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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
U.S. Defends Conduct in Padilla Case — Supreme Court Asked To Overrule 4th Circuit — A federal appeals court infringed on President Bush's authority to run the war on terror when it refused to let prosecutors take custody of "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla, the Justice Department said yesterday …
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Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Padilla's Lawyers Ask for Review of Powers — WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held as an "enemy combatant" for nearly four years, want the Supreme Court to resolve how much power a president has while the nation is at war. — Lawyers Donna Newman and Andrew Patel told …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
U.S. Asks Supreme Court to Transfer Terror Suspect — WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 - The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court today to allow for the immediate transfer of Jose Padilla from a military brig to civilian custody to stand trial on terrorism charges, challenging an appellate court ruling last week that blocked the move.
John / AMERICAblog:
New domestic spying poll numbers are very bad for Bush — Some right-wingers have been crowing over a new poll that shows: … I've got news for you. That's an abysmally low number for Bush. — Even I would probably approve of the NSA listening in on phone calls between suspected terrorists and …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
More Rasmussen: 64% Say Warrantless Eavesdropping OK — With only 23% disagreeing. — After the 2002 midterms — sheesh, that seems like it was almost three years ago or something — William Kristol offered his opinion that the Democrats had, basically, gone crazy.
Ross Douthat / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
CONSERVATISMS OLD AND NEW: — Everybody seems to have an opinion about Jeffrey Hart's anatomy of the conservative mind, so I suppose I should as well. The main points of contention seem to be whether conservatives are often inclined to a kind of free-market utopianism …
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The Corner on National …, The Green Knight, Shakespeare's Sister and ProfessorBainbridge.com
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Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:CONSERVATISM AND THE SOUTH (AND SUNBELT)
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:EDUCATION AND REGIONALISM. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal …
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The Corner on National …, Donklephant, Sister Toldjah, ARMAVIRUMQUE and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Julie Cart / Los Angeles Times:
Wolves Thrive but Animosity Keeps Pace — Wildlife officials fear that hunters will move in for the kill if federal protection is dropped. — BOISE, Idaho — Since the first captured Canadian gray wolves bounded out of their cages 10 years ago and disappeared into the trees …
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Khalid Tanveer / Associated Press:
Pakistani Killed Daughters to Save 'Honor' — MULTAN, Pakistan - Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" — a crime that shocked Pakistan.
Jason Embry / Austin American-Statesman:
Congressman is trying to regain House leadership post — U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay can continue to hope for at least a few more days that judges will quickly drop the criminal charges he's facing. — The state's highest criminal court has given Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle …
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Washington Post:
The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff — How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Congressional Corruption Scandal — Jack Abramoff liked to slip into dialogue from "The Godfather" as he led his lobbying colleagues in planning their next conquest on Capitol Hill.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Presidents all the same when scandal strikes — Two of the most powerful moments of political déjà vu I have ever experienced took place recently in the context of the Bush administration's defense of presidentially ordered electronic spying on American citizens.
Editor and Publisher:
Koppel and Brokaw Agree: Clinton Would Have Gone Into Iraq, Too — NEW YORK Appearing on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel, agreed that the press shouldn't be faulted too harshly for not questioning more deeply the claims of WMD in Iraq …
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Weekly Standard:
Where The Boys Aren't — Here's a thought that's unlikely to occur to twelfth—grade girls as their college acceptances begin to trickle in: After they get to campus in the fall, one in four of them will be mathematically unable to find a male peer to go out with.
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Chicago Tribune:
Judging the case for war — Did President Bush intentionally mislead this nation and its allies into war? Or is it his critics who have misled Americans, recasting history to discredit him and his policies? If your responses are reflexive and self-assured, read on.
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Jim Hughes / Denver Post:
Vets get in races to fight GOP — War experience touted for Dems. Veterans for a Secure America fields candidates for Congress nationwide, including two in Colorado. — More than 30 Iraq and Persian Gulf War veterans have entered congressional races across the country as Democrats …
Radio Blogger:
Around the globe with Robert D. Kaplan — HH: Joining me to begin the conversation about the year around the globe, Robert D. Kaplan. He is the author of Imperial Grunts: The American military on the ground. He is also a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. He has been a guest on this program before.
Jeremy / Jeremy Hermanns dot org:
Alaska Flight #536 - Rapid De-Pressurization and Panic at 30K Feet — Boy, what a day. In what started as a typical flight home from a typical holiday weekend, changed drastically twenty minutes after take off. My fiancée and I were returning from a few days in Seattle …
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Ed Driscoll.com, L.A. Observed, Daily Pundit, BuzzMachine, Yourish.com, Varifrank, Lost Remote TV Blog and The Blog Herald
White House:
Press Gaggle by Trent Duffy — MR. DUFFY: Good morning. One update to the President's schedule to inform you about. The President, on Sunday, January 1st, will visit the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, where he will visit with wounded soldiers. We anticipate that most will be from Iraq.
Austin Bay / realclearpolitics.com:
The Big Story of 2005 (Someone Tell The New York Times) — In December 2004, I wrote a column that led with this line: "Mark it on your calendar: Next month, the Arab Middle East will revolt." — The column placed the January 2005 Palestinian and Iraqi elections in historical context.
