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Washington Post:
Alito Likely To Become A Justice — Liberals See Slim Chance Of Blocking Confirmation — Samuel A. Alito Jr., an appellate judge who could shift the Supreme Court significantly to the right, appeared headed for the high court yesterday after completing three days of interrogation without a serious misstep.
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RedState, Blogs for Bush, Viking Pundit, Below The Beltway, Hugh Hewitt, Confirm Them and Carol Platt Liebau
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
This Is How It's Done — It is remarkably frustrating to blog the Alito hearings, feel the righteous indignation of people in the comments sections all over the blogosphere that the supreme court is in danger of making a major lurch to the extreme right with the potential appointment of a bigoted …
Michelle Malkin:
A WOMAN THE DEMS DON'T WANT TO HEAR — This is U.S. Appeals Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee who gave a glowing endorsement of her colleague, Sam Alito, earlier today, along with six other judges from the appeals court who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Alito.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Roberts Without the Charm — That seems to be the consensus about Justice-designate Sam Alito. "In the first day of his confirmation hearings, Samuel Alito displayed none of the dexterity and charm of Bush's newly minted chief justice—and may face a rougher ride later this week," wrote Salon's Michael Scherer:
Deacon / Power Line:
JUDGE ALITO'S COLLEAGUES SPEAK — Judge Alito's colleagues on the Third Circuit have been testifying this afternoon. You can get a sense of the high esteem in which they hold him by checking out NRO's Bench Memos. — One of the witnesses is Judge Timothy Lewis, an African-American …
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Captain's Quarters
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Kennedy belongs to exclusive university club of his own — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was evicted from campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members. — According to the online membership directory of the Owl Club …
TigerHawk:Alito roundup: Ted Kennedy tramples on freedom of speech and association
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The Strata-Sphere, Captain's Quarters, Betsy's Page, Decision '08, Pajamas Media and Power Line
Clark Hoyt / Knight Ridder:Knight Ridder's Alito story: Factual and fair
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The Moderate Voice
William Tate / The American Thinker:
The controversy following revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored suspected terrorist related communications since 9/11 reflects a severe case of selective amnesia by the New York Times and other media opponents of President Bush. They certainly didn't show the same outrage …
Brian C. Anderson / City Journal:
The Plot to Shush Rush and O'Reilly — Talk radio, cable news, and the blogosphere freed U.S. political discourse. The Left wants to rein it in again. — The rise of alternative media—political talk radio in the eighties, cable news in the nineties, and the blogosphere in the new millennium …
James Wolcott:
NOXIOUS FUMES — In a feeble attempt to draw attention to itself before it sinks into the briny deep under the dead weight of its founders Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon and its undistinguished blogroll, Pajamas Media showcases an attack on me by Michael Fumento, and seldom has a writer been more aptly named.
Washington Post:
Beating Up on Wal-Mart — AMERICAN BUSINESS has few whipping boys so irresistibly whippable as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., whose treatment of employees, competitors and suppliers conjures cold-eyed corporate heartlessness. It's hard to root for Wal-Mart; one might as easily cheer on Scrooge or the shark in "Jaws."
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:Maryland Sets a Health Cost for Wal-Mart
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Preemptive Karma
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Deficit Could Top $400 Billion — Driven by the cost of hurricane relief, the federal budget deficit is expected to balloon back above $400 billion for the fiscal year that ends in September, reversing the improvements of 2005, a White House official told reporters yesterday.
ABCNEWS:
Surge in Sale of Disposable Cell Phones May Have Terror Link — Phones Can Be Difficult or Impossible to Track; Large Quantities Purchased in California, Texas — Jan. 12, 2006 — Federal agents have launched an investigation into a surge in the purchase of large quantities of disposable cell phones …
Radio Blogger:
John Podhoretz on the foolishness among the Democrat Senator in the Alito hearing. — HH: I'm joined by John Podhoretz, New York Post columnist, author of Bush Country, author of the forthcoming Can She Be Stopped. You know who that is, appearing with Harry Belafonte on a double bill tomorrow, Hillary Clinton.
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Pajamas Media
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
THE (Broken) TRIANGLE: Progressive Bloggers in the Wilderness — "This, then, is the reality: progressive bloggers and online activists — positioned on the front lines of a cold civil war — face a thankless and daunting task: battle the Bush administration and its legions of online and offline apologists …
New York Times:
Europeans Want U.N. to Act on Iran's Nuclear Program — BERLIN, Jan. 12 - The leading nations of Europe joined with the United States today to declare an end, for now, to negotiations with Iran over dismantling its suspected nuclear weapons program and to demand that Iran be referred …
Maria Glod / Washington Post:
DNA Tests Confirm Guilt of Executed Man — DNA tests released this afternoon confirmed the guilt of a Virginia man who had proclaimed his innocence in a slaying and rape even as he was strapped into the state's electric chair in 1992. — Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) …
