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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 …
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:
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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 been letting most of your hard-copy, text-heavy magazine subscriptions lapse because, by the time they arrive in the mail, you've already read everything in the issues that you were going to read, online.
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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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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?
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Rantingprofs, Reuters, Flit, Ed Driscoll.com, Roger L. Simon, Dr. Sanity and Mark in Mexico
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ON THE LEGALITY OF THE NSA ELECTRONIC INTERCEPT PROGRAM — It has been widely suggested that the NSA electronic intercept program that has been carried out by the Bush administration for the last three years is, or may be, illegal. The New York Times and other media outlets have implied …
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.
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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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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
TAKING TERRORISM SERIOUSLY....Part 1 of a multi-zillion word story about the trials and tribulations of the Department of Homeland Security is running in the Washington Post today, and a lot of it is pretty much what you'd expect: a huge new agency trying desperately to deal with turf wars, lack of leadership, and budget issues.
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David B. Caruso / Associated Press:
NYC Transit Union Moves to Return to Work — NEW YORK - Striking bus and subway workers agreed Thursday to "take steps" to go back to work while their union and the transit authority resume negotiations, a mediator said. — The deal with the Transit Workers Union could pave the way for a resumption …
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Sirotablog, MyDD, Done With Mirrors, villagevoice.com, Seeing the Forest, Alarming News and THE NEWS BLOG
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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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Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
Passion of the Spaghetti Monster — Bobby Henderson is holed up in the boonies — Corvallis, Oregon — hard at work on his next entry into the fray over just what students should learn about the origin of species. — When the Kansas Board of Education proposed balancing evolution instruction …
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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
William Beutler / The Hotline's Blogometer:
12/22: The Year Of Blogging Dangerously — For your entertainment and edification, we present our year-end edition, a review of the year that was in the political blogosphere. For the sake of brevity, it's nowhere near as comprehensive as we might have liked. But then, that's what our archives are for.
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Agence France Presse:
Bush sees good 2005, warns of terrorism threat — WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush called 2005 "a good year for the American people," but cautioned that terrorists like those who carried out the September 11 attacks still posed a threat. — In brief remarks outside the White House …
