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10:25 AM ET, November 21, 2006

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Los Angeles Times:
Pelosi-Harman friction strains Democrats' unity  —  WASHINGTON — When Jane Harman left Congress in 1998 to run for governor of California, her colleague Nancy Pelosi threw her a party — a chocolate-fudge sundae "social" in the House members' dining room.  —  Two years later …
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Pelosi team tries to steer Democrats to the center  —  Wary of plans by House liberals  —  WASHINGTON — Anxious to chart a centrist course with Democrats' new majority in Congress, incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top deputies are busily working in private and public to rein …
worldpublicopinion.org:
Baghdad Shias Believe Killings May Increase Once U.S.-led Forces Depart but Large Majorities Still Support Withdrawal Within a Year  —  Shias in the Capital—Unlike Those in the Rest of Iraq—Oppose Disarming Militias  —  Most Shia Arabs living in Baghdad have shifted in recent months …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Iraqis Say Go  —  Via Kevin Drum, new polling from the Project on International Policy Attitudes indicates that Iraqis would overwhelmingly like to see the United States leave Iraq on a definite schedule within a reasonably short time frame.  The full report is here.
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   IRAQ TO AMERICA: GET OUT.... PIPA has released a new poll …
KSTP-TV:
Federal investigators questioning six Middle Eastern men removed from flight at MSP  —  5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal investigators and airport police are questioning six Middle Eastern men who had to be escorted off of a plane Monday afternoon at Minneapolis/St. Paul International.
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Associated Press:
6 PASSENGERS PULLED FROM US AIRWAYS FLIGHT IN TWIN CITIES AFTER CREW SEES 'SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY'  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Dr. Sanity
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Top House Democrats to bar military draft plan  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A reinstatement of the military draft, being pushed by a senior Democrat, will not be slated for consideration in the House of Representatives, the chamber's newly elected top leaders said on Monday.
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Israeli Map Says West Bank Posts Sit on Arab Land  —  An Israeli advocacy group, using maps and figures leaked from inside the government, says that 39 percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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Yair Sheleg / Haaretz:   Forty percent of settlements built on Arab land, study finds
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. Considers Raising Troop Levels in Iraq  —  Pentagon officials conducting a review of Iraq strategy are considering a substantial but temporary increase in American troop levels and the addition of several thousand more trainers to work with Iraqi forces, a senior Defense Department official said Monday.
Discussion: Mia Culpa and AMERICAblog
Spengler / Asia Times:
Jihadis and whores  —  Wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight.  A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women.  —  The French sold their women to the German occupiers in 1940, and the Germans and Japanese sold their women to the Americans after World War II.
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann Delivers A Special Comment Educating Bush on Vietnam  —  Keith gives us another great special comment, this time explaining to Bush the lessons he should have learned in his recent trip to Vietnam.  —  Keith: "It is a shame and it is embarrassing to us all when President Bush travels 8,000 miles …
New York Times:
Clinton Won Easily, but Bankroll Shows the Toll  —  She had only token opposition, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton still spent more on her re-election — upward of $30 million — than any other candidate for Senate this year.  So where did all the money go?
Pete Williams / MSNBC:
Calif. court says bloggers can't be sued  —  State's Supreme Court said a federal law gives immunity from libel suits  —  Pete Williams  —  The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers and participants in Internet bulletin board groups cannot be sued for posting defamatory statements made by others.
Bob Dart / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Few in new Congress served in military  —  Does lack of veterans hinder ability to make defense decisions?  —  Washington —  A leading member of the new Democratic majority in the House is calling for resuming the draft to spread the burden of military service across society —
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Panel Staffer Reinstated  —  A Democratic staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has had his security clearances reinstated and yesterday resumed work for the panel, ending a pre-election drama during which senior House Republicans alleged …
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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