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3:15 PM ET, December 19, 2007

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National Enquirer:
UPDATE: NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!  —  Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught up in a love child scandal, a blockbuster ENQUIRER investigation has discovered.  —  The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Rielle Hunter, a woman linked to Edwards …
CNN:
Fire hits building next door to White House  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Firefighters battled thick smoke and flames Wednesday inside the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next door to the White House, which houses the vice president's ceremonial offices.
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MeMeMeMeMe / Little Green Footballs:
Fire in Cheney's Office Causes Leftists to Rant Uncontrollably  —  There was a fire in Dick Cheney's office this morning, and as usual the leftist blogosphere is brimming over with lunatic ranting.  —  At Think Progress, the Morlocks who inhabit their comments are sure this is a ploy to cover up the destroying of documents.
Discussion: Daily Kos, MSNBC and Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Fire controlled at White House compound  —  WASHINGTON - Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney's suite of offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.  —  Cheney's office was damaged by smoke and water from fire hoses …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Corrente
White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary  —  The New York Times today implies that the White House has been misleading in publicly acknowledging or discussing details related to the CIA's decision to destroy interrogation tapes.  —  The sub-headline of the story inaccurately says that the …
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:
White House asks NYT to remove sub-headline from CIA tape story
New York Times:
Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes
CNN:   White House: NYT wrong about CIA tapes
David Freddoso / The Corner:
That Rasmussen Poll...  ...in Iowa suggests that John McCain — not Fred Thompson — is becoming the choice of disaffected Huckaboomers.  McCain has picked up six points since the last survey, Huckabee has lost 11.  Romney has gained four.  Fred has gained nothing.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Giuliani ads fail to produce N.H. results
Adi Ignatius / Time:
Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin  —  A Tsar Is Born  —  No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's.  The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
For Clinton, A Matter of Fair Media  —  Senator's Camp Insists That the Press Holds Her To a Tougher Standard  —  After weeks of bad news, Hillary Clinton and her strategists hoped that winning the endorsement of Iowa's largest newspaper last weekend might produce a modest bump in their media coverage.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Tancredo to get out?  —  Tom Tancredo has scheduled a press conference in Des Moines tomorrow afternoon to make a “major announcement regarding the campaign,” according to a media advisory his campaign sent out today.  —  Asked whether Tancredo intended to drop out of the race …
Discussion: race42008.com and Hot Air
Donna J. Miller / Cleveland Metro News:
Dennis Kucinich's 52-year-old brother found dead  —  Perry Kucinich, 52, was found dead in his home in the 4100 block of East 71st Street.  —  His brother Larry found him about 9 a.m. There were no signs of violence, officials said.  The Cuyahoga County Coroner is performing an autopsy this hour.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
All Iraqi Groups Blame U.S. Invasion for Discord, Study Shows  —  Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of “occupying forces” as the key to national reconciliation …
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Hard-liners for Jesus  —  As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.  —  There's nothing new, of course, about the Christianization of the GOP.
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Torture Tapes are the Watergate of Our Times  —  As I write these words on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 19, high- and low-level officials of the Bush administration involved in torture, and the destruction of the torture tapes, are consulting their criminal lawyers as The New York Times reports …
Discussion: Left in the West and TPMCafe blogs
David Horovitz / Jerusalem Post:
Prosecutor: Argentina bombings ordered by Iran  —  Iran orchestrated two bombings in Buenos Aires in the mid-1990s, killing more than 100 people, primarily because it was furious over Argentina's cessation of nuclear cooperation with the Islamic Republic, a top Argentinean prosecutor said Tuesday …
David Frum / The National Interest:
Foggy Bloggom  —  MY NAME is David Frum, and I am a blogger.  Every day I post some hundreds of words of commentary at the National Review website—often (to fulfill the cliché) while still wearing my pajamas.  But I am also a proud, suit-wearing member of the foreign-policy community …
 
 
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Brokered Convention?  —  A brokered convention, a mythical beast …
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Marc Ambinder:
A Real Edwards Surge
Discussion: Salon
Matthew Yglesias:
But Did They Get Royalties  —  Torture is no laughing matter …
Discussion: MoJoBlog and The Plank
Associated Press:
Sarkozy loses patience with Assad
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MPAA rejects Gibney's ‘Dark’ poster
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Strategy that is making Iraq safer was snubbed for years
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2,600 Pages of Clinton Records Withheld
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