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We had a very busy Conservative Bloggers’ Briefing today at Heritage. With four guests on the docket and several other announcements, I’m surprised we finished in an hour. Owen Paterson, a conservative member of parliament for North Shropshire in the United Kingdom, spoke to us about the state of affairs in the Britain. We also heard about the National Presidential Caucus, which will take place on Dec. 7; the Intercollegiate Studies Institute presented about the newly released American Civic Literacy Report; and my friends Cord Blomquist and Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute unveiled GlobalWarming.org, a newly relaunched website of the Cooler Heads Coalition.

• Low congressional approval ratings could help GOP, hurt Democrats РJackie Kucinich, The Hill
‚Ä¢ Osama’s crazy makeover – Ariel Cohen, Washington Times
• Taking Aim at Iran РThomas Omestad, U.S. News and World Report
• Nukes in Syria? РPeter Brookes, New York Post
• First a new regime, then American reform РDavid R. Sands, Washington Times

• Bush Nominates Mukasey as Consensus Attorney General РAmanda Carpenter, Townhall
• Advocates: $500M in Thornton funds misspent РKelsey Volkmann, Baltimore Examiner
• $3.5 billion down the hole РEditorial, Baltimore Examiner
• The state of education РEditorial, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
‚Ä¢ News on Salaries Doesn’t Add Up – Ed Feulner, RealClearPolitics

• Immigration crackdown called devastating to economy РDevona Walker, NewsOK
‚Ä¢ ‘American Dream Alive and Well’: New Immigrants Study – Jeffrey Thomas, Pacific News Center
• Road to ruin РEditorial, Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Our financial future РEditorial, Long Beach Press-Telegram
• Acronyms Going in Opposite Directions РBill Carlino, Accounting Today