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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 …
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
L.A. Times Prints Quote From Fake Release — GREEN RIVER, Wyo. - A quote in a fake news release that was intended as an April Fool's joke ended up in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times. The story in Tuesday's editions of the Times noted how successful the reintroduction of wolves …
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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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Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:CONSERVATISM AND THE SOUTH (AND SUNBELT)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Lisa Sandberg / mysanantonio.com:
Justices agree to consider hearing DeLay's money laundering case — AUSTIN — Media reports that U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay had convinced the state's highest court to hear his appeal were as widely circulated as they were, well, wrong. — Justices for the Texas Court Criminal Appeals agreed merely …
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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 …
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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Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood's bad guy problem — WHEN YOU THINK about it, World War II was far from black and white. Sure, the German and Japanese militarists were evil, but Britain and the United States did terrible things too. They killed hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese civilians …
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
New York Transit Deal Shows Union's Success on Many Fronts — He was excoriated on tabloid front pages and by the mayor and governor. As thousands streamed across the Brooklyn Bridge on a frigid night during last week's transit strike, someone in a car yelled out his name, prefacing it with a curse.
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