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4:55 PM ET, November 19, 2006

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Tariq Panja / Associated Press:
Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible  —  LONDON — Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.  —  Kissinger presented a bleak vision of Iraq, saying the U.S. government must enter into dialogue …
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Kissinger says Iraq isn't ripe for democracy  —  In a critique of Bush administration strategy, the former secretary of State says the focus should be on stability.  —  NEW YORK — Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, a frequent advisor to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Heretik
Judd / Think Progress:
McCain Flip-Flops, Supports Immediate Reversal of Roe v. Wade  —  In 1999, the "moderate" version of John McCain said that overturning Roe v. Wade would be dangerous for women and he would not support it, even in "the long term."  Here's McCain in the San Francisco Chronicle:
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
McCain now supports the immediate overturn of Roe v Wade  —  St. McCain really is crashing and burning on his supposed principals trying to woo the right wing extreme Christian wing of the GOP.  Now he says he wants to immediately overturn Roe v Wade after he was against it.  —  Salon:
Discussion: Majikthise
Ron Suskind / Washington Post:
Send in the Subpoenas  —  Senate Foreign Relations Committee aides debated last Tuesday whether to call deposed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to the hearing table for a public flogging.  The decision was no — at least for now.  Later that day, I bumped into the incoming committee chairman …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
OVERSIGHT....What should be the main targets for Democratic …
Discussion: The RBC
Jamie Doward / Observer:
Muslim leader sent funds to Irving  —  Islamic activist admits he donated cash to jailed historian who denied the Holocaust  —  One of Britain's most prominent speakers on Muslim issues is today exposed as a supporter of David Irving, the controversial historian who for years denied the Holocaust took place.
Telegraph:
Al-Qaeda's 'best assets' prime UK timebomb  —  British Muslims volunteering to fight against coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are being sent back to Britain to become al-Qaeda "sleeper" agents, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.  —  MI5 agents believe that young Asian men …
Discussion: Wake up America and Jihad Watch
Fausta / Fausta's blog:
Let's hear it for the lunks!  —  I've been trying for the past four weeks to get the NYT to cancel my subscription.  I emailed, I called, and the dead tree rag continues to drop at my driveway every Saturday and Sunday.  Like a spurned lover who can't believe it's over, it's not over for them.
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Anahad O'Connor / New York Times:
No Grunting, They Said, and He Was at the Gym
Discussion: Feministe and Outside The Beltway
Dan Collins / protein wisdom:   Blatant Misomascu- . . . penistropy
David Leppard / Times of London:
Blair hit by Saudi 'bribery' threat  —  SAUDI ARABIA is threatening to suspend diplomatic ties with Britain unless Downing Street intervenes to block an investigation into a £60m "slush fund" allegedly set up for some members of its royal family.  —  A senior Saudi diplomat in London …
jules crittenden:
The Last Man to Die for a Mistake  —  The talk of exit strategies for Iraq has me wondering.  Who was the last man to die for what John Kerry called a mistake?  Was it that American soldier whose name is the last name on the last panel of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C.?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Tim B. / Tim Blair:
STREETS CLAIMED  —  Further, er, highlights from the weekend's G20 shenanigans, courtesy of Sharon Lapkin:  —  This fellow obviously has nothing against globalisation, considering he's globalised himself to the extent he can no longer zip his pants.  —  As is traditional …
Chase Squires / Associated Press:
Gonzales Blasts Surveillance Critics  —  AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security.
Discussion: The Heretik
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TChris / TalkLeft:   Gonzales Defends Warrantless Surveillance ... Again
Telegraph:
Leading Russian critic of Putin's regime is poisoned in London  —  Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into an audacious attempt to murder - using a deadly poison - a leading Russian defector at a restaurant in London.  —  Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian secret service …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Tim Worstall
Judd / Think Progress:
Zakaria: McCain's Plan For More Troops 'Just Willing More American Deaths'  —  This Morning on ABC, commentator and foreign policy scholar Fareed Zarkaria slammed John McCain's plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq, saying it "will not work."  Zakaria explained that "we have enough troops" …
Discussion: driftglass
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush  —  The weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney's residence to celebrate.  The invasion had been the "cakewalk" Adelman predicted.
Brian Wheeler / BBC:
Web 'fuelling crisis in politics'  —  Tony Blair's outgoing chief strategy adviser fears the internet could be fuelling a "crisis" in the relationship between politicians and voters.  —  Matthew Taylor - who stressed he was speaking as a "citizen" not a government spokesman - said the web could be "fantastic" for democracy.
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Guido Fawkes Esq / Guy Fawkes' blog …:
Crisis, What Crisis?  —  Matthew Taylor, Tony's chief adviser …
Discussion: Dodgeblogium
NY Daily News:
Rupe is in soup with troops  —  O'Reilly rips Murdoch, book, show  —  Fox News firebrand Bill O'Reilly threatened yesterday to whack Rupert Murdoch in the wallet for promoting O.J. Simpson's how-I-murdered-my-wife book.  —  Vowing to boycott any company that advertises on Fox's …
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Washington Post:
O.J. Deal Leaves Sour Taste in Many Mouths
Discussion: Don Surber
Times of London:
Sausages affected by draconian trade laws  —  A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards' officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon.  —  The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh …
Discussion: Done With Mirrors
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Dan Collins / protein wisdom:   No Dragons Harmed in Making this Post
 
 
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NYT: Nutroots could wreck Dems' ability to govern effectively
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Blogs and the 2006 Election  —  Jon Henke, brought aboard …
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Don't view the video!  —  Reading the transcript of Larry King …
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CUNY Graduate School Of Journalism Awarded Knight Foundation Grant …
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O'Connor details half-baked attempt to kill Supreme Court
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Terence Hunt / Houston Chronicle:
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Imad Khadduri / Free Iraq:
Our Ali  —  . Yesterday, I received an Email from a friend citing …
Kent Fischer / Dallas Morning News:
Ruling: Classes divided by race
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bush's nominees for judgeships to be conservative
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David Charter / Times of London:
Dutch set to ban burka in public after election
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