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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Issues and (Possible) Answers: A Primer on the Alito Hearings — WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - When Judge John G. Roberts Jr. appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September for hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court, all of the participants were largely improvising.
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito: What the NY Times Editorial Didn't Tell You — The NY Times editorial Judging Samuel Alito didn't say much for the self-professed paper of record's ability to put claims in context. Let's help them out. The NY Times says: … Here's what the NY Times didn't tell you:
David S. Broder / Washington Post:Alito's Challenge — The two names uppermost on the minds …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for January 8 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday-with ethical charges swirling, Congressman Tom DeLay will not return as House majority leader. Washington lobbyists and fund-raiser Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion.
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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 …
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 …
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
12 Feared Dead as Army Copter Crashes in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 8 - Twelve Americans were believed to have been killed late on Saturday night when an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq between the restive cities of Tal Afar and Mosul.
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Time:
How to Stay Out of Power — Why liberal democrats are playing too fast and too loose with issues of war and peace — House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week. She released a letter, which quickly found …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:72 HOURS: WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE? — We've been getting emails …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:WHAT THE TIMES HAS WROUGHT — Time has posted Joe Klein's …
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
More Companies Ending Promises for Retirement — The death knell for the traditional company pension has been tolling for some time now. Companies in ailing industries like steel, airlines and auto parts have thrown themselves into bankruptcy and turned over their ruined pension plans to the federal government.
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) …
Ian James / Associated Press:
In Caracas, Belafonte Calls Bush Terrorist — Belafonte Calls Bush 'Greatest Terrorist in World,' Praises Chavez in Venezuela — CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 8, 2006 — The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" …
New York Times:
Lobbyist's Firm Escapes Fallout From a Scandal — WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - Greenberg Traurig was a politically well-connected law firm long before Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist who pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion, joined it about six years ago.
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MSNBC:
His year in Iraq — Some say Paul Bremer's service laid the groundwork for possible democracy in the Middle East, others see him as a poster child for America's mismanagement of the war … Raging fires, looting, chaos, and destruction: That was the scene when Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III first laid eyes on Baghdad.
Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Report: Man Who Shot Pope to Be Freed — A court has approved the release from prison the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, saying he completed his sentence for crimes he committed in Turkey, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported Sunday. — Mehmet Ali Agca was extradited …
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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Helen / Dr. Helen:
The Dr. Helen / InstaPundit Podcast — Our first show is with Michelle Malkin author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, and blogger at MichelleMalkin.com. She talks about being an author, a mom, and the target of thousands of extremely nasty emails.
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