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9:45 AM ET, December 11, 2006

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Sarah Liebowitz / Concord Monitor:
Rapturous reception for Obama  —  Americans want new kind of leadership, Illinois senator says during visit  —  llinois Sen. Barack Obama made his first visit to New Hampshire yesterday, drawing the kinds of crowds and news media attention usually reserved for a sitting president or a presidential nominee.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:   Obama Takes First Steps in N.H.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
The Pattern May Change, if ...  AFTER a 217-year march …
Discussion: TAPPED
New Hampshire Union Leader:   (To stay on top of New Hampshire politics and the 2008 Presidential …
Jerusalem Post:
Holocaust conference begins in Teheran  —  Iran opened a conference on the Holocaust on Monday, saying it would not be an attempt to deny the World War II genocide but merely to discuss it in an unrestricted atmosphere.  —  However, the conference was initiated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
Discussion: It Shines For All
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Times of London:
Holocaust deniers ban dissenting voice
BBC:   Iran Holocaust conference opens
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   A Rough Start For Mahmoud's Festival Of Ignorance
James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraq Is Failing to Spend Billions in Oil Revenues  —  Iraq is failing to spend billions of dollars of oil revenues that have been set aside to rebuild its damaged roads, schools and power stations and to repair refineries and pipelines.  —  Iraqi ministries are spending as little as 15 percent …
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Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
U.S. Report Rejected By Iraqi President
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi President Denounces U.S. Strategy on Security
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Michael Shifter / Washington Post:
The Best of Both Dictators  —  The parallels are striking: Two ruthless dictators who sacrificed human rights for political aims.  Two men idolized by their followers and despised by the exiles they drove away.  Two archetypes of the Latin American strongman, one in dark sunglasses, the other with that ever-present cigar.
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM) and Daimnation!
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Suspicion about imams grows as terror links pile up  —  The grounded imams incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has been a public relations coup for the imams, their supporters and their claims that the group's only suspicious activity was saying evening prayers.
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Jefferson Win Poses Dilemma for Party  —  His Return After Scandal Could Be Awkward for Democrats and New Orleans  —  Rep. William J. Jefferson may be a pariah in some Washington political circles, but voters in this storm-battered city weighed in over the weekend with their own verdict regarding …
Discussion: Extreme Mortman
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
New Orleans Voters Support Their Man Over F.B.I.
Discussion: The News Blog
Geoffrey Lean / Independent:
Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars  —  Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment.  It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.  —  A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife.
Discussion: Iowa Voice and KnoxViews
Kofi A. Annan / Washington Post:
What I've Learned  —  Nearly 50 years ago, when I arrived in Minnesota as a student fresh from Africa, I had much to learn — starting with the fact that there is nothing wimpish about wearing earmuffs when it is 15 degrees below zero.  All my life since has been a learning experience.
Weston Kosova / Newsweek:
The Point of No Return  —  Last summer, Bolten began having Bush sit down with some of the harshest critics of the war.  —  An Earful: Bush flanked by Hamilton (left) and Baker  —  Gary Ackerman is the last man you'd expect George W. Bush to turn to for advice.
Discussion: LiberalOasis and New York Times
New York Times:
Taliban and Allies Tighten Grip in North of Pakistan  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances …
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Exploratory Committees Build Buzz  —  It is the season of exploration.  —  Everywhere you look, prospective 2008 presidential candidates are forming exploratory committees.  Three leading Republicans and one prominent Democrat who have long been pursuing the presidency announced such committees …
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Fifth Annual Warblogger Awards (For 2006)  —  In order to recognize the excellent work some of our fellow bloggers have been doing, RWN has put together the "5th Annual Warblogger Awards".  More than 235 bloggers were invited to vote for their favorite blog in numerous categories and 41 responded.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Argghhh!
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Imams seek to settle with airline  —  A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not behaving suspiciously.  —  Five of the six Islamic religious leaders …
Discussion: Let Freedom Ring and Power Line
Telegraph:
A grim legal first killed this firm  —  Members of the House of Lords were shocked last Wednesday to hear, from Lord Willoughby de Broke, the extraordinary story behind the closure in October of a Lancashire cheese firm, employing 26 people.  —  John Wright had built up Bowland Dairies …
Discussion: Tim Worstall and EU Referendum
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Interview With Tony Snow; Coverage of Mary Cheney's Pregnancy  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): Under fire.  Tony Snow grilled in the press room as the Baker commission …
Pajamas Media:
IRANIAN URANIUM PROSPECTORS IN SOMALIA  —  New UN report reveals uranium prospecting by Iran, al-Qaeda presence, and a savvy foe.  —  By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross A PJM Exclusive.  —  Iran is secretly searching for uranium in war-torn Somalia, according to a confidential United Nations report obtained by Pajamas Media.
 
 
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
For Iraq's Sunnis, Conflict Closes In
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Randy E. Barnett / Wall Street Journal:
In Re: Life or Death
Gary Washburn / Chicago Tribune:
Daley announcement expected Monday
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh's Personal Life
Discussion: Argghhh!
FP Passport:
Pinochet died on Human Rights Day. Perfect.
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Bicycle Helmets Put You at Risk
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Lawrence Solum / Legal Theory Blog:
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Judy Holland / Albany Times Union:
On the Hill, the sound of silence
Discussion: The News Blog
Ynetnews:
Lebanon deal in works after mass Beirut rally
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
2008: The Contenders—The Shadow-Boxing Begins
Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Plagiarist reporter back in business
David Cox / Telegraph:
'Incompetent' refurbishment costs UN £1bn
Discussion: Wizbang
Associated Press:
Arab states study shared nuclear program