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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraq Vote Shows Sunnis Are Few in New Military  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 26 - An analysis of preliminary voting results released Monday from the Dec. 15 parliamentary election suggests that in contrast to the remarkable surge in Sunni Arab participation in the political process …
Discussion: Informed Comment
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Mariam Fam / Associated Press:
Iraq Violence Leaves at Least 2 Dozen Dead
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
A Political Debate On Stress Disorder  —  The spiraling cost of post-traumatic stress disorder among war veterans has triggered a politically charged debate and ignited fears that the government is trying to limit expensive benefits for emotionally scarred troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
The Whole Story on Military Recruiting?  —  Numbers aren't just facts.  They can be interpreted in many ways, even if they come from the same or similar sources.  —  Ann Scott Tyson, a respected military reporter just back from Iraq, wrote in a front-page story Nov. 4 that …
Robert Steinback / Miami Herald:
Fear destroys what bin Laden could not  —  One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all.  He ruined the America that existed on 9/11.  But he had help.  —  If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law …
Discussion: Patridiot Watch and MyDD
New York Times:
The Right Stuff  —  As director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin has been Congress's top economist, handpicked by the Republican leadership.  Recently, he had some advice for lawmakers - mostly Republicans - who insist that more tax cuts will foster economic growth …
Discussion: Steve Clemons and Economist's View
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Cheap politicians  —  I don't make a million dollars a year but I think every member of Congress should be paid at least that much.  It's not because those turkeys in Washington deserve it.  It's because we deserve a lot better people than we have in Congress.
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Democrats to woo voters on wage issue  —  Frozen minimum pay seen as spur  —  WASHINGTON — New Year's Day will bring the ninth straight year in which the federal minimum wage has remained frozen at $5.15 an hour, marking the second-longest period that the nation has had a stagnant minimum wage since …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
When the Cutting Is Corrupted  —  With indicted superlobbyist Jack Abramoff reportedly ready to cooperate with prosecutors and his partner, Michael Scanlon, already singing, 2006 is expected to be the year of congressional scandals.  —  Lord knows, a housecleaning in the Capitol is definitely in order.
Discussion: Bull Moose and World O'Crap
Washington Post:
White House Prevarications  —  GIVEN ALL THE fuss about what government officials in Washington say off the record, it's surprising how little attention is paid to some of the things they say on the record.  Take, for example, the subject of U.S. emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
Discussion: The Left Coaster
James Q. Wilson / Opinion Journal:
Faith in Theory  —  Why "intelligent design" simply isn't science.  —  When a federal judge in Pennsylvania struck down the efforts of a local school board to teach "intelligent design," he rightly criticized the wholly unscientific nature of that enterprise.
Discussion: The RCP Blog and Balloon Juice
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
White House Press Room To Be Closed For Makeover  —  The White House spokesman will spin on a new stage next summer.  —  With the administration moving ahead with plans to renovate the dirty and decaying press room off the West Wing of the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan …
Discussion: Wonkette
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WHAT KUTTNER COULD LEARN FROM LINCOLN  —  On Saturday in "Thinking about the Great Liberator" I wrote a little on Lincoln's exercise of the commander-in-chief's war powers during the Civil War.  Wielding Lincoln as his club, left-winger Robert Kuttner coincidentally attacked President Bush …
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New York Times:
Phantom Voters, Thanks to the Census  —  The first Constitution took for granted that enslaved people could not vote, but counted each slave as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning representation in Congress.  This inflated the voting power of slaveholders and gave …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Evelyn Nieves / Washington Post:
S.D. Makes Abortion Rare Through Laws And Stigma  —  Out-of-State Doctors Come Weekly to 1 Clinic  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The waiting room at the Planned Parenthood clinic was packed by the time the doctor arrived — an hour late because of weather delays in Minneapolis.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Montage Or Mirage  —  The election photo-montage I posted last week has a certain propagandistic feel to it.  It has all the usual suspects: the waving flag, the iconic soundtrack (Fanfare for the Common Man, hardly on the Iraqi Top 40) and the sequence of photos selected to tell a story ALL IN BOLD CAPITALS.
Richard Bernstein / New York Times:
Hometown Snubs Schwarzenegger Over Death Penalty  —  The stadium in Graz, Austria, now has a generic name (top).  Its old name was taken down as a protest over the California governor's decision to allow the execution of an inmate.  —  BERLIN, Dec. 26 - For years the quaint Austrian town …
Discussion: Big Lizards

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