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10:15 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
Discussion: National Review
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Chaotic race leaves GOP hanging  —  In late September, I wrote that the race for the Republican presidential nomination was a muddle.  —  I wrote that "Rudy Giuliani leads in virtually every national poll but trails in the key states that may decide the nominee" and that …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Thompson and McCain Should Go Presidential
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Romney and Huckabee: Flip-sides of flip-flopping
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and CNN
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 …
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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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
TPMmuckraker:   TPM's Timeline of the CIA's Torture Tapes
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.
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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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.
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
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.
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
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 …
Matthew Yglesias:
The War's End? … The juxtaposition of David Brooks and Peter Beinart both opining that nobody cares about Iraq any more right before a New York Times poll came out revealing that "more people cite the Iraq war as the most important issue facing the country than cite any other matter" sure is odd.
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Hamish MacBain / NME:
Led Zeppelin reunion: the review  —  The first opinion from NME.COM's critic at the O2 Arena  —  You might think it couldn't possibly live up to expectations, but, it transpires, the opposite is in fact true of Led Zeppelin's first public appearance in 17 years.
Editor and Publisher:
GALLUP: Romney Speech Flopped?  Many Still Say Won't Vote for Mormon  —  NEW YORK A new Gallup Poll finds that better than one in six Americans, including similar numbers of Republicans and Democrats, indicate they would not support their party's nominee for president if that person were a Mormon.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Hotline On Call:
More Embarrassments from Arkansas  —  Scrutiny of Mike Huckabee's time in Arkansas continues today with the report that during his years in the governor's mansion, Huckabee denounced the embargo against Cuba.  Now five years later and running for president, Huckabee praised that same embargo as "an important tool."
Discussion: Wonkette
 
 
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Middle East Quarterly:
Did Edward Said Really Speak Truth to Power?
Discussion: Dhimmi Watch and The Corner
John M. Broder / New York Times:
White House Seeks Change in Mileage Measure
Discussion: The Politico
ACLU:
FISA Court Denies Public Access to Records Concerning Wiretapping
Amanda / Think Progress:
Huckabee And Thompson: Global Warming Is 'Overblown'
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
How Ron Paul Can Ruin Fred Thompson
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Huckabee to Romney: Grow Up, This Isn't Third Grade