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8:10 PM ET, December 17, 2006

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Gateway Pundit:
John Kerry Meets the Dopes Stuck in IraK  —  Oh, to be a fly on the wall!  —  (Do you suppose that it's too late to enter this in any contest?  —  This was the best picture Reuters did all year- and you know it wasn't Photoshopped!)  —  Is everyone enjoying themselves?...
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Kerry rewrites U.S. foreign policy to fix Iraq wisecrack  —  Some people seem to have an unerring instinct for the wrong side of history.  You can rely on them, at critical moments, to abandon friends and accommodate evil, in the name of good.  —  Neville Chamberlain famously chose to talk …
Discussion: Don Surber
Little Green Footballs:
Flipper's Freelance Diplomatic Tour
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Shots Fired at Palestinian Leader's Home  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Fighting between Hamas and Fatah escalated Sunday, as the foreign minister's convoy and the president's Gaza residence came under attack.  Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Hamas will boycott an early election called by the president.
Discussion: Dean's World and Instapundit.com
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rantburg.com:
Mortars fired at Abbas' office; Hamas accuses Fatah of coup  —  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas  —  Violence in Palestinian Authority escalates Sunday afternoon: Mortar shells fired at Palestinian president's Gaza City office; several people injured.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Leader Orders Early Elections for Palestinians
UPI:
Gingrich: Imams should have been arrested  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire Muslim clerics pulled off a plane for praying should have been charged criminally.  —  Gingrich made the remark Friday night, as he delivered the keynote speech …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
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Riley Yates / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Gingrich defends free speech curbs
Associated Press:
Gingrich: GOP needs new kind of campaign
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Editor and Publisher:
Jamil Hussein, Disputed AP Source, Finally Located?  —  NEW YORK Has the mysterious and much-disputed Associated Press source in Iraq, a police captain named Jamil Hussein — finally been found?  His existence has been challenged in the past three weeks from the U.S. military, some Iraqi officials and conservative bloggers in the U.S.
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Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise:
Michelle Malkin invited to Iraq, Pajamas Media solves immolation mystery  —  When the Associated Press reported that 6 Iraqis had been burned to death in sectarian violence, Michelle Malkin and the right wing bloggers went on the offensive against the AP.  Their main complaint was that the report …
Discussion: SOTUblog
Heather Stewart / Observer:
US accused of using aid to sway votes in UN security council  —  The US uses its aid budget to bribe those countries which have a vote in the United Nations security council, giving them 59 per cent more cash in years when they have a seat, according to research by economists.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Guilty Of Acting In Our Own Interest
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Stubborn or Stalwart, Bush Is Loath to Budge  —  In the late 19th century, the queen of England sent the president of the United States a desk made from the timbers of a decommissioned ship, the HMS Resolute.  Almost every occupant of the White House since then has made the Resolute his desk.
The Sideshow:
Person of the Year  —  Time copped out again, but the liberal blogosphere made a real difference this year, and though no one person deserves all the credit, I choose Atrios,* who has an uncanny sense of what's important and can dissect it down to its basic atoms.
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
The President In the Room  —  Hillary Clinton's Biggest Issue?  A Certain Someone in Her Background.  —  NEW YORK He stood far behind, hiding in plain sight, though his glowing white hair and ruddy complexion rendered him as inconspicuous as a face on Mount Rushmore.  —  The spotlight was not Bill Clinton's.
Mark Franchetti / Times of London:
Russia defies West and goes ahead with nuclear fuel sale to Iran  —  RUSSIA is to begin supplying Iran with nuclear fuel early next year despite mounting concern in the West that this could accelerate Tehran's plans to build a nuclear bomb.  —  Sergei Shmatko, head of Atomstroyexport …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Telegraph:
Jews far more likely to be victims of faith hatred than Muslims  —  Jewish people are four times more likely to be attacked because of their religion than Muslims, according to figures compiled by the police.  —  One in 400 Jews compared to one in 1,700 Muslims are likely to be victims of "faith hate" attacks every year.
Works and Days:
Things are coming to a head  —  Surging Troops?  —  If we add another 30,000 or so troops to Iraq, in a final effort to win the war, then we must change (widen) the rules of engagement.  Only that way can America ensure that it simply does not create more targets for the insurgents …
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
You've got money. But what do you want to buy?
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Digby / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon: Whistling Past Dixie  —  (Today we'll be discussing "Whistling Past Dixie" by Tom Schaller, who will be joining us in the comments- JH)  —  It seems as if I've been thinking about southern politics all of my life.  The truth is that since the founding …
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Episcopalians Are Reaching Point of Revolt  —  For about 30 years, the Episcopal Church has been one big unhappy family.  Under one roof there were female bishops and male bishops who would not ordain women.  There were parishes that celebrated gay weddings and parishes that denounced them …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
The Capital Awaits a Masterstroke on Iraq  —  SOMEONE in Vice President Dick Cheney's office has gotten everybody on this city's holiday party circuit talking, simply by floating an unlikely Iraq proposal that is worthy of a certain mid-19th century British naturalist with a fascination for natural selection.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Prairie Weather
 
 
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Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Opening Still Remains for Consensus Progressive Candidate
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The RBC
Hotline On Call:
What If Warner's Reconsidering?
Juan / Informed Comment:
3 GIs killed, 53 Bodies found  —  Sunnis, Sadr Boycott 'Reconciliation' Conference
Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
Intellectual Garbage Collection: The Unreliability of Alan Reynolds
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
And Justice Wept...  The NYTimes has an in-depth examination …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON ARMY SIZE, Austin Bay has put …
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Perez Hilton takes their best shots
Discussion: Althouse
Reuters:
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 16
Discussion: Today in Iraq
 Earlier Items: 
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
The Time Machine
Dan / Riehl World View:
If Only The Democrats Meant It
cartercenter.org:
Jimmy Carter Issues Letter to Jewish Community on Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
New manual at odds with key Iraq tactics
Washington Wire:
'Hamiltonian Democrats' Get New Leader
Telegraph:
Ministers compared to Nazis over Islam stigma
Discussion: Kesher Talk
Bill Dwyre / Los Angeles Times:
Get a Grip, Guys  —  Even after Stern finally caved …