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11:30 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
Greg Sargent / tpmcafe.com:
Bayh Says He Won't Run For President
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Richardson Attacks McCain
Discussion: Eschaton
Hotline On Call:
Richardson: McCain "Dead Wrong" About Troops
Discussion: Firedoglake and NO QUARTER
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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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:   Rumsfeld Honored at Pentagon Ceremony
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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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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Matthew Yglesias:
Iraq: Myth and Reality
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
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 …
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
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
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 …
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."
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Publisher behind O.J. Simpson book fired  —  NEW YORK - Extra!  Extra!  The press release arrived with a headline worthy of Rupert Murdoch: HARPERCOLLINS TERMINATES JUDITH REGAN.  So ended, at least for now, one of the book world's most profitable and provocative careers.
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
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, Liberty Street and Jihad Watch
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.
 
 
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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
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Time mag's man of the year: It's me
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Abu Kais / Michael J. Totten:
Kerry: Syria has "needs"
David Corn:
George W. Bush Slept Here
Discussion: People.com
Associated Press:
Rhode Island: Senator to Take Post at Brown University
Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
He's Not Dead You Know  —  There are people with worse cases of my disease.
 Earlier Items: 
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Onward to Iraq  —  While Michelle Malkin is quick to dismiss …
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
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Responding to Rangel—VIII  —  We'll be back from vacation Monday.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Ex-Rep. Barr Quits GOP for Libertarians
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Incoming Chairmen Ready to Investigate
Discussion: Daily Kos and JoeTrippi.com
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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