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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 …
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.
John Kerry / dailykos.com:
Filibuster Alito  —  Do I support a filibuster?  The answer is yes.
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 …
Discussion: New Sisyphus
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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.
Charles J. Hanley / Associated Press:
Documents Show Army Seized Wives As Tactic  —  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.  —  In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother …
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
Discussion: The Reaction
U.S. Newswire:
THE NSA PROGRAM TO DETECT AND PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS MYTH V. REALITY  —  Myth: The NSA program is illegal.  —  Reality: The President's authority to authorize the terrorist surveillance program is firmly based both in his constitutional authority as Commander-in-Chief …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and TalkLeft
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Richard A. Posner / The New Republic:
Wire Trap  —  The revelation by The New York Times …
Discussion: TAPPED
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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blogometer.nationaljournal.com:
BLOGS VS. THE MSM: Howell's Moving Castle  —  Last p.m. we had the unique experience of attending an Nat'l Press Club luncheon and discussion hosted by Alex S. Jones, dir. of the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Gov't at Harvard.  Also in attendance were bloggers representing Power Line …
Discussion: Open Letter …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Don't F**k With The Tech Guy
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
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.:
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Savings Accounts for Health Costs Attract Wall Street  —  When it comes to medical benefits, millions of Americans already have a health insurer.  Soon, many will also have a debit card and a bank tied to their medical plan.  —  Banks, credit unions and money management firms …
Jonathan Steele / Guardian:
The Palestinians' democratic choice must be respected  —  The excuses given for refusing to deal with Hamas will not wash. This is a chance for Europe to have an independent role  —  Hamas's triumph in Wednesday's Palestinian elections is the best news from the Middle East for a long time.
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.
New York Times:
Bush and China Endorse Russia's Nuclear Plan for Iran  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — President Bush and the Chinese government both declared their full support on Thursday for a Russian proposal to allow Iran to operate civilian nuclear facilities as long as Russia and international nuclear inspectors are in full control of the fuel.
Virginia H. Mannering / bea.doc.gov:
News Release: Gross Domestic Product  —  In order to view the PDF files on this page, the free Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed.  —  Recorded message: (202) 606-5306  —  GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: FOURTH QUARTER 2005 (ADVANCE)  —  Real gross domestic product …
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 …

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MSNBC:
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Joseph Rago / Opinion Journal:
Rosenberg Reruns  —  They were guilty, but the left can't give up their cause.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
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Associated Press:
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DeLay appearance cost Fox $14,000
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Democrats in 2 Southern States Push Bills on Bible Study
New York Times:
Justice and Junkets  —  Justice Antonin Scalia certainly …
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Washington Post:
K Street's New Ways Spawn More Pork
Bloomberg:
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