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WSJ Editorial
Harry Reid's Choice
Will the new Minority Leader follow Ted Kennedy off a cliff?

USA Today
HHS says it paid columnist for help Bush's marriage initiative touted

The War Room
Demystifying the Science and Art of Political Polling
by Mark Blumenthal

The Tragic End of a Liberal Iraq
by Lawrence Kaplan

Freedom Just Another Word?
by Daniel Henninger

John Edwards's Gamble
by E.J. Dionne

3 Reasons Liberals Should Back Scalia For Chief Justice
by S. Lubet

The All American skin game
by Jonah Goldberg
The Condoleezza Rice nomination was a sorry spectacle, but not in the way everyone is saying.

In Search Of
The Democratic debate on abortion may finally help the party find an identity.
by Terry Eastland

Open Letter
A bipartisan group urges the congressional leadership to substantively increase the size of the Army and the Marines.

NY Times
Bush Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help
President Bush said in an interview that he would withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq if the new government asked him to do so.

W. Post
Bush Faces Skepticism From Hill Republicans
The president is calling for bolder legislative action than many lawmakers are willing to support.

Rice and Democratic Politics
By Charles Krauthammer

W. Times
Journalists in line of fire as Iraq's election nears
Iraq's first free election on Sunday will be a day both of testing and of triumph for the corps of independent journalists that has rushed into the democratic space created by Saddam Hussein's fall.

Choice vs. coercion
by Linda Chavez
The Iraqi election is a referendum on the very idea that individuals have a right to make decisions about their own lives.

W. Times
Kennedy says U.S. presence in Iraq is fueling insurgency
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy yesterday said U.S. troops, instead of defeating the insurgency in Iraq, are spawning it, and he called for immediate withdrawal of 12,000 troops after this weekend's election and a complete pullout by early next year.

A Reign On the Wane?
By David Ignatius

Disclosure and glass houses
by Glenn Reynolds

Full Disclosure
by David Frum

NY Sun
Allawi Runs With Alleged Baathists

Wired.com
Revenge of the Right Brain
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - led by artistry, empathy, and emotion.

U2's Bono wins fans at Davos
Rock star's deep knowledge of issues earns respect from experts