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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / Washington Monthly:
Kos Call  —  For America's number one liberal blogger  —  politics is like sports: It's all about winning.  —  I hate Washington," says Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.  Many people, of course, say that they hate Washington.  Jay Leno says so.  So do Rush Limbaugh and Monica Lewinsky.
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Mark / Decision '08:
The Wonderful World of Kos  —  Lots of buzz (just check out Memeorandum) over this Washington Monthly profile of our ol' buddy Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.  Some highlights and lowlights: … Psbbbbtt!  Patently false; 3.7 million visitors a week is not really 3.7 million visitors …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Wonk Off  —  Garance and Kevin, responding tolWaMo profile of Markos discuss the lack of blogospheric wonkery.  —  I've said this before, but there's just little point in detail-oriented grand policy proposals when Bush and Republicans are in office.  Just about everything their side offers …
Discussion: Crooked Timber and NewsHog
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
KOS CALL....In the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, Benjamin Wallace-Wells profiles the blogosphere's favorite liberal, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos.  And whether you love Kos or hate him, I think Ben captures something important in his piece:
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
Daily Kos:
Corrections  —  Man, this piece has so many factual mistakes I've got to correct them for the record, ASAP.  —  I spoke to the Democratic Senate caucus at the JFK Center, not the LBJ room of the Capitol.  I've never been inside the Capitol.  (Update: Ooops, I just remember having a meeting …
Garance Franke-Ruta / TAPPED:
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH MARKOS?  If you're at all like me you've …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Daschle: Congress Denied Bush War Powers in U.S.  —  The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Impeachment Nonsense  —  2005 was already the year of the demagogue …
Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Bush Administration Defends Spying Program
Discussion: The Left Coaster and AMERICAblog
Washington Post:
House Passes One-Month Extension of Patriot Act  —  The House of Representatives agreed to extend a controversial domestic surveillance law this afternoon, but it limited the extension to a little over one month and rejected a carefully brokered compromise from the Senate that had given the law a six-month reprieve.
Discussion: Discourse.net and The Heretik
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Aram Roston / MSNBC:
Chalabi's defeat puts U.S. friends in quandary  —  Should his backers go with his view that it was a fraudulent election?  —  Atef Hassan / Reuters file  —  Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi talks to his aides during a break while campaigning for Iraq's parliamentary elections in the city of Basra on Dec. 13.
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National Review:
The Blow-Up  —  In a telling moment at a United Nations press conference Wednesday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan lost his temper — hurling insults at a widely respected senior member of the U.N. press corps.  Beyond the who-what-when-where-how of this episode, the big question is: Why?
Think Progress:
VIDEO: Fox Affiliate Airs Ode to White Supremacist Site  —  Fox affiliate "FOX Carolina" last month ran a one-sided fluff piece exploring StormFront.org, an online hub for white supremacists.  —  The Anti-Defamation League describes StormFront as a "veritable supermarket of online hate …
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Ben Macintyre / Times of London:
Mullahs versus the bloggers  —  The explosive growth of youthful, irreverent online diaries has alarmed Iran's hardline Government  —  THE MUSIC OF Eric Clapton was banned in Iran this week.  Broadcasters were ordered to cease playing "decadent" western songs and stick to "fine Iranian music".
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
China Vows Peaceful Use Of Its Power  —  White Paper Tries to Ease Fears of Growing Strength  —  BEIJING, Dec. 22 — The Chinese government, responding to doubts in the United States and neighboring Asian countries, made what it called a "solemn promise" Thursday that its growing power will never become a threat to other nations.
Discussion: The Peking Duck
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Asia Times:   China: We're just big, warm and cuddly
Newsweek:
Where's the Outrage?  —  Bush's defense of his phone-spying program has disturbing echoes of arguments once used by South Africa's apartheid regime.  Why Americans should examine the parallels.  —  Obed Zilwa / AP  —  Former South African president P. W. Botha believed his country was under 'total onslaught' from its enemies
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
Laura / War and Piece:
Where Are the Arrests?  —  Perhaps I'm a little slow, but there's something else that doesn't make sense about spygate.  Since October 2001, Bush has authorized 30 times - every 45 days - warrantless NSA domestic surveillance of what I have heard estimated of approximately 1,000 US persons a year.
Edward M. Kennedy / Boston Globe:
On wiretapping, Bush isn't listening to the Constitution  —  THE PRESIDENT is not above the law; he is not King George.  Yet, with sorrow, we are now learning that in this great land we have an administration that has refused to follow well-crafted, longstanding procedures that require …
Matthew Yglesias / yglesias.tpmcafe.com:
Matthew Yglesias  —  Things Are Great!  —  Several conservative writers seem concerned recently that the American people don't believe the economy is strong even though, allegedly, it's really super-strong.  So they offer the White House advice on how to improve its communications strategy.

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