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4:05 PM ET, December 15, 2006

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Charles Krauthammer / Townhall.com:
What did the Iraq Study Group tell us?  —  As a result of the Iraq Study Group, President Bush has been given one last chance to alter course on Iraq.  This did not, however, come about the way James Baker intended.  It came about because the long-anticipated report turned out to be such a widely agreed-upon farce.
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Washington Post:
Rice Rejects Overture To Iran And Syria  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the United States seek the help of Syria and Iran in Iraq, saying the "compensation" required by any deal might be too high.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Ill Senator Is Called Responsive; Capital Is Riveted  —  Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota, was said to be in critical condition but "responsive" Thursday after an operation to stop bleeding in his brain, and Democrats declared that his condition would not imperil the narrow majority …
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Al Kamen / Washington Post:
In the 83rd Congress, a Senate in Constant Turmoil  —  Sen. Tim Johnson's sudden illness has consumed the political class the past two days.  Everyone is talking about what happens if the South Dakota Democrat leaves the Senate and is replaced by a Republican to create a 50-50 split.
Discussion: Time, Daily Kos, Sister Toldjah and Wonkette
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Castro Near Death, U.S. Intelligence Chief Says  —  Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte said yesterday.  —  "Everything we see indicates it will not be much longer . . . months, not years," Negroponte told a meeting of Washington Post editors and reporters.
Timothy Noah / Slate:
THE HAMMER FINDS HIS MÉTIER.  —  Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, whose various ethical missteps compelled him to resign this past June, was born to blog.  He's a bully and a blowhard and he's got access to interesting political gossip.  But I find TomDeLay.com, which debuted Dec. 10, disappointingly high-minded.
John Dickerson / Slate:
Barackwater  —  FOR NOW, OBAMA'S SCANDAL IS TOO SMALL TO HURT.  —  Listen to John Dickerson's weekly Political Gabfest program here, or sign up for Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes.  —  If Barack Obama decides to run for president, we're going to hear a lot more about Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the senator's neighbor.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Today's Rationale?  —  Nine days until Christmas...and Mommy just got dragged away in handcuffs for a bunch of show arrests.  Nice.  —  The shifting rationale for the ICE raids on the Swift Meatpacking plants is making me very peeved.  What began as a "raid on illegal immigrants" …
Federal Reserve:
The Chinese Economy: Progress and Challenges  —  The emergence of China as a global economic power is one of the most important developments of recent decades.  For the past twenty years, the Chinese economy has achieved a growth rate averaging nearly 10 percent per year, resulting in a quintupling of output per person.
Commentary:
Getting Serious About Iran: A Military Option  —  By Arthur Herman From issue: November 2006  —  As the impasse over Iran's nuclear-weapons program grows inexorably into a crisis, a kind of consensus has taken root in the minds of America's foreign-policy elite.
Alicia Colon / New York Sun:
The Mendacity Of the Liberal Press  —  The first time I heard the word "mendacity" was in the film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."  I loved the way Burl Ives's character spits out the word as something vile and unacceptable.  —  Unfortunately, we live in a society where untruthfulness …
Discussion: Nitpicker
Reuters:
Smart children "more likely to become vegetarians"  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Children with high IQs are more likely to be vegetarians when they grow up, according to research reported on Friday.  —  A British study of more them 8,000 men and women aged 30 whose IQs had been measured when they were 10 …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Raf Casert / Associated Press:
Belgium splits up?  TV hoax is decried  —  BRUSSELS — Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end.  —  State television broke into regular programming late Wednesday with an urgent bulletin: The Dutch-speaking half of the country had declared independence and the king and queen had fled.
Spencer Ackerman / American Prospect:
Final Fantasy  —  Fred Kagan's disastrous plan for "victory" in Iraq.  —  There's a line from one of Johnny Cash's final songs that adequately sums up the new Iraq strategy proposal released yesterday by Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute.  Go tell that long tongue liar …
Discussion: Eschaton and Middle Earth Journal
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Last-Minute Inserts Offer Benefits in Medicare Bill  —  By slipping four sentences into a big bill passed last week, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert secured a major change in Medicare policy avidly sought by a few health insurers, in particular a multinational company with headquarters in his home state, Illinois.
Discussion: California Insider
 
 
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Military Considers Sending as Many as 35,000 More U.S. Troops to Iraq, McCain Says
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Brian C. Ledbetter / snapped shot:
The Religion of Peace (and child abuse)
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A War Bush Wouldn't Pay For
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Sonny Bunch / Weekly Standard:
Brutally Honest  —  The multicultural set doesn't like Mel Gibson's …
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Alister Doyle / Reuters:
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Scott Macleod / Time:
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Discussion: Obsidian Wings and The Swamp
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
C-SPAN presses Pelosi on transparency
Discussion: CNN and Don Surber
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
'The Man From Nowhere'  —  What does Barack Obama believe in?
Discussion: The Heretik, Hyscience and Althouse
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
General Says Army Will Need To Grow