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9:45 PM ET, December 15, 2007

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Boston Globe:
Globe endorses McCain, Obama  —  Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire.  —  The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for …
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Des Moines Register:
The Register's caucus endorsements: McCain, Clinton  —  The Des Moines Register's editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses.  —  The Register, Iowa's statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates …
Discussion: MSNBC and Raising Kaine
Boston Globe:
For the Democrats: Barack Obama  —  From the endorsement editorial:  —  The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global.  America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities.
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Boston Globe endorses Obama, McCain
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Sees WH 'Bunker Mentality'  —  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
'Trust Huckabee' moves into New Hampshire  —  The third-party group assisting Mike Huckabee has moved beyond Iowa and into New Hampshire.  —  Trust Huckabee — a group that the candidate has publicly denounced — made a similar round of automated calls spreading negative information …
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   McCain's Last Stand  —  He still has a chance. Inman, South Carolina
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Obama fires back at Bill Clinton  —  Democratic contender counter-punches ex-president on experience issue  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama calls on a reporter at his news conference before a rally in Waterloo, Iowa on Saturday.  —  WATERLOO, Iowa - Former president …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Showing New Confidence With Iowa Sprint  —  WATERLOO, Iowa — Senator Barack Obama is striving to seize on a moment of opportunity in the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's long dominance of the Democratic field, even as he faces intensified questions …
Discussion: The Swamp and CNN Political Ticker
Des Moines Register:
Democratic endorsement editorial: Why Clinton
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Perils of Huckaplomacy  —  Don't know much about foreign policy.  —  Just moments into the third Republican presidential debate, last June 5, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee about Iraq.  "Governor Huckabee, do you have confidence in the government of Iraq …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
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New York Times:
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry  —  WASHINGTON — For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies …
Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Obama in the 'Loo responds to Clinton camp  —  During a news conference this morning in Waterloo, Iowa (hence the 'Loo reference in the headline), Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama responded to the recent comments a key Clinton supporter in New Hampshire made about Obama's admitted drug use as a youth.
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Roy / alicublog:
Quotomatic Selector say: And the middle school kids were giving, and getting, blowjobs all day.  —  YOUR MOMENT OF DR. HELEN.  Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser throws more bait to the poor souls who have despaired of finding love in this cold, cruel, gynocracy.  "Men are being told not to get married …
Discussion: Majikthise and Sadly, No!
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John Shiffman / philly.com:
Videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal  —  With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.  —  Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Huckabee DWI clemency, donations raise questions  —  From NBC's Amna Nawaz, Investigative Producer  —  Questions are being raised about then-Gov. Huckabee's 2004 decision to grant clemency to a repeat Driving While Intoxicated offender in Arkansas named Eugene Fields, despite the objections of a law enforcement official at the time.
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Is Clinton a Weak General Election Candidate?  —  I know that it's popular to consider Hillary Clinton the victim of the right-wing smear machine, and that explains her high disapproval ratings.  Anyone who goes through that smear machine will have high disapproval ratings, or so goes the theory.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Children?  Not if you love the planet  —  This is the time of year, as Hillary Rodham Clinton once put it, when Christians celebrate "the birth of a homeless child" - or, in Al Gore's words, "a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child."  —  Just for the record, Jesus wasn't "homeless."
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and GINA COBB
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
Catching Up With the Complaints  —  Does the ombudsman sometimes procrastinate on complaints?  Sure.  Here are a couple of examples:  —  Several Rush Limbaugh fans complained about an Oct. 20 Style story by Neely Tucker about a dust-up between conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh …
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:   Be Nice to Your Ombudsman, Or She Will Not Correct the Record …
 
 
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The Road Warrior  —  Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities …
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Reuters:
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New York Times:
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Joseph Weisberg / Washington Post:
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Crackdown on Child Pornography
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Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"
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Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
Congresswoman Julia Carson dies
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