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12:30 PM ET, November 14, 2007

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Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar  —  In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy.  But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003 …
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.
Discussion: The Corner and Death
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Who Wants To Be The Analog To Kos At Newsweek?  —  Via a number of sources, Markos Moulitsas has won a column assignment at Newsweek.  In a press release, the magazine announced that Markos will occasionally appear in both the print and on-line versions of the periodical …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Kos To Pen For Newsweek
New York Times:
F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause  —  Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect …
The Hill:
Senate Dem leaders float plan for forced filibuster  —  Senate Democrats might force Republicans to wage a filibuster if the GOP wants to block the latest Iraq withdrawal bill, aides and senators said Tuesday.  —  That could set the stage for a dramatic end-of-the-year partisan showdown …
Peter Berkowitz / Opinion Journal:
The Insanity of Bush Hatred  —  Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue.  —  Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself.  The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, Reagan hatred, Nixon hatred …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Bush strategist looks back in sadness  —  AT HIS TEXAS RANCH: Matthew Dowd, political strategist and former Bush advisor, says of the president: "I don't think he's evil or bad.  I think he's a good person that didn't accomplish what he set out to do."  —  Matthew Dowd helped win the White House.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal and TBogg
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a "Chief Technology Officer"  —  The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google's headquarters.
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Matt Marshall / Mercury News:
VentureBeat: Obama shares his tech plan today in valley visit
Discussion: The Swamp and Open Left
Think Progress:
New Ad Campaign: 'Progressive.  And Proud Of It.'  —  [Our guest blogger is John Halpin, a Senior Fellow and Executive Speechwriter at the Center for American Progress focusing on the foundations of progressive thought, communications, and public opinion analysis.]
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Center for American Progress:
America at its Best. That's Progressive. That's You.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Kathleen Willey Interview  —  Yesterday, I did a phone interview with Kathleen Willey, who has a new book out: Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton.  —  What follows is a transcript of our conversation, edited slightly for readability's sake.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant?  —  In 2005, a year after Ellie Grossman, a doctor, met Ray Fisman, a professor, on a blind date, she was talking to her grandmother about her guy.  —  "Never let a man think you're smarter," her grandmother advised.  "Men don't like that."
New York Times:
President of Columbia Is Criticized  —  Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was confronted yesterday by discontented professors who gathered more than 100 faculty signatures for a document criticizing his leadership.  —  Their "statement of concern," read to him at a faculty meeting …
Rep. Jim McGovern / The Huffington Post:
Senator Obama's Curious Comments on Meet the Press  —  I support Senator Clinton's White House bid because I believe she is the one candidate with the strength and experience to actually end the war in Iraq.  —  I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting …
Discussion: TalkLeft and MSNBC
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
VOTER ID....The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country.  Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana's law in the Supreme Court.  But this is just silly.  In this day and age everyone has a photo ID anyway, so what's the problem?
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Giuliani's House of Mirrors  —  The Giuliani campaign is playing a beautiful game of three card monte with the national media regarding the expectations game in Iowa and New Hampshire - not that I've ventured out of the Cathedral to actually witness such a sinful game of tricks and deceit. ...
Discussion: TalkLeft
Michael Roston / The Huffington Post:
It's So Hard To Be A Unitary Executive These Days  —  It would appear that the lamest of the lame duckedness at the end of any President's second term is already creeping into the White House's official pronouncements.  —  President Bush yesterday phoned in a "presidential signing statement …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
GOP Primary Story Stars a Democratic Antagonist  —  They mock her proposals, utter her name with a sneer and win standing ovations by ridiculing her ideas as un-American, even socialistic.  She has become the one thing the Republican candidates for president can agree on.  —  Hillary Clinton.
 
 
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Kate Murphy / New York Times:
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Mary Jo White / USA Today:
No easy answers to al-Qaeda threat
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Amelia Gentleman / New York Times:
Monkeys in the Parks, Monkeys in the Palace
Discussion: The New Republic
CBS News:
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Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Pro-life Thompson nod splits coterie
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Simon Heffer / Telegraph:
The Union of England and Scotland is over
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Max Boot / New York Times:
Send the State Department to War
Discussion: Democracy Project
Michael D. Tanner / Cato-at-liberty:
Not to Say We Told You So, But...  The latest reports …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review Online:
Devil with the Blue Dress
Discussion: TBogg
Washington Post:
Scam Could Total $31 Million
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
CIA admits to recording interrogations of top al Qaida captives
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. Reopens Surveillance Probe