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12:50 PM ET, December 18, 2006

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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Not So Fast  —  Why Barack Obama may not run.  —  Just about everybody seems convinced that Sen. Barack Obama is going to run for president.  The Chicago Sun-Times, his hometown paper, is writing as if his candidacy is an established fact.  Newsweek magazine cites sources close to him who claim that he's …
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Is America Ready?  —  Hillary's hair and hemline won't be issues …
Discussion: The Caucus and SOTUblog
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Ahmadinejad in electoral setback  —  The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of Iran faced electoral embarrassment today after the apparent failure of his supporters to win control of key local councils and block the political comeback of his most powerful opponent.
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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Robert Tait / Guardian:
Iranian students hide in fear for lives after venting fury at Ahmadinejad  —  Iranian student activists who staged an angry protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week have gone into hiding in fear for their lives after his supporters threatened them with revenge.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Dissent In Iran And Its Aftermath
Michael Moss / New York Times:
Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment  —  One night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the United States military's maximum-security detention site in Baghdad.  —  American guards arrived at the man's cell periodically over the next several days …
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New York Times:
After Bankruptcy Filing, Recriminations Fly at Air America  —  In its search for a new chief executive this past summer, Air America Radio interviewed seasoned media executives in an effort to revive the faltering network.  One interview took a bizarre turn, however, when the executive got …
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Al Franken Departure, Air America Network Purchase
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Washington Post:
Conservatives' Grip on Key Virginia Court Is at Risk  —  A growing list of vacancies on the federal appeals court in Richmond is heightening concern among Republicans that one of the nation's most conservative and influential courts could soon come under moderate or even liberal control, Republicans and legal scholars say.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Powell Says U.S. Losing in Iraq, Calls for Drawdown by Mid-2007  —  Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that the United States is losing what he described as a "civil war" in Iraq and that he is not persuaded that an increase in U.S. troops there would reverse the situation.
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Powell Doubts Need to Raise Troop Levels
Tina Kelley / New York Times:
Talk in Class Turns to God, Setting Off Public Debate on Rights  —  KEARNY, N.J. — Before David Paszkiewicz got to teach his accelerated 11th-grade history class about the United States Constitution this fall, he was accused of violating it.  —  Shortly after school began in September …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
How Foreign Aid Hurts Rather Than Helps  —  For long-term disasters like famines, one can usually find a political problem that keeps food and medicine from the people who need it, rather than a purely environmental issue.  This has been true of African catastrophes like Ethiopa and Somalia …
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Silvia Spring / Newsweek:
Blood and Money  —  In what might be called the mother of all surprises, Iraq's economy is growing strong, even booming in places.  —  Newsweek International  —  It may sound unreal, given the daily images of carnage and chaos.  But for a certain plucky breed of businessmen, there's good money to be made in Iraq.
Times of London:
Litvinenko's killers used polonium worth $10m to give massive overdose  —  British investigators believe that Alexander Litvinenko's killers used more than $10 million of polonium-210 to poison him.  Preliminary findings from the post mortem examination on the former KGB spy suggest …
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Eric Bailey / Los Angeles Times:
Pot is called biggest cash crop  —  The $35-billion market value of U.S.-grown cannabis tops that of such heartland staples as corn and hay, a marijuana activist says.  —  SACRAMENTO — For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America's biggest cash crop.
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM) and Andrew Sullivan
David Carr / New York Times:
This Time, Judith Regan Did It  —  When the News Corporation killed Judith Regan's multimedia rollout of O. J. Simpson's "hypothetical confession," Rupert Murdoch called the project "ill-conceived."  —  The phrase he should have used was "ill-received."  —  The "If I Did It" …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Sharon Behn / Washington Times:
Saudis report Shi'ite 'state' inside of Iraq  —  Iran has effectively created a Shi'ite "state within a state" in neighboring Iraq, defying both Iraqi Sunnis and neighboring Sunni nations, according to a Saudi security report.  —  Iranian military forces are providing Shi'ite militias …
BBC:
Disney tells Santa clone ho-ho no  —  When James Worley paid a visit to Disney World in Florida his portly frame and white beard soon had kids asking: "Are you Santa Claus?"  —  Not wanting to disappoint, Mr Worley, 60, played along with some "ho-ho-hos".  —  But Disney officials descended …
Clifford Coonan / Independent:
After surviving 20 million years, China's goddess of the river is driven to extinction  —  For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze.  But a few years of breakneck development, overfishing and a massive increase in shipping have reduced sightings …
Discussion: Mathew Gross and The Strata-Sphere
John Londregan / Weekly Standard:
Don't Cry for Pinochet  —  Chile succeeded despite him.  —  The death of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte marks the definitive end of his efforts to associate himself with conservatism.  It also marks the ultimate success of his efforts to avoid accountability for his murderous behavior as a leader …
 
 
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Gaza weapons smuggling flourishes
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On the Prowl in Provence With the Truffle Enforcer
Deepak Chopra / The Huffington Post:
Get Ready for Segregation — Again
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U.S. Sees Growing Threats In Somalia
Frances Harrison / BBC:
Where Holocaust denial is welcomed
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 Earlier Items: 
Josh White / Washington Post:
U.S. Sends Home 33 Detainees From Guantanamo Bay
Discussion: FP Passport and TalkLeft
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
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Discussion: LiberalOasis and The Corner
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
And merry Xmas to you all  —  I passed through Shannon Airport in Ireland the other day.
Oliver North / Washington Times:
Winning the war
Discussion: The Impolitic
Michael Theodoulou / Times of London:
Hardliners defeated in Iran's twin elections
Los Angeles Times:
In jail and in danger  —  Violence has left 14 dead …
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Dec. 17