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11:35 AM ET, November 20, 2006

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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Pentagon Review Sees Three Options in Iraq  —  More Training of Iraqi Troops a Likely Focus  —  The Pentagon's closely guarded review of how to improve the situation in Iraq has outlined three basic options: Send in more troops, shrink the force but stay longer, or pull out, according to senior defense officials.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Amid Uproar Over War, Rangel Renews Call for Draft  —  Both Parties Grapple With Iraq As They Await Study Group's Report  —  The incoming Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said yesterday that he will push to renew the military draft, as lawmakers in both parties sharpened …
Discussion: Rook's Rant and The Strata-Sphere
PR Newswire:
Rep. Rangel Will Seek to Reinstate Draft  —  A senior House Democrat said Sunday he will introduce legislation to reinstate the military draft, asserting that current troop levels are insufficient to sustain possible challenges against Iran, North Korea and Iraq.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Forced To Govern, Part 1
jules crittenden:
Fighting the Last War  —  Richard at Hyscience discusses Seymour Hersh's big scoop that Iran is nothing to worry about.  I heard that guy speak once.  It was a bizarre experience.  The Pentagon press I had dinner with that night were talking about his weirdness, and one of them observed …
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TMZ.com:
"Kramer's" Racist Tirade — Caught on Tape  —  WARNING: WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS PROFANE AND RACIAL  —  Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Unfogged
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Kerry: Botched Joke Won't Affect 2008  —  Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry insisted on Sunday his "botched joke" about President Bush's Iraq policy would not undermine a possible White House campaign in 2008.  —  "Not in the least," Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in said when asked …
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM) and Moonbattery
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
The electoral college map is morphing
Discussion: DonkeyRising and The Caucus
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Preferences Forever?  —  The University of Michigan's president does her best George Wallace impersonation.  —  Michigan voters struck a blow for equality this month, when 58% of them approved an amendment to the state constitution banning racial discrimination in public universities and contracting.
Paul J. Gough / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Channel preps right-leaning satire  —  Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a "Daily Show"-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility that it could become a weekly show for the channel.
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The 'Confession'  —  An illiterate double-murder's killer book.  —  Just thinking aloud here, but what do you suppose the reaction of Fox News and the Murdoch press would be if Black Entertainment Television had commissioned a lucrative tie-in for O.J. Simpson, and had sat …
Thomas F. Schaller / The Gadflyer:
Why Does the Non-Southern Strategy Drive People Batty?  —  It is increasingly clear to me that either my non-southern strategy argument causes people to take leave of their senses (particularly their mathematical abilities), or they simply refuse to accept compelling and mounting evidence as fact.
Discussion: Eschaton and TAPPED
Jordan Rau / Los Angeles Times:
Gov.'s push for healthcare may get a push back  —  Schwarzenegger has made cutting costs and covering the uninsured top priorities, but he'll meet resistance.  —  SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's most ambitious aspiration yet — to extend medical coverage to millions …
Discussion: TAPPED
WCBS-TV:
Anti-War Activists Plan 'Global Orgasm For Peace'  —  (CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter.  —  But they don't want you marching in the streets.  They'd much rather you just stay home.
Arthur Max / Associated Press:
Holocaust Archive Tells Many New Stories  —  The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.  —  "I saw with my own eyes how thousands …
Lawrence H. Summers / New York Times:
The Great Liberator  —  IF John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the first half of the 20th century, then Milton Friedman was the most influential economist of the second half.  —  Not so long ago, we were all Keynesians.  ("I am a Keynesian," Richard Nixon famously said in 1971.)
BBC:
Saddam trial 'flawed and unsound'  —  The trial of Saddam Hussein was so flawed that its verdict is unsound, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch says.  —  HRW said "serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects" meant the 5 November trial for crimes against humanity was not fair.
Discussion: Mia Culpa and Reason Magazine
David Seifman / New York Post:
CRITICS TO KICK RUDY PATOOTIE  —  NY FOES TARGET 'AMERICA'S MAYOR' IMAGE  —  Some of Rudy Giuliani's fiercest city critics are set to launch "swift boat"-type strikes to inform voters around the nation about the former mayor's behavior before 9/11, The Post has learned.
 
 
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Democrats to Push Pocketbook Issues
Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Treating oversight as an afterthought has its costs
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Houston Chronicle:
As rumors fly over why Shelley Sekula-Gibbs' staff left …
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BREAKING: VandeHei, Harris Leave Washington Post To Start New …
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Draft-mongering Dems
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The Kid With All the News About the TV News
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Gunman dies after storming school
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
YES, THINGS CAN GET WORSE....After running through all the options …
Liz Halloran / US News:
Bye-Bye to Secret Spy Program?
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Padilla Case Raises Questions About Anti-Terror Tactics
Michael Fumento / Weekly Standard:
Return to Ramadi  —  U.S. forces have made progress in one of the toughest cities in Iraq.
Weekly Standard:
Time for a Heavier Footprint  —  More American troops are needed …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
Dems Take Aim at Oil Company Tax Breaks
Discussion: Redstate and The Strata-Sphere
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
A Somber Annual Meeting for Conservative Lawyers
Discussion: Power Line, Redstate and Althouse