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8:15 PM ET, December 13, 2006

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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Sen. Johnson suffers possible stroke  —  WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson (news, bio, voting record) of South Dakota suffered a possible stroke Wednesday and was taken to a Washington hospital, his office said.  If he should be unable to continue to serve, it could halt the scheduled Democratic takeover of the Senate.
Argus Leader:
Sen. Tim Johnson hospitalized after possible stroke  —  Rep. Herseth asks South Dakotans for their prayers  —  Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., was hospitalized today, according to his Washington office.  —  He suffered from a possible stroke, and was taken to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C..
Discussion: HorsesAss.Org
CNN:
Staff: Senator hospitalized with stroke-like symptoms  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Tim Johnson, D-South Dakota, was hospitalized Wednesday after he suffered stroke-like symptoms in his Washington office, his staff said.  —  Johnson, who turns 60 on December 28, was taken …
Discussion: The Agonist and Blue Mass. Group
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Military Meets, Exceeds Recruiting Goals  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Though Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the war in Iraq, the Pentagon said Tuesday it is having success enlisting new troops.  The Navy and Air Force met their recruiting goals last month while the Army …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Bill's Bites
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army, Marine Corps To Ask for More Troops  —  The Army and Marine Corps are planning to ask incoming Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Congress to approve permanent increases in personnel, as senior officials in both services assert that the nation's global military strategy has outstripped their resources.
Julia Preston / New York Times:
U.S. Raids 6 Meat Plants in ID Case  —  In simultaneous dawn raids, federal immigration agents swept into six Swift & Company meatpacking plants in six states yesterday, rounding up hundreds of immigrant workers in what the agents described as a vast criminal investigation of identity theft.
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Salt Lake Tribune:
Federal raid puts families in limbo  —  Immigration agents looking for stolen IDs detain scores in Hyrum  —  HYRUM - If only for a few minutes, Maria felt like an ''illegal alien'' in her homeland - the United States of America.  —  She thought she was going on break from her job …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Jeff Greenfield / CNN:
Point of personal privilege  —  (CNN) — "Humor is the nitroglycerin of politics," a political analyst wrote long ago.  "Very powerful, but if it's not handled carefully, it can explode in your face."  —  Actually, I wrote those words in a widely un-read book.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   HAIR-TRIGGER INSTINCTS....Jeff Greenfield protests that his comparison …
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Senator wants universal health care plan  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen years after Congress rejected a Clinton administration plan for universal health care, an Oregon Democrat is readying a proposal to provide health care coverage to all Americans through a pool of private insurance plans.
Mark Bauerlein / Chronicle of Higher Education:
How Academe Shortchanges Conservative Thinking  —  Notwithstanding the outcome of the recent election, in one respect, the last few decades mark a breakthrough era for conservative intellectuals.  Their visibility has soared.  Thirty years ago, the only place to find conservatives on television …
Discussion: JunkYardBlog, The Corner and alicublog
Barry R. McCaffrey / Washington Post:
Beyond Baker-Hamilton  —  One Approach to a Last Try at Stability in Iraq  —  A collapse of the Iraqi state would be catastrophic — for the people of Iraq, for the Middle East and for America's strategic interests.  We need a new political and military approach to head off this impending disaster …
Ellyn Ferguson / herald-dispatch.com:
Byrd to give up W.Va. projects  —  Byrd, incoming chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and his House counterpart Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin outlined their plan late Monday to pass a yearlong stopgap spending bill to keep government programs and agencies functioning until Sept. 30, 2007.
Discussion: Power Line and Outside The Beltway
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
More Journalists Join Political News Venture  —  Mike Allen, a reporter who covers the White House for Time magazine, and Roger Simon, the chief political correspondent for Bloomberg News, are joining the new multimedia political news venture being overseen by two former Washington Post journalists.
Discussion: Media Blog, Wonkette and Romenesko
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Former CNN News Chief To Launch 'IraqSlogger' Site  —  NEW YORK For the past four years there has been no shortage of news and views on Iraq and the long-running war there.  What's been missing: a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse for nonpartisan information, including material coming …
Discussion: Wizbang
New York Times:
Lobbying the Jury  —  We are disappointed that the Supreme Court has upheld a defendant's conviction even though spectators at his trial put prejudicial material in sight of the jury.  Fortunately, the court made clear that its ruling this week was based only on the unusual way the issue was raised …
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 …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Foley Fallout  —  Soon-to-be-speaker Nancy Pelosi is fond of mentioning that she's the mother of five, grandmother of six.  The California Democrat should keep that in mind as she reviews the House ethics committee's report on former representative Mark Foley and considers proposals for tougher ethics enforcement.
Peter R. Kann / Opinion Journal:
The Power of the Press  —  The media is in need of some mending.  —  Thomas Jefferson, a better president than we've had in a very long time, penned a line back in 1787: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government …
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Calif. officials tried to secure earmark to buy Miller's land  —  Members of a California city council tried to secure federal funds to purchase a large swath of Rep. Gary Miller's (R-Calif.) land as part of a wilderness preserve project.  —  The Monrovia City Council immediately faced resistance …
Discussion: Sunlight Foundation blogs and MyDD
 
 
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