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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton: No illegal immigrant licenses — WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday came out against granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, after weeks of pressure in the presidential race to take a position on a now-failed ID plan from her home state governor.
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The Washington Post / The Trail:
Spitzer Drops License Plan, But Damage to Democrats is Done — The Democratic front-runners at last months debate were pressed on the issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. (AP). — After all the hoopla, N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer is dropping his plan to provide drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
It's Wednesday, So We Must Have A New Position — First she sounded sympathetic to the idea during a televised debate, and within moments had refused to endorse it. Afterwards, she changed her mind and endorsed it. Now today, after Governor Eliot Spitzer shelved a plan to issue …
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:Report: Clinton Aides Told Spitzer to Dump Licenses for Illegals
David Hill / The Hill:
Ron Paul: Trouble back home — While Texan Ron Paul's stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September, Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Clinton 42% Giuliani 39% Ron Paul 8% — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found Hillary Clinton leading Rudy Giuliani by three percentage points in a four-way race that includes Ron Paul running as a Libertarian candidate and Ralph Nader representing the Green Party.
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
House Clears Way to Funds for Military, With Strings — The House on Wednesday approved $50 billion of the nearly $200 billion that President Bush had requested for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but attached many strings to the measure, virtually guaranteeing that Senate Republicans would block it.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
House passes Iraq withdrawal bill — The House tonight passed a $50 billion Iraq funding bill that sets a "goal" of having all U.S. forces out of the country by Dec. 2008, the latest move in the ongoing political struggle over the war. — The "Orderly and Responsible Iraq Redeployment Appropriations Act" …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Buzzy Krongard: I Told My Brother I Was Joining Blackwater's Advisory Board — Howard "Cookie" Krongard might have just perjured himself before the House Oversight Committee. — Earlier today, the State Department inspector general repeatedly told the panel that he was unaware his brother …
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Queen Hillary's disruptive court — The press corps finally wakes up to her waffling and evasions. Plus: Norman Mailer's largely forgotten legacy and our disappointing lesbian icons! — The mainstream media have been in a breathless tizzy about how Hillary Clinton waffled, tripped …
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Michelle Malkin:
Car wars — A sanctimonious liberal (redundancy alert!) blogger excoriates various conservatives who all presumably own massive, gas-guzzling vehicles like the Ford F-150: … The blogger, one Bob Cesca, published his post at the Huffington Post, founded by the Queen of gas-guzzling Gulfstream Liberals, Arianna Huffington.
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CNN:
Publisher says she was told to lie to protect Giuliani — NEW YORK (CNN) — Senior executives at News Corp. urged publisher Judith Regan to lie to investigators about ex-New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik in order to protect Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions, Regan alleges in a lawsuit filed this week.
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Patrick Ruffini:
I Need 1,165 People Before Midnight — UPDATE: Just realized there are 12 questions on the front page of 10 Questions, so the cutoff for getting asked is 1,165 net positive votes before midnight. I'm at +826 right now. The heat is on. Vote below. — The 10Questions question period is rapidly drawing to a close.
Lily Quateman / The Politico:
Most at NYU say their vote has a price — Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do. — That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.
Lessig Blog:
4Barack — "DON'T DO THIS!" a friend wrote, a friend who never uses allcaps, a friend who cares genuinely about what's good for me, and who believes that what's good for me depends in part upon how easily I can talk to the next administration. "He is NOT going to win. She has it sewed up.
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site — A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution …
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