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2:40 PM ET, December 24, 2007

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
State of the Unions  —  Once upon a time, back when America had a strong middle class, it also had a strong union movement.  —  These two facts were connected.  Unions negotiated good wages and benefits for their workers, gains that often ended up being matched even by nonunion employers.
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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
How Clinton Lost Her Invincibility  —  When Hillary Clinton launched her campaign nearly a year ago, the media buzz deemed it near impossible for the likes of Barack Obama and John Edwards to overcome her daunting campaign machine.  The endorsements, the money, and the cream …
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
In shifting race, Edwards aims for the gut
Discussion: Washington Post
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Sums It Up for Viewers in 2 States
Discussion: The Politico
Bruce Bartlett / Opinion Journal:
Whitewash  —  The racist history the Democratic Party wants you to forget.  —  In his new book, “The Conscience of a Liberal,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes a strong case for his belief that the political success of the Republican Party and the conservative movement …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Wrong on Race?  —  Tyler Cowen describes Bruce Bartlett's new book Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past as “incendiary."  —  If this overview in The Wall Street Journal reflects the content, though, it seems fairly banal.  As everyone with any awareness of American political history knows …
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Romney Strategy in Peril With Huckabee's Ascent  —  Bid for Early States Appears in Jeopardy  —  DES MOINES — A year ago, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney gathered his campaign team for the first time at his suburban Boston home.  There were PowerPoint presentations, and Ann Romney made sandwiches.
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Jack Kelly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Thompson the tortoise
Discussion: Political Machine and BobKrumm.com
Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
US report: Israel would weather nuclear war with Iran  —  Study compiled by US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), headed by a former Pentagon analyst, explores several hypothetical scenarios for unconventional warfare in our region.  Authors find 'Israel's residents and economy could weather nuclear war with Iran'
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Peter Wehner / Washington Post:
Huckabee's Co-Pilot  —  Some of us — in my case, a political conservative and evangelical Christian — are getting a queasy feeling when it comes to the presidential campaign of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and much of it has to do with his use of faith in this political campaign.
Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
Bush Seeks to Restore Tattered U.S. Image With Heavy '08 Travel  —  Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush's diplomatic passport will acquire a slew of new country stamps during his final year in office as he tries to rebuild the U.S.'s international standing and create a foreign-policy legacy beyond Iraq.
Jesse Wendel / Group News Blog:
The More Things Change...  Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand Trashed At Christmas  —  For Being Pregnant  —  First term Congresswoman Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY20), in a highly-vulnerable district in New York's Hudson Valley, is being attacked, not for her politics, not for her stand against the Iraq war …
T.W. Farnam / Wall Street Journal:
A Web Troll's Toll on the Clinton Campaign  —  FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — In Norse mythology, trolls steal babies and leave their own shape-shifting offspring behind.  On the Internet, they just steal attention.  —  As candidates increasingly use the Internet to build political bridges …
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Subverting Bush at Langley  —  Outrage over the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes is but one element of the distress Republican intelligence watchdogs in Congress feel about the agency.  “It is acting as though it is autonomous, not accountable to anyone,” Rep. Peter Hoekstra …
Discussion: Ray Robison and NO QUARTER
The Corner:
Atheist Demographics  —  Let's see ... 3 plus 2 plus 1 plus zero is, er, 6; and 6 divided by 4 is ... 2, right?  Well, to one significant digit.  —  Sorry about that.  A little too much Christmas spirit.  I really should stay away from applied.  The correct TFR for our Four Horsemen …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Daily Mail:
Hate cleric Omar Bakri calls for ‘ban’ on Christmas  —  ‘Christmas Day would be ideal for terror attack’, he says  —  Hate preacher Omar Bakri, who is barred from Britain, is calling on Brits to boycott Christmas.  —  Using the internet to post a rant against the festive season …
Josh Patashnik / The New Republic:
Palestinian Collaborators Then and Now  —  I've just finished a truly intriguing book.  It is called Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 and is the product of what is clearly a daring mind, that is the mind of Hillel Cohen of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Elder of Ziyon
 
 
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Kenneth L. Woodward / Opinion Journal:
The Plight of Bethlehem  —  Why Christians can't visit the holy shrines in Jerusalem.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Bush Mulling Over The Earmark Question
David Curran / San Francisco Chronicle:
This Doll Is 'Un-American'  —  Forget the American Girl.
Steve Young / The Huffington Post:
A No-Spin Yuletide Blame
Discussion: News Hounds
Multi-National Force:
Sunni, Shia March Together in Baghdad for Peace
ToddSeavey.com:
Book Selection of the Month: “Liberal Fascism” …
Discussion: At-Largely and Sadly, No!
R. H. Potfry / The Nose On Your Face:
New Islamic Rage Boy Shirt Designs
Discussion: Power Line and The Jawa Report
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
A Green Light for Common Sense
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Raising Kaine
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MSNBC:
Amount of unpaid credit card bills is rising
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Health Care Mandates: A Dead-end Debate
Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Politico's populist pop quiz
Mark Bowden / philly.com:
The Point | In defense of waterboarding
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Huckabee campaigning for 23% sales tax
Discussion: The Caucus
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Warnings Unheeded On Guards In Iraq
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Searching for Friends, Spitzer Warms to Lobbyists
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Allison Samuels / Newsweek:
Lost In the Obama Era
Discussion: Captain's Quarters