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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Is Alito Lying About Concerned Alumni for Princeton?  —  Well, yes, he is lying, but I wanted to ask other people the same question.  So, during the lunch break, I went down to the press area with Tim Tagaris, armed with only a single question:  —  "Do you believe Judge Alito is telling …
Bill Mears / CNN:
Alito fields questions on abortion, executive power
Discussion: Demagogue
MSNBC:   Alito vows 'open mind' on abortion cases
Byron York / The Corner on National Review Online:
ALITO AND THE 60S: ANALYSIS FROM THE LEFT
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Wallflowers  —  I feel so dirty.  My Alito the freeper post …
Discussion: MyDD
White House:
President Addresses Veterans of Foreign Wars on the War on Terror  —  Washington, D.C.  —  Fact Sheet: Progress and the Work Ahead in Iraq  —  National Strategy for Victory in Iraq  —  In Focus: Renewal in Iraq  —  In Focus: National Security  —  In Focus: Veterans
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Issues Stark Warning to Democrats on Iraq Debate  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - President Bush issued an unusually stark warning to Democrats today about how to conduct the debate on Iraq as midterm elections approach, declaring that Americans know the difference "between honest critics" …
National Review:
The Abramoff Scandal (R., Beltway)  —  Republicans are looking for "their" John McCain.  The popular Arizona maverick is already a Republican, of course.  But the GOP needs a McCain in the "Keating Five" sense.  Back in 1990, Senate Democrats roped McCain into the scandal over savings …
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Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Fitzgerald Maintains Focus on Rove  —  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is said to have spent the past month preparing evidence he will present to a grand jury alleging that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove knowingly made false statements to FBI and Justice Department investigators …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
GI Schmo  —  How low can Army recruiters go?  —  Three months ago, I wrote that the war in Iraq was wrecking the U.S. Army, and since then the evidence has only mounted, steeply.  Faced with repeated failures to meet its recruitment targets, the Army has had to lower its standards dramatically.
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Washington Post:
Differing Views on Terrorism  —  Americans Divided on Eavesdropping Program, Poll Finds  —  Americans overwhelmingly support aggressive government pursuit of terrorist threats, even if it may infringe on personal privacy, but they divide sharply along partisan lines over the legitimacy …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Alito 1, Schumer -35  —  I wish I had an automatic transcript device.  Judge Alito just blew Chuck Schumer out of the water on abortion.  After holding up his Robert ByrdTM mini-Constitution, Schumer demanded several times whether he still believes as he wrote in his 1985 memo …
New York Times:
I.R.S. Limited Tax Refunds of Poor, Congress Is Told  —  Tax refunds sought by hundreds of thousands of poor Americans have been frozen and their returns labeled fraudulent, blocking refunds for years to come, the Internal Revenue Service's taxpayer advocate told Congress today.
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying  —  Former Employee Admits to Being a New York Times Source  —  Jan 10, 2006 — Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet.  —  For 20 years, Tice worked in the shadows …
Bull Moose:
The Donkey Differs  —  The Moose welcomes a healthy debate in the DLC Zoo.  —  The always erudite and eloquent New Donkey differs with the Moose on the NSA eavesdropping matter.  Without belaboring the matter, the Moose continues to believe that the President had authority both under Article II …
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Newdonkey / NewDonkey.com:   No Executive Blank Checks Without Balances
Francis Harris / Telegraph:
Syria 'tried to fuel holy war in Iraq against US and Britain'  —  President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq's top Shia leader to declare holy war against US and British forces, according to Washington's former administrator in the country.  —  In his new book, My Year in Iraq …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Atlas Shrugs
radioblogger.com:
The Joseph Biden Princeton Waffle  —  Grab a drink, settle into your chair, because this is going to be fun.  —  First off, Senator Biden had half an hour today with Samuel Alito, and the judge's word count, according to John Podhoretz at the Corner, was about 72 words.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Bush Bombshell  —  Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera?  —  Tomorrow morning, in a court in London, two men will appear to face charges under Britain's Official Secrets Act.  The first man, David Keogh, a former employee of the Cabinet Office, is accused of unlawfully handing …

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