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Emanuele Ottolenghi / National Review:
Hamas Without Veils — Contrary to initial responses, Hamas's projected victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections is a positive development. Not, as its apologists claim, because the proximity of power will favor a process of cooptation into parliamentary politics, and therefore strengthen the pragmatic wing of Hamas.
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:Hamas Victory Stuns Palestinian Pols
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:Waiting — Two items, the first from a European blog called …
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CNN:
Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito — Unclear if Massachusetts Democrat has votes needed to block nominee — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.
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Bob Fertik / Democrats.com:
BREAKING: KERRY WILL LEAD FILIBUSTER!!!!! — Update 5:50 pm: AP reports "The Senate will vote Monday on cutting off debate. If Alito's supporters get 60 votes in the 100-member body, the confirmation vote will follow on Tuesday." — Update 4:23 pm: CNN confirms my report from 1 pm and says Ted Kennedy is supporting Kerry.
Michelle Malkin:
THE CHINA-GOOGLE PROTEST LOGO ALBUM — I'm collecting photoshopped/altered Google logos by bloggers and others in response to the search engine company's decision to kowtow to China. Let a thousand protest icons bloom! — Here was mine: — Murdoc: — Pam at Atlas Shrugs, who's calling on you to divest from Google:
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Ira Stoll / New York Sun:
Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says — The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.
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Washington Post:
President Bush Holds a White House Press Conference — SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES — BUSH: I thank you all very much. Look forward to answering some of your questions here in a minute. — I'm also looking forward to going up to Capitol Hill next Tuesday to give my State of the Union address.
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White House:
Press Conference of the President — THE PRESIDENT: Sorry to interrupt. (Laughter.) Thank you all very much. I look forward to answering some of your questions here in a minute. I'm also looking forward to going up to Capitol Hill next Tuesday to give my State of the Union address.
David Donnelly / THE DAILY DELAY:
Photograph Company President that "scrubbed" Abramoff photo with Bush gave to Bush — Josh has a post in which he interviews the President of Reflections Photography on why their photos of Abramoff and Bush are no longer available. From his post: … Business decision. Yeah, I bet.
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
The Power-Madness of King George — Is Bush turning America into an elective dictatorship? — It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights. President Bush believes he has the legal authority …
Leslie Baldacci / Chicago Sun Times:
Thousands apply for jobs at new Wal-Mart — Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits.
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Ann Imse / Rocky Mountain News:
Salazar: Thomas an 'abomination' — High court justice no Thurgood Marshall, Colo. senator says — Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar on Wednesday called U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an "abomination" compared with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The Fix-It Myth — Almost everyone agrees that we ought to "fix the health care system" — a completely meaningless phrase despite its popularity with politicians, pundits and "experts." Indeed, it is popular precisely because it is meaningless. The people who proclaim it rarely tell you the discomforting choices it might involve.
Tracy Jan / Boston Globe:
Schoolboy's bias suit — Argues system is favoring girls — At Milton High School, girls outnumber boys by almost 2 to 1 on the honor roll. In Advanced Placement classes, almost 60 percent of the students are female. — It's not that girls are smarter than boys, said Doug Anglin, a 17-year-old senior at the high school.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The significance of the Administration's July, 2002 statements about FISA — The Administration has tried to explain away its opposition to the DeWine legislation which would have loosened eavesdropping requirements under FISA by claiming that the DeWine standard of "reasonable suspicion" …
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canada.com:
Gore accuses big oil of bankrolling Tories — Election laws only allow $1,000 corporate donations — Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has accused the oil industry of financially backing the Tories and their "ultra-conservative leader" to protect its stake in Alberta's lucrative oilsands.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Oprah Calls Defense of Author 'a Mistake' — In an extraordinary reversal of her strident defense of the author whose book she catapulted to the top of the best-seller list, Oprah Winfrey said today she believed that the author James Frey "betrayed millions of readers" by making up elements …
neo-neocon:
A mind is a difficult thing to change—Part 6 B (After 9/11: war is interested in you) — You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. — Leon Trotsky — INTRODUCTION — This segment of the story begins with a shock to the system: 9/11.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Gentleman's Agreement — Maureen Dowd is the Queen Bee of the Kewl Kidz. And she is one of those most responsible for the media's current narrative of American Politics: Republicans are jocks, Democrats are nerds. — Here's Dowd's nasty and dangerous little sideswipe today:
