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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/9/2008
They Are Family
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Greenwald skewers DC's cozy nepotism: Virtually the entire neoconservative "intelligentsia" (using that term as loosely as it can possibly be used) is one big paean to nepotistic succession -- the Kristols, the Kagans, the Podhoretzes, Lucinanne Goldberg and her boy.  Upon Tim ...
adnkronos.com - 12/8/2008
Philippines: Troops clash with Islamist militants in south - Adnkronos Security
— adnkronos.com — Zamboanga, 8 Dec. (AKI) - Security forces were fighting Islamist militants on two fronts in the southern... Philippines on Monday, after 24 soldiers were killed and 16 others were wounded in conflict at the weekend. Soldiers fought battled militants from ... (more) Philippines: Troops clash with Islamist militants in ...

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'Glad he's finally coming home'
fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com - 12/11/2008
'Glad he's finally coming home'
— fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com — By John Rutherford, Producer, NBC News Early on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, nine Japanese fighter... planes swooped down on Malalag Bay in the Philippines and strafed and sunk two U.S. Navy seaplanes at the very outset of World War II. All of the ... (more) 'Glad he's finally coming home'

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PoliGazette:  The American Nepotist Class

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The American Nepotist Class
PoliGazette — ... challenge her in a 2010 primary, a by-product of tension between those two as a result of Palin’s defeat of Lisa’s dad for Governor.  In Florida, Mel Martinez’s announcement that he won’t seek re-election in 2010 immediately led to reports that the current President’s brother, Jeb, might run for that seat.  And all of that’s just from the last couple of weeks. Like I said, it’s not just Greenwald seeing the problem.  Andrew Sullivan: From a distance, it’s more obviously corrupt than up ...

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