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Judge Alito's Radical Views — If Judge Samuel Alito Jr.'s confirmation hearings lacked drama, apart from his wife's bizarrely over-covered crying jag, it is because they confirmed the obvious. Judge Alito is exactly the kind of legal thinker President Bush wants on the Supreme Court.
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Michael Valpy / Globe and Mail:
Tories poised for minority, final poll shows — Toronto — As Canada's 39th general election campaign came to a halt Sunday night, final polling numbers gave Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party a firm grip on minority government following Monday's vote.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Delicate Dance for Bush in Depicting Spy Program as Asset — WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - With a campaign of high-profile national security events set for the next three days, following Karl Rove's blistering speech to Republicans on Friday, the White House has effectively declared that it views …
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USA Today:
White House steps up defense of domestic spying — WASHINGTON — The White House launches a political campaign this week, not for a candidate but for a controversial program: warrantless surveillance of some U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency. — President Bush plans to defend …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:The media's distorted understanding of "neutrality"
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Doug Struck / Washington Post:
Professionals Fleeing Iraq As Violence, Threats Persist — Exodus of Educated Elite Puts Rebuilding at Risk — BAGHDAD — The office of Iraq's most eminent cardiologist is padlocked. A handwritten sign is taped on his wooden door in the private clinic in Baghdad: Patients of Dr. Omar Kubasi should call him in Amman, Jordan.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee (2006 Edition) — Right Wing News emailed more than 230 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination for President …
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Shelby Steele / Opinion Journal:
Hillary's Plantation — Hillary Clinton reveals her fear of Condi Rice. — Of course Hillary Clinton's recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a "plantation" was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
NBC Ending 'West Wing' and 'Will & Grace' — PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 22 - NBC will end two of its most successful series of recent years, "The West Wing" and "Will & Grace," at the conclusion of the current season and will shift the schedules of three other hit shows, "The Apprentice," …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:NBC Cancels 'West Wing' After 7 Seasons
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
As Profits Soar, Companies Pay U.S. Less for Gas Rights — WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - At a time when energy prices and industry profits are soaring, the federal government collected little more money last year than it did five years ago from the companies that extracted more than $60 billion …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Politics Alleged In Voting Cases — Justice Officials Are Accused of Influence — The Justice Department's voting section, a small and usually obscure unit that enforces the Voting Rights Act and other federal election laws, has been thrust into the center of a growing debate …
Washington Post:
Attacks Strain Efforts On Terror — Alliance Is Tested By Incidents Along Afghan Frontier — KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 22 — Events along the ever-volatile Afghanistan-Pakistan border this month have exposed deep fault lines in the anti-terrorism alliance among the United States …
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Church Ceremony Celebrates Gay Pairs — Straight Couples Join in Vows of Commitment at Protest Event in Arlington — In a gesture of love that has become in Virginia, as elsewhere, a gesture of political protest, about 60 gay and heterosexual couples, some young and others who've …
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Halliburton Cited in Iraq Contamination — WASHINGTON - Water supplied to a U.S. base in Iraq was contaminated and the contractor in charge, Halliburton, failed to tell troops and civilians at the facility, according to internal documents from the company and interviews with former Halliburton officials.
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Journalist's Fate is Discussed; Attacking Murtha's Military Record; Apple's Success Story — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): A journalist's fate.
Josh White / Washington Post:
Former Abu Ghraib Guard Calls Top Brass Culpable for Abuse — Wife of Jailed Soldier Says Tactics Were in Place From Start — Stepping into the Abu Ghraib prison for the first time, Megan Ambuhl was stunned. There were naked men in dusty cells, male prisoners wearing women's underwear …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for January 22 — Barack Obama, James Carville, Paul Begala & Mary Matalin — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: This United States senator has just returned from a fact-finding mission to Iraq and the Middle East and has now become the Democrats' point man for lobbying reform.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Russert Watch: Announcing (Sort of) the Carville-Russert XM Sports Show
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