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7:00 PM ET, November 16, 2006

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Associated Press:
Hoyer tapped for party's No. 2 House spot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Thursday chose Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer to be House majority leader over Rep. John Murtha, brushing aside the choice of House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi.  —  Hoyer was elected on a vote of 149-86 not long …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hoyer Beats Pelosi's Pick in Race for No. 2 House Post  —  House Democrats chose Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland as their majority leader today after a bruising fight that cast a cloud over the party's post-election celebration.  —  The election of Mr. Hoyer over Representative John P. Murtha …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Murtha Loses... But It's Still a Victory for Pelosi  —  The votes are in and Steny Hoyer is the new House majority leaders, winning out over Jack Murtha 149-86.  —  For all the reasons I've made abundantly clear, I would've loved to see Murtha as Majority Leader.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hoyer humiliates Pelosi, defeats Murtha, 149-86  —  Just in at Fox.  Soak it in.  Updates coming.  —  Update: Unless there was some eleventh-hour shift to Hoyer — which is unlikely, considering that 90 Democrats had already publicly committed to him yesterday — then Murtha lied to Matthews's face on Hardball yesterday.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Pelosi Stumbles Out of the Blocks  —  Political Wire guest contributor Stuart Rothenberg reflects on incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first big loss.  —  Yes, I know.  Leadership fights on Capitol Hill are the ultimate political insider contests.  Voters don't care about them, and once they are over, they are quickly forgotten.
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CNNMoney.com:
Nobel economist Milton Friedman dead at 94  —  Advocate of deregulation whose influence soared after Ronald Reagan became president.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize winning economist who helped shape and define free-market economic theory, died Thursday at the age of 94 in San Francisco.
Samuel Brittan / Financial Times:
Milton Friedman, economist, dies aged 94  —  Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was the last of the great economists to combine possession of a household name with the highest professional credentials.  In this respect he was often compared to John Maynard Keynes, whose work he always respected …
Discussion: Tim Worstall and Economist's View
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Milton Friedman dies at age 94
Daily Bruin News Headlines:
[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers  —  Incident occured around 11:30 p.m. in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab  —  UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
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Los Angeles Times:
A third incident, a new video  —  A cellphone camera captures UCLA police using a Taser on a student who allegedly refused to leave the library Tuesday night.  —  The latest in a recent spate of cellphone videos documenting questionable arrest tactics surfaced Wednesday …
Discussion: ACSBlog and AMERICAblog
Hotline On Call:
Putnam Wants To Know: Where Were The Rednecks?  —  "White rednecks" who "didn't show up to vote for us" partly cost GOPers their cong. majorities, Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) told fellow Republicans today.  And Putnam, seeking the post of GOP conference chair, chided ex-Chair J.C. Watts (R-OK) …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
O.J. Simpson, Fox, Regan Books And The Decline Of Standards  —  DEAR TMV: I am 10 years old.  I was talking with my friends and they said corporate standards and the corporate conscience in America are disintegrating.  —  My father says, "If you see a Starbucks on every corner it isn't so."
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RADAR:
O'REILLY TRIES TO LOOFAH AWAY FOX STENCH
Discussion: Think Progress
Reuters:
Clear Channel accepts $19B deal  —  Private equity firms Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital and the founding Mays family would acquire 1,100 radio stations.  Company can solicit competing bids.  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) — Clear Channel, the No. 1 U.S. radio station operator …
Discussion: Donklephant
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Mitt Romney Buys Clear Channel
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
US plans last big push in Iraq  —  Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi army and regional summit  —  President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning …
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Baker Ex Machina / Washington Post:
How Billionaires Give Their Money Away
Jessica / Feministing:
Breaking: Bush appoints abstinence-only nut to oversee repro rights funding  —  Hold on to your hats.  I hear from a little birdie that the Bush administration has hired Dr. Eric Keroack to oversee Title X funding—the only federal program devoted entirely to family planning and reproductive health.
Media Matters for America:
Lowry falsely claimed poll shows most Americans support sending more troops to Iraq … In his November 14 National Review Online column, "Be Careful What You Believe," National Review editor Rich Lowry falsely claimed that a "late-October New York Times poll found that 55 percent of the public favors sending more troops to Iraq."
Carl Bialik / Wall Street Journal:
Grading the Pollsters  —  Political polling has come a long way since "Dewey Defeats Truman."  —  Pollsters earned high marks in last week's elections: Surveys correctly predicted that the Democrats would win control of the House of Representatives, that the Senate would be closely contested …
Laura Rozen / Los Angeles Times:
Unleash the Shiites?  —  The U.S. may be forced to choose sides in Iraq's civil strife.  —  AS SECTARIAN violence rises in Iraq and the White House comes under increasing pressure to revamp its strategy there, a debate is emerging inside the Bush administration: Should the U.S. abandon …
USA Today:
Nevada town to fine for foreign flags  —  The Nevada town of Pahrump is taking a stand not just against illegal immigrants but flags they may bring with them.  —  The elected town board in the remote Mojave Desert community voted 3-2 on Tuesday to enact an ordinance making it illegal to fly a foreign nation's flag by itself.
Discussion: TAPPED and Donklephant
 
 
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Harry Jaffe / washingtonian.com:
Another Election Winner: The Mainstream Media
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Time: By the way, never mind about that Rumsfeld war-crimes suit
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Benny Avni / New York Sun:
President Carter Could Lead U.N. Investigation of Israel
Matthew Yglesias:
Incorrect?  —  Tyler Cowen labels this paper by Shu Kahn the …
Pew Research Center:
Public Cheers Democratic Victory
This Is London:
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Washington Post:
Taliban, Al-Qaeda Resurge In Afghanistan, CIA Says
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Bush to Put Nominations Back on Table
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Schumer, the victor, wins new leadership position
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney hires ex-Bush ad man
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
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