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11:30 AM ET, November 14, 2007

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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Quinnipiac University News and Events:
November 14, 2007 - Giuliani Catches Clinton In Ohio, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Strickland On Ticket Won't Help Dems  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton remain virtually deadlocked with 44 percent for the Democrat and 43 percent for the Republican in the Ohio presidential race.
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Michael Scherer / Salon:
On the fake campaign trail  —  Hillary Clinton got busted for planting a question with an audience member in Iowa.  But there's all kinds of hocus-pocus at "town hall" events.  —  Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters Nov. 6 at a campaign stop in Amana, Iowa (Reuters/Joshua Lott photo).
Discussion: MoJoBlog
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Is Clinton campaign too scripted?
Discussion: The Swamp and Slate
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."
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: TBogg
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Spitzer Dropping His License Plan  —  Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy.  —  The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday …
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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 …
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?
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 …
Discussion: The Sundries Shack and Fox News
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
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.
Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise  —  Aims To Collect Levies on Sales Over Internet  —  New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer, who is moving aggressively to collect Internet sales taxes that have gone widely unenforced.
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
CIA admits to recording interrogations of top al Qaida captives  —  WASHINGTON — The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the case against terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui …
 
 
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Pro-life Thompson nod splits coterie
Simon Heffer / Telegraph:
The Union of England and Scotland is over
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Robert A. Levy / Los Angeles Times:
Unholster the 2nd Amendment
Max Boot / New York Times:
Send the State Department to War
Discussion: Democracy Project
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review Online:
Devil with the Blue Dress
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