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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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Crooks and Liars:Chris Matthews compares Michael Moore to Osama
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Associated Press:
Iraq Shiites Win, but Must Form Coalition — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — An alliance of Shiite religious parties won the most seats in Iraq's new parliament but not enough to rule without coalition partners, the election commission said Friday. Sunni Arabs gained seats over previous balloting.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Iraq Election Results Show Sunni Gains — Shiite Religious Parties Will Have to Form Alliances With Others — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 20 — Shiite religious parties fell short of winning outright control of parliament in Iraq's Dec. 15 national elections, compelling them to seek alliances …
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New York Times:
Legal Rationale by Justice Dept. on Spying Effort — WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 - The Bush administration offered its fullest defense to date Thursday of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying that authorization from Congress to deter terrorist attacks …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:The NSA Eavesdropping Briefings - Too Exclusive To Be Legal?
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New York Times:
Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 - The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to compel Google, the Internet search giant, to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries as part of the government's effort to uphold an online pornography law.
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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 …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Paper Decides to Close Blog, Citing Vitriol — The Washington Post shut one of its blogs yesterday, saying it had drawn too many personal attacks, profanity and hate mail directed at the paper's ombudsman. — The closing was the second by a major newspaper in recent months.
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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 …
Chicago Tribune:
The not-so-mad mind of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University: Tribune Media Services — `The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
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Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:
Bombing Pakistan: Was the attack justified? — Remember that CIA bombing of a remote Pakistani village last week? The one that killed 18 Pakistanis, but not Ayman al-Zawahiri? Well, it looks like at least one really bad guy was among the dead: … Before I learned of this news I was critical of the bombing.
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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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 …
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Restive GOP Activists May Stage Revolt — Conservatives threaten to withhold support of Schwarzenegger's reelection bid if he doesn't fire a key aide who is a Democrat. — SACRAMENTO — Republican activists disenchanted with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that they will try …
Sebastian Usher / BBC:
Arab media shun al-Qaeda message — A new audio tape purportedly from Osama Bin Laden has been broadcast as an exclusive on al-Jazeera, the Arab TV station that first made its name by showing al-Qaeda messages before and after 9/11. — It is the first new tape said to carry the voice of the al-Qaeda leader for just over a year.
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 …
Washington Post:
Mike Malloy to CPAC: Get Lost! — For next month's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), media director Andrea Saul sent 500 invitations to radio talk shows inviting them to broadcast from the Omni Shoreham Hotel. This is one of the big lovefests for those who want to hear …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
What if we promise not to show the records to Karl Rove? — If you don't regularly anonymize your Google cookie and purge your personalized search history, now might be a good time to start (then again, in this day and age, why bother?). The Department of Justice on Wednesday asked …
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.
New York Times:
Full Text of the bin Laden Tape — The following is the full text of a new audiotape from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Parts of the tape were aired on Al-Jazeera television, which published the entire version on its Web site. The text was translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press.
