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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
DeLay Ends Bid to Regain Post as G.O.P. Leader — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Representative Tom DeLay, under pressure from colleagues and swept into an election-year lobbying scandal, abandoned his effort to remain House majority leader on Saturday. The move touched off a battle …
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Los Angeles Times:
A Donor Who Had Big Allies — DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman. Evidence was published in the Congressional Record. — WASHINGTON — In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used …
Houston Chronicle:
DeLay won't reclaim House post — WASHINGTON - Entangled in criminal investigations of political activities in Texas and Washington, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay abandoned claims to his House majority leader's post Saturday, a dramatic reversal for the former pest-control company owner who rose to the height of power in Congress.
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New York Times:
Judging Samuel Alito — Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice to fill Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, was hounded into withdrawing by the far right …
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New York Times:
Hearings a Test for Democrats and Alito — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - The showdown begins Monday at high noon. — Even before Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. arrives on Capitol Hill for his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appear lined up solidly against him.
Ed Whelan / Bench Memos on National Review Online:Teddy Kennedy's Incredible Attack on Alito
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The Easy Way — The Washington Post makes simple corrections but does not address the real issues — The Washington Post has printed corrections to the article Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War - U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front, Pays Iraqi TV Stations for Coverage:
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Washington Post:
CORRECTIONS — A Jan. 6 correction incorrectly said that the University of Maryland men's basketball team will play Duke on Jan. 11 at College Park. The game will be in Durham, N.C. — A Jan. 6 article incorrectly described the sponsorship of an annual Florida conference attended …
Harvey Mansfield / Weekly Standard:
The Law and the President — EMERGENCY POWER FOR SUCH UNDERHANDED activities as spying makes Americans uncomfortable and upset. Even those who do not suffer from squeamish distaste for self-defense, and do not mind getting tough when necessary, feel uneasy.
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Patrick Quinn / Associated Press:
American Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped a female American journalist and killed her Iraqi translator Saturday in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. — Maj. Falah Mohamadawi said the translator told police before he died that the abduction took place …
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Times of London:
Turkish deaths put Europe on bird flu alert — THE number of Turkish people thought to be infected with avian flu rose to more than 50 this weekend, prompting concern that the disease may be about to spread into Europe. — Yesterday a British laboratory confirmed that a Turkish brother …
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Anne Hull / Washington Post:
When Mom Is Over There — A Family Learns to Stay the Course and Prays for a Safe Return From Iraq — I am driving a hulking Expedition with a yellow ribbon on the bumper that says "Support Our Troops." In the grocery store parking lot, a man nods at me. I'm walking to the shopping carts when it hits me.
Noah Feldman / New York Times:
Our Presidential Era: Who Can Check the President? — I. OUR PRESIDENTIAL ERA — Not since Watergate has the question of presidential power been as salient as it is today. The recent revelation that President George W. Bush ordered secret wiretaps in the United States without judicial approval …
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child' — ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days.
Washington Post:
Robertson and Ahmadinejad — CHRISTIAN television evangelist Pat Robertson and the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have a well-established affinity for the outrageous. This time their mutual embrace of indecency places them in a category all to themselves.
