New York Times
I haven’t spoon fed anyone the NYT in a while. I might be losing my edge.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 — As Iraqi refugees begin to stream back to Baghdad, American military officials say the Iraqi government has yet to develop a plan to absorb the influx and prevent it from setting off a new [...]

Seems a man strapped with a bomb is holding hostages at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, NH.
FOX NEWS STORY
He apparently wants to speak with Hillary according to reports.

Bad news for Rudy!
NW-Ernie Nardi is a 59-year-old television technician from Dykers Park, Brooklyn. It’s not often that guys like Nardi get the chance to question the presidential candidates–much less dominate the national political narrative and make headlines in the Washington Post, Mother Jones and the New York Daily News. But that’s exactly what Nardi [...]

Can we trust Rudy?
Politico-As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.
The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s [...]

This is a strange story!
MSNBC-The ex-president of Oral Roberts University on Wednesday told students that he did not want to resign as head of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but he did so because God insisted.
Richard Roberts told students in the university’s chapel that God told him on Thanksgiving Day that he should resign the next [...]

Same story different day!
TV-Legislators walk out of parliament, complaining that troops at Green Zone entry points are overly aggressive and humiliate them.
Dozens of Iraqi lawmakers walked out of parliament Wednesday to protest what they view as overly aggressive and humiliating treatment by U.S. soldiers as representatives enter Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where the legislature [...]

Intesting article!
TH-”There seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush.”
So said presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a speech — specifically on the economy — before a crowd in Knoxville, Iowa. Okay, we understand campaign sloganeering — purportedly funny lines and the like during [...]

FOX-Man Charged With Murder for Slipping Abortion Drug to Girlfriend to Cause Miscarriages
A married man has been charged with murder for slipping his girlfriend a drug that authorities say caused her to miscarry twice.
Manishkumar M. Patel, 34, of Appleton, was charged Thursday afternoon with first-degree murder of an unborn child, second-degree recklessly endangering safety, placing [...]

Interesting film what do you think?
SD-”When I finished The Shock Doctrine, I sent it to Alfonso Cuarón because I adore his films and felt that the future he created for Children of Men was very close to the present I was seeing in disaster zones. I was hoping he would send me a quote for [...]

TH-It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. He’s also part of a film production crew trying overturn the [...]

Is this a good idea?
TH-Hillary Clinton has been working closely with decorated anti-war retired Gen. Wesley Clark on foreign policy, fueling rumors he could be vice-president on a “Clinton-Clark” ticket in 2008.
In recent months Clark has joined Clinton several times on the campaign trail, has been publishing a number of profile-raising editorials, and is [...]

Will this hurt Romney and is it fair?
TH-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis lost his bid for the White House in small part because he stumbled in his response to the Willie Horton saga. Horton was a convicted killer who, out of prison on a weekend pass in 1987, tortured and raped a Maryland woman. Dukakis’ failure [...]

TH-As Mike Huckabee rises in the polls, an inevitable process of vetting him for conservative credentials is under way in which people who know nothing of Arkansas or of the circumstances of his governorship weigh in knowingly about his record. As his political consultant in the ea rly ’90s and one who has been following [...]

How can we afford this?
Politico-There’s no bridge to nowhere in the Labor Health and Human Services spending bill, but there’s plenty of fodder for the anti-earmark crusaders.
The anti-pork group Citizens Against Government Waste has released a handy database of all 2,243 earmarks in the Labor Health and Human Services appropriations bill that was vetoed by [...]