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Washington Post:
Alito Stresses 'Rule of Law' in Opening Statement — Senate Questioning Of Supreme Court Pick Begins Today — Samuel A. Alito Jr. sought to reassure senators yesterday that divisive policies he once advocated as a government lawyer do not necessarily signal how he would rule if confirmed …
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court — SPECTER: Senator Cornyn? — CORNYN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. — Judge Alito, welcome to the committee, and to your family as well. — I'm a little surprised to learn that you have a triply high burden for confirmation here.
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The Sideshow, firedoglake, The RCP Blog, MyDD, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos and Stop The ACLU
Dan Balz / Washington Post:Despite Advocacy, Alito Is Not on Public's Radar Screen
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Althouse
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:Alito Pledges to Do What the Law Requires
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Confederate Yankee
Fred Barbash / Campaign for the Supreme Court:Judge Alito's Statement
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Althouse, Feministe, Betsy's Page, LiberalOasis, Bench Memos …, Stop The ACLU and Hugh Hewitt
Deacon / Power Line:IRRELEVANT AND LESS THAN TRUTHFUL
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Patterico's Pontifications, National Review, Michelle Malkin and The Claremont Institute
Kip / A Stitch in Haste:
New VAWA "Annoying" Clause is Indeed Annoying — But Not to Blogs — The libertarian wing of the Blogosphere is very much abuzz about this report regarding an extension to the Violence Against Women Act to cyberspace: … Some hasty stitches: —The relevant code section is 47 USC 223.
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Kaimipono D. Wenger / Concurring Opinions:Annoy someone online (anonymously); go to jail
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volokh.com, Instapundit.com, BuzzMachine, TalkLeft, SayUncle, Ace of Spades HQ and Majikthise
Washington Post:
Lobby Firm Is Scandal Casualty — Abramoff, DeLay Publicity Blamed For Shutdown — One of Washington's top lobbying operations will shut down at the end of the month because of its ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former House majority leader Tom DeLay.
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Talking Points Memo
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Roland Flamini / UPI:
Corridors of Power: The lady was a spy — WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) — Susanne Osthoff, the German archeologist kidnapped by Iraqi gunmen on Nov. 25 and released before Christmas was connected with her country's intelligence service, the BND, and had helped arrange a meeting with a top member …
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The Belmont Club, TigerHawk, Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Flopping Aces and Clarity & Resolve
Lawrence Solum / lsolum.blogspot.com:
Blogging, Legal Scholarship, and Academic Careers — Introduction — Three days ago, I participated in a panel at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on blogging and legal scholarship. The panel was organized by Dennis Patterson and my copanelists were bloggers Randy Barnett and Victor Fleisher.
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Haaretz:
Early diagnosis could have prevented brain hemorrhage — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received anticoagulant drugs despite suffering from a disease of the blood vessels in the brain which, if diagnosed, would almost certainly have prevented doctors from prescribing these drugs …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
For the House GOP, A Belated Evolution — Before evolution produced creatures of our perfection, there was a three-ton dinosaur, the stegosaurus, so neurologically sluggish that when its tail was injured, significant time elapsed before news of the trauma meandered up its long spine to its walnut-size brain.
Reuel Marc Gerecht / Washington Post:
'Hearts and Minds' in Iraq — As History Shows, Ideas Matter More Than Who Pays to Promote Them — Once again we are confronted with stories about how the Pentagon and its ubiquitous private contractors are undermining free inquiry in Iraq. "Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda," reports the New York Times.
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QandO
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Freeping The Court — I watched the Roberts hearings and couldn't help being impressed by the guy even though I knew he was way too conservative for me. He was obviously intelligent, confident and smooth and I ended up thinking that anybody who was smart enough to keep a good distance between himself …
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Science And Politics
Bo-Mi Lim / Associated Press:
Korean University Says Cloning Claim Faked — The now-disgraced South Korean researcher who stunned the scientific community with his claim to have cloned human embryonic stem cells faked his results, relying on "fabricated data," his university said Tuesday.
Christian Science Monitor:
Reporter abducted in Iraq — BAGHDAD AND PARIS - Jill Carroll, a freelance journalist currently on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor, was abducted by unknown gunmen in Baghdad Saturday morning. Her Iraqi interpreter was killed during the kidnapping.
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The Moderate Voice, Editor and Publisher, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Poynter Online and Abu Aardvark
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Judges and Justice Dept. Meet Over Eavesdropping Program — WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 - The Justice Department held an unusual closed-door briefing Monday for judges on a secret foreign-intelligence court in response to concerns about President Bush's decision to allow domestic eavesdropping without warrants.
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Best-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutiny — Police reports and other public records published online on Sunday have raised substantial questions about the truth of numerous incidents depicted in James Frey's best-selling memoir, "A Million Little Pieces." — The book, originally published in 2003 …
