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New York Times:
Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
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Chicago Tribune:
Judging the case for war  —  Did President Bush intentionally mislead this nation and its allies into war?  Or is it his critics who have misled Americans, recasting history to discredit him and his policies?  If your responses are reflexive and self-assured, read on.
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Enron Executive Agrees to Plea Deal  —  Prosecutors Gain Witness Against Lay and Skilling  —  Enron Corp.'s former chief accountant agreed to plead guilty today to criminal conduct that preceded the company's collapse into bankruptcy, according to sources familiar with the negotiations …
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Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Plea Deal Is Seen for Enron Figure  —  In a reversal that transforms the criminal case against Enron's former top officers, the company's former chief accounting officer has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to violating federal law during his employment there, people briefed on the decision said yesterday.
Kathleen Parker / Townhall.com:
Lord of the blogs  —  Of all the stories leading America's annual greatest-hits list, the one that subsumes the rest is the continuing evolution of information in the Age of Blogging.  —  Not since the birth of the printing press have our lives been so dramatically affected by the way we create …
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Jazz / Middle Earth Journal:
Lord of the blogs? Parker comes unhinged.
Discussion: Running Scared
Tom Lasseter / Knight Ridder:
Kurds preparing takeover; U.S. exit strategy at risk  —  The U.S. plan for leaving Iraq is in trouble, with more than 10,000 Kurds in the Iraqi army prepared to seize control of northern Iraq for an independent state.  —  KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 …
New York Times:
Transit Workers in Deal to Share Health Plan Cost  —  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the transit workers' union announced a settlement yesterday in which the authority abandoned its demand for concessions on pensions and the union agreed to have all workers pay a portion of their health insurance premiums.
Discussion: Gothamist and THE NEWS BLOG
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Robert Fitch / New York Times:
Big Labor's Big Secret
Discussion: TAPPED and Democracy Project
Matthew Yglesias / yglesias.tpmcafe.com:
Matthew Yglesias  —  Gifted Children Left Behind?  —  A Washington Post op-ed complaints that with No Child Left Behind forcing schools to focus more attention on their worst-performing students, the "gifted" are being left out of the picture.  Paul Glastris says "Progressive-minded folks ought …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Frustration Over Iraq Vote Unlikely to Trouble Clinton  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for the war in Iraq has outraged many liberal activists in the Democratic Party, who are warning of retribution, including a primary challenge to her re-election campaign next year.
Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
EDUCATION AND REGIONALISM.  Yesterday's Wall Street Journal editorial page contained what struck me as a fairly inoffensive self-assessment of contemporary conservatism by Jeffrey Hart that produced an awful lot of discontent over at the Corner.  Much of the ire is directed at Hart's assertion …
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Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
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Robert F. Turner / Opinion Journal:
FISA vs. the Constitution  —  Congress can't usurp the president's power to spy on America's enemies.  —  In the continuing saga of the surveillance "scandal," with some congressional Democrats denouncing President Bush as a lawbreaker and even suggesting that impeachment hearings may be in order …
Editor and Publisher:
Koppel and Brokaw Agree: Clinton Would Have Gone Into Iraq, Too  —  NEW YORK Appearing on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel, agreed that the press shouldn't be faulted too harshly for not questioning more deeply the claims of WMD in Iraq …
MSNBC:
An interview with a Taliban commander  —  Behind some of the most deadly attacks against U.S. troops is one man: a 35-year-old Afghan who calls himself 'Commander Ismail' … WASHINGTON -  —  Four years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, Taliban and al Qaeda fighters are showing renewed strength …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and mediabistro
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Centrist Democrats hit anti-Bush tactics  —  Some centrist Democrats say attacks by their party leaders on the Bush administration's eavesdropping on suspected terrorist conversations will further weaken the party's credibility on national security.  —  That concern arises from recent moves …
Weekly Standard:
Where The Boys Aren't  —  Here's a thought that's unlikely to occur to twelfth—grade girls as their college acceptances begin to trickle in: After they get to campus in the fall, one in four of them will be mathematically unable to find a male peer to go out with.
Jeremy / Jeremy Hermanns dot org:
Alaska Flight #536 - Rapid De-Pressurization and Panic at 30K Feet  —  Boy, what a day.  In what started as a typical flight home from a typical holiday weekend, changed drastically twenty minutes after take off.  My fiancée and I were returning from a few days in Seattle …
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
A Shared Uncertainty  —  Hurricane Unites Evacuees on Both Sides Of New Orleans's Divide of Race and Class  —  NEW ORLEANS Joseph and Kesa Williams have come home once since Hurricane Katrina chased them off to Atlanta.  Once was all they could bear.  —  Inside their ruined house …

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