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3:05 AM ET, December 17, 2006

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Lev Grossman / Time:
Person of the Year: You  —  Yes, you.  You control the Information Age.  Welcome to your world.  —  The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Time Magazine's Person of the Year: You  —  NEW YORK (AP) - Congratulations!  You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."  —  The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals - citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it.
Discussion: Blogs of War and Don Surber
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Person Of The Year, Suck-Up Version  —  I'm not much of a fan of the Time Magazine Person of the Year fuss.  They usually do a decent job of picking someone significant enough to qualify, but often miss the best choices.  Of course, sometimes they completely misfire, such as in 1982 …
Michael Scherer / Salon:
Salon Person of the Year: S.R. Sidarth  —  The Virginia native and son of Indian immigrants changed history with a camcorder and introduced Sen. George Allen — and the rest of us — to the real America.  —  S.R. Sidarth at Sen. Jim Webb's campaign headquarters Aug. 14 in Arlington …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Time mag's man of the year: It's me
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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Washington Post:
A Mideast Counteroffensive  —  IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presided over a convention of Holocaust deniers in Tehran this week, rousing them with yet another speech predicting the extinction of Israel.  In Lebanon, the pro-Western government of Fouad Siniora hung by a thread …
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Abu Kais / Michael J. Totten:   Kerry: Syria has "needs"
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Up Escalator  —  Bill Richardson uses the "e" word and calls out St. John: … Yes, yes, yes.  If Bush does what he'd like to do, which is send in more troops, then this will no longer be Bush's war —  it's McCain's war too and he needs to have it strung around his neck like a neocon albatross.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Richardson Attacks McCain
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Eschaton
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
'We're Going to Win'  —  The president finally has a plan for victory.  —  It turns out you only have to attend a White House Christmas party to find out where President Bush is headed on Iraq.  One guest who shook hands with Bush in the receiving line told him, "Don't let the bastards get you down."
Washington Post:
Funding Threatened By Hill's Inaction  —  Government Operations, Projects in Peril  —  The Republican-controlled Congress's decision to adjourn a week ago before completing many of the spending bills that finance the federal government will reverberate in ways large and small …
Michael Moss / New York Times:
Legal System in Iraq Staggers Beneath the Weight of War  —  In 2004, American troops detained Laith al-Ani, shown in a family photo.  He sent his family a letter, above, from his detention camp, but they say they do not know why he is still held.  More Photos >
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 …
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.
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Linda Satter / NWAnews.com:
Prosecutor post is filled in recess  —  A surprise late-afternoon announcement Friday that J. Timothy Griffin will become the new U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas drew the ire of U. S. Sen. Mark Pryor, whose spokesman said the maneuver amounts to "basically circumventing the normal process."
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Keeping Iraq attack numbers under wraps  —  As Justin Rood noted, this chart, produced by the Government Accountability Office, tracks the number of per-months attacks in Iraq, based on Pentagon data.  —  A close look at the chart, however, notes that a few details are missing — specifically …
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:   Bush Admin Won't Release Iraq Attack Numbers
Dean / Dean's World:
The Coming Death of Email  —  Evan Coyne Maloney notes that at this point more than 90% of email on the internet is spam, and the percentage is only continuing to increase.  As a result, he says that email is going to die soon.  —  Certainly internet email will.
Turcopolier / Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006:
Stalingrad on the Tigris?  —  Below you will find a Power Point (what else?) presentation on the recent AEI analytic meeting run by one of the Kagans.  The cast of contributers at the end reads very much like one of the great neocon "papers" done up before their return to power under Bush 41'.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and TPMCafe blogs
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.
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Matthew Ladner / Christian Science Monitor:
Want to reduce poverty? Lower those tax rates.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Abbas calls for elections, pushing Palis towards civil war
Discussion: MSNBC
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Tammy Bruce and Charles Johnson on blogs, Carter, and the flying imams
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
SLOWLY COLLAPSING THE CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Publisher behind O.J. Simpson book fired
David Corn:
George W. Bush Slept Here
Discussion: People.com
Associated Press:
Rhode Island: Senator to Take Post at Brown University
 Earlier Items: 
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 …
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Why they deny the Holocaust  —  On top of nearly constant anti …
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The Grandest Strategy Of Them All  —  Two major public statements …
Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
Women Lose Ground in the New Iraq
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Ex-Rep. Barr Quits GOP for Libertarians
 

 
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