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1:15 PM ET, November 21, 2006

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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 …
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Lebanon Daily Star:
Pierre Gemayel's assasination  —  Prominent Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday his death will heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has threatened to topple the government if it does not get a bigger say in Cabinet decision making.
Michael Young / Opinion Journal:
Murder Update  —  Don't let Syria get away with killing Rafik Hariri.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
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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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
IRAQ TO AMERICA: GET OUT.... PIPA has released a new poll of Iraqi attitudes toward the U.S. occupation, and the takeaway is very, very clear: they want us to leave.  74% of Shiites and 91% of Sunnis want us to leave within a year (the number is 80% for Shiites in Baghdad).
Discussion: TAPPED and Balloon Juice
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: TalkLeft, Salon, Mia Culpa and AMERICAblog
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CNN:
Sen. Obama: Iraq withdrawal should begin in 2007
Discussion: Daily Herald, JustOneMinute and Hot Air
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats Plan Series of Votes on Ethics Reforms  —  Despite divisions among Democrats over how far to go in revising ethics rules, House leaders plan a major rollout of an ethics reform bill early next year to demonstrate concern about an issue that helped defeat the Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Play The GOP Left In The Locker Room
Discussion: Wizbang
Associated Press:
Robert Altman, Leading Director, Dies at 81  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday.
Discussion: alicublog and Althouse
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 …
Adam Brodsky / New York Post:
DISSENT CRUSHED  —  WHY MUSLIMS RARELY SPEAK OUT, EVEN IN U.S.  —  MUSLIMS are often accused of not speaking out sufficiently against terrorism.  Nonie Darwish knows one reason why: Their fellow Muslims won't let them.  —  Darwish, who comes from Egypt and was born and raised a Muslim …
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.
CNN:
Poll: More Americans prefer Bush's father  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Only one in four Americans believe President Bush is a better president than his father, George H. W. Bush, a new CNN poll has found.  —  Six in 10 said the elder Bush, who served one term from 1989-1993, did a better job in office …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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.
Daily Mail:
Royal: Britain must choose US or Europe  —  Segolene Royal will try to force Britain to choose between being America's closest ally or being at the heart of Europe if she becomes French president, says a close aide.  —  Her foreign affairs adviser Gilles Savery, a French MEP …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The Lingo Of Vietnam  —  The way President Bush whisked through Vietnam — oh, if only we had done the same 40 years ago — it seemed as if he was feeling an obvious parallel with the war in Iraq.  His aides, who somehow lose IQ points by mere proximity to the commander in chief …
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.
 
 
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