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12:05 PM ET, December 12, 2006

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USA Today:
USA more pessimistic on Iraq war  —  WASHINGTON — As President Bush weighs changing course in Iraq, Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the war and want most U.S. troops withdrawn within a year, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday says.
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CNN:
Suicide truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Many of the 60 killed and 220 wounded by a suicide truck bomb blast in central Baghdad Tuesday morning were unemployed Iraqis lured toward the explosion by an offer of work, according to an official with the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
Associated Press:
Dual bombing in central Baghdad kills 57  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs targeting day laborers looking for work exploded within seconds of each other Tuesday on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 150, police said.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Washington Post:
A Dictator's Double Standard  —  Augusto Pinochet tortured and murdered.  His legacy is Latin America's most successful country.  —  AUGUSTO PINOCHET, who died Sunday at the age of 91, has been vilified for three decades in and outside of Chile, the South American country he ruled for 17 years.
Edward Epstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bush courts Democrats — but may be 6 years too late  —  (12-12) 04:00 PST Washington — Hoping to avoid a lame-duck final two years in the White House, President Bush is openly wooing moderate and conservative House Democrats as potential allies on a variety of issues as their party prepares to take control of Congress in January.
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Washington Post:
Democrats Freeze Earmarks for Now
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:   Dems plan to clean up spending bills
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Dems to Wipe Out Pet Projects in Bills
Discussion: Reason Magazine
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Battle Hillary Clinton Should Relish  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a maddening challenge.  Many of the people who like and admire her, who believe she has good values and would make an excellent president, are not sure they are for her because they don't think she can win.
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
BARACKGROUND INFO  —  ULTRA-LIB RECORD & LAND-BUY FLAP
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kennedy drops support for a Kerry presidential run in '08
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqis Consider Ways to Reduce Power of Cleric  —  After discussions with the Bush administration, several of Iraq's major political parties are in talks to form a coalition whose aim is to break the powerful influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr within the government, senior Iraqi officials say.
Michael Kinsley / Slate:
It's Not Apartheid  —  JIMMY CARTER'S MORONIC NEW BOOK ABOUT ISRAEL.  —  In the six decades since the founding of Israel, there have been about one and a half new ideas for solving the most intractable problem on the map of the world.  In fact, ever since Britain's Balfour Declaration …
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Lisa Beyer / Time:
The Big Lie About the Middle East
David Frum / American Enterprise Institute:
Why Is It Always about Israel?
Discussion: Guardian
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves Washington  —  Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, flew out of Washington yesterday after informing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and his staff that he would be leaving the post after only 15 months on the job …
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Alicia Chang / Associated Press:
Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
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Jonathan Amos / BBC:
Arctic sea ice 'faces rapid melt'  —  Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco  —  The Arctic may be close to a tipping point that sees all-year-round ice disappear very rapidly in the next few decades, US scientists have warned.  —  The latest data presented at the American Geophysical …
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
Seattle Times:
Christmas trees are going back up at Sea-Tac airport  —  The holiday trees that went away in the middle of the night are back.  —  Tonight, Port of Seattle staff began putting up the trees they had taken down Friday night after a local rabbi requested that a Hanukkah menorah also be displayed.
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Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
Trees Being Returned to SeaTac Airport
Discussion: The Imus Show Blog and Daimnation!
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Holocaust Deniers and Skeptics Gather in Iran  —  Holocaust deniers and skeptics from around the world gathered at a government-sponsored conference here today to discuss their theories about whether six million Jews were indeed killed by the Nazis during World War II and whether gas chambers existed.
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Nazila Fathi / New York Times:   Iran Opens Conference on Holocaust
Washington Post:
To Stem Iraqi Violence, U.S. Aims to Create Jobs  —  As Iraq descends further into violence and disarray, the Pentagon is turning to a weapon some believe should have been used years ago: jobs.  —  Members of a small Pentagon task force have gone to the most dangerous areas of Iraq …
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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and The Moderate Voice
Dante Chinni / Christian Science Monitor:
The value of a pro-war blogger's reports from Iraq  —  Bill Roggio's accounts bring home a feel for what US troops are facing in Iraq.  —  WASHINGTON - In recent months, the gruesome images and stories emanating from Iraq have hardened the public's perception about the conflict there.
jules crittenden:
Kofi Annan's Farewell Speech  —  (Please put on your headphones if you wish to hear this speech translated from the original Bulls**t)  —  In Missouri today, departing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered these thoughtful reflections on 10 years of learning:
 
 
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Why Is It So Important That American Students Learn a Foreign Language?
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs and Ezra Klein
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Poll: 7 Out of 10 Americans Disapprove of Handling of Iraq War
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Gay and Evangelical, Seeking Paths of Acceptance
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