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CNN:
Official: Marshal shoots passenger on Jetway at Miami airport  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A person was shot and wounded on the Jetway to an American Airlines passenger jet that was at the terminal at Miami International Airport, an airline official said.  —  A federal official told CNN …
Andrew Cochran / The Counterterrorism Blog:
Shots Fired, Man Killed Near Plane Parked at Miami Airport (updated)
Reuters:
Passenger shot by air marshal is dead: report
Discussion: The LLama Butchers
White House:
President Discusses War on Terror and Rebuilding Iraq  —  Washington, D.C.  —  In Focus: Renewal in Iraq  —  Fact Sheet: Rebuilding Iraq  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all.  Richard, thanks for the invitation.  Thanks for letting me come by and address the Council on Foreign Relations.
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and Gateway Pundit
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President Bush Delivers Remarks at the Council …
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Fact Sheet: Rebuilding Iraq
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog and Gateway Pundit
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Admits 'Fits and Starts' in Iraq Plan
Carol Leonnig / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Presents New Information to Grand Jury  —  First Appearance in Probe Since Libby Indictment  —  Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation.  —  Fitzgerald has been probing for two years …
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Hussein Refuses to Attend Trial, So Judge Proceeds Without Him  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 7 - The trial of Saddam Hussein on crimes against humanity proceeded today without the former ruler, who made good on his threat on Tuesday to boycott the hearing, saying he had been mistreated by an "unjust court."
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory
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CNN:
Hussein trial adjourns for 2 weeks
Discussion: Decision '08 and Daily Pundit
Reuters:
Absent Saddam defies court with empty chair
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Remember Pearl Harbor  —  Last May my wife and traveled to Oahu.  On Memorial Day Sunday we visited the USS Arizona Memorial.  The ship was sunk on Dec. 7, 1941, along with many others.  —  This is the original ship's bell of USS Arizona, recovered from the sunken vessel and now on display …
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Mean Dean / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
The attack on Pearl Harbor remembered 64 years later  —  But for the incompetence of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the defenses at Pearl would have been ready and the toll much lower.  And if MacArthur had reacted earlier the Air Corps in the Philipeans would have been dispersed …
Washington Post:
Democrats Fear Backlash at Polls for Antiwar Remarks  —  Strong antiwar comments in recent days by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have opened anew a party rift over Iraq, with some lawmakers warning that the leaders' rhetorical blasts …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Dems In Disarray (Ongoing...)
Discussion: Discriminations and Silent Running
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
THE WRONG SIDE OF CLINTONISM.  The New York Times writes:
Discussion: Left in the West and Ezra Klein
Mark Preston / CNN:
Sources: Menendez tapped for U.S. Senate seat  —  Democratic Caucus head reported to succeed Corzine  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — New Jersey Gov.-elect Jon Corzine will name Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, as his successor in the U.S. Senate, multiple New Jersey Democratic sources told CNN Wednesday.
Discussion: Swing State Project and MyDD
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Governor's Relative Is Big Contract Winner  —  PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Dec. 6 - Rosemary Barbour happens to be married to a nephew of Mississippi's governor, Haley Barbour.  Since the Reagan administration, when Mrs. Barbour worked as a White House volunteer as a college student, she has been active in the Republican Party.
Discussion: firedoglake and Angry Bear
National Review:
Funny Girl  —  Chanukah came early for the Goldberg household last month.  On November 23, Barbra Streisand wrote a letter to the editor complaining that the Los Angeles Times picked me up as a columnist.  As gleeful as I was, I declined to respond.  But now, just last night …
Ron Hutcheson / Knight Ridder:
Administration objects to story describing Alito as conservative  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is mounting an aggressive effort to counter a Knight Ridder story that described Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a committed judicial conservative.
Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
The Liberal on Karl Rove's Case  —  Politics Aside, Robert Luskin May Be Just What the Bush Aide Needs  —  Karl Rove's greatest defender in Washington these days is a Democratic lawyer and onetime newspaper reporter named Robert Luskin.  He is Rove's attorney in the high-stakes CIA leak case …
Donald Rumsfeld / Opinion Journal:
'Do Some Soul Searching'  —  Why aren't the media telling the whole story about Iraq?  —  I'm not one to put much faith in opinion polls.  But the other day, I came across an interesting set of statistics that I want to mention.  It seems that the Pew Research Center asked opinion leaders …
Discussion: World O'Crap

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