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Jane Roh / Fox News:
Democrats Hit Possible Snag Ahead of Alito Hearings — A key witness to the character of Judge Samuel A. Alito has been removed from the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats' testimony list, FOXNews.com has learned. — Stephen R. Dujack, editor of The Environmental Forum magazine …
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Specter Seeks Gonzales Testimony on Spying — WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER — Interview With Shimon Peres; Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — WOLF BLITZER, HOST: It's 11:00 a.m. in Washington, 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m. here in Jerusalem and 7:00 p.m. in Baghdad.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Dean issues Smack-down on Wolfie — They are trying so hard to link Democrats to Abramoff's scandal that on today's Late Edition, Howard Dean almost set Wolfie's beard on fire. — Video-WMP Video-QT (transcript) — Blitzer has been doing much better as an interviewer lately …
Time:
Bush and DeLay: Never A Texas Two-Step — The Bush Administration sees the former House majority leader as a necessary burden — When legal and ethical questions began spinning around House majority leader Tom DeLay last year, President George W. Bush was publicly supportive.
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Washington Post:
Ethics Issues Snared GOP's Champion — DeLay's Focus on Fundraising Powered Party Gains But Led to Problems — Standing before a crowd of applauding House Republicans in the Capitol Hill Club last March, then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) inscribed $1.8 million on a giant check and signed …
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Alito may be the worst choice — AT THIS moment in American history, it would be hard to find a worse Supreme Court nominee than Samuel A. Alito Jr. His ideology captures everything extremist about the Bush administration. If confirmed, Alito would serve as Bush's enabler.
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David Espo / Associated Press:GOP List Includes Alito's Fellow Jurists
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Mediacrity:
The Times Misquotes the Roadmap — In a front page story in the New York Times today, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Steven Erlanger breaks with Times policy by acknowledging that Palestinians, and not just Israelis, have obligations under the Road Map for Peace. Bravo! Bravo!
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction? — Here is a report on Friday's panel at the AALS annual meeting sponsored by the Section on Scholarship on Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction? The program described the session as follows: … After moderator Dennis M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden) …
Jason / COUNTERCOLUMN:
Saddam's terror training camps - and how Stephen Hayes misses the mark — Stephen Hayes is reporting that Saddam's regime was running three separate training facilities in Iraq - in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak - graduating 2,000 foreign terrorist every year from 1999 to 2002.
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BBC:
The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks — In stark contrast to the generally turgid language of politics, Tony Banks was known for his acid tongue and sharp wit. — He called the once feared Tory Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher, "half mad", William Hague was labelled a "foetus" …
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
DOES Everybody Do It? — You're reading a lot about a corruption scandal in Washington. Some people are trying to tell you that "everybody does it" and that both parties are involved and that whenever you try to take the money out of politics it finds another way in.
David Rose / Observer:
Scandal of force-fed prisoners — Hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes, admits Guantánamo Bay doctor — New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed …
Nicholas Wapshott / Independent:
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch — Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites. — The 38 million subscribers to MySpace …
Miriam Pawel / Los Angeles Times:
Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots — The movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing poor rural laborers. As their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others, services for those in the fields are left to languish.
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Smash / The Indepundit:
SMASH vs. Filner — SATURDAY AFTERNOON, I attended an "Out of Iraq" forum at a local church, featuring a keynote address by anti-war Congressman Bob Filner. After his speech, Filner opened up the floor for questions. He fielded a few softballs from the largely friendly crowd. — Then he called on me.
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Washington Post:
The Real Choice in Iraq — "Bring 'em on." — President Bush on Iraqi insurgents, summer 2003 — The insurgency is "in its last throes." — Vice President Cheney, summer 2005 — " . . . there are only two options before our country: victory or defeat." — President Bush, Christmas 2005
Mark / Decision '08:
None Dare Call It Treason? (Part Two) — Cindy Sheehan, comparing George W. Bush to Osbama bin Laden: … Let's quit mincing words - Sheehan hides behind the death of her son, but it won't work. That's a foul accusation, and I feel more justified than ever in giving her the Jackass of the Year...
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
72 HOURS: WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE? — We've been getting emails from liberals demanding to know why we haven't written about the 72-hour provision of FISA, which, they say, definitively proves that there couldn't possibly have been any need to go outside the FISA structure for purposes of speed.
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ThreatsWatch.Org:
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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