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Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Says Nuke Program Is Near Complete  —  TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran would soon celebrate completion of its nuclear fuel program and claimed the international community was ready to accept it as a nuclear state.  —  Iran has been locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program.
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Iran 'is training the next al-Qa'eda leaders'  —  Iran is seeking to take control of Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'eda terror network by encouraging it to promote officials known to be friendly to Teheran, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.  —  According to recent reports received by Western intelligence agencies …
Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Pelosi 'will ensure' Murtha win, Murtha ally says  —  House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will ensure that Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) wins his race for majority leader, a key Murtha ally said Monday night.  —  "She will ensure that they [the Murtha camp] win.
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Washington Post:
A Choice for Democrats  —  LOYALTY IS an admirable quality, but sometimes it can be taken too far.  That is the case with the decision by the incoming House speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to offer a public endorsement of the bid of Pennsylvania Rep. John P. Murtha (D) to become majority leader.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
In Backing Murtha, Pelosi Draws Fire
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Backing Murtha Is Risky for Next House Speaker
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Little Green Footballs:
The Media Are the Enemy  —  You're not going to believe this one.  —  All our suspicions about mainstream media slanting and distorting the news from the Middle East are confirmed in a bombshell of a post by Bruno Stevens, at the Lightstalkers pro photographers' forum: The Lebanon 'garbage dump' story: complete explanation.
Discussion: Media Blog and Riehl World View
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Fauxtography: The great Hezbollah tire fire revisited
Discussion: snapped shot and Ace of Spades HQ
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Military Commissions Act in action  —  The Bush administration's treatment of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri ought to be shocking and horrifying.  Instead, it is now not only depressingly familiar, but also something that is formally sanctioned by the U.S. Congress.
Discussion: The Heretik
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Get Jim in Here, Pronto!  —  If I told you that there was something in Washington called the Baker commission but didn't tell you what it was about, you still could probably name many of its members.  If you are of a certain age, you might wonder, "Jim or Howard?"  And you might have a quibble or two.
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Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
IRAQ: A FINAL (BIPARTISAN) PUSH?
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
Michelle Malkin:
Blogging for Bolton  —  The Democrats want John Bolton's scalp.  This is a moment for conservatives to stand up to the Left's empty, vindictive obstructionism and support a strong voice for America's interests at the corrupted, soft-on-jihad offices of Turtle Bay.  —  We're videoblogging for Bolton over at Hot Air.
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Chicago Sun Times:   Confirm Bolton for U.N. post
Guardian:
Al-Qaida plotting nuclear attack on UK, officials warn  —  Vikram Dodd  —  British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday.  The announcement, from an officially organised Foreign Office counter-terrorism briefing …
Discussion: Peaktalk and PoliPundit.com
Hotline On Call:
Dated Kerry, Married Dean  —  Who won the election for Democrats last week?  Apportion a large measure of credit to the national environment and to Republican mistakes.  Give the Democratic grassroots, who cultivated candidates, knocked on doors and raised money for people and causes ignored (at first) by the national party.
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Mo. Panel's Report Links Immigration To Abortion  —  A Republican-led legislative panel says in a new report on illegal immigration that abortion is partly to blame because it is causing a shortage of American workers.  —  The report from the state House Special Committee on Immigration Reform …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Update: In FL-13, Court Battle Begins As Counting Continues  —  Lawyers for Democratic House candidate Christine Jennings threw down the gauntlet yesterday, asking a state court to secure electronic voting machines and data used in the election.  —  The move would preserve the equipment …
John Tierney / New York Times:
Bring On the Seinfeld Congress  —  A do-nothing Congress is bad for the local economy.  But it's fine for the rest of the country.  —  To continue reading this article, you must be a subscriber to TimesSelect.  Log in now.  —  What is TimesSelect?  —  Newspaper subscribers, upgrade to TimesSelect for free now.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The Karl Rove crush … My favorite article from the just-completed campaign season appeared in the October 9 issue of Time, in which Mike Allen and James Carney wrote a detailed piece about why Republicans were not worried about the upcoming elections.  "The G.O.P.'s Secret Weapon," read the bold headline.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Michelle gets bleeped on O'Reilly  —  If nothing else good comes of this, at least it means I can now safely use the word "balls" on this blog.  —  Because let me tell you — I've been dying to.  —  Here's the boss welcoming our new Democratic overlords and reacting to the prospect of Hillarycare, take two.
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BUSH AND THE MIDDLE EAST....News on the foreign policy front …
Discussion: New York Times and Unfogged
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Senate Democrats decide on party leaders
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Kilroy urges voters to follow up
Discussion: MyDD, TIME and Daily Kos
Heraclitus / The Reaction:
Smart-assery on gender differences
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C. Bryson Hull / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE-UN report links Somali Islamists, foreign militants
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Up to 150 People Kidnapped in Baghdad
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Rubin's Tax Gambit
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The Dangerous Lame Duck
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Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
The Grand Tour of Their New House
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Gates May Rein In Pentagon Activities
Neil Sears / Daily Mail:
Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Lott running for whip post