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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Rove Offers Republicans A Battle Plan For Elections — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove offered a biting preview of the 2006 midterm elections yesterday, drawing sharp distinctions with the Democrats over the campaign against terrorism, tax cuts and judicial philosophy …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Libby Team to Subpoena Media — Defense Plans to Go After Journalists' Notes in CIA Leak Case — Attorneys for Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff told a federal court yesterday that they plan to subpoena several journalists and news organizations to obtain their notes …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Rove Lays Out Road Map for Republicans in Fall Elections — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, gave nervous Republicans here a preview on Friday of the party's strategy to maintain its dominance in the fall elections, offering a searing attack on Democrats …
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CNN:
Rove: Security will be focus of 2006 campaigns — GOP strategist say Democrats have a 'pre-9/11' worldview — Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November and said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" …
David Johnston / New York Times:
Lawyers in C.I.A. Leak Case Seek to Subpoena Journalists — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told a federal judge on Friday that they would seek to subpoena reporters and news organizations to obtain additional documents that could assist in his defense in the C.I.A. leak case.
David Montgomery / Washington Post:
The Author Who Got A Big Boost From bin Laden — Historian 'Glad' of Mention As Sales of Book Skyrocket — Twenty-four hours after Osama bin Laden told the world that the American people should read the work of a little-known Washington historian, William Blum was still adjusting.
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John Kerry / dailykos.com:
Real Hardball — There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden. — That's reason to be outraged …
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Washington Post Blog's Jim Brady on the profane meltdown of the left this week. — HH: Moving from an interview with the Vice President to an interview with Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, the phenomenally successful online edition of the Washington Post. Mr. Brady, welcome.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:FDL Late Nite: What Say You About Greater Blogistan's Newest Celebrity?
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Television Cul-de-Sac Mystery: Why Was Reality Show Killed? — AUSTIN, Tex. - A year ago, Stephen Wright and his partner, John Wright, embarked on a sociology experiment that only a reality show producer could concoct: theirs was one of seven families competing to persuade the residents …
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John / AMERICAblog:
ABC/Disney may have killed new TV show because gay couple won and they didn't want to anger religious right — This is bad. The NYT article below provides a lot of evidence that the religious right got "Welcome to the Neighborhoo," a reality TV show, killed before it even aired a single episode …
MichaelMoore.com:
EXCLUSIVE: JIHADBALL! — CHRIS MATTHEWS AND OSAMA BIN LADEN — A "SPECIAL" FRIENDSHIP — Some believe Osama and Chris Matthews tried to sabotage Lance Armstrong's win in France last year. — "I find it the safest course of action to always let Osama have a strike, even when he throws a gutter ball."
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David Rennie / Telegraph:
Red tape 'turning best firms away from Europe' — Europe's most successful companies are turning their backs on EU markets because of red tape, a high-level report said yesterday. — The companies that Europe needed to survive were instead investing more money than ever in the United States and Asia …
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
Anti-U.S. Tack Backfires On Canada's Liberals — BURLINGTON, Canada — Rob Hlohinec, 58, doesn't see what's so bad about Americans. He even admits to knowing some. — "I've talked to Americans. They want the same things we want," Hlohinec said as he watched a Conservative Party campaign rally in this Ontario town last week.
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Heeding Pakistani Protest, U.N. Blocks Talk by Rape Victim — UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 - Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman whose defiant response to being gang-raped by order of a tribal court brought her worldwide attention, was denied a chance to speak at the United Nations on Friday …
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
HILLARY CLINTON TAKES MONEY FROM THE MULLAHS — Hillary Clinton, on her latest rumble and tumble of speeches aimed at the Bush administration, has accused it of downplaying Iran as a threat to national security and has subsequently called for sanctions against the regime.
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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Some House Democrats seek election public funds — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public financing of elections for the U.S. House of Representatives, not lobbying reform, is the best way to end ethic scandals, a top Democrat said on Friday. — "You can talk all you want about nibbling at the margins …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Liberals Demand Democrats Run To The Cliff — In my previous post below I pointed out how it will be the liberals who come out demanding democrats take a stand that basically says we need to impeach Bush for monitoring terrorist plans here in the US by monitoring their counterparts overseas for leads.
Brad Plumer / Bradford Plumer:
SLOWER, PLEASE — Anytime I hear someone suggest that the only proper way to deal with Iran is to steer the country on the path towards democracy, I think of Michael Ledeen and his calls to topple regimes across the Middle East in some unspecified way—"Faster, please"—and cringe a bit.
