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11:55 AM ET, November 27, 2007

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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 …
New York Times:
Bush Ties Mideast Peace to Broader Struggle  —  ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 27 — President Bush prepared to launch his first foray into Middle East peace-making at a conference here today, saying that peace between the Israelis and Palestinians was part of a broader struggle against extremism in the Middle East …
Discussion: The Swamp
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Do Arabs Fear Democracy More Than Israel?
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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.
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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New York Times:
77 Police Officers Hurt in Paris Riots
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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.
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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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Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Gingrich Predicts Obama in Iowa
Discussion: Ankle Biting Pundits
Michael J. Totten:
An Edgy Calm in Fallujah  —  FALLUJAH, IRAQ - "You're probably safer here than you are in New York City," said Marine First Lieutenant Barry Edwards when I arrived in Fallujah.  I raised my eyebrows at him skeptically.  "How many people got shot at last night in New York City?" he said.
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.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
GOP Comeback Climb Is Increasingly Steep  —  Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott's resignation announcement on Monday was the latest in a wave of retirements to hit congressional Republicans, making an already difficult 2008 electoral landscape even more complicated for the minority party.
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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Rob Crilly / Times of London:
British teacher awaits judge's ruling on 'blasphemous' teddy bear
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
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.
David Knowles / Political Machine:
Clinton Loses General Election  —  Will this be the headline circling the globe next November?  According to a new Zogby poll, if it the election was held today, and it was between Hillary Clinton and any of the five main GOP contenders, she'd lose.  That's right.
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
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
CNBC deal behind Harwood's WSJ departure  —  Rupert Murdoch's plan to beef up The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau hit a speed bump early Monday evening, when The New York Times announced the hiring of veteran political writer John Harwood.  —  Speaking to the Politico this morning …
Discussion: Romenesko
Washington Post:
Sean Taylor Dies in Miami  —  Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday from the gunshot wound he suffered a day earlier in his Miami home.  —  "He did not make it through the night," said Taylor's attorney, Richard Sharpstein, who called the incident "a ridiculous, unnecessary tragedy."
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The American Non-Empire  —  The charge of empire-building gets …
Thomas Zambito / NY Daily News:
Settlement for former corrections officer who claims Bernard Kerik had race bias
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Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
Girls with guns  —  I grew up in New Jersey, and was taught to hate handguns.
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Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blogs:
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James Kirchick / The Politico:
Dems marching backward on foreign policy
Madlen Read / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Redstate
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
After a Rough Start, Spitzer Rethinks His Ways
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
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