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2:00 PM ET, December 3, 2007

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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work  —  A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
NIE Report: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program Years Ago
Discussion: Attytood
Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
A Non-Story Remakes the Race  —  Last month, Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times live-blogged the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.  As the discussion bounced from subject to subject, she marked the topic and the time, then gave her thoughts.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics and Say Anything
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Ron Christie / The Hill:
Beginning of the End of the Clinton Campaign (Ron Christie)  —  To be honest, I never thought in the first few days of December I would proffer that the Hillary Campaign for President is near the end.  To wit, her national poll numbers have been plummeting since she seemed unable to answer …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Losing Ground In Iowa, Clinton Assails Obama  —  With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday, raising direct questions about his character …
CNN Political Ticker:   Obama camp launches Web site to document Clinton attacks
The Corner:
Shocked  —  It took five months and almost 7,000 words, but The New Republic and its editor Franklin Foer have finally retracted the piece "Shock Troops."  —  As most of the blog world knows by now, TNR published "Shock Troops" on July 13 under the byline Scott Thomas …
Discussion: BitsBlog
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:   Fabulisms Update  —  I don't think TNR comes out of the Beauchamp affair looking good.
John Tabin / American Spectator:
Franklin Foer's Paranoia
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Pajamas Media
Patrick / FishBowlDC:
Imus Is Back!  —  Highlights in bold.  —  6:00 A.M.: Charles McCord opens the program.  "The Imus in the Morning program has returned to the air following a hiatus of nearly 8 months."  Wild applause from the live audience assembled in Times Square's Town Hall.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
A Chastened Imus Returns to Radio
Wall Street Journal:
Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy  —  As Housing Boomed,  —  Industry Pushed Loans  —  To a Broader Market  —  One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates.
Clinton Pressed / Pew Research Center:
Democratic Primary Preview: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina  —  Summary of Findings  —  Democrats enter the presidential primary campaign upbeat about their candidates and united in their views on major issues.  Sen. Hillary Clinton is the clear frontrunner in New Hampshire and South Carolina …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Krugman v. The Strawmen
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Venezuela Hands Narrow Defeat to Chávez Plan  —  Voters in this country narrowly defeated a proposed overhaul to the constitution in a contentious referendum over granting President Hugo Chávez sweeping new powers, the Election Commission announced early Monday.
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New York Times:
Lashing Justice  —  Muslims who wonder why non-Muslims are often baffled, angered, even frightened by some governments' interpretation of Islamic law need only look to the cases of two women in Saudi Arabia and Sudan threatened with barbaric lashings.  —  In Saudi Arabia, a woman who was gang-raped was sentenced to 90 lashes.
Discussion: A Blog For All and Cold Fury
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sudan's President Pardons British Teacher  —  A British school teacher jailed in Sudan for two weeks after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was freed Monday following a pardon by the Sudanese president.  —  President Omar al-Bahir's pardon of Gillian Gibbons allowed …
Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
Why is HRC stooping So Low?  —  I'm becoming increasingly concerned about the stridency and inaccuracy of charges in Iowa — especially coming from my old friend.  While I'm as hard-boiled as they come about what's said in campaigns, I just don't think Dems should stoop to this.
Discussion: Political Punch
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
IRAN....From the New York Times: … What?  —  UPDATE: From CNN: The intelligence community is sending a classified assessment to Congress today saying that "Iran largely halted its nuclear development program back in the fall of 2003."  Turns out that Iran was more susceptible to international pressure than anyone believed.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Meaning of Fiscal Conservatism  —  With economic uncertainty weighing on the minds of many Americans, Congress is preparing to recess after another year of profligate spending, protectionist talk and promises of higher taxes.  No wonder some people feel like we're moving in the wrong direction.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Pro-Huckabee negative calls flood Iowa  —  A newly-formed group claiming to support Mike Huckabee hit the phones of Iowa Republicans tonight with an automated push-poll attacking Huckabee's GOP opponents and praising the former Arkansas governor.  —  Officials representing the Iowa campaigns …
 
 
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Don Kaplan / New York Post:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
NRO Was Told Smith Was "A Liar" On October 5
Michael Totten / NY Daily News:
What I see every day in Iraq: locals turning against the insurgents
Mark Silva / Baltimore Sun:
Romney ready to address religion: At Bush library
Andrew C. McCarthy / Human Events:
FISA Reform Debacle in the Making?
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Waxman: White House Blocking Release of Plame Investigation Docs
David Freddoso / The Corner:
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Two Washington Post Reporters Criticize Paper For Obama Muslim Story …
Fran Yeoman / Times of London:
Muslim Council to end its boycott of Holocaust Day
Michele McPhee / Boston Herald:
'Laxachusetts': Where criminals get coddled
Sabin Willett / Boston Globe:
'I will never leave Guantanamo'
Lynn Sweet:
Sweet column: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. rebuts Dad. …
Ben Stein / New York Times:
The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs
Steve Visser / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Giuliani nearly drowned out by rival's supporters
Discussion: QandO and Don Surber
Times of London:
France stunned by rioters' savagery