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner to a bloody pulp in 1856.
Penn Jillette / npr.org:
There is No God  —  · I believe that there is no God.  I'm beyond Atheism.  Atheism is not believing in God.  Not believing in God is easy — you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do.  You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car.  You sure?
Gateway Pundit:
George Bush Makes History, Praises Mongolian Democracy  —  PRESIDENT BUSH PRAISES ANOTHER CENTRAL ASIAN DEMOCRACY AS HE MAKES HISTORIC STOP IN MONGOLIA,  —  VIDEO HERE  —  Holy Yak!  Bush praises the "Fearless Warriors" of Mongolia.  —  U.S. President George W. Bush (L) …
Discussion: Publius Pundit
Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber:
PZ Myers … The link goes to Adams' version of a spat he (Adams) has been having with PZ Myers, of Pharyngula.  Here is Myers' version.  But what I really want to know is, under what description of reality does PZ Myers (a biology professor at the University of Minnesota at Morris …

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