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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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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 …
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.
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 …
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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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Osama Tape (With Matthews And Moore) — Osama bin Laden has apparently released a new tape, estimated to have been made in December: … A truce? Because he is winning and wants to let us catch our breath? [Gregory Djerejian reflects at length]. — In related news …
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Michelle Malkin:AP: TERRORIST=DISSIDENT — Via the always eagle-eyed Little …
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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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Derrick Nunnally / JSOnline:
Sudden plea deals in tire-slashing case — In an unexpected twist in the Election Day tire-slashing trial, four former Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, have agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanors.
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Sean Hackbarth / The American Mind:Plea Agreement in Tire Slashing Case
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Preview of G.O.P. Campaign, Rove Tears Into Democrats — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, gave nervous Republicans here a preview of the party's strategy to maintain its dominance in the fall elections today, assailing Democrats for their positions on terrorism …
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.
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Paul Wolfowitz Busy Neo-Conning the World Bank: Staff Rebellion Brewing — Paul Wolfowitz, architect of America's failing foray into Iraq as Rumsfeld's former Deputy at the Pentagon, now heads the World Bank and finally seems like his true self is coming out of the closet.
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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
freepress.org:
Molly Ivins — I will not support Hillary Clinton for president — I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president. — Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation.
David Stout / New York Times:
U.S. Indicts 11 for Acts of Domestic Terrorism — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Eleven people have been indicted on charges of carrying out a years-long spree of arson, bombings and other acts of domestic terrorism throughout five Western states, the Justice Department said today.
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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 …
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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Reuters:
Expose 'radical' UCLA teacher, get $100 — LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.
