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11:15 PM ET, December 11, 2007

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National Review Online:
Romney for President  —  Many conservatives are finding it difficult to pick a presidential candidate.  Each of the men running for the Republican nomination has strengths, and none has everything — all the traits, all the positions — we are looking for.  Equally conservative analysts can reach …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
National Review endorses Romney
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Washington Post:
In Poll, Huckabee Closes on Giuliani  —  Three weeks before the first contest of the 2008 campaign, Republicans remain sharply divided over whom to choose as their presidential nominee and which of the five leading candidates best embodies the core values of a fractured GOP, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Shifting Preferences Shake GOP Race; Dem.  Contest is Stable, Bush Stays Low  —  Interaction of Religion and Politics Helps to Roil Republican Presidential Race  —  The interaction of religion and politics is helping to roil the Republican presidential race, with Mike Huckabee …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Huckabee And Thompson: Global Warming Is 'Overblown'  —  Tonight on CBS Evening News, each of the 10 leading presidential candidates will be asked, "Do you think the risks of climate change are at all overblown?"  According to an advance transcript, every single candidate acknowledges the threat …
Heather Moyer / Clean Energy Watch:
CBS Evening News Asks the Candidates about Global Warming
Discussion: Riehl World View
Drudge Report:
DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE 'EASY KILL' IN GENERAL ELECTION  —  Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.  —  The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:   Chaotic race leaves GOP hanging
W. Gardner Selby / Postcards:   Perry says Huckabee, then says he meant Giuliani
Toronto Star:
Dad charged in teen's death  —  A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder after an attack in a Mississauga home.  —  Aqsa Parvez, a student at Applewood Heights Secondary School, had been on life support in hospital since yesterday morning.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Hijab Politics  —  The Toronto Star reports today on the tragic story …
Simon Caldwell / Daily Mail:
The Pope condemns the climate change prophets  —  Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.  —  The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Chief Says Others Decided Fate of Video  —  Gen. Michael V. Hayden, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, distanced himself today from the decision to record and subsequently destroy hundreds of hours of video footage taken during the interrogations of senior Al Qaeda captives.
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs and Redstate
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The Blotter:
CIA Efforts to Prosecute Whistle-Blower Spy Stopped
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Balkinization
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Bush to tap Glassman to shape US image  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush intends to name a well-known conservative commentator and journalist to lead the State Department's struggling efforts to improve the U.S.'s image abroad, replacing long-time confidante Karen Hughes, who is leaving government …
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Marin Cogan / The New Republic:
Bush 36,000!  —  Let's see ... We're wildly unpopular around the world.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and FishBowlDC
Bryan / Hot Air:
Larry O'Donnell admits he's afraid to criticize Islam publicly  —  Consider this post a companion post to Allah's, about the Muslim man who murdered his daughter because she wouldn't wear the hijab.  If you criticize the man and/or his religious motivation, consider yourself more courageous than one of the MSM's prominent pundits.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Clinton Pushes Electability Argument  —  With the Iowa caucuses now just 23 days away, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is using the electability argument as a cudgel against Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).  —  In a hastily-organized conference call this afternoon, which just happened …
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Associated Press:
Police: N.Y. subway riders beaten after 'Happy Hanukkah' greeting  —  Four Jewish subway riders who wished other people Happy Hanukkah were  —  pelted with anti-Semitic remarks before being beaten, New York police and prosecutors said.  The incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Reuters:
Bush issues 29 pardons but Libby not among them  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush granted pardons to 29 people on Tuesday but Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was not among them.  —  There has been speculation that before he leaves office …
Discussion: Firedoglake and TalkLeft
Reuters:
NBC refunds advertisers as ratings plunge  —  NEW YORK (Media Week) - Fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers an average of $500,000 each for failing to reach guaranteed ratings levels, the first time a network has taken such a step in years, media buyers said.
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Republicans win in Va., Ohio elections  —  Republicans retained two House seats in special elections Tuesday, including a hotly contested Ohio race that the two parties spent nearly $700,000 trying to win.  —  Republican officials immediately pointed to the issue of immigration …
 
 
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Al Qaeda, Taliban targeting Pakistani nuclear sites
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Middle East Quarterly:
Did Edward Said Really Speak Truth to Power?
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Editor and Publisher:
GALLUP: Romney Speech Flopped? Many Still Say Won't Vote for Mormon
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