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10:40 AM ET, November 21, 2006

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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 …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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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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
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?
Washington Post:
News Corp. Pulls Plug On O.J. Book, Fox Special  —  Murdoch Calls It an 'Ill-Considered Project'  —  News Corp. has spiked its O.J. Simpson book and TV special in the face of public and professional outrage over the project, in which the former football star describes hypothetically …
Discussion: CBS News
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New York Times:
Under Pressure, News Corp. Pulls Simpson Project
Discussion: BAGnewsNotes
Associated Press:
Lebanese Christian politician killed  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party radio station and Lebanon's official news agency reported.  —  His fatal shooting will certainly heighten …
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:
Military Documents Hold Tips on Antiwar Activities  —  An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches, libraries, college campuses and other locations, newly disclosed documents show.
Discussion: Eschaton and Reason Magazine
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.
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 —
 
 
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Peter Eisler / USA Today:
Chemical weapons' disposal delayed
Discussion: BlondeSense
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Washington Post Reporters to Join Politics Web Site
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Flaws Cited in Effort To Train Iraqi Forces
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
'Seinfeld' Comic Richards Apologizes for Racial Rant
John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Polygamists Fight to Be Seen As Part of Mainstream Society
Adam Brodsky / New York Post:
DISSENT CRUSHED  —  WHY MUSLIMS RARELY SPEAK OUT, EVEN IN U.S.
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Atlas Shrugs
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Panel Staffer Reinstated
Discussion: Firedoglake
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats Plan Series of Votes on Ethics Reforms
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
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Paul Egan / Detroit News:
Suspicious airline passenger to stay locked up
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
For MSNBC, Time to Get Political  —  November's Shouting Over, A Network Finds Its Voice
Mima Mohammed / Los Angeles Times:
Mint presses new strategy for dollar coins
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Rangel's dumb and astronomically expensive idea
Philip R. O'Connor PH.D / TCS Daily:
The Human Calculus of National Security
Andrew Schneider / Baltimore Sun:
Pressure at OSHA to alter warning
Discussion: Confined Space and AMERICAblog
Contactmusic.com:
JOHANSSON CRITICISES PRESIDENT BUSH
Hindrocket / Power Line:
IS YOUR NEWSPAPER AMERICA'S WORST?
Discussion: Don Surber and Michelle Malkin