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10:10 AM ET, November 27, 2007

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Max Follmer / The Huffington Post:
Escort Throws Cold Water On Lott Rumor  —  A San Antonio-based gay male escort categorically denied Monday that outgoing GOP Sen. Trent Lott had ever procured his services, putting to bed one of the more stunning rumors to emerge following Lott's announcement earlier in the day that he was leaving Congress.
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Big Head DC:
Trent Lott Fallout: The Gay Escort Who Knew Too Much
Bernard Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
On the Jewish Question  —  Herewith some thoughts about tomorrow's Annapolis peace conference, and the larger problem of how to approach the Israel-Palestine conflict.  The first question (one might think it is obvious but apparently not) is, "What is the conflict about?"
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Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
Condi's Road to Damascus  —  The price America will pay for her Syrian photo-op.  —  Remember Nancy Pelosi's spring break in Damascus?  Condoleezza Rice apparently does not.  When the House Speaker paid Syrian strongman Bashar Assad a call back in April, President Bush denounced her for sending …
Discussion: Think Progress and Soccer Dad
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Seeking a Mideast Path, Bush Offers a Nudge  —  It might seem, after nearly seven years of deliberate detachment from Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, that President Bush has plunged into Middle Eastern diplomacy with Clintonesque energy.  —  He met with the Israel and Palestinian leaders …
CBS News:
Confident Clinton Takes Aim At Attackers  —  Hillary Clinton Tells Katie Couric Time To "Draw Contrasts" With Her Rivals  —  (CBS) With the Iowa caucus just over a month away, CBS News anchor Katie Couric sat down for an exclusive interview with Democratic frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democratic Candidates Look Good in Latest 2008 Trial Heats
Gateway Pundit:
77 Police Officers Injured in Paris- Rioters Using Shotguns!  —  The rampaging youth are shooting at police with shotguns.  —  BBC has video of the street warfare HERE.  —  Young residents of Villiers-le-Bel, a northern Paris suburb, vandalize an abandoned police car during clashes late Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
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Brian Rohan / Reuters:
Police hurt in 2nd night of Paris suburb unrest
Discussion: Associated Press and Wizbang
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
In Hospice Care, Longer Lives Mean Money Lost  —  CAMDEN, Ala. — Hundreds of hospice providers across the country are facing the catastrophic financial consequence of what would otherwise seem a positive development: their patients are living longer than expected.
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Diane / cab drollery:   Putting A Bounty On Our Elders
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still  —  (updated below)  —  Joe Klein has just posted yet again about his FISA confusion, and it has now moved well beyond farce into an almost pity-inducing realm.  If Time has any dignity at all, someone there will intervene and put a stop to this.
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Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:
FISA: More Than You Want to Know  —  I've spent the past few …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Novak on Clinton-Obama, 'Prince of Darkness'  —  The transcript follows.  —  Robert D. Novak: Robert Novak standing by...  Floris, Va.: Here's what I've never understood about the Valerie Plame Wilson issue.  Most reporters don't print information without having at least two sources.
Discussion: Media Blog and All Spin Zone
Telegraph:
Briton faces lashes in Sudan over teddy named Mohammed  —  A British primary school teacher in Sudan is facing 40 lashes and up to six months in prison after allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear after the prophet Mohammed.  —  Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons, 54, claim she made an …
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Frank J. Gaffney Jr / Washington Times:
Gang rape in Annapolis  —  It is fitting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose the U.S. Naval Academy for the venue of today's so-called Mideast peace conference.  The reputation of that extraordinary institution in Annapolis has been sullied in recent years by a succession of rapes of young women.
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Saudi official rules out handshake with Israelis  —  Source: Reuters  —  Saudi Arabia's participation in the U.S.-sponsored talks on Middle East peace was seen as a diplomatic coup for the Bush administration but the kingdom has made clear there will be no handshakes with Israeli officials.
Discussion: Tammy Bruce, BBC and Hot Air
Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal:
Abu Dhabi to Bolster Citigroup With $7.5 Billion Capital Infusion  —  Government Investment Arm  —  To Become a Top Holder,  —  With Up to a 4.9% Stake  —  Citigroup Inc., seeking to restore investor confidence amid massive losses due in credit markets and a lack of permanent leadership …
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
That 'Top One Percent'  —  People who are in the top one percent in income receive far more than one percent of the attention in the media.  Even aside from miscellaneous celebrity bimbos, the top one percent attract all sorts of hand-wringing and finger-pointing.
Free exchange:
Gintis pummels Krugman  —  HERBERT GINTIS is one of the most consistently interesting economists working today, in large part due to his creatively synthetic yet unfailingly rigorous sensibility.  Which is not to say I agree with him about everything.  Mr Gintis has unimpeachable left-wing credentials …
Discussion: Greg Mankiw's Blog
 
 
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Signs Are Pointing South on Wall St.
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James Kirchick / The Politico:
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Madlen Read / Associated Press:
HSBC Fund Bailout Raises Citi Questions
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
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Washington Post:
Farm Follies  —  THOSE WHO pay any attention have long understood …
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Real McCain  —  A great new ad:  —  Pete Abel likes.  As does K-Lo.
Reuters:
Islamist site says new Bin Laden message soon
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Ahmadinejad offers to be an observer at US presidential election
Guardian:
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock
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