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Josh White / Washington Post:
Military Planting Articles in Iraq Papers
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US paying Iraqi press to run favourable stories
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Memo: Alito Urged Government to Challenge Roe v. Wade  —  Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was an architect of the Reagan administration's failed 1985 attempt to have the high court consider overruling Roe v. Wade, according to a memo from the period released today.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Alito File Shows Strategy to Curb Abortion Ruling  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - As a lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department, the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. played an integral role in devising legal strategy to pare back the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, documents disclosed Wednesday show.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
For New Court, Abortion Case Takes Old Path  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Well before the argument in a New Hampshire abortion case was over, the question that had drawn the crowds to the Supreme Court on a crisp Wednesday morning had an answer.  No, abortion law was not about to undergo …
Discussion: Althouse
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Gaining Control in Iraq, and Regaining Support at Home  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - The political calculation behind President Bush's speech in Annapolis on Wednesday is that Washington, not Baghdad, is the battlefront that will decide the ultimate outcome of the war in Iraq …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and TAPPED
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
An Offering of Detail But No New Substance  —  Thirty-two months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Bush's advisers concluded that his message of "stay the course" has been translated by a weary American public as "stay forever."  And so yesterday the president tried to reassure …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Gives Plan for Iraq Victory and Withdrawal
Discussion: Winds of Change.NET and Ezra Klein
New York Times:
Plan: We Win  —  We've seen it before: an embattled president so swathed in his inner circle that he completely loses touch with the public and wanders around among small knots of people who agree with him.  There was Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's, Richard Nixon in the 1970's, and George H. W. Bush in the 1990's.
New York Times:
For Once, President and His Generals See the Same War  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 30 - For anyone who has spent time in the field with American officers here, President Bush's speech on Wednesday was a watershed: for the first time in the two years since the conflict here turned brutal …
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Los Angeles Times:
Bush Is Now in Step With His Generals
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
Challenge - Prove That Voting Machines Accurately Record Votes  —  I've said it before and I'll say it again.  Suppose you could get every bug out of every program that runs every company's electronic voting machines.  Suppose you can make sure that there is no way a technician has installed new chips the day before the election.
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Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way  —  THE waiting room for Hilarie Cash's practice has the look and feel of many a therapist's office, with soothing classical music, paintings of gentle swans and colorful flowers and on the bookshelves stacks of brochures on how to get help.
Discussion: Classical Values
Anthony Browne / Times of London:
Western white woman a suicide bomber  —  MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad.  —  In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation …
William Beutler / Hotline On Call:
Greatly Exaggerated  —  In the WSJ's subscriber-only "Political Diary" yesterday afternoon, John Fund reported that Senate Min. Leader Harry Reid had told Reno's NBC affiliate: "I heard that Osama bin Laden died in the [recent Pakistan] earthquake, and if that's the case …
John Seigenthaler / USA Today:
A false Wikipedia 'biography'  —  "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's.  For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby.  Nothing was ever proven."
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Washington Post:
Terrorist Cells Find Foothold in Balkans  —  SARAJEVO, Bosnia — The raid netted explosives, rifles, other arms and a videotape pledging vengeance for the "brothers" killed fighting Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Police found the cache in an apartment occupied by an underground group …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Ian Sample / Guardian:
Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream  —  · Slowing of current by a third in 12 years could bring more extreme weather  —  · Temperatures in Britain likely to drop by one degree in next decade  —  The powerful ocean current that bathes Britain and northern Europe …
CNN:
Poll: Most doubt plan for Iraq victory  —  (CNN) — As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory.  —  But the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday night …
Discussion: Informed Comment

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