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12:15 AM ET, December 13, 2006

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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
Discussion: Donklephant
Bryan / Hot Air:   How al-Reuters works within tyrannies Updated
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 …
Discussion: Tom DeLay Blog and Political Radar
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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" …
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Public Trusts Iraq Study Group More Than Bush on Iraq  —  Americans favor group's key recommendations  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans have not been closely following news of the newly released report from the Iraq Study Group — a group led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Delays Speech on Iraq Until January
Discussion: AMERICAblog, The News Blog and TalkLeft
Nico / Think Progress:
CNN: Bush Is 'Very Seriously' Considering Sending More Troops To Iraq
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Kristin Roberts / Reuters:
Group seeks probe of evangelical military video  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A watchdog group that promotes religious freedom in the U.S. military accused senior officers on Monday using their rank and influence to coerce soldiers and airmen into adopting evangelical Christianity.
Discussion: Donklephant
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NJ Conservative / Tom DeLay Blog:
Christianity is so tahhhrible Dahhhling!
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 …
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.
Discussion: Hotline On Call and Daily Kos
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 …
Discussion: FP Passport and Reason Magazine
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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 …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Just Ask: Kucinich Answers, 'Yes, I Am'  —  In the midst of a brief chat in his office last week, Representative Dennis J. Kucinich mentioned that, oh, by the way, he planned to run for president again in 2008.  —  "Yes, I am," Mr. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, said in response to a reporter's question …
Tom Baldwin / Times of London:
Dumb answers of intelligence chief  —  He is expected to have an acute understanding of terrorist groups and their threats to American interests.  But the incoming chairman of a congressional intelligence committee was yesterday struggling to explain his ignorance of al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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 …
 
 
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Insurgents kill AP cameraman in Mosul
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Lobbying and the Way the World Works
Reuters:
Saudi envoy to U.S. quits
Rep. Barney Frank / The Huffington Post:
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Obama's magic  —  With his rock star visit to New Hampshire …
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Arizona Republic:
From a Muslim outlook, imams have missed the point on flight behavior
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