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6:05 PM ET, November 25, 2007

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Mark Halperin / New York Times:
How 'What It Takes' Took Me Off Course  —  MORE than any other book, Richard Ben Cramer's "What It Takes," about the 1988 battle for the White House, influenced the way I cover campaigns.  —  I'm not alone.  The book's thesis — that prospective presidents are best evaluated by their ability …
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The Atlantic Online:
I'll Just Say He's Right and Leave It At That  —  This Mark Halperin op-ed is really stunning.  I'm glad I've got a long car ride in my future this afternoon, because maybe it'll give me the opportunity to really process why and how this is happening.  At a first glance, though …
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:   I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think it Means...
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
WHAT IT TAKES....In the New York Times today, conventional wisdom …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Thompson charges Fox News is biased against his campaign  —  Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) suggested on Sunday that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Fred Thompson Attacks Fox News  —  This morning on Fox News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) charged "that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency."
Jamiecnn / CNN Political Ticker:   Thompson calls gun show 'paradise'
Christi Parsons / The Swamp:
Pro-Patriot Act Giuliani meets anti-act Ron Paulites  —  NASHUA, N.H.—Attempts to cut back on government surveillance and "aggressive questioning" of suspected terrorists are irresponsible and undercut the country's war on terrorism, Republican Rudy Giuliani said this weekend.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Giuliani presses the flesh in N.H.  —  CONCORD, N.H. — Rudy Giuliani took the bus Saturday, pushing through this first-in-the-nation presidential primary state in a daylong, people-to-people tour.  —  Courting voters face-to-face at diners and holiday parades would normally be all in a day's work …
Discussion: NY Daily News
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Why You Can Believe all Those Warnings About The Death of the West  —  I suggest that the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams read a little history about the British experience in India before he offers politically-correct but historically laughable sermons like the one he gave to a Muslim "lifestyle" magazine:
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Bizarro World  —  If conservatives seized on a mirror image of the journalistic clusterf**kery of Joe Klein it wouldn't stop at Glennzilla beating up on him and the rest of us laughing at him.  Drudge would put up a big siren.  Limbaugh would spend a week turning Joe Klein into public enemy #1 for his dittoheads.
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New York Post:
DE PALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS  —  November 25, 2007 — IT'S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if  —  Americans won't see their movies.  While the public is staying away in droves from "Rendition," "Lions for Lambs" and "In the Valley of Elah …
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Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
NPR Loves Bad Cinema — If It's 'Laudable Agitprop' Against the Troops
Discussion: Right Wing News
Financial Times:
Investors fear new round of turmoil  —  By Gillian Tett and Jennifer Hughes in London and Krishna Guha in Washington  —  Investors fear the financial system is moving into new credit turmoil, which could create further losses for financial institutions - and potentially hurt sentiment in the "real" economy.
Naomi Wolf / Washington Post:
Hey, Young Americans, Here's a Text for You  —  Is America still America if millions of us no longer know how democracy works?  —  When I speak on college campuses, I find that students are either baffled by democracy's workings or that they don't see any point in engaging in the democratic process.
Discussion: Cato-at-liberty
Times of London:
Al-Qaeda kingpin: I trained 9/11 hijackers -  —  From his Turkish jail, a senior terrorist claims a key role in atrocities around the world  —  Insight: Chris Gourlay and Jonathan Calvert  —  IN a small windowless cell lit by a single light bulb, Louai al-Sakka sits isolated from the world and fellow inmates for 24 hours a day.
Jennifer V. Hughes / New York Times:
Tax for 2 Cents Plain Is Anything but Simple  —  VOTERS in Upper Freehold Township passed a bond question this month that will raise an additional $264,000 annually to preserve farmland in their Monmouth County community.  —  Or did they?  —  It turns out the ballots were misprinted.
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Stumping for wife, Clinton can help, or hurt, anybody  —  Bill Clinton will get his chance in the Iowa caucuses after all.  —  The Democrat who skipped campaigning in the state during his own bid for the presidential nomination is stepping up his role as chief advocate for his wife, Hillary Clinton.
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
In Iowa and N.H., 2008 election more volatile than most
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Faiz / Think Progress:
Memo To New York Post: The Bush Administration Was Warned About 9/11  —  New York Post reporter Andy Soltis writes of the latest Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll that finds a great majority of Americans believe the government failed to heed warnings about 9/11.
 
 
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Mariam Karouny / Reuters:
Row mars Iraq parl't hearing on Baathists bill
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Sara A. Carter / Washington Times:
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
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U.S. Notes Limited Progress in Afghan War
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
A Travesty Of Justice  —  I do not know exactly who Bilal Hussain …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Real Heroism: Restraint
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
What Kevin Rudd's Australia Win Means
Discussion: The Sideshow
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
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Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Saudi Islamic school defends self against 'Terror High' label