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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
But Enough About You, Judge; Let's Hear What I Have to Say  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - The Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. were supposed to be about the judge, but on Tuesday it sometimes seemed as though somebody forgot to tell the senators on the Judiciary Committee.
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New York Times:
Judge Alito Proves a Powerful Match for Senate Questioners  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - If Senate Democrats had set out to portray Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. as extreme on issues ranging from abortion to government surveillance of citizens, they ran up against an elusive target on Tuesday …
Fred Barbash / Campaign for the Supreme Court:
Kennedy and Specter Have Words  —  Things really got ugly — really ugly — between Sens. Kennedy and Specter.  —  Kennedy (D-Mass.) asked further hostile questions on CAP — the Princeton University concerned alumni organization that, among other things, opposed co-education at the university.
Discussion: Bench Memos … and Decision '08
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Alito Faces Familiar Issues in Hearing  —  WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was aggressively questioned Wednesday by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee who accused him of inconsistencies on issues ranging from voting rights to ethics to his membership in a conservative organization.
Marcia Davis / Washington Post:
For Democrats, A Most Tender Roast of Alito  —  It was beginning to look as if the Democrats had shown up to a knife fight without a knife yesterday.  —  It was beginning to look as if they'd just been woofing when it came to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr …
New York Times:
Alito, at Hearing, Pledges an Open Mind on Abortion  —  Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, talked yesterday with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, during the confirmation hearing for Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
Senate 'show trial' is product of a too-powerful court
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Cold Fury
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:   A Day of Q's and A's — and a Few Z's
Stephen R. Dujack / Los Angeles Times:
The Alito testimony you won't hear
Discussion: CRC-GreenWatch Blog
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Senate Blogger Forum: Kennedy (McCarthy) Redux  —  I'm not going to live-blog the bloviations from Ted Kennedy in great detail, but I have to add something about Kennedy's pulling out sentences from magazines and newspapers and demanding to know if Alito had ever read them.
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Associated Press:
Israel pulls plug on Pat Robertson deal  —  Officials angry over evangelical leader's comments about Sharon's stroke  —  JERUSALEM - Israel won't do business with Pat Robertson after the evangelical leader suggested Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was divine punishment …
Henry Weinstein / Los Angeles Times:
1st Suit in State to Attack 'Intelligent Design' Filed  —  A group of parents in the small Tehachapi mountain community of Lebec on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit challenging the teaching of "intelligent design" in a California public school.  —  The suit targets what appears …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lobbying Colors GOP Leadership Contest  —  Rivals for DeLay Post No Strangers to K St.  —  In years past, when the House recessed for its winter break, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) decamped for warmer climates and a sailing trip to the Caribbean with some of the city's top lobbyists …
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tcsdaily.com:
Mining the Media Distortions Yields Black Gold  —  Here's a headline you aren't likely to see: "Sago mine tragedy defies improved mine safety trend under the Bush administration."  —  Yet, the facts support it.  —  Mining fatalities have dropped every year President Bush has been in the White House …
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New York Times:
Lost Time, Lost Lives in the Mine
Discussion: ShrinkWrapped and Dinocrat
Pew Research Center:
Americans Taking Abramoff, Alito and Domestic Spying in Stride  —  Democrats Hold Huge Issue Advantage  —  Summary of Findings  —  The public has been hardly stirred by the flurry of major Washington news in the early days of 2006.  Jack Abramoff's admission that he bribed members …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Leading Shiite Says He Will Oppose Changes to Iraqi Charter  —  The leader of Iraq's most powerful party indicated today that his group would block substantive changes to the country's new constitution, despite a promise to Sunnis to consider amendments.  —  Last summer, as Sunni Arabs …
Discussion: Needlenose and TAPPED
Marilyn Gardner / Christian Science Monitor:
Young dream-seekers strapped by debt  —  School loans, soaring house prices, low wages, and too-easy credit are keeping 20- and 30-somethings from making financial headway.  —  Tamara Draut and Stuart Fink didn't expect it to come to this.  After eight years of marriage …

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