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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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Mohammad Zargham / Reuters:Bush seeking compromise on CIA torture ban -aide
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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 …
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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Jerusalem Post:
Suicide bombing outside Netanya mall kills 5 — Four people were killed and 66 were wounded - three seriously - in an explosion that rocked the entrance to the Hasharon shopping mall on Herzl Street in Netanya at 11:25 a.m. Monday morning. Another person died on the operating table at Laniado Hospital in Kfar Saba.
Cernig / NewsHog:
Rape, The Law and Unspoken Prejudice — Every now and then, a particular event makes you sit up, take notice and start thinking about generalities with a new energy. One such incident, the case of a young girl in Oregon who alleged gang-rape and has now been found guilty of filing a false report …
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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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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 …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Court Nominee Presents Father as Role Model — WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 - When a Democratic senator asked the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. why he might empathize with the plight of minorities or the poor, he had his answer ready: the example of his late father, an Italian immigrant …
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Navy to Expand Fleet With New Enemies in Mind — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - The Navy wants to increase its fleet to 313 ships by 2020, reversing years of decline in naval shipbuilding and adding dozens of warships designed to defeat emerging adversaries, senior Defense Department officials say.
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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Karen Karbo / New York Times:
Goodbye, Moon — "Goodnight Moon," the children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown, has gone smoke free. In a newly revised edition of the book, which has lulled children to sleep for nearly 60 years, the publisher, HarperCollins, has digitally altered the photograph of Clement Hurd …
