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5:45 PM ET, November 29, 2007

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Michelle Malkin:
Digging out more CNN/YouTube plants: Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WORST PRETENSE TO AN IMPARTIAL NEWS ORGANIZATION: CNN, PART 2  —  Jim Vicevich alerts us to a few more Democratic plants at the CNN YouTube Republican candidates forum last night.  Adam Florzak asked a question on Social Security.  It turns out that Florzak quit his job with Caterpillar …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
'Gay question' general linked to Clinton
LiveLeak.com:   Would Ron Paul run as an Independent?
Richard Esposito Reports / The Blotter:
Giuliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service  —  Richard Esposito Reports:  —  Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
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CNN Political Ticker:
Giuliani: Web site report a 'hit job'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has called a story raising questions about the accounting of his security expenses while he was mayor of New York a "hit job."  —  Late Wednesday, Politico.com reported city records …
Discussion: Trailhead
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Chicago Tribune vs. Time magazine  —  (updated below: Klein's GOP source outs himself  —  As I noted yesterday, The Chicago Tribune reprinted factually false excerpts from Joe Klein's Time column.  But unlike Time — which disgracefully continues to stand behind Klein's falsehoods …
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Rep. Hoekstra Was Source Of Joe Klein's FISA Lies, Decries 'Paranoid,' 'Self-Absorbed' 'Far-Left Critics'  —  In Time Magazine last week, columnist Joe Klein baselessly claimed that Democrats' proposal fix to FISA would require "every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court."
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA: Klein's Source Was Hoekstra And Other Unforced Errors
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
2008: The Year of the Upset?  —  I see my good friend, the distinguished neo-Jacobin Monsieur Kristol, has broken into his ample wine supply again and insulted the monarchy.  A weekend chained to the cheap seats at an Alabama tractor pull would seem fitting punishment for my rabble loving friend's imprudence …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republicans Debate: Winners and Losers
Mark Silva / Baltimore Sun:
Republicans are asked: 'What would Jesus do?'
Discussion: Think Progress
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Foes Use Obama's Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him  —  In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part of Sen. Barack Obama's biography that gets the most attention is not his race but his connections to the Muslim world.  —  Since declaring his candidacy for president in February …
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ABCNEWS:
Sudan Sentences Teacher to 15 Days  —  Sudan Sentences Teacher to 15 Days in Prison for Allowing Students to Name Teddy Bear Muhammad  —  British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been convicted of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days …
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Jerusalem Post:
Hamas demands UN rescind '47 partition  —  Hamas on Thursday called on the UN to rescind the 1947 decision to partition Palestine into two states, one for Jews and one for Arabs.  —  The group said in a statement, released on the 60th anniversary of the UN vote, that "Palestine is Arab Islamic land …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Leahy: Bush Not Involved in Firings  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate chairman acknowledged explicitly on Thursday that President Bush was not involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter and therefore ruled illegal the president's executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff …
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Why Lott Cashed It In  —  Well-connected Republicans in Mississippi were shocked by more than the unexpected nature of Trent Lott's resignation announcement Monday.  They were stunned that Lott, in good health at age 66 and at the top of his game, was leaving the Senate just one year into his fourth term in order to make more money.
Maamoun Youssef / Associated Press:
Bin Laden: Europeans should end US help  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on the Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
Washington Post:
Impeachment Is So Yesterday for Clinton, Rogan  —  Maybe there's hope for the Middle East, after all.  If Bill Clinton and one of the men who helped impeach him can make peace, why not the Israelis and the Palestinians?  —  In one of the more startling cases of odd bedfellows …
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Washington Wire:
Host Indicted, Clinton Fund-Raiser Canceled  —  Mary Jacoby reports on the presidential race.  —  A Dec. 15 fund-raising event for Hillary Clinton at the home of prominent Mississippi trial laywer Richard Â"DickieÂ" Scruggs is off, now that Scruggs has been indicted for bribery.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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If you outsource your life to India, don't be all imperial about it
CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton leads in the Sunshine State
Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press:
Ark. Lawmaker Apologizes for E-Mail
Discussion: Firedoglake
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Two polls: Iowa, gays
Jill / Brilliant at Breakfast:
Around the blogroll and elsewhere: Republican Debate Hangover edition
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Men of Valor: Part III
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
A plea for more anthropology of ideology
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Eric Berger / Houston Chronicle:
Decisions to name storms draw concern
Washington Post:
Bill Clinton's Claim of Opposing Iraq War From Outset Disputed
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