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11:00 AM ET, December 18, 2007

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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill  —  Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Obama-Clinton Issue  —  Hillary Clinton has been a much better senator than Barack Obama.  She has been a serious, substantive lawmaker who has worked effectively across party lines.  Obama has some accomplishments under his belt, but many of his colleagues believe that he has not bothered …
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Peterhamby / CNN Political Ticker:
Bill Clinton: George H.W. Bush will help President Hillary  —  ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first thing his wife Hillary will do when she reaches the White House is dispatch him and his predecessor, President George H.W. Bush …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Clinton '92 Vs. Obama '08  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Bill Clinton says Sen. Barack Obama is a callow, highly ambitious political prodigy who is asking voters to "roll the dice" and elect him president.  —  He should know — that's a fair description of Clinton when he sought the presidency in 1992.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Hillary leads in the 'anti-' vote
Discussion: Power Line and Real Clear Politics
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
In N.H., the Swing Voter Is Vanishing  —  More Partisanship Seen Among 'Independents'  —  CONCORD, N.H. — As Sen. John McCain, a Republican running for president, touted the endorsement Monday of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a maverick Democrat-turned-independent, it seemed designed to capture …
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McCain's Surge  —  Why he's making a primary comeback.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Associated Press:
Border Patrol fights back  —  After hundreds of attacks in a year, agency responds with tear gas  —  SAN DIEGO - The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks.
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Michelle Malkin:
House guts border fence  —  Update 10:20am Eastern.  The fence gets robbed, but the spending bill gives $10 million in "emergency" funding for attorneys of illegal immigrants?!!?! … Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  I've warned several times that the border fence expansion was gesture politics.
Discussion: Hot Air and Riehl World View
Washington Times:
Spending bill shrinks border fence
Discussion: CNSNews, Macsmind and Omnibusting
Matthew Yglesias:
Stay Classy, Bob Kerrey  —  It's hard to express how odious I find Bob Kerrey.  His behavior as a Senator was entirely discreditable, and it's hard to see that he's done anything good in his life in non-Senator roles.  Keeping it up, he's now following up on his "Barack Hussein Obama" …
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Washington Post:
FBI, CIA Debate Significance of Terror Suspect  —  Agencies Also Disagree On Interrogation Methods  —  Al-Qaeda captive Abu Zubaida, whose interrogation videotapes were destroyed by the CIA, remains the subject of a dispute between FBI and CIA officials over his significance as a terrorism suspect …
RushLimbaugh.com:
Does Our Looks-Obsessed Culture Want to Stare at an Aging Woman?  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: Now, this theory of mine based on this Drudge picture of Mrs. Clinton, with the headline: "The Toll of a Campaign."  Now, it could well be that that's a sympathy photo, too, to make people feel sorry for how tough the campaign trail is.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
A Beauty Contest? Have You Seen These Beauties?
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Lorelei Kelly / democracyarsenal.org:
How High is Up?  The Defense Budget gets even crazier  —  For those of you concerned about the state of US security—levees that don't collapse, for example, or bridges that don't fall into the Mississippi river, sit down before you see these numbers.  —  Last week, both houses …
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Jet From Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy  —  A jet of highly charged radiation from a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting another galaxy nearby — an act of galactic violence that astronomers said yesterday they have never seen before.
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Canada's Human Rights Nightmare  —  Yesterday I worried over the lack of any defense of Mark Steyn, or any criticism of Canada's abusive so-called human rights commissions, in Canada's National Post.  Today, I m delighted to discover Ezra Levant's, "Censorship in the name of 'human rights …
Discussion: Wise Law Blog
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
MIKE EYES '08 TEAM  —  AIDES SOUND OUT ADVISERS FOR RUN  —  Mayor Bloomberg's aides have been reaching out to consultants from his past campaigns about whether they are free for a possible 2008 White House bid - including one who helped make his slick mayoral TV spots, The Post has learned.
Discussion: The Caucus
 
 
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