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5:55 PM ET, December 16, 2006

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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Officials: Edwards to enter 2008 race  —  WASHINGTON - Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards intends to enter the 2008 race for the White House, two Democratic officials said Saturday.  —  Edwards, who represented North Carolina in the Senate for six years …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bayh Rules Out White House Bid in 2008  —  Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) announced today that he will forgo a run for president in 2008, citing the "long odds" he would face as a candidate who is not well-known nationally.  —  In a statement released early today, Bayh said, "After talking with family …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bayh Rules Out White House Bid in 2008  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana announced on Saturday he will not seek the presidency in 2008, saying he believes the odds of a successful run were too great to overcome.  —  "At the end of the day, I concluded that due …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bayh Rules Out White House Bid in 2008  —  Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) will not run for president in 2008, a stunning reversal that comes just 13 days after he opened an exploratory committee to consider the race.  —  "Due to circumstances beyond our control the odds were longer than I felt …
Greg Sargent / tpmcafe.com:
Bayh Says He Won't Run For President
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Atrios / Eschaton:
Not Going to Happen  —  Yglesias: … Indeed.  I don't know why it seems like inhabitants of a certain corner of the blogosphere seem be the only ones who understand this, though I suppose people are finally starting to get it.  I imagine Bayh dropped out in part because he recognized that the Iraq bed isn't going to uns**t itself.
Discussion: James Wolcott's Blog
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MSNBC:
Most Gitmo detainees freed after transfer  —  Four-fifths of 'vicious killers' released after return to home countries  —  The Pentagon called them "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth," sweeping them up after Sept. 11 and hauling them in chains …
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Tim Golden / New York Times:
Military Taking a Tougher Line With Detainees  —  A part of the Camp 6 center at Guantánamo, which had been intended to be common area.  With the tighter security, however, the inmates will not be sharing meals there.  Camp 6 also has one-man exercise pens.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In Farewell, Rumsfeld Warns Weakness Is 'Provocative'  —  Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld bade farewell to the Pentagon on Friday with a combative valedictory speech in which he warned against hoping for "graceful exits" from Iraq and said it would be wrong to regard the lack of new attacks …
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Associated Press:
Rumsfeld gets big Pentagon sendoff
Discussion: Power Line
Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
Women Lose Ground in the New Iraq  —  Once They Were Encouraged to Study and Work; Now Life Is 'Just Like Being in Jail'  —  BAGHDAD — Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Why they deny the Holocaust  —  On top of nearly constant anti-Semitic propaganda, much of the Muslim world hasn't even heard of it.  —  ONE DAY IN 1994, when I was living in Ede, a small town in Holland, I got a visit from my half-sister.  She and I were both immigrants from Somalia and had both applied for asylum in Holland.
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The Grandest Strategy Of Them All  —  Two major public statements, coming less than a week apart, nicely capture the confusion besetting U.S. foreign policy these days.  —  The first is the report of the Iraq Study Group, released on Dec. 6.  In good old-fashioned "realist" style …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Incoming Chairmen Ready to Investigate  —  Democratic-Led Panels to Probe Administration's Actions in War and Counterterrorism  —  Incoming Democratic committee chairmen say they will hold a series of hearings and investigations early next year to build the case for their call for a phased withdrawal …
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Ex-Rep. Barr Quits GOP for Libertarians  —  A former Georgia congressman who helped spark President Clinton's impeachment has quit the Republican Party to become a Libertarian, saying he is disillusioned with the GOP on issues such as spending and privacy.  —  Bob Barr, who served eight years …
Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
The Road to Tehran  —  Polite society helped pave the way for Iran's Holocaust conference.  —  "Not acceptable," says Ban Ki Moon, new Secretary-General of the United Nations.  "Repulsive," say the editors of Britain's Guardian newspaper.  "An insult . . . to the memory of millions of Jews," says Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Richardson Attacks McCain  —  We can bitch all we want about St. John McCain, but it's going to take bigger guns that bloggers to point out just how insane he really is.  Bill Richardson, a man who has serious foreign policy credentials, is at least willing to criticize John McCain.
Discussion: Eschaton
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Hotline On Call:
Richardson: McCain "Dead Wrong" About Troops
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
Reuters:
Iraqi PM invites Saddam officers to return to army  —  Source: Reuters  —  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday Iraqi army officers of all ranks sacked after the U.S. invasion in 2003 would be allowed to reapply for their posts in the new army.
Discussion: Hot Air and Jihad Watch
Michael A. Weber / Tennessean.com:
Bredesen's Christmas card depicts Muslim girl  —  Picture and message leave church leaders scratching their heads  —  Gov. Phil Bredesen has given an unusual twist to his family's Christmas card: He is marking a Christian holiday with a card depicting a Muslim girl.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:   THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE
 
 
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
WHY THE TEXAS TEN PERCENT PLAN IS WORSE THAN TRADITIONAL AFFIRMATIVE …
David Corn:
George W. Bush Slept Here
Discussion: People.com
Associated Press:
Rhode Island: Senator to Take Post at Brown University
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Nifong and the Naïf  —  Perhaps the quality of the defense bar …
Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
He's Not Dead You Know  —  There are people with worse cases of my disease.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Onward to Iraq  —  While Michelle Malkin is quick to dismiss …
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Matt Drudge: Liberal Tool?
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Bush Admin Won't Release Iraq Attack Numbers
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
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Discussion: The Jawa Report
Dark Wraith / Big Brass Blog:
The Wall and the Wedge  —  At Pam's House Blend, Pam Spaulding …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
A Gnawing Problem On Assateague Island
Taylor Marsh on Politics Now:
About Afghanistan...  UPDATED and cross-posted on Huffington Post
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Army Captain's Simple Demonstration: How to Win in Iraq