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David Corn / The Huffington Post:
The Case of the Second Novak: Nothing To Be Confused About — There is nothing for liberal blogger John Amato to be confused about. — 1. When I wrote on December 2nd that Time's Viveca Novak was a friend of Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, I based that on the recent media reports.
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
McCain Won't Compromise on Torture Ban — WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a prisoner of war who was tortured in Vietnam, said Sunday he will refuse to yield on his demands that the White House agree with his proposed ban on the use of torture to extract information from suspected terrorists.
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The Moderate Voice
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Mohammad Zargham / Reuters:Bush seeking compromise on CIA torture ban -aide
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Once Upon a Time
Gerald Walpin / Opinion Journal:
The Wisdom of Solomon — Law schools adopt an Orwellian theory in an effort to keep the military out. — Imagine a college accepting your donation, then saying that you cannot have the same access to the school as all other alumni—but that you must continue making donations. Unbelievable?
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Arnold's 'Harriet Miers Moment' — Has Gov. Schwarzenegger jumped the shark? — Arnold Schwarzenegger stunned California last week by selecting the former deputy chief of staff to Gray Davis, the Democratic governor ousted by the recall that brought Mr. Schwarzenegger to power, to be his own chief of staff.
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Vox Popoli
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Democrats Find Iraq Alternative Is Elusive — Party's Elite Differ on How to Shift U.S. Policy — Around the country, many grass-roots Democrats are clamoring for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. On Capitol Hill, Democratic politicians have grown newly aggressive in denouncing …
Isambard Wilkinson / Telegraph:
Pakistan censors poetic salute to Bush — A poem in a school textbook has been removed by embarrassed education officials in Pakistan after it was found that the first letters of each line spelt out "President George W Bush." — The 20-line anonymous poem, The Leader, lists the qualities of …
Drudge Report:
SPIELBERG HOPES MOVIE CAN BREAK MID-EAST STALEMATE — Steven Spielberg, IN ONLY INTERVIEW WORLDWIDE BEFORE 'MUNICH' RELEASE Discusses CONTROVERSIAL New Film to Open Dec. 23. — 'There has never been an adequate tribute paid to the Israeli athletes who were murdered in '72,' Spielberg says.
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Choose now this day whom to trust — Professor Peng Hwa Ang of Nanyang Technical University in Singapore is a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance and attended the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society. You can read more of his opinions on internet governance here and here.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Credibility Gap — A few people have e-mailed me today to tip me to this story in the NY Times about the NSC pollster who wrote the first draft of the president's "victory" speech last week. — I try not to do this too much because, well, it's stupid, but I can't help but point out that I've …
Ronald Bailey / Reason:
Origin of the Specious — Why do neoconservatives doubt Darwin? — Darwinism is on the way out. At least, that's what Irving Kristol announced to a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington not long ago. Darwinian evolution, according to the godfather of neoconservatism …
James Wolcott:
PAJAMA BOTTOMS (III) — With all the kindness in my heart that I could scrape together on short notice, I tried to warn The Nation's David Corn that by lending his name to the blog roster of Pajamas Media, he risked being associated with the worst sort of wharf rats and riffraff.
BummerDietz / Scylla & Charybdis:
LA Times on Joe Wilson: Over 12 Mistakes in Just 2 Sentences — We know that the MSM repeats the mantra that those forged RatherGate memos have not been conclusively proven to be forgeries. Whatever. — Another MSM mantra is that Joseph Wilson has not been conclusively proven to be ... a speaker lacking veracity.
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Transterrestrial Musings
Mike Allen / Time:
Tax Reform: A Balk? — President Bush may have drawn cheers at campaign rallies last year by calling the federal income tax code "a complicated mess" and promising to make its "million pages" simpler and fairer. But H&R Block can breathe easy for another season.
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MyDD
Associated Press:
Pro-Chavez Candidates to Sweep Elections — CARACAS, Venezuela - Candidates aligned with President Hugo Chavez were widely expected to increase their legislative majority Sunday as Venezuelans voted for a new National Assembly in an election boycotted by several opposition parties.
Adam / Techronization:
Welcome to the Carnival of the Capitalists! — I am proud to be hosting this week's Carnival of the Capitalists weblog. I hope you find everything interesting, I know I did! If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me at adam.siegrist@gmail.com.
Frank Rich / truthout.org:
All the President's Flacks — When "all of the facts come out in this case," Bob Woodward told Terry Gross on NPR in July, "it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great." — Who's laughing now? — Why Mr. Woodward took more than two years to tell his editor …
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Middle Earth Journal
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
SUNDAY'S NEWS....Today, the Washington Post revisits the story of Khaled Masri, a German citizen who was arrested, beaten, and imprisoned by the CIA for five months because his name was similar to that of an actual terrorist. Turns out he's just an ordinary schmoe.
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JDZ / Never Yet Melted:Pouting Spooks Leak Again
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