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2:05 PM ET, December 7, 2007

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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.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Boldness, Watered Down  —  It's not easy being a politician from a minority faith, especially when it comes to explaining your own traditions — sometimes even to yourself.  —  Al Smith, the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party, found his faith under vicious attack in the 1928 campaign.
Washington Post:
No Freedom Without Religion?
Discussion: National Review, TIME and The Corner
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Romney Spokesman Won't Say If Atheists Have Place In America
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Plank
Yossi Klein Halevi / The New Republic:
An Insult to Intelligence  —  The Israeli defense community responds to the NIE.  —  Since the early 1990s, when Israel first began preparing for a possible military strike against Iran's nuclear program, its security establishment has been divided not about the threat Iran posed …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and normblog
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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 …
Ilan Goldenberg / democracyarsenal.org:
The National Ilan Estimate
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Atlantic Online
Washington Post:
Review of Iran Intelligence to Be Sought
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
CIA Channels Rose Mary Woods (Updated & Bumped)  —  The CIA finds itself under fire today after the New York Times forced Director Mike Hayden to admit that the agency destroyed two videotapes in 2005 showing terrorists undergoing waterboarding.  The agency had previously denied any such tapes existed to all but a handful in Congress.
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Michelle Malkin:
The CIA's destroyed interrogation videos, what the Dems knew, and when  —  It's the top news at Memeorandum this morning.  The New York Times reported yesterday: … The newspaper expresses its explicit hope that its scoop on the tapes will "reignite the debate over the use …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogations
Faiz / Think Progress:
Hayden: Destruction Of Tapes Was 'In Line With The Law' Because …
Discussion: Guardian
NY Daily News:
Judith Nathan got security earlier  —  Judith Nathan got taxpayer-funded chauffeur services from the NYPD earlier than previously disclosed - even before her affair with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was revealed, witnesses and sources tell the Daily News.  —  "It went on for months before the affair …
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 …
Washington Post:
Senate Waives Pledge, Approves Tax Bill  —  Eleven months after adopting stringent new rules aimed at reining in the federal deficit, the Senate last night shrugged off its pledge of fiscal rectitude and overwhelmingly approved a measure to spare millions of families from the growing reach …
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David Freddoso / The Corner:
Democrats Suddenly Change Mind, Pass AMT Patch
The Washington Post / The Trail:
For Some, Negative Turn is a Turn-Off  —  DES MOINES — Once, Garry Thomas counted himself a Hillary Clinton supporter — even signing up to be one of her 25 co-chairs in Iowa alongside with former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack.  —  But Thomas now says he felt obliged to switch sides in recent weeks.
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Huckabee Second in National GOP Race  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, riding a burst of support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, a poll showed Friday.  —  The upsurge by the former Arkansas governor …
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 …
The Tank:
An Open Letter to NRO Readers [W. Thomas Smith Jr.]  —  Dear Readers,  —  After much reflection and consideration, I am withdrawing from my professional relationship as a regular freelancer with National Review Online.  —  This is my own decision.  No one at NRO has asked me to do this …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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 …
 
 
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NYT v WSJ: the gloves are off
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Senate race might need a candidate
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Islamic Like Me: Why Don't You Just Take It Off?
Daily Mail:
Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats
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The Clinton resisters  —  There are women who for varying reasons …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC Nabs Latest Media Player From Bush Team, Matthew Dowd
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Mandate Muddle  —  Imagine this: It's the summer of 2009 …
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Bush loses ground with military families
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I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting …
 

 
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