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The Truth Laid Bear:
An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers — I'm pleased to present the following statement on behalf of the undersigned bloggers. —N.Z. — An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers — We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us all of the time.
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Jaketapper / DownAndDirty:
CAP smear? — WASHINGTON DC — For Alito, it's all over but the votin'....It does not appear that the Democrats inflicted any real damage on the Supreme Court nominee, excepting of course his wife's mascara. — AP photo — Probing the debate over Alito's having said he was a member …
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:The Battle of Princeton — Borking has lost its bite.
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Radio Blogger, All Things Beautiful, Austin Bay Blog, Right Wing Pundit, Confirm Them, Carol Platt Liebau and Decision '08
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
NATIONAL SECURITY....John Dickerson says in Slate that the president's sudden enthusiasm for a congressional investigation into the NSA's surveillance program is probably bad for the country: … That's exactly right. Marshall Wittman, who I think is dangerously complacent …
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National Review:
The Multilateral Moment? — "Multilateralism good; preemption and unilateralism bad." — For four years we have heard these Orwellian commandments as if they were inscribed above the door of Farmer Jones's big barn. Now we will learn their real currency, since the Americans …
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New York Times, Dr. Sanity, ShrinkWrapped, soxblog, Sigmund, Carl and Alfred, AMERICAN FUTURE, Roger L. Simon and The Officers' Club
John Dickerson / Slate:
Bush in the Briar Patch — Why the president wants hearings on spying. — George Bush wants congressional hearings to look into his administration's domestic eavesdropping. At first he wasn't so keen on the idea, but yesterday he said they'd be "good for democracy."
Robert B. Bluey / Human Events:
Al Gore, Republican to Attack Bush 'Police State' — Former Vice President Al Gore will attack President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program at a Washington, D.C., speech on Martin Luther King Day—with a Republican by his side. — Gore is teaming up with former Rep. Bob Barr, a Republican …
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Editor and Publisher:
SHNS Drops Fumento in Latest Payola Pundit Scandal — NEW YORK Another columnist accused of accepting payola has been dropped. — Scripps Howard News Service (SHNS) announced Friday that it severed its relationship with Michael Fumento — a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute …
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Business Week:
A Columnist Backed by Monsanto — Michael Fumento's failure to disclose payments to him in 1999 from the agribusiness giant have now caused Scripps Howard to sever its ties to him — Scripps Howard News Service announced Jan. 13 that it's severing its business relationship with columnist Michael Fumento …
Economist:
The brainbox and the blowhards — Samuel Alito, George Bush's latest pick for the Supreme Court, faces a tough and dirty battle for confirmation. But he looks as though he'll win — Getty Images — TED KENNEDY is deeply troubled by the ethics of the Supreme Court nominee.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Please Don't Feed the Federalists — A Democrat's field guide to the conservative jurist. — Ladies and gentlemen, Democrats of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, welcome to this introductory tour of the North American federalist in his natural habitat.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:A Hearing About Nothing — A listless intellectual fog …
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New York Times, Althouse, The Mahablog, Confirm Them, Now What?!, The Left Coaster and PoliticalSports
Maeve Reston / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Santorum reaps money from lobbyists — WAYNE, Pa. — Sen. Rick Santorum, who has been tapped by fellow Senate Republican leaders to draft legislation tightening restrictions on lobbyists, has received more money from lobbyists than any other congressional candidate so far in the 2006 election cycle.
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:GOP Contest Guided by Lessons of Battles Past
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
NY Times Leak Is Damaging Our Defenses — UPDATE: — Don't miss Michelle Malkin's extraordinary round up on this story, and rightfully points out that even sales clerks can play a key role in our defense by being vigilant. Excellent point — UPDATE II: — Mac Ranger has more on these 'slugs' trying to kill us.
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Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11 — The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
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Balloon Juice, Confederate Yankee, Mathew Gross, Majikthise, battlepanda.blogspot.com and King of Zembla
Sen. Harry Reid / Houston Chronicle:
If we can beat mob, we can fight DeLay-style politics — Experience in Las Vegas similar to D.C. corruption — In 1977, I was appointed chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. It was a difficult time for the gaming industry and Las Vegas, which were being overrun by organized crime.
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MyDD, The Carpetbagger Report, Booman Tribune, The Talent Show, Hullabaloo and The Democratic Party
CNSNews:
Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question — Read Article About Murtha's Links to Abscam — (CNSNews.com) - Having ascended to the national stage as one of the most vocal critics of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha …
NY Daily News:
Steamed about Rice, Russian pol unleashes rant — Condoleezza Rice might want to see if there's room in one of those "black site" terror-suspect prisons for Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky. — The wacko leader of Russia's Liberal and Democratic Party has surpassed his earlier screeds …
