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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Delays Speech on Iraq Until January — President Bush will wait until after the holidays to speak to the nation about a new strategy in Iraq, a strategy he said today will be designed to establish a free and self-sufficient country that will be an ally in the battle against extremists.
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Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:Public Trusts Iraq Study Group More Than Bush on Iraq
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Robert B. Bluey / Human Events:
DeLay: 'Hillary Will Be the Next President' — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senate colleague Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) as her running mate. — DeLay met with conservative bloggers …
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Think Progress:
Tom DeLay: I Don't Write My Own Blog — Criminally indicted ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) launched a personal blog yesterday. The new site seemed to mark a shift for DeLay: last year, he said he found the fact that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy "does his own research on the Internet" …
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Fox News:
KKK'S DAVID DUKE TELLS IRAN HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE THAT GAS CHAMBERS NOT USED TO KILL JEWS — Dec. 12: David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and former state representative in Louisiana, attends a conference on the Holocaust in Tehran. — TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud …
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:Holocaust Conference in Iran Provokes Outrage
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Greg Jefferson / MySanAntonio.com:
Rodriguez defeats Bonilla — U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla conceded defeat to former congressman Ciro Rodriguez in a stunning upset that completed the Democratic takeover of Congress. — The Republican incumbent lost Bexar County for the first time in his political career Tuesday night …
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Elizabeth White / Associated Press:Democrat Rodriguez ousts Bonilla from House seat
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Saudis Give a Grim What If Should U.S. Opt to Leave Iraq — Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq's Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq, according to American and Arab diplomats.
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Ilene Lelchuk / San Francisco Chronicle:
'Convert or die' game divides Christians — Some ask Wal-Mart to drop Left Behind — Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart …
NJ Conservative / Tom DeLay Blog:
Christianity is so tahhhrible Dahhhling! — Arianna Huffington (the long lost 4th Gabor sister) is in quite a tizzy today. Apparently she's acquired sound intel that there are actual Christians who are employed within the Defense Department. — Huffington posted a story on the front page …
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WorldNetDaily:
A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals — There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular. — Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic …
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Shana Ting Lipton / RADAR:
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FASCIST — The decadent whims of the world's wackiest despots — They're quirky, vibrant, and they march to the beat of their own military drums, when they're not off committing crimes against humanity. Since time immemorial, autocrats, absolute monarchs …
Jim Snyder / The Hill:
Business lobbyists flock to Centrist Democrats — One of the earliest signs that life for Democrats would be different in the majority came at a post-election event sponsored by the New Democrat Coalition, the pro-business group of centrist Democrats. — Previous affairs drew at most 20 lobbyists …
Mike Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Draft Democrats to help run Iraq — The president can one-up the Baker-Hamilton commission by establishing a bipartisan war council. — PRESIDENT BUSH should spend less time worrying about the tangled politics of Iraq and more time mastering the equally fractured politics of Washington.
Washington Post:
Illegal Workers Arrested In Identity Theft Sweep — Federal agents targeting illegal immigrants raided meatpacking plants in six states yesterday, arresting hundreds of workers on the uncommon charge of identity theft and shutting down the world's second-largest meat processing company for much of the day.
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
fidel castro Is Dead? (Updated) — Been getting quite a bit of traffic via searches with "castro death" and "is castro dead" and "castro death rumors" the past couple of days so I thought I'd go ahead and clear that whole mess up right now. — Barring any unforeseen actions such as …
CNN:
Annan chides U.S. in farewell speech … INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (CNN) — Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations. — Throughout the address, given at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library …
Judd / Think Progress:
Contradicting Bush, Rumsfeld Claims He Was Replaced Because Of 'The Outcome Of The Election' — Yesterday on Hannity and Colmes, outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that he was removed as a direct result of the "outcome of the election." Watch it:
CNN:
THE SITUATION ROOM — President Bush Stops At State Department To Show He's Listening To New Ideas About Iraq; Rumors Say There May Be Some Effort To Get Rid Of Nouri Al-Maliki; Space Shuttle Discovery Docking With International Space Station In Series Of Dangerous Maneuvers …
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