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7:20 AM ET, December 6, 2007

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John R. Bolton / Washington Post:
The Flaws In the Iran Report  —  Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week.  Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event.  And rarely have vehement critics of the …
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New York Times:
Details in Military Notes Led to Shift on Iran, U.S. Says  —  American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran's nuclear weapons program after they obtained notes last summer from the deliberations of Iranian military officials involved in the weapons development program …
Mark Thompson / Time:
Why the Pentagon Is Happy about the NIE  —  The latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was the final factor in a military equation that now appears to guarantee that there will be no war with Iran during the Bush Administration.  It meshes with the views of the operational types at the Pentagon …
Discussion: Macsmind and Balloon Juice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER, MR. BUSH?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WHITE HOUSE IRAN INTEL STORY 2.0
Discussion: Think Progress
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
BARTLETT ON THE WINGOSPHERE....This is hilarious.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Dan Bartlett Burns A Bridge
Discussion: New York Observer and Taylor Marsh
Jon Meacham / Newsweek:
What Romney Should Say  —  The candidate would do well to recall the work of the Founders in his speech on religion.  —  George Frey / Getty Images  —  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir holds forth in the Salt Lake Mormon Temple  —  When Mitt Romney delivers his talk about faith and America on Thursday …
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CNN Political Ticker:
CNN Political Ticker AM  —  Making news today:  —  Romney to deliver faith speech  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will speak about religion and faith in America in an address Thursday that is being viewed as a way for him to discuss his Mormon religion.
Discussion: The Politico
Michelle Malkin:
The Romney speech on Ustream
Discussion: Patrick Ruffini
KETV Omaha's Channel 7:
Landlord Describes Suspected Mall Shooter  —  Witness 'Kept Hoping God Would Spare Us'  —  OMAHA, Neb. — The shooter at Westroads Mall was identified as Robert A. Hawkins of Bellevue, according to the Sarpy County Sheriff's Department.  —  Hawkins, 19, had been arrested on a couple …
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Rich Lowry / The Corner:
Revenge of the Evangelicals  —  Remember how evangelicals had "matured"?  Remember how the war on terror had replaced social issues?  It shouldn't be hard, since all those things were being said a couple of weeks ago (heck, still being said maybe even a few days ago).
New York Times:
Lenders Agree to Freeze Rates on Some Loans  —  The Bush administration reached an agreement with the mortgage industry on Wednesday on a plan to freeze interest rates for up to five years for a portion of the two million homeowners who bought houses in the last few years with subprime loans.
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businessassociationsblog.com:
Liberal Hegemony in Law School  —  Duncan Kennedy has written of legal education that: … Of course, Kennedy deploys this argument to support a claim that the law school hierarchy oppresses scholars of the left.  The trouble with this argument, of course, is that law school facultiess strongly skew to the left.
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Peter Page / LAW.com:
Law professors petition against on-campus military recruiting
Discussion: The Right Coast
Holman W. Jenkins Jr / Opinion Journal:
The Science of Gore's Nobel  —  What if everyone believes in global warmism only because everyone believes in global warmism?  —  The Nobel Committee might as well have called it Al Gore's Inner Peace Prize, given the way it seems designed to help him disown his lifelong ambition …
Quin Hillyer / American Spectator:
Re: Why Do People Like Huck?  - Wednesday, December 05, 2007 @ 10:03:32 AM  —  I posted my entry before seeing Jennifer's.  Jennifer, you make a good point in that Huckabee is very convincing at expressing regret.  That's why he is doing so well in the polls: Because he is so good at sounding good …
Julian Lee / Sydney Morning Herald:
New media ad heaven for Kevin07  —  EMBRACING non-traditional media from YouTube to T-shirts gave the Labor Party the edge in the election's marketing campaign, said one of Labor's advertising advisers, in its first public debrief following last month's victory.
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Dems back off on Iraq demands  —  Each day lately, Democrats inch closer to giving President Bush more money for the war in Iraq without any serious mandates for withdrawing U.S. troops.  —  Democratic leaders are loath to acknowledge they've backed off, but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and QandO
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices to Answer Detainee Rights Question  —  When it comes to the rights of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, the Supreme Court, and not the president or Congress, will have the last word.  —  That was the clear part of the message to emerge Wednesday from the Supreme Court argument …
Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Bush defends Iran policy amid doubts on new U.N. sanctions  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush worked the phones Tuesday to salvage his hard-line policy toward Iran, lobbying foreign leaders for tougher economic sanctions despite a new U.S. intelligence report that concluded that the Islamic republic halted …
 
 
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