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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.
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Dalton Conley / New York Times:
A Man's Right to Choose
Discussion: Eschaton
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
For New Court, Abortion Case Takes Old Path
Discussion: Althouse
CNN:
Poll: Most doubt Bush has 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 …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / TAPPED:
EW.  The women of Broadsheet have been having fun with some of the bizarre reactions to Maureen Dowd in the reader comments left on Amazon.com.  One irate male reader, in particular, was emphatic about asserting that Dowd is past her "expiration date," repeating "WOMEN HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE.
Discussion: Unfogged and Left in the West
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John Derbyshire / The Corner on National Review Online:
SHIP-SHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION
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 …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Pox on Both Parties  —  To understand why the level of public disillusionment with politics is so high in this country right now, it helps to go back a dozen years.  —  The Democrats took power in 1993 with a young and obviously talented Bill Clinton succeeding George H.W. Bush …
Balkinization:
Justice O'Connor to the rescue?  —  The oral arguments for Ayotte can be found here and here.  The liberal justices gave both Ayotte and the Solicitor General a hard time; Chief Justice Roberts wanted to throw out the challenge and have doctors bring a brand new "pre-enforcement as-applied challenge" …
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Guardian:
Why did you want to bomb me, Mr Bush and Mr Blair?  —  Al-Jazeera's quest for answers has been met with silence from both the White House and Downing Street  —  Wadah Khanfar  —  I have lost count of the number of accusations levelled against al-Jazeera and the incidents of harassment …
Discussion: Steve Clemons and firedoglake
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Newsweek:
The Case of the Secret Memo
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Rick Richman / Jewish Current Issues:
Bush and Churchill's Mid-War Speeches  —  George W. Bush's extraordinary "Strategy for Victory" speech yesterday was a direct response to the crisis of confidence created from a combination of adverse developments in the war, incessant political attacks from Democrats, and the nonstop criticism of a hostile mainstream media.
Peter H. Schuck / LAW.com:
Leftward Leaning  —  Two recent studies reveal what the insiders have known all along: Professors at top U.S. law schools are predominantly liberal.  —  The American Lawyer  —  Elite law schools cherish robust debate, iconoclasm, and arguing issues from all sides, right?  Wrong.
David Lightman / courant.com:
Lieberman In Step With GOP On How To Run War  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Lieberman stood virtually alone among Democrats Wednesday, his unyielding support for the administration's conduct of the Iraq war drawing warm praise from President Bush but no support from his own party.
Discussion: Sirotablog and Daily Kos
Tommy Witherspoon / wacotrib.com:
Will Bush heed his call to (jury) service?  —  Leading the free world during wartime and reporting for jury duty are both important public service responsibilities.  —  While most would agree that serving as president of the United States is more pressing than serving as foreman of a jury …
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and PrawfsBlawg
Jim Suhr / Associated Press:
Walgreens places 4 pharmacists on leave  —  Contraceptive wasn't dispensed  —  ST. LOUIS — Walgreen Co. said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule.
Discussion: ACSBlog and AMERICAblog
New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Titled "The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq," an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders' pessimism about the country's future.
B. Preston / JunkYardBlog:
Four Years Ago Today  —  this blog got started.  I started blogging to try and counter the already evident (in Dec 2001) anti-war and anti-American bias in the MSM, and to counter the already evident bias in the liberatarian-dominated blogosphere against anyone who claimed any kind of faith.
BBC:
Miller 'sorry' for WMD inaccuracies  —  Judith Miller, the US journalist at the heart of the CIA leak probe, has apologised to her readers because her stories about WMD and Iraq turned out to be wrong.  —  The US journalist, who spent 85 days in prison over the summer before agreeing …
Associated Press:
Murtha Says Army Is 'Broken, Worn Out'  —  LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year, and the Army is "broken, worn out" and may not be able to meet future military threats to the country's security, Rep. John Murtha said.  —  Two weeks ago, Murtha created a storm …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Judd / Think Progress:
Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces  —  Yesterday, President Bush claimed that Iraqi security forces "primarily led" the assault on the city of Tal Afar.  Bush highlighted it as an "especially clear" sign of the progress Iraq security forces were making in Iraq.
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.

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