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Jim Brady / Washington Post:
Ask Post.com — On Thursday, washingtonpost.com turned off the reader comments feature on post.blog , a blog dedicated to sharing news by and about The Post and washingtonpost.com. The move came after several comments containing personal attacks, profanity and hate speech were posted …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Transparency at the Post: Q & A with Jim Brady of Washingtonpost.com — "I don't think there are many reporters who oppose thoughtful criticism of their work. What they oppose is being called vulgar names and assigned all sorts of evil motives by people who don't know them.
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Associated Press:
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post — The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans. — At the center of a congressional …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Blame the Barbarians — The push is on to take the heat off the Post and their kneepads journalism in the Jack Abramoff matter by placing the blame on their unruly readers. — Jim VandeHei, this morning: … Get it? No distinction between legitimate criticism over the Post's refusal …
Mike McConnell / Kokonut Pundits:
Deborah Howell Failed to Get Rid of Comments in WaPo Blog — It's really funny and somehow not so surprising about readers' response when WaPo did an article recently this Sunday about the Abramoff's money trail prompting angry cries from unhinged Liberals toward a left-leaning WaPo news media of all thing.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:Paper Decides to Close Blog, Citing Vitriol
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Michelle Malkin:
AP: TERRORIST=DISSIDENT — Via the always eagle-eyed Little Green Footballs, check out the caption on the Associated Press photo of Osama bin Laden running today at Yahoo.com: — Got that? Osama isn't a mass-murdering terrorist mastermind. He's just a poor, exiled dissident who disagrees with civilization.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ahmadinejad? — Reader, do you have a solution to the Iranian nukes dilemma? — What to do about Iran? The mullahs seem intent on acquiring a nuclear arsenal. Everything they've been doing lately—enriching uranium, spinning centrifuges …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Jawa Report Helps Nab Would-be Terrorist (Blogoversary Surprise) — Two years ago today I started blogging by warning in my very first post, If you think this is offensive, just wait til I really get going! What a way to celebrate my blogoversary!!! — The long awaited moment has arrived …
Opinion Journal:
Still Morning in America — Reaganomics, 25 years later. — Twenty-five years ago today, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States promising less intrusive government, lower tax rates and victory over communism. On that same day, the American hostages in Iran were freed after 444 days of captivity.
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Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
The Rise Of Blogs — When President Bush campaigned for re-election in 2004, he vowed to "save Social Security." Bush touted the notion of voluntary personal retirement accounts in his 2005 State of the Union address, promoted the idea just after the speech, and then …
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Durbin to vote against Alito, says filibuster possible — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Thursday he will vote against Judge Sam Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court. And he said so many other senators intensely oppose Alito that they may have enough votes to sustain a filibuster against the conservative jurist.
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Subpoenas seek DeLay links to San Diego firm — Earle wants defense company record of $15,000 sent to TRMPAC — AUSTIN - Travis County prosecutors attempted to dig deeper Thursday into links between California defense contractors involved in the bribery of a former congressman …
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Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:Subpoenas seek records from defense contractor
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Associated Press:
Minority Leader Reid Apologizes to GOP — WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday apologized to 33 Republican senators singled out for ethics criticism in a report from his office titled "Republican Abuse of Power." — "The document released by my office yesterday went …
Brian Witte / Associated Press:
Md. court rules against same-sex marriage ban … A Baltimore Circuit Court judge today struck down Maryland's 33-year-old law against same-sex marriage, ruling in favor of 19 gay men and women who contended the prohibition violated the state's equal rights amendments.
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William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
Pentagon Says We're Sorry — The administration argued yesterday that the President has the Constitutional authority to order warantless surveillance, as Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez delivered a new legal defense to Congress of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities …
The Standard:
Mystery firm linked to US lobbyist scandal — US government investigators probing Washington's explosive Congressional bribery scandal centered on disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff recently visited Hong Kong, according to a witness interviewed by the authorities. — ZachColeman
Joe Katzman / Winds of Change.NET:
OUR DARKENING SKY: IRAN AND THE WAR … In the wake of Tom Holsinger's article "The Case For Invading Iran," I was going to enter a comment, but it became long enough to deserve a full post. To begin with, it's time to lay my own cards on the table. — I personally believe that we're …
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Into the West Bank Abyss: From Student to Suicide Bomber — NABLUS, West Bank, Jan. 19 - A local photographer was the first to tell a shocked Samer Antar that his youngest brother, Sami, was dead. His mother's wails soon followed, rising in pitch to fill the dark staircase, as relatives …
