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7:05 PM ET, December 2, 2007

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Michelle Malkin:
And now for some shoddy war reporting...from an NRO milblogger  —  Ugh.  This is bad on many levels.  W. Thomas Smith, Jr., a former Marine and milblogger who writes at National Review Online's The Tank (and whose work in Iraq I've praised and linked to here), posts a long-winded defense of bogus …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?  —  Update II — NR on notice six weeks ago)  —  National Review reporter Thomas Smith has been exposed as a fabulist for plainly fictitious claims he made in two separate NR posts in September regarding Hezbollah's …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Retraction At The Tank  —  A couple of commenters on the latest TNR thread wonder whether we will hold National Review Online's The Tank to the same level of scrutiny as Franklin Foer and Scott Beauchamp.  I had not actually heard about this controversy until I read the comments last night.
Dan Popkey / Idaho Statesman:
More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig  —  Allegations made since news of the Minneapolis case broke lend weight to rumors about Craig. … David Phillips.  Mike Jones.  Greg Ruth.  Tom Russell.  —  Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Jeb'd  —  state of Florida. … Don't know if Siedle has information or if he's just making a guess, but I too suspect that the last gasp of Big S**tpile involved finding marks in state and local governments.
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Forbes:
Where Was Jeb?  —  A government money market debacle unfolding in Florida is raising questions about former governor and presidential brother Jeb Bush's possible involvement in the mess.  —  Florida froze withdrawals from a state investment fund earlier this week when local governments withdrew billions …
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
United States Of Kidnapping
Discussion: The Heretik
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Romney to give The Speech Thursday at Bush Library  —  Looks like that PowerPoint that leaked back in February was spot-on.  —  Halperin has the big news: Mitt Romney will take to to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, on Thursday to give a long-anticipated, much-debated speech …
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:   Romney to give Mormon speech
The Devil's Excrement:
Chronicle of a No vote in the Venezuelan referendum  —  I went around and there are some small lines left, not worth taking pictures of them.  Then I decided to go and vote at 2 PM, the time when reportedly the stduents were planning to go out.  Below, the chronicle of my vote:
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Byron York / The Corner:
The GOP Race: Huge Changes In Iowa  —  The new poll from the Des Moines Register shows some dramatic changes in the Republican race in Iowa.  The headline is that Mike Huckabee, who was 17 points behind Mitt Romney in the paper's October poll, now leads Romney by five points.
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David Yepsen / Des Moines Register:
Candidates' time runs short, but opportunities remain
Discussion: MyDD and Pollster.com
Hindrocket / Power Line:
TEDDY BEARS, PARKED CARS AND MORAL EQUIVALENCE  —  The Washington Post online has a religion section called On Faith, which features liberal commentary on various issues relating to religion and public life.  Today's column, "Sudan and Saudi Arabia: Who Speaks for Islam?," is by John Esposito and John Voll, both of Georgetown.
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Washington Post:
Sudan and Saudi Arabia: Who Speaks for Islam?
Discussion: The Corner
Times of India:
Wary of Mohammed teddy row, UK author changes characters  —  2 Dec 2007, 1814 hrs IST , Rashmee Roshan Lall , TNN  —  LONDON: First there was Mohammed the Mole and Dipak the Dalmatian .  Now there is Morgan the Mole and Dipak the Dalmatian .  A British children's author who named …
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Chris Gourlay / Times of London:
Mohammed the mole digs author into a risky hole
Discussion: Dhimmi Watch
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Huckabee, Morris keep lines open  —  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has been holding private conversations with Dick Morris, according to aides, a longstanding relationship that is raising new questions as Huckabee's campaign begins to take off.
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Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times:
Huckabee: 'a different kind of Jesus juice'
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Sudhir Hazareesingh / Times of London:
Israelis hit Syrian 'nuclear bomb plant'  —  Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv and Michael Sheridan in Seoul  —  ISRAEL'S top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times.
Francisco / Caracas Chronicles:
Whaddayamean "neck-and-neck"?!?  —  Quico says: For the record, that C21 poll released last night leaves the final chart of the most recent, most relevant polls looking like this:  —  The final Big Poll Chart (which includes every survey I could get my hands on) has gotten a bit unwieldy, just because it has so much data in it by now.
Aljazeera:
Chavez 'wins Venezuela referendum'  —  Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, is heading for victory in a referendum on allowing him to remain in power as long as he keeps winning elections, two government-linked sources said citing exit polls.  —  Three exit polls showed Chavez won …
Discussion: Hot Air
Austin American-Statesman:
Is misdeed a creation of political doctrine?  —  Is this state's education agency being driven by a political orthodoxy so fierce that it dumped its science director for passing along a harmless e-mail?  It's possible.  —  Chris Comer was director of the science curriculum …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Pharyngula
Los Angeles Times:
The gentry liberals  —  They're more concerned with global warming and gay rights than with lunch-pail joes.  —  After decades on the political sidelines, liberalism is making a comeback.  Polls show plunging support for Republicans and their brand of conservatism among young, independent voters and Latinos.
 
 
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Heath Gilmore / Sydney Morning Herald:
Inmates studying al-Qaeda manual
Brigid C. Harrison / New York Times:
Death to Capital Punishment
Discussion: TalkLeft
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
New anthrax vaccine doomed by lobbying
Lynn Berry / Associated Press:
Putin's party is winning Russia election
Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
Navy would struggle to fight a war - report
The Atlantic Online:
The Density Dodge  —  Paul Krugman takes on the myth …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman
Think Progress:
Rove Lies Again, Claims Daschle Wanted Pre-Election Iraq War Vote …
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Firehouse incident with noose was a hoax
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The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez
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Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
NY Daily News:
N.H., Iowa Republicans care more about terror than Rudy Giuliani's trysts