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Joel Stein / Los Angeles Times:
Warriors and wusses  —  I DON'T SUPPORT our troops.  This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car.  Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.  —  I'm sure I'd like the troops.
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Michelle Malkin:
THE MOST LOATHSOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA  —  Some website has named me the 49th most loathsome person in America.  (I'm just ahead of Geraldo.  Others on the list: 30) Hillary Clinton; 29) Terri Schiavo; 19) James Sensenbrenner; 13) God; 4) You.)  —  You want loathsome?
Discussion: Myopic Zeal
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Leftist: "I Don't Support Troops"; Urges Them to Disobey Orders  —  Newslinker has this L.A. Times article revealing a pretty disgusting sentiment which is all too common on the radical Left.  If I was a mainstream liberal I'd be first in line to stone this S.O.B. just to prove that his view is a minority one.
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Canadian Voters Oust Incumbent for Conservative
Discussion: Althouse
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Don't Support the Troops  —  Joel Stein makes a rather bizarre argument …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Reuters:
Canada wakes up to new Conservative government
Mark / Mark in Mexico:
Joel Stein - wuss, coward, traitor, feeling guilty.
Discussion: NewsHog
Insight:
Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst  —  The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.  —  "A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.  —  Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Panel Votes Along Party Lines to Endorse Alito  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted strictly along party lines today to endorse Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. for a seat on the Supreme Court, sending the nomination to the full Senate, where confirmation is all but certain.
Discussion: Daily Kos, firedoglake and Feministe
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Administration's new FISA defense is factually false  —  In light of Gen. Hayden's new claim yesterday that the reason the Bush Administration decided to eavesdrop outside of FISA is because the "probable cause" standard for obtaining a FISA warrant was too onerous (and prevented …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
AMENDING FISA....Here's another point related to General Hayden's …
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Posters vs. the Post  —  Lessons from the Post.blog meltdown.  —  Washingtonpost.com temporarily shuttered its Post.blog message board last week after hundreds of personal attacks and profane, sexist, and generally hateful comments were placed there by readers—and others …
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Ethics Problem?  —  What Was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Doing on Day of Supreme Court Swearing-In?  —  Jan. 23, 2006 — At the historic swearing-in of John Roberts as the 17th chief justice of the United States last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Rove's Early Warning  —  Perhaps it's an aspect of compassionate conservatism.  Or maybe it's just a taunt and a dare.  Well in advance of Election Day, Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, has a habit of laying out his party's main themes, talking points and strategies.
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Benedict Carey / New York Times:
A Shocker: Partisan Thought Is Unconscious  —  Liberals and conservatives can become equally bug-eyed and irrational when talking politics, especially when they are on the defensive.  —  Using M.R.I. scanners, neuroscientists have now tracked what happens in the politically partisan brain …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Judge Orders U.S. to Supply Prisoner Names  —  A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to release the names and nationalities of hundreds of prisoners detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rejecting the government's argument that it would be a violation of their privacy and expose them to retaliation by terrorist groups.
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainee IDs
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Leftists Against Free Speech And Dialogue  —  One of the least-welcome developments of the Internet has been the rise of e-graffiti, especially at places like Amazon.com, where the victims overwhelmingly have been conservative writers.  It appears that those who oppose conservative thought …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Closed-Door Deal Makes $22 Billion Difference  —  GOP Negotiators Criticized for Change In Measure on HMOs  —  House and Senate GOP negotiators, meeting behind closed doors last month to complete a major budget-cutting bill, agreed on a change to Senate-passed Medicare legislation that would save …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
TimesSelect Draws About 156,000 Web-Only Subs in First 4 Months  —  NEW YORK About 156,000 people have signed up and paid a special online fee to read The New York Times' columnists since the paper launched its TimesSelect service four months ago, the paper reported Tuesday.
Discussion: mediabistro
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - The White House was told in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that the city would probably soon be inundated with floodwater, forcing the long-term relocation of hundreds of thousands of people …

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