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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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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" …
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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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Jukeboxgrad / dailykos.com:Here they are: the 42 blog posts WaPo wants to hide from you
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:FDL Late Nite: What Say You About Greater Blogistan's Newest Celebrity?
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE WASHINGTON POST has pulled down comments in response to …
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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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Glenn Greenwald / Crooks and Liars:
Why the Chris Matthews smear matters — Why the Chris Matthews smear matters — The anger over Chris Matthews' comment that Osama bin Laden in his new video sounds like Michael Moore, and the resulting campaign demanding that Matthews apologize, arises from much more than a single comment, and has little to do with Moore himself.
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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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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.
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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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Daily Kos Is A Mouthpiece For Kerry's Campaign — John Kerry @ the Daily Kos: … No Mr. Kerry what is outrageous and should not sit well with anyone is that the Daily Kos, run by Democratic Consultant Markos Moulitsas, is publishing John Kerry's election speech drafts. (KJLo @ NRO thinks it's a joke!)
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Reagan Revolution Weekend Trackbacks — 25 years ago, the revolution began! If you haven't done so yet, Join the Reagan Conservatives. … At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan looked back with satisfaction at the achievements of his time in office, known as the Reagan Revolution …
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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 …
New York Times:
Pakistan's Push in Border Areas Is Said to Falter — PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 19 - Two years after the Pakistani Army began operations in border tribal areas to root out members of Al Qaeda and other foreign militants, Pakistani officials who know the area say the military campaign is bogged down …
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Munir Ahmad / Associated Press:
Pakistan Tells U.S. Not to Repeat Attack — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's president told a senior American official Saturday the United States must not repeat airstrikes like the one that apparently was aimed at al-Qaida but killed civilians in a remote village, as officials sought to soothe public outrage over the attack.
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Hugh Hewitt / Weekly Standard:
The Media's Ancien Régime — To enter Columbia University's graduate school of journalism is to enter the highest temple of a religion in decline. A statue of Thomas Jefferson guards the plaza outside the doors, and the entry room is suitably grand.
