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6:20 PM ET, December 7, 2007

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Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Romney Spokesman Won't Say If Atheists Have Place In America  —  A spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign is thus far refusing to say whether Romney sees any positive role in America for atheists and other non-believers, after Election Central inquired about the topic yesterday
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Faith vs. the Faithless  —  Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and the author of "American Gospel," which describes the history of religious liberty in the United States.  Richard John Neuhaus is the editor in chief of First Things and the author of "The Naked Public Square," …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan Admits GOP Is Controlled By Fundies, "Idiots"  —  Nooner, who's apparently been in a coma for the past 30 years, is shocked, shocked! to find that the GOP's base is a bunch of [flat-earther homophobic] religious bigots. … And why would that be? … You don't say!  Goodness, who let them in?
Discussion: Liberal Values
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Mormon in America  —  How Mitt Romney came to give The Speech—and how he did.  —  Did Mitt Romney have to give a speech on religion?  Yes.  When you're in a race so close you could lose due to one issue, your Mormonism, you must address the issue of your Mormonism.
Lee Harris / TCS Daily:   How and Why Romney Bombed
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
The Speech: How is it playing in Iowa?
Discussion: TownHall Blog and New York Times
Emptywheel:
Whitehouse Reveals Smoking Gun of White House Claiming Not to Be Bound by Any Law  —  Damn, I love me some Sheldon Whitehouse.  He, like, actually knows the law.  And he, like, is willing to actually read the stuff he is exercising oversight over.  —  Which is why this speech he gave today …
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Faiz / Think Progress:   Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret DoJ Legal Memos: Bush Determines …
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Frank James / The Swamp:   So a presidential candidate walks into a bar...
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:   White House hopefuls crack best jokes
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Pelosi calls Cheney swipe undignified  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says a swipe that Vice President Cheney took at Democratic House leaders is "beneath the dignity of his office."  —  Capitol Hill was abuzz Thursday with discussion of the vice president's assertion in an interview …
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran  —  Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Democrats Call for Inquiry in Destruction of Tapes by C.I.A.  —  Angry Democratic lawmakers called for investigations today into the Central Intelligence Agency's destruction in 2005 of at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Mandate Muddle  —  Imagine this: It's the summer of 2009, and President Barack Obama is about to unveil his plan for universal health care.  But his health policy experts have done the math, and they've concluded that the plan really needs to include a requirement that everyone have health insurance — a so-called mandate.
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Ezra Klein:
Obama v. Krugman
Discussion: Open Left
The Corner:
Steynophobia  —  Late yesterday I stumbled across an article about a "human rights complaint" filed by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) against Maclean's, Canada's most widely-read news magazine, for running a "flagrantly Islamophobic" excerpt from Mark Steyn's book, America Alone.
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Guardian:
Their own worst enemies
Discussion: The Corner and Dean's World
Tom Tancredo / MiamiHerald.com:
Why I won't do Spanish debate  —  I declined the invitation to participate in the Spanish-language Republican presidential debate on Sunday because I do not want to endorse the further Balkanization of American political life.  —  The debate is being sponsored by Univisión …
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / New York Times:
Islam's Silent Moderates  —  The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with 100 stripes: Let no compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day.  (Koran 24:2)  —  IN the last few weeks …
The Atlantic Online:
Romney's Terrible Speech  —  The editors of National Review proclaim that "we suspect that most people who watched the speech were impressed, sympathetic, and sometimes moved."  I had an instinct to respond in time, saying that I suspect the speech will fall flat, backfire, etc., etc., etc.
Daily Mail:
Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats  —  The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.  —  The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
NBC STRIKES AGAIN  —  This past summer we wrote here and here about the refusal of CNBC and MSNBC to run ads submitted by Freedom's Watch supporting the war.  Now Freedom's Watch has submitted ads thanking the troops for airing by NBC et al. again, and they have declined because the ads mention Freedom Watch's Web site.
 
 
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Satyam / Think Progress:
O'Reilly: Progressive blog readers = 'devil worshippers.'
Reuters:
Official in Blackwater probe quits
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Crooks and Liars
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Attacks in Iraq Kill 25 People
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Booman Tribune
The Washington Post / The Trail:
It's a Bird, It's a Plane...It's a Ron Paul Ad
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Not According to Script  —  Hollywood gets shown up by pro-war …
Seton Motley / NewsBusters.org:
Another Hillary Plant Sneaks In Under the MSM Radar
Discussion: Associated Press
Gateway Pundit:
Miss Utah Jill Stevens Awarded Combat Medic Badge
Discussion: Washington Times and DBKP
 Earlier Items: 
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants six new cases
Discussion: ACSBlog and JURIST
valleynewstoday.com:
Edwards has clear vision for America
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Betty Friedan and the Ruined Football Party
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox Popoli
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Huckabee Second in National GOP Race
The Washington Post / The Trail:
For Some, Negative Turn is a Turn-Off
Washington Post:
Senate Waives Pledge, Approves Tax Bill
 

 
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