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4:10 PM ET, December 5, 2006

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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Gates Says U.S. Is Not Winning Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert Gates, the White House choice to be the next defense secretary, conceded Tuesday that the United States is losing the war in Iraq and warned that if that country is not stabilized in the next year or two it could lead to a "regional conflagration."
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David Stout / New York Times:
At Hearing, Gates Says U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq  —  President Bush's nominee to be Secretary of Defense said today that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq, and that an American failure there could help to ignite "a regional conflagration" in the Middle East.
Des Moines Register:
Clinton reaches out to Iowans about 2008  —  The senator is calling Democrats to gauge support for a possible White House run.  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton began making calls Monday to Iowa Democrats about the state's political landscape with an eye toward its 2008 presidential nominating caucuses, aides to Clinton said.
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New York Post:
'I'M GOING TO GO FOR THIS'  —  HILLARY IS JUMPING INTO RACE FOR PREZ  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday answered the question on everyone's mind - telling one New York lawmaker flat out: "I'm really going to go for this."  —  Clinton dropped the much-anticipated presidential bombshell during …
Discussion: Hot Air
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Bayh warns against ideological agenda  —  DES MOINES, Iowa - White House hopeful Sen. Evan Bayh (news, bio, voting record) warned on Monday that Democrats could lose their newfound grip on Congress if the party pursues an ideological course.  —  The Indiana senator, who announced Sunday …
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
NASA Plans Lunar Outpost  —  Permanent Base at Moon's South Pole Envisioned by 2024  —  NASA unveiled plans yesterday to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts at the south pole of the moon sometime around 2020 — the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.
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Examiner:
How to end AP's "60 Minutes Moment" on Iraqi Sources  —  You've probably not read much about it because only a handful of mainstream media outlets have covered it, but the Associated Press - for decades America's largest and most trusted wire news service - is at the center of a credibility crisis largely of its own making.
New York Times:
Mr. Bolton Resigns  —  John Bolton's decision to resign as America's envoy to the United Nations was a wise move.  He averted a distracting and divisive fight at a time when both Congress and the Bush administration have better things to do.  He has also provided President Bush with an opportunity …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Military and The Media  —  FALLUJAH, IRAQ: I've completed the first leg of the journey to Iraq, after having moved through Dubai, Kuwait and Baghdad.  I am now at Camp Fallujah.  While in Fallujah, I'll embed with a Marine Police Transition Team (PTT) and also meet with the Civil Affairs Group.
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
No, the Cops Didn't Murder Sean Bell  —  And here's what decent black advocates would say.  —  New York's anti-cop forces have roared back to life, thanks to a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man a week ago.  The press is once again fawning over Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Escape From Wall Street  —  How Congress put Hong Kong and London in a position to surpass New York as a financial capital.  —  HONG KONG—If you want to look for reasons why New York's status as the world's financial center is in serious jeopardy, you need only come here to gaze at this booming city and tour its markets.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Islamic Group Demands U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council Appointee Be Ousted  —  An Islamic group is demanding that a conservative talk show host and columnist, Dennis Prager, be ousted from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council because of his statement that a Muslim just elected to Congress …
Matthew Yglesias / American Prospect:
Bridge to Nowhere  —  Political consensus isn't going to solve America's Iraq problem.  —  Reading major American newspapers is a bit like trying to decipher an archeological text written in a dead language.  Well-informed reporters bring you the facts you need to know …
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Hardliners turn on Ahmadinejad for watching women dancers  —  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who flaunts his ideological fervour, has been accused of undermining Iran's Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
'Civil war' and the real press scandal  —  The excited news coverage surrounding the decision by NBC, as well as other media outlets, to finally label the bloody chaos inside Iraq for what it really is, a civil war, came tinged with a strange, self-congratulatory tone, as if the journalists involved …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Sirotablog
BBC:
Veiled woman to give C4's speech  —  A veiled Muslim woman will deliver this year's alternative Christmas speech on Channel 4, the broadcaster has said.  —  Khadija, a Zimbabwean-born British citizen who has been wearing the full veil - or niqab - for 10 years, has been given the slot.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Raymond Ibrahim / Los Angeles Times:
Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered  —  What they capture, they keep.  When they lose, they complain to the U.N.  —  IN THE DAYS before Pope Benedict XVI's visit last Thursday to the Hagia Sophia complex in Istanbul, Muslims and Turks expressed fear, apprehension and rage.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Daniel Zwerdling / NPR:
Soldiers Say Army Ignores, Punishes Mental Anguish  —  Medical records show that when Tyler Jennings returned from Iraq last year, he was severely depressed and used drugs to cope.  When the sergeants who ran his platoon found out, they started to haze him.
MSNBC:
Is the FBI doing its best to combat terrorism?  —  Highest-ranking Arab-American agent says no, sues for discrimination  —  WASHINGTON - Bassem Youssef is the FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent.  He's fluent in Arabic, ran the FBI's offices in Saudi Arabia and is a terrorism expert.
Gateway Pundit:
Hezbollah Demands Siniora's Death at "Martyr of Unity's" Funeral  —  Ahmed Ali Mahmoud, the young Hezbollah and Amal supporter who was shot in the back as his Shiite gang infiltrated a Sunni neighborhood in Beirut on Sunday night, was buried today.  —  Mahmoud was killed in clashes between …
Anna Schecter Reports / The Blotter:
Former Tobacco Lobbyist Turned Governor Kills Statewide Anti-Smoking Program  —  Anna Schecter Reports:  —  Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco industry lobbyist, won a long battle in court to withdraw all funding for Mississippi's highly successful anti-smoking program, and last week the last dollar ran out.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
LIBERALTARIANS....Cato VP Brink Lindsey takes to the pages of the New Republic today to mourn the loss of the libertarian-conservative alliance of the past and ask if a new coalition between libertarians and liberals is possible.  I almost didn't bother reading it, but then I changed my mind …
 
 
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