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11:15 PM ET, December 3, 2006

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A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
VENEZUELA VOTES -PHOTOS  —  Voting around Caracas on Sunday.  These photos were taken by a pool of 38 citizen journalists who documented the electoral process.  Their fascinating slideshow can be found at this Flickr site, here.  Hat tip: Venezuela Today  —  Venezuelans went to the polls today …
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Gateway Pundit:
Venezuelans Vote on Chavez & 6 More Years of Marxist Idiocy  —  Update: VENEZUELA CHOOSES MARXISM!  —  More Below  —  Venezuelans go to the polls today to choose Marxism and more Hugo Chavez...  Or, to turn back to freedom and capitalism with Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.
Patrick Moser / Agence France Presse:   Chavez headed to reelection in Venezuela voting: government exit polls
Houston Chronicle:   Telemundo: Venezuela Halts Transmission
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Aide Says Bush Plans Changes in Approach to Iraq  —  President Bush plans "significant changes" in his approach to Iraq after he reviews options drafted by an outside panel of experts and suggestions from others in the administration and Congress, Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, said today.
Discussion: democracyarsenal.org
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MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Dec. 3  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The president digs in on Iraq.  —  (Videotape):  —  PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: I know there's a lot of speculation that these reports in Washington mean there's going to be some kind of graceful exit out of Iraq.
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Daily Kos
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Mideast allies near a state of panic
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Sectarian clashes in West Beirut kill 1  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Violent clashes broke out Sunday between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the capital, leaving one man dead from gunshot wounds at a time when tensions throughout Lebanon threaten the country's fragile sectarian and political balance.
Discussion: Riehl World View
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Nico / Think Progress:
Lieberman Endorses Escalation In Iraq, Surprised Rumsfeld Didn't Suggest It In Memo  —  Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said it was "surprising" that "the one thing [Donald Rumsfeld's memo] doesn't raise as a possibility is to increase the number of our troops."
Discussion: Eschaton, Nitpicker and Ezra Klein
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John Heilprin / Associated Press:
Adviser: Clinton Actively Weighs '08 Bid  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic jockeying for the White House in 2008 intensified on Sunday with Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh taking the first official step toward a run and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gauging support among fellow New York lawmakers.
Discussion: Macsmind and Sister Toldjah
New York Times:
New on the Web: Politics as Usual  —  THE Netroots.  " "People Power.  " "Crashing the Gate.  " The lingo of liberal Web bloggers bespeaks contempt for the political establishment.  The same disdain is apparent among many bloggers on the right, who argued passionately for a change …
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Micah L. Sifry / Personal Democracy Forum blogs:
Glover's Low Blow on Bloggers
Discussion: BuzzMachine
CNN:
Nine U.S. troops killed in Iraq … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Nine U.S. troops died in Iraq during the weekend, including five killed by roadside bombs, the U.S. military reported Sunday.  —  Two soldiers were killed and two wounded Sunday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in northern Iraq …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Lieberman: Talking To Iran And Syria Is Like The 'Local Fire Dept Asking Arsonists To Help'  —  Today on CBS Face the Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) argued that direct talks with Syria and Iran won't work and compared it to "your local fire department asking a couple of arsonists to help put out the fire.
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
'Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.  Know the line has held, your job is done.'  —  E very year for more than a decade, at the height of the season, Morrill Worcester would pack up a truckload of his Christmas wreaths and head down from Maine to Arlington National Cemetery.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon: Wait!  Don't Move To Canada!  —  I am so pleased that Bill Scher joins us for an FDL Book Salon on his book Wait!  Don't Move to Canada: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America today.  Bill is the Executive Editor at Liberal Oasis, and appears regularly on Air America …
Lambert / CorrenteWire:
Joe Biden's Trent Lott moment  —  Will this be Joe Biden's Trent Lott moment?  —  26 days after Democrats win the mid-terms, Joe Biden exhorts the Republican party to "get back up."  Then, Biden (D-Hair Club for Men) claims that, just because the country voted Democrats back into power …
Discussion: The Sideshow
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind?  —  Nicholas Kristof — in a TimesSelect column — wants atheists to back off and quit pressuring religious people about their beliefs: … The Christian Right has largely retreated from the culture wars?  In-your-face atheists are "the Atheist Left"?
Discussion: Political Animal
Holly Bailey / Newsweek:
Politics: McCain's Ground War  —  The senator is calling for more boots on the ground in Iraq.  Is this any way to wage a presidential campaign?  —  Peter Spaulding was John McCain's man in New Hampshire, and with good reason.  The longest-serving member of the state's Executive Council …
 
 
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
U.N. Secretary Says Iraq Is Engulfed in Deadly Civil War
Discussion: Wake up America
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
A Fighting Retreat  —  Historical analogies are imprecise thing, at best.
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Open-Source Spying  —  When Matthew Burton arrived …
Discussion: A Blog For All
David Sirota / Sirotablog:
The People Party vs. The Money Party: Here are the players
Discussion: Firedoglake
Michael Clancy / Arizona Republic:
Muslims, others protest
Gary D'Amato / JSOnline:
Kelly gives thanks
Karen W. Arenson / New York Times:
Now Class Must Tackle Cheating at Columbia
Discussion: TigerHawk and Daily Pundit
Telegraph:
Russia: biggest spy threat to Britain
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Richard / EU Referendum:
Booker column censored
Discussion: The Corner
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
NOLA's Fate Is Our Fate  —  (Photo sent to me by Scout Prime …
Carl Nolte / San Francisco Chronicle:
Navy scuttles plan to commission warship here, citing local politics
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
Michelle Malkin:
Bypassing Internet censors
Discussion: CBC News and Atlas Shrugs
David Tirrell-Wysocki / Associated Press:
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