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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers — WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 - The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
New Tax Breaks for Medical Expenses — President Bush will propose that Americans be allowed to take tax deductions on more of their out-of pocket medical expenses, as part of an initiative the White House believes will rein in soaring health costs by shifting responsibility toward individuals …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Agrees to Censor Results in China — Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market. — The Mountain View …
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Guardian:
Galloway may face serious fraud office investigation — George Galloway faces the prospect of a criminal investigation into his activities by the serious fraud office, which has collected evidence relating to the oil-for-food corruption scandal in Iraq. — A four-strong SFO team returned …
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radioblogger.com:
Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein today saying he doesn't support the troops. — It's another glaring example of why the Times is the worst newspaper in America: — 01-24stein.mp3 — HH: Welcome now Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times, columnist there. Hi, Joel. Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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Jim Treacher / Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher?:ME, MYSELF, AND I(RAQ) — Hi, Joel Stein here.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Bush the Incompetent — Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it's hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president's defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq …
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Washington Post:
Mr. Abramoff's Meetings — HERE ARE SOME things we know about Jack Abramoff and the White House: The disgraced lobbyist raised at least $100,000 for President Bush's reelection campaign. He had long-standing ties to Karl Rove, a key presidential adviser. He had extensive dealings …
James Glanz / New York Times:
Audit Describes Misuse of Funds in Iraq Projects — A new audit of American financial practices in Iraq has uncovered irregularities including millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:The stunning debacle on Iraq 'reconstruction'
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Gonzales Says NSA Criticism Misleading — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the Bush administration's domestic spying program Tuesday and suggested that some critics and news reports have misled Americans about the breadth of the National Security Agency's surveillance.
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Reuters:
Iraqi insurgents unite against al-Qa'ida — BAGHDAD: Iraqi insurgents in the Sunni city of Ramadi have turned against their al-Qa'ida allies after a bomb attack killed 80 people, sparking tit-for-tat assassinations. — Residents yesterday said at least three prominent figures on both sides …
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Sifu Tweety / The Poor Man Institute:
Tapping? I don't hear any tapping — The good thing about this whole "Defending Unchecked Presidential Power" publicity tour is that we're getting a lot more information about what the NSA eavesdropping program did and didn't entail. The bad thing is that this seems to be confusing the hell out of most of the blogosphere.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:The "Bad Law" defense
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Kofi A. Annan / Washington Post:
Darfur Descending — When I visited Darfur last May, I felt hopeful. Today I am pessimistic, unless a major new international effort is mustered in the coming weeks. — I visited a village whose people had returned after fleeing from violence and were living in relative safety …
Kimberly Hefling / timesleader.com:
Casey announces endorsement of Alito — WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum's leading Democratic challenger, Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey, announced Tuesday that he endorses Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court. — For weeks, Republicans have called Casey "Silent Bob" …
Brian C. Anderson / Opinion Journal:
Shut Up, They Explained — The left's regulatory war against free speech. — The rise of alternative media—political talk radio in the 1980s, cable news in the '90s, and the blogosphere in the new millennium—has broken the liberal monopoly over news and opinion outlets.
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Associated Press:
Men in Mexican Army Uniforms in Border Standoff, Official Says — SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Men in Mexican military-style uniforms crossed the Rio Grande into the United States on a marijuana-smuggling foray, leading to an armed confrontation with Texas law officers, authorities said Tuesday.
Seth Hettena / Associated Press:
Earle Probes Possible Cunningham-DeLay Tie — SAN DIEGO - The Texas prosecutor targeting Rep. Tom DeLay has issued a second round of subpoenas to businessmen here seeking records surrounding donations to the former Republican leader and disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
livescience.com:
Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds — Democrats and Republicans alike are adept at making decisions without letting the facts get in the way, a new study shows. — And they get quite a rush from ignoring information that's contrary to their point of view.
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