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Gina Smith / The State:
Winfrey wows crowd — 29,000 attend Columbia rally for Obama — In what Sen. Barack Obama described as the best-attended rally of the political season for any candidate, more than 29,000 attendees jammed Williams-Brice Stadium Sunday. — Media mogul Oprah Winfrey rallied the crowd of supporters …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Oprahpalooza in South Carolina — (Photo: Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times) — COLUMBIA, S.C. — It was a staggering sight. Upwards of 29,000 people at a political rally. And the Democratic primary in South Carolina is not until Jan. 26. — The Double O Express …
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:CLINTON NO LONGER SHOULD WORRY JUST ABOUT IOWA
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New York Times:
Republican Candidates Firm on Immigration — In front of what will probably be their most pro-immigration audience, Republican candidates toned down their rhetoric but told Spanish-language television viewers in a debate on Sunday that they would take strong measures to close off the country's borders to illegal immigration.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Woo Hispanic Voters — Candidates Forgo Attacks On Each Other, Try to Sell Their Immigration Stances — CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The Republican presidential field gingerly defended tough immigration policies before a Hispanic audience even as candidates acknowledged that their party …
Opinion Journal:
The Paygo Farce — Democrats admit it was all a big confidence game. … Well, as Emily Littela, the half-witted Gilder Radner character on Saturday Night Live, would have put it: "Never mind." Last week Congressional Democrats formally renounced their ballyhooed budget pledge to offset …
Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani plays defense on 'Press' — WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani, on the hot seat Sunday for the most exhaustive grilling of his presidential campaign, doggedly insisted that death threats against then-girlfriend Judith Nathan prompted the NYPD to launch her taxpayer-funded chauffeur services.
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Daily Mail:
Students stone police in Iran riot — Students defied a clampdown on protests in Iran yesterday by tearing down the gates of Tehran university. — They chanted slogans against President Ahmadinejad and carried placards saying "Live free or die", "No war, no fascism" and "Women must decide their fate, not the state."
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The Newshoggers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Henry Paulson's Priorities — By Bush administration standards, Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, is a good guy. He isn't conspicuously incompetent; and he isn't trying to mislead us into war, justify torture or protect corrupt contractors. — But Mr. Paulson's actions reflect the priorities of the administration he serves.
Michelle Malkin:
Sunday horror: Church shootings in Colorado; gunman killed by armed female church security staffer — Update 12/10 8:30am. The gunman was wearing a tactical helmet and body armor. — By now, you've read about the two tragic church shootings incidents in Colorado earlier today.
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Raleigh News & Observer:
JOSH SHAFFER — RALEIGH - Through the bomb threats, the death threats, the arsonists and the insults that have marked her career, Susan Hill steels herself with the memory of a 13-year-old girl. — It was January 1973, Hill's first day on the job in Florida's first abortion clinic outside Miami — one week after Roe v. Wade.
Ken Herman / Austin American-Statesman:
Paul turns down invitation to seek Libertarian Party nomination — Lake Jackson congressman won't run for president on third-party ticket. — WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ron Paul turned down a Libertarian Party invitation on Sunday that could have kept him in the 2008 presidential race …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Mortgage Crisis Rivals S&L Meltdown — Toll of Economic Shocks May Linger for Years; A Global Credit Crunch — The home has long been the bedrock asset of most American families. Now, its value has become the biggest question mark hanging over the global economy and financial system.
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Daniel J. Wakin / New York Times:
Philharmonic Agrees to Play in North Korea — Adding a cultural wrinkle to the diplomatic engagement between the United States and North Korea, the New York Philharmonic plans to visit Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in February, taking the legacy of Beethoven, Bach and Bernstein to one of the world's most isolated nations.
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
Hoyer Is Proof of Earmarks' Endurance — Md. Democrat's Campaign Donors Among Grantees — Even as House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer has joined in steps to clean up pork-barrel spending, the Maryland congressman has tucked $96 million worth of pet projects into next year's federal budget …
Denver News, Colorado Breaking News …:
Tancredo: GOP Candidates 'Pandering' At Spanish-Language Debate — DENVER — Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo is boycotting a Spanish-language debate with his fellow GOP presidential candidates in Miami on Sunday, saying it has no place in presidential race and accusing his rivals of "pandering."
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
CAUGHT YOUTHENING: Maureen Dowd's latest column begins: … But if you're imagining Dowd as a pigtailed six-year-old in the back of the family station wagon, think again. The temple was finished in 1974. Maureen Dowd was born in 1952. So she was a "kid" who was old enough to vote and drink.
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Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Vigilantes kill 40 women in Iraq's south — BAGHDAD - Religious vigilantes have killed at least 40 women this year in the southern Iraqi city of Basra because of how they dressed, their mutilated bodies found with notes warning against "violating Islamic teachings," the police chief said Sunday.