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Greg Sargent / American Prospect:
Dems Don't Know Jack — A Prospect exclusive: A new analysis of Abramoff tribal money by a nonpartisan firm shows it's a Republican scandal. — A new and extensive analysis of campaign donations from all of Jack Abramoff's tribal clients, done by a nonpartisan research firm …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
NBC News PR Department Gets Down and Dirty... Somebody's feeling the heat... How else to explain the widely-off-the-mark responses from NBC's PR department in Lloyd Grove's column to our reporting on Russert's multitude of journalistic ethical conflicts. — Instead of dealing …
Think Progress:
UPDATE: Lauer Says 'Technically Speaking,' It 'May Be' That Abramoff Gave Only to Republicans — Yesterday, Today show anchor Katie Couric falsely claimed that "Democrats took money from Jack Abramoff." Challenged on her facts, Couric said she "would look into that and clarify that for our viewers."
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Republicans Clear the Way for Alito Vote — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito enjoys sufficient bipartisan support to surmount any Senate filibuster attempt by minority Democrats, Senate leaders said Friday. — A final vote making the New Jersey jurist the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice …
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Best of the Tube This Weekend — We'll be appearing this weekend on "The Journal Editorial Report," in its new, faster-paced Fox News Channel incarnation. Topics are the kerfuffle over the terrorist surveillance program and the Alito confirmation.
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Centerfield, Bench Memos …, The Left Coaster, The Reaction, A Chequer-Board of Nights … and PointofLaw.com
John Kerry / dailykos.com:Filibuster Alito — Do I support a filibuster? The answer is yes.
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The Carpetbagger Report, Ezra Klein, Hullabaloo, The Democratic Daily Blog, The Moderate Voice, Newslinker, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, In the Bullpen, The Left Coaster, RedState, protein wisdom, Making Light, Elephants in Academia, INDC Journal, TalkLeft, The Mahablog and kennedy.senate.gov
Reuters:
Hamas, Fatah battle over election results — GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchanged fire on Friday in political turmoil as the long-dominant Fatah faction was threatened with a violent backlash from within after its crushing election defeat by the Islamic militant group.
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Jonathan Steele / Guardian:The Palestinians' democratic choice must be respected
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Greg Miller / Financial Times:
57% Americans support military action in Iran — Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON — Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons …
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Bush's Ratings Sink, but Trust Remains — WASHINGTON — As President Bush prepares for next week's State of the Union address, he faces widespread discontent over his job performance and the nation's direction that could threaten his party in the 2006 election, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Bush's Iran Plan Echoes Kerry, Baffles Friends — President Bush's endorsement of a plan to end the nuclear standoff with Iran by giving the Islamic republic nuclear fuel for civilian use under close monitoring has left some of his supporters baffled. — One cause for the chagrin is that the proposal …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:Maybe that Kerry guy knew what he was talking about
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Associated Press:
Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Justice — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, speaking at a traditionally black college, joked that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned. — Coulter had told the Philander Smith College audience Thursday that more conservative justices …
11alive.com:
ACLU Releases Government Photos — The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected …
New York Times:
New Poll Finds Mixed Support for Wiretaps — President Bush at his news conference Thursday. The latest polls show that public opinion on Mr. Bush's surveillance program is still unresolved. — Americans are willing to tolerate eavesdropping without warrants to fight terrorism …
Michelle Malkin:
MORE CHINA-GOOGLE PROTEST LOGOS — Lots of new entries for the China Google Protest Logo Album coming in. Here's the best of the second batch. — Posted at Discarded Lies: — Sent by reader Herman F.: — From Junkyard Blog's Bryan Preston: — Sent by reader Jorrit P.:
Associated Press:
How U.S. used Iraqi wives for 'leverage' — Suspected insurgents' spouses jailed to force husbands to surrender — The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.
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Chris McGann / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Gay rights bill passes in Legislature — Amid celebration, governor promises to sign law Tuesday — OLYMPIA — The Senate today voted 25-23 to approve a gay rights bill and ended the debate over legislation that emerged in Washington the same year singer Anita Bryant began her "Save Our Children" crusade against such protections.
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Majority Believe White House Should Release Abramoff Records — A strong bipartisan majority of the public believes President Bush should release records of meetings between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and White House staffers despite administration claims that media requests for details …
Bloomberg:
Majority in U.S. Say Bush Presidency Is a Failure, Poll Finds — Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — A majority of Americans said the presidency of George W. Bush has been a failure and that they would be more likely to vote for congressional candidates who oppose him, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.
National Review:
The 2003 Tax Cut on Capital Gains Entirely Paid for Itself — On Thursday the Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook, and buried in one of its nearly impenetrable tables of numbers is a remarkable story that has gone entirely unreported by the mainstream media …
