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5:55 PM ET, December 22, 2007

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Rasmussen Reports:
For or Against Presidential Candidates  —  Clinton and Romney Have Highest Level of Core Opposition Among Leading Candidates  —  Among the leading Presidential candidates, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney have the highest level of core opposition among voters.
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Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:   Romney and McCain campaigns tangle over taxes
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama hits Edwards on 527 group  —  In Oskaloosa this morning, in response to a questioner who said he saw Hillary fading and the choice as being between Obama and Edwards, the Illinois senator suggested that outside spending on Edwards' behalf is part of a broader pattern with his rival.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Obama, Edwards Go Long  —  Edging in Iowa, Campaigns Look Beyond  —  Having drawn Hillary Clinton into a trench war in Iowa, her Democratic rivals are stepping up the pressure in New Hampshire and beyond.  —  Both Barack Obama and John Edwards devoted some last-minute campaign time here this past week …
Discussion: The New Republic
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama calls on Edwards to stop 527 ad
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
What Choice Was There?  —  The Washington Post reports this morning that Hillary Clinton has reached the earth-shaking conclusion that she has to embrace her husband in her campaign to win the presidency in 2008.  Apparently, this strategy created controversy in her campaign despite …
Discussion: Doug Ross
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Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950  —  A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Discussion: Power Line and Cliff Schecter
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Huck offers olive branch to Rush, asks for him to get in touch  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The best-talking Republican politician in America has a message for the best-talking conservative voice in the country: Let's talk to one another.  —  Mike Huckabee, taking questions from reporters …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Huck vows to review controversial shooting  —  Mike Huckabee vowed in Iowa Saturday that one of his first actions as president would be to review what he called the “absurd” convictions of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean - and suggested he might pardon them immediately.
Discussion: Hot Air
David Barstow / New York Times:
A Request for Clemency Leads to a Political Issue for Huckabee  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It took a jury less than 15 minutes to convict Eugene Fields of driving while intoxicated, his fourth such conviction in less than five years.  Mr. Fields, whose pickup crashed after he drank 12 beers …
Discussion: Power Line
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics  —  $1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces  —  CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give …
Linda Chavez / Townhall.com:
Destroying CIA Tapes Deserves a Thank You  —  His name isn't yet familiar to most Americans, but I expect it will be by the end of 2008: Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. He is the man, according to recent press reports, who ordered the destruction of interrogation tapes made by the CIA …
Discussion: Think Progress and Sadly, No!
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Gen. David Petraeus, Man of the Year  —  Time magazine got it wrong.  —  I remember the excitement.  It was the week before Christmas a year ago, and I had lazily picked up my copy of Time magazine.  And there it was: Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is “You."  —  Wow!
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Huckabee dogged by immigration issue  —  From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy  —  ON THE ROAD, IA - So what happened to Tom Tancredo's Iowa supporters after his ‘big announcement’ earlier this week?  —  We know that the former-candidate threw his support behind Mitt Romney …
Jacob Heilbrunn / Washington Monthly:
Why Rudy Giuliani loves Norman Podhoretz  —  When Norman Mailer died in November, it was hard not to feel a twinge of melancholy and nostalgia for the vanished world of the New York Family of intellectuals.  In the past decade, many of its most colorful members have passed away …
Discussion: The Washington Note
Don Surber:
Top 10 stories of 2007  —  America's editors were wrong.  Here is the real list.  —  On Friday, I knocked the selection of the top 10 news stories by a survey of news editors by AP.  —  Iraq was the top story again, but they listed it No. 3 behind a crime story and behind high-risk people defaulting on their loans.
Discussion: Right Wing News and GINA COBB
 
 
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Naive or hard-nosed?  —  Mark Schmitt has an interesting …
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State of the race as the Christmas curtain begins to fall
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
IOWA: WHERE THINGS STAND
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SIMON SAYS....In the annals of unconvincing excuses …
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
As Primaries Begin, the FEC Will Shut Down
Terry Teachout / Opinion Journal:
Appointment With Big Brother
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Mitt: I'll “go after” retailers who sell violent adult video games
Discussion: QandO and race42008.com
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
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Cagle Cartoons / The Moderate Voice:
Guest Voice: Huckabee's Smart Strategy Is No Accident
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Eggnog Factor  —  Often, I will describe the success …
Ross Douthat:
The “Myth” of Welfare Queens
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: 'Enough'  —  A new Iowa ad focuses on economic insecurity.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Why Inexperience Matters  —  The AP takes a look at the political …
Discussion: Hot Air and Associated Press
Rory O'Connor / Media is a Plural:
Time to Cover Up?  —  Is Time magazine's “full” and “complete” …
Discussion: Time and The Agonist
 

 
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