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1:55 PM ET, December 31, 2006

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Conflicts Shaped Two Presidencies  —  U.S., Iraq Continue to Experience Aftereffects of Their Confrontations  —  The day after he ordered a cease-fire and brought the Persian Gulf War to a close, President George H.W. Bush ruminated about the status quo he had left behind in Iraq.
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Michael Roston / TPMCafe blogs:
Saddam and the cellphones  —  1 of 1 people recommend this blog entry.
Najmaldin Karim / New York Times:
Justice, but No Reckoning  —  MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein …
Discussion: normblog
Telegraph:
Saddam's end: tormented as his death loomed
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
Michael James / Bizarre Bazaar:
SADDAM'S HANGING — UNCUT
Discussion: Agence France Presse and TalkLeft
Tim Golden / New York Times:
For Guantánamo Review Boards, Limits Abound  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At one end of a converted trailer in the American military detention center here, a graying Pakistani businessman sat shackled before a review board of uniformed officers, pleading for his freedom.
Discussion: Firedoglake and the talking dog
Liz Fedor / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Area Somalis want peace for homeland  —  Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. gave tacit support for ousting of Islamists.  —  More than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian troops to withdraw immediately from Somalia.
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Truth, Justice, Abortion and the Times Magazine  —  THE cover story on abortion in El Salvador in The New York Times Magazine on April 9 contained prominent references to an attention-grabbing fact.  "A few" women, the first paragraph indicated, were serving 30-year jail terms for having had abortions.
The Hill:
Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations  —  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has "accepted responsibility" for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening.
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Tipping Point  —  Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago.  The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called "Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose".  He takes issue with a new Google search feature that promotes certain …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
A GOOGLE TIPPING POINT? … I've noted declining trust in Google …
Discussion: alicublog
Times of London:
Hillary falls to earth in poll race  —  THE first vote is still more than a year away, but the campaign to replace President George W Bush in the White House is already throwing up surprises.  —  Unfortunately for Senator Hillary Clinton, long the front-runner in the Democratic drive to retake …
Times of London:
Science told: hands off gay sheep  —  Experiments that claim to 'cure' homosexual rams spark anger  —  SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of "gay" sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007  —  WASHINGTON - Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster.  These are among Americans' grim predictions for the United States in 2007.  —  Only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Zachary Abuza / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Years Eve Bombs Shake Up Bangkok  —  Seven bombs were exploded across downtown Bangkok on New Years Eve as revelers began to turnout for dinner and the evening's festivities.  The first bomb exploded at the Victory Monument, an area crowded with food stalls, the terminus for small commuter vans from the northern districts.
Discussion: Blogs of War and PrairiePundit
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Michelle Malkin:   Bombs in Bangkok  —  No suspects, no motive known yet …
White House:
Vice President's Remarks at the State Funeral of Former President Gerald R. Ford  —  The United States Capitol Rotunda  —  Remembering President Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)  —  THE VICE PRESIDENT: Mrs. Ford, Susan, Mike, Jack, and Steve; distinguished guests; colleagues and friends; and fellow citizens:
Discussion: Right Voices
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Michael Beschloss / Newsweek:
Ford's Long Shadow
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
AP Poll: Americans Optimistic for 2007 … WASHINGTON (AP) — The news from Iraq and other national headlines may be grim, but in Greenville, N.C., John Given has a new baby and his first home, and life is good.  —  So, too, for Sandra Trowbridge in tiny Magnet Cove, Ark. The situation …
Washington Post:
Localities Operate Intelligence Centers To Pool Terror Data  —  'Fusion' Facilities Raise Privacy Worries As Wide Range of Information Is Collected  —  Frustrated by poor federal cooperation, U.S. states and cities are building their own network of intelligence centers led by police to help detect and disrupt terrorist plots.
Barbara O'Brien / Crooks and Liars:
Old Tapes  —  I know the young folks despair at the way we moldering relics of the Baby Boom can't let go of Vietnam.  Let me say forthrightly that I know how you feel.  —  Imagine being a teenager in the mid-1960s and lusting after the Correges-style boots the other girls were wearing …
Telegraph:
Air Force enlists Stonewall for gay recruits  —  The Royal Air Force has called in a gay pressure group to help solve its recruitment crisis.  The Service will take advice from Stonewall on how to make itself more attractive to homosexual and bisexual men and women, and is aiming to spend tens …
Discussion: Right Voices
New York Times:
And Now, a Word From Chile ...  Everyone who followed the debate about privatizing Social Security back in 2005 has vivid memories of the Chilean model.  Sometimes it seemed impossible to get through any discussion of fixing Social Security without hearing a free-market paean to the way Chile …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
THE 10 MOST OUTRAGEOUS CIVIL LIBERTIES VIOLATIONS OF 2006.  —  I love those year-end roundups—ubiquitous annual lists of greatest films and albums and lip glosses and tractors.  It's reassuring that all human information can be wrestled into bundles of 10.
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