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11:10 AM ET, November 17, 2006

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Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Her Own Worst Enemy  —  Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi lost big on the Steny Hoyer-Jack Murtha race.  —  The old mayor would not be pleased.  —  Years ago I spent Election Day in San Francisco with Rep. Nancy Pelosi as she made her way around town.  She was elegant, smart and popular …
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New York Times:
Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster  —  Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House.  First, she played politics with the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee to settle an old score and a new debt.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Pelosi Rebuffed Over Her Choice for Majority Leader  —  Nancy Pelosi, the incoming House speaker, with Steny H. Hoyer at a news conference Thursday after Democrats chose him as their new majority leader.  Ms. Pelosi had supported John P. Murtha, right.  Also at the conference were Rahm Emanuel, left, and John B. Larson.
Los Angeles Times:
Don't snub Harman  —  Pelosi's rocky start shouldn't include bypassing the best candidate to chair the House Intelligence Committee.  —  NEWLY MINTED House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is off to a rocky start.  On the same day she was formally elected to lead the new Democratic majority …
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Opinion Journal:
Friedman and Freedom  —  The man who made free markets popular again.  —  There are some public figures whose obituaries can be written years in advance.  Milton Friedman was not one of them.  —  Arguably the greatest economist of the 20th century, he won his Nobel Prize 30 years ago.
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Jim Christie / Reuters:
Free market economist Milton Friedman dead at 94
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Clinton Rules Redux  —  Man are these catty little MSNBC snots enjoying their full-on Demo bitch fest.  They are partying like it's 1999.  Norah O'Donnell, Lawrence O'Donnell, Mary Ann Akers and some other person I don't know have just spent half an hour discussing the fact that Nancy Pelosi ruined …
Discussion: The News Blog
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USA Today:
Military may ask $127B for wars  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II.  —  The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion …
Discussion: The American Street
Drudge Report:
REGAN: 'I DID NOT PAY OJ'  —  Full Statement From Publisher Judith Regan:  —  Why I Did It  —  I was sitting with Howard Stern, of all people, when the verdict came down.  Many of you probably remember where you were at that moment.  It was a moment I, like so many others, was dreading.
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Associated Press:
Details of the AP-Ipsos poll on President Bush and Iraq  —  Demographics and details from the AP-Ipsos poll on President George W. Bush, Iraq and the United States' direction.  The poll was conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm:  —  OVERALL: Bush's approval on his handling …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Investor's Business Daily:
Let Them Eat Bullets  —  Foreign Affairs: A nation that's defended Europe from aggression in the 60 years since World War II is asking why Iraq can't defend itself.  The fact is, Iraqis risk their lives for their country every day.  —  Clearly the days when Democrats warned of a long twilight struggle …
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized  —  The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Why Iraq Is Crumbling  —  "A republic, if you can keep it."  — Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"  —  We have given the Iraqis a republic, and they do not appear able to keep it.  —  Americans flatter themselves that they are the root of all planetary evil.
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney faces a reckoning on '08  —  As clock ticks, his team to meet  —  With just seven weeks left in office, Governor Mitt Romney is bringing together his advisers and leading supporters for a postelection powwow this weekend as he nears the most important decision of his political career.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush: Vietnam war offered lessons for Iraq  —  HANOI, Vietnam — President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.
Daily Mail:
Jedi Knights demand Britain's fourth largest 'religion' receives recognition  —  With their vast intergalactic knowledge and ability to harness the Force, the task of convincing UN officials to recognise their cause should be a walkover for a pair of Jedi Knights.
 
 
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