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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court allows campaign finance challenges
Discussion: How Appealing
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Ask Court to Reconsider Campaign Finance Case
Discussion: ACSBlog
New York Times:
Judge Alito's Radical Views
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:   Supreme Court Rejects BlackBerry Appeal
Washington Post:
The President's End Run  —  THE MOST detailed legal justification to date for the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance has emerged from the Bush administration, but the 42-page version isn't any more convincing than its shorter predecessors.
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John O'Neil / New York Times:
Intelligence Deputy Defends Surveillance Program  —  Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who led the National Security Agency when it began a program of warrantless wiretaps, vigorously defended the program today, but acknowledged that it depends on a lower standard of evidence than required by courts.
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Bush Defends Domestic Spying
Discussion: Wonkette
Anthony Phillips / This Is London:
George sinks to new low  —  First he shocked TV viewers and his colleagues by pretending to be a cat and lapping milk from Rula Lenska's hand.  —  Now George Galloway is set to attract further derision after performing a dance routine on Celebrity Big Brother - in a tight-fitting, red leotard.
Mr. Right / The Right Place:
Sunspot Activity Causes Brief Interruption of Karl Rove's "Mind-Ray" - Democrats Claim Rare Moment of Sanity  —  For several odd minutes on Sunday afternoon, nearly every Democrat and prominent liberal celebrity or newsmaker in America was making a mad dash to find a camera and/or a microphone.
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Greg Myre / New York Times:
For a Palestinian leader, the name's the thing  —  JENIN, West Bank The candidate's name is Jamal Abu Roub, but everyone here calls him Hitler because, well, that is the name he has answered to quite comfortably since he was a teenager.  —  Roub, 40, is a leader of the militant Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades …
Discussion: Debbie Schlussel and Link Mecca
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
In a Stronghold, Fatah Fights to Beat Back a Rising Hamas
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
'Cheap Suitcase' Watch  —  Chris Matthews drew fire for "comparing" Michael Moore to Osama Bin Laden, and many on the left our howling for an apology.  Will Mr. Matthews fold up like a cheap suitcase?  We assume so, since, as a reliable Bush-basher, he long ago lost his audience on the right.
Discussion: Done With Mirrors
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William Beutler / The Hotline's Blogometer:
1/23: Comparative Literature
Discussion: tpmcafe.com, Decision '08 and RedState
austinbay.net:
Oh, Canada/with some thoughts on the Canadian military  —  Over the weekend wire and blog reports I read said the race between the Conservatives and Liberals had tightened.  Apparently voters in the Maritimes are particularly vulnerable to allegations that those "Conservatives out West" are dangerous folks, almost Americans.
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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 …
Michelle Malkin:
THE AMAZON.COM REVIEW CESSPOOL  —  Much has been made of the rabid Left's online swarm that shut down the Washington Post's blog comment section.  The comments seemed comparatively tame to me.  Maybe I'll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
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 …
Washington Post:
Ford to Cut Thousands of Jobs and Close 14 Factories  —  Ford Motor Co. announced today that it will cut as many as 30,000 jobs and shut down 14 factories to help reverse losses in its troubled North American automotive division.  —  The restructuring announcement came shortly after Ford reported …
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
A PRE-STATE OF THE UNION PRIMER.  Another day, another detailed preview of George W. Bush's State of the Union health care proposals.  This morning's iteration comes from the LA Times' Peter Gosselin, one of the best social policy reporters in the country.  But even the best reporters …
David Carr / New York Times:
Soothe the Blog and Reap the Whirlwind  —  LAST Thursday, Deborah Howell, the ombudsman for The Washington Post, posted a clarification on the newspaper's Web site after suggesting in her Sunday column that the lobbyist Jack Abramoff had made "substantial campaign contributions to both major parties."
Spengler / Asia Times:
Why the West will attack Iran  —  Why did French President Jacques Chirac last week threaten to use non-conventional - that is, nuclear - weapons against terrorist states?  And why did Iran announce that it would shift foreign-exchange reserves out of European banks (although it has since retracted this warning)?
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Killing Me Softly  —  I'm feeling down right now.  I know I shouldn't.  The fact that Tom DeLay has stepped down is such a huge victory for humanity all by itself that I should be dancing a jig for the next six months.  But, I'm down in the dumps, mostly because I am watching George W. Bush repeat …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
How to Cure Pork  —  And how big government produced the Abramoff scandal.  —  In the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal, It seems everyone has discovered the excesses of pork-barrel spending.  Voters may now be disgusted enough to make the political costs to a member seeking pork greater than the benefits.
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.

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