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2:55 PM ET, December 11, 2006

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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.
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USA Today:
Annan to blast U.S. in farewell  —  In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of President Bush's policies.  He will accuse the administration of trying to secure the United States from terrorism in part …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Kofi: I Learned Projection  —  Kofi Annan has an op-ed column in today's Washington Post that must be read to be believed.  The column, which serves as a valediction of sorts, talks about what Annan has learned from his time at the United Nations.  If his rule hadn't resulted in such worldwide misery …
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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Daily Mail:
Diana was bugged by secret service in U.S.  —  American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana's telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Mail's sister paper has learned.  —  Evening Standard reports that she was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons …
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Hamas confirms meeting with group of Democrats  —  Leader claims U.S. party willing to hold dialogue with terrorists  —  TEL AVIV - A key Hamas official has confirmed reports from last week the terror group held meetings with "important Democrats."  —  Ahmed Yousuf, chief political advisor …
Discussion: BizzyBlog
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Top Palestinian advisor: Yes, Hamas really did meet with the Democrats
Discussion: IMAO
Faye Fiore / Los Angeles Times:
Pelosi piques public's interest  —  As incoming head of the House, with more eyes on her, she intends to paint her own picture.  —  WASHINGTON — When Nancy Pelosi appeared on national television on the morning after voters returned the House to Democratic hands, Leon Rebibo's phone started ringing in Los Angeles.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
In New Congress, Seniority Takes Back Seat to Spirit
Discussion: Daily Kos and AMERICAblog
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Seeking Iran Intelligence, U.S. Tries Google  —  Internet Search Yields Names Cited in U.N. Draft Resolution  —  When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused …
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
LOOKING BACK.  In fall 2006, the United States turned on the NeoCommentators.  Their smug, wrongheaded chatter had helped lead the country into a catastrophic war and then, without missing a beat, turned to condemn those who sought to end it.  Infuriated, readers nationwide began agitating …
Greg Jefferson / MySanAntonio.com:
Clinton makes S.A. stop to stir Rodriguez crowd  —  In a hot, crowded gymnasium Sunday, former President Clinton sought to wind up supporters of Democrat Ciro Rodriguez enough to unseat Rep. Henry Bonilla and strengthen the Democratic Party's hold on Congress.
Agence France Presse:
Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad  —  Iranian students have disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his picture and heckling him.  —  "Some students chanted radical slogans and inflamed the atmosphere of the meeting" …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Good News, Everybody: We've Got a New Iraq Slogan!  —  Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is already backing away from most of the proposals put forth by the Iraq Study Group.  The New York Times, with unintended comic irony, noted it this way: "Administration officials …
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: The Impolitic and KnoxViews
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Suckers  —  I usually write about the lack of humor that exists in the right wing blogosphere, but this is truly hysterical.  How can John Carroll look himself in the mirror after being suckered into producing this film—using a satirical post by Jerome?  It's easy to be fooled when your motives aren't very clean.
Randy Paul / Beautiful Horizons:
Wanted: A Strong Wooden Stake and Several Garlic Bulbs  —  Those are some of the tools that are necessary to ensure that a vampire is really dead.  As one has died today and his truly vile regime was responsible for the deaths of thousands, the torture of many more thousands …
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
Outbreaks Reveal Food Safety Net's Holes  —  Produce Growers Balk At Calls for Regulation  —  First it was spinach.  Then tomatoes.  Now possibly green onions.  —  Over the past three months, fresh produce has been the culprit in one episode of food-borne illness after another …
Discussion: Angry Bear and Suburban Guerrilla
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
For Iraq's Sunnis, Conflict Closes In  —  Mixed Neighborhoods Unravel as Shiite Militiamen Expand Violence  —  A few blocks from Ali Farouk's three-story home, an empty house provides a glimpse of what he fears will be the future.  Once owned by a Sunni Muslim, the paint is peeling, the windows are blown out.
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 …
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
GOP alienation marks turnabout for Bush  —  Dissent and calls for checks on the president have mushroomed since the party lost Congress in the midterm election.  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush, weakened by an unpopular war and the loss of Republican control in Congress …
Michael Kranish / Boston Globe:
Iraqi exodus could test Bush policy  —  Total expected to exceed quota for refugees  —  WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their homeland are likely to seek refugee status in the United States, humanitarian groups said, putting intense pressure on the Bush administration …
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
2008 hopefuls woo Bush clan donors, aides  —  McCain, Romney seek edge that family's GOP network could provide.  —  WASHINGTON — With the Bushes preparing to stand down from a quarter century in top elected offices, a frenzied competition has erupted in the Republican Party over who will inherit …
Discussion: MyDD and Hotline On Call
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Inquiry Sought Over Evangelical Video  —  Defense Department Asked to Examine Officers' Acts Supporting Christian Group  —  A military watchdog group is asking the Defense Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers violated regulations by appearing in uniform …
 
 
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Deacon / Power Line:
"WON OVER," WASHINGTON POST STYLE
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Michelle Malkin:
Hey, Rosie: Read my lips
Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Incoming House intelligence chief botches easy intel quiz
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Town Running Hot and Cold
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Bob Geiger / BobGeiger.com:
A Conversation With Senator Harry Reid
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Jerusalem Post:
Holocaust conference begins in Teheran
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