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11:40 PM ET, December 23, 2007

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Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
McCain closing gap with Romney  —  In N.H. poll, Obama inches ahead of Clinton  —  Senator John McCain of Arizona, whose bid for the Republican presidential nomination was all but dead this summer, has made a dramatic recovery in the Granite State 2 1/2 weeks before the 2008 vote …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Election-Winning GOP Coalition Could Splinter Amid Wide-Open Presidential Race  —  Is the winning coalition that not just held the Republican Party together in recent years, but impressively sprung into action during Presidential campaigns about to splinter?
Mark Daniels / The Moderate Voice:
Approaching Iowa: A Tale of Parallel Universes  —  The results of the Iowa caucuses, coming on January 3, will likely tell different stories in the presidential nominating races of the Republican and Democratic parties.  —  That shouldn't be surprising.  For months now, the campaigns …
Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press:
Racial Undercurrent Is Seen in Clinton Campaign
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Representative Ron Paul / MSNBC:
Dec. 23: Ron Paul  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues, an exclusive interview with Republican Ron Paul.  He has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years.  In 1988 he was the Libertarian Party candidate for president.
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Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
GOP contender will not rule out third-party run
Discussion: AMERICAblog
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Ron Paul on Meet the Press: Liveblogging
Discussion: Donklephant
Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos Supporting the Troops for Christmas  —  As I write, this is currently the number one recommended diary at Daily Kos: a long exercise in crackpot moral equivalence that compares US troops holding Bibles with a Palestinian female suicide bomber holding a Koran.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and UrbanGrounds
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Troutfishing / Daily Kos:
A Picture You Really Need To See  —  Bibles and guns.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
CIA chief to drag White House into torture cover-up storm  —  THE CIA chief who ordered the destruction of secret videotapes recording the harsh interrogation of two top Al-Qaeda suspects has indicated he may seek immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before the House intelligence committee.
Discussion: TalkLeft, At-Largely and CANNONFIRE
Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Gaza's Christians keep low Xmas profile  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza's tiny Christian community is keeping a low profile this Christmas, traumatized by the killing of a prominent activist in the wake of Hamas' takeover of the coastal territory.  —  Few Christmas trees are on display …
Tim Gaynor / Reuters:
U.S. illegal immigrants ‘self deport’ as woes mount  —  PHOENIX (Reuters) - Mexican illegal immigrant Lindi sat down with her husband Marco Antonio in the weeks before Christmas to decide when to go back to Mexico.  —  She has spent three years working as a hairdresser in and around Phoenix …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Giuliani Claims It Would Have Been ‘Impossible’ To Give 9/11 Firefighters Working Radios  —  Today on ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos pushed former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on why the radios for the 9/11 firefighters didn't work.  Giuliani dodged the question …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:   Rudy Giuliani comments on the outrage of NYC Firefighters: “radio malfunctions”
The Quad-City Times / Quad City Times:
Times Democratic caucus endorsement: Hillary Clinton passes the test  —  Hillary Clinton passes test after test after test.  This Clinton arrived for the caucus campaign with much, much more experience than the first Clinton to stump across Iowa.  In campaign speeches and in an interview …
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Sioux City Journal:   Obama: ‘A common good and a higher interest’
Nashuatelegraph.com:
Obama can end decades of division
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
Matthew Yglesias:
Aquatic Apes  —  Someone calling himself “Scylla” decided to try waterboarding himself on an experimental basis to see if he thought it should qualify as torture: … Seth Roberts read the account and made some musings about human evolution: … Well, someone else read that post …
Discussion: Eschaton
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rush responds to Huck peace offering  —  Rush Limbaugh — responding to Mike Huckabee's peace offering — said today that he doesn't need to talk with the former Arkansas governor.  —  “I saw his comments and accept them as honest, sincere and genuine,” Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail.
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
William “The Bloody” Makes His New Year's Predictions  —  Somebody has been hitting the eggnog really hard.  William “The Bloody” Kristol makes his predictions for the coming year.  They would be scary if they weren't just so completely ridiculous, but at least Kristol is continuing his habit of being completely and utterly wrong.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
New York Times:
Billions in Aid to Pakistan Was Wasted, Officials Assert  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against militants from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge …
Carrie Antlfinger / Associated Press:
GI saves Iraqi boy in long-shot adoption  —  MAUSTON, Wis. - Capt. Scott Southworth knew he'd face violence, political strife and blistering heat when he was deployed to one of Baghdad's most dangerous areas.  But he didn't expect Ala'a Eddeen.  —  Ala'a was 9 years old …
Robin Koerner / The Moderate Voice:
Election '08: Throwing out Bush and the Bathwater; Keeping the Baby  —  Watching America has a superb article from the Le Monde Diplomatique, “Scheherazade in the White House”, inspired from a quote from a Presidential Adviser in 2002, … (Gulp.)  —  The piece covers the Bush Administration's attempts …
Discussion: The Ruckus
Michael McAuliff / NY Daily News:
Vote for me & gas costs will skid, says Hil  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. - Hillary Clinton predicted Saturday that just electing her President will cut the price of oil.  —  When the world hears her commitment at her inauguration about ending American dependence on foreign fuel, Clinton says …
Discussion: Redstate
 
 
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Joe Klein / Time:
Striving Valiantly
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Matthew Yglesias:
How MPG Misleads  —  Via Andrew Sullivan, Eric dePlace notes that …
Sioux City Journal:
Romney: ‘Strong military, strong economy, strong families’
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Redstate:
Lazy LA Times Reporter Calls Fred Lazy Because Reporter Needs …
Associated Press:
Unpaid credit cards bedevil Americans
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Talking Politics, Drawing Viewers
Associated Press:
Ariz. city cops ask citizenship proof
Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Obama continues attacks on Edwards for third-party ads
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
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Quad-City Times / Quad City Times:
Times GOP caucus endorsement: John McCain — Time for a real hero
Associated Press:
Petraeus says he's not interested in presidency
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SUNNI AWAKENING UPDATE....I've mentioned a few times before that our …
Sister Toldjah:
The abject failure of liberalism
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting
Discussion: Norwegianity
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Iraqi villagers battle to hold off Al-Qaeda
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Obama Moving Up in New Hampshire
Washington Post:
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