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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Sen. Obama criticizes filibuster tactic — WASHINGTON - To more effectively oppose Supreme Court nominees in the future, Democrats need to convince the public "their values are at stake" rather than use stalling tactics to try to thwart the president, said a senator who opposes Samuel Alito's confirmation.
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John / AMERICAblog:Why I Oppose the Filibuster — Before you post any searing criticism …
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Factesque, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, The Sundries Shack, Brilliant at Breakfast and Pam's House Blend
Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:Tilting at Alito — IN MASSACHUSETTS, old liberals never die.
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Power Line, California Conservative, Daily Kos, Solomonia, Carol Platt Liebau and Pundit Review
MSNBC:
Transcript for January 29 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Hamas wins in the Middle East, domestic eavesdropping in America, the Jack Abramoff scandal, Hurricane Katrina, and more. With us: an exclusive interview with the majority leader of the United States Senate, Dr. Bill Frist, Republican from Tennessee.
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The Huffington Post
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Associated Press:
Frist: Gov't Unwanted in End-of-Life Cases — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who took a leading role in the Terry Schiavo case, said Sunday it taught him that Americans do not want the government involved in such end-of-life decisions. — Frist, considered a presidential hopeful …
Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
ABC Team Stabilized After Iraq Convoy Hit — BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 — A co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" and an ABC cameraman suffered serious head wounds Sunday in a roadside bomb attack in Taji, north of Baghdad. They were stabilized at a military hospital and were later flown to Germany …
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Ian James / Associated Press:
Chavez Backs Sheehan Plan for Bush Protest — CARACAS, Venezuela - Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who just announced that she is weighing a run for Senate, plans to protest again outside President Bush's Texas ranch, Venezuela's president said Sunday with Sheehan by his side.
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The American Mind
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Al Qaeda Detainee's Mysterious Release — Moroccan Spoke Of Aiding Bin Laden During 2001 Escape — RABAT, Morocco — For more than a decade, Osama bin Laden had few soldiers more devoted than Abdallah Tabarak. A former Moroccan transit worker, Tabarak served as a bodyguard for the al Qaeda leader …
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Paul Boutin:
Chinese Google filter only works if you can spell — google.cn image search for Tiananmen: Gate of Heavenly Peace. — google.cn image search for Tianenmen, Tienanmen and Tiananman: Tanks, tanks, more tanks. — Try it yourself: Compare the same image search on google.com and google.cn.
Marc Schulman / AMERICAN FUTURE:
Surveillance and the Eyes of Al Qaeda — Time heals. It also induces complacency. On Election Day 2004, 19 percent of Americans thought that terrorism was the most important issue we faced; in a recent poll, only five percent thought so. We do feel safer, after all.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:Putting the terrorist threat into perspective
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Majikthise, Hullabaloo, The Heretik, BrothersJudd Blog, Democrat Taylor Marsh … and Prometheus 6
Matthew B. Stannard / San Francisco Chronicle:
THE WAR WITHIN — Pike County, Ky. — BATTLE SCARS: The photo of the 'Marlboro Man' in Fallujah became a symbol of the Iraq conflict when it ran in newspapers across America in 2004. Now the soldier has returned home to Kentucky,where he battles the demons of post-traumatic stress
Katrina vanden Heuvel / The Huffington Post:
Liberal Bloggers—Tim Kaine Isn't the Problem — Why are so many liberal bloggers up in arms about Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine being picked to give the Democrat's reply to Bush's State of the Union? There's been fury in the blogosphere about everything from Kaine's looks, style …
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Crooks and Liars, TBogg, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, BlueOregon, firedoglake and THE NEWS BLOG
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Weak Ratings Confront Bush Ahead of State of Union — War Fatigue, Ethics Concerns Impact Approval Rating — Jan. 29, 2006 — A weakened George W. Bush faces the nation in his 5th State of the Union address beset by war fatigue, persistent discontent on the economy and other domestic issues …
Observer:
Women demand tougher laws to curb abortions — · Poll reveals growing concern over late terminations — · Blair under pressure to agree review as MPs urge change — Denis Campbell and Gaby Hinsliff — A majority of women in Britain want the abortion laws to be tightened …
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PrawfsBlawg
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
In Alito, G.O.P. Reaps Harvest Planted in '82 — Last February, as rumors swirled about the failing health of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a team of conservative grass-roots organizers, public relations specialists and legal strategists met to prepare a battle plan to ensure any vacancies were filled by like-minded jurists.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE SILENCE OF THE TIMES — Last night at the end of his long post "Ahabs everywhere," John took a look at the New York Times article by Eric Lichtblau and Adam Liptak purporting to assess the Bush administration's argument for the legality of the NSA surveillance program.
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called "stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat.
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Scrutiny Hooligans, Say Anything, The Officers' Club, Running Scared, Dr. Sanity and BlondeSense
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Bloggers and journalists — I was at the bloggers-meet-journalists lunch a few days ago which Matt Stoller and others have been talking about, and even tried to say something, but was shut down by the moderator, who thought that I was going to say something else altogether.
James Wolcott:
PAJAMA PARTY SPRINGS A LEAK — When bloggers are in full war cry against Big Bad Butt-Ugly Mainstream Media, they demand transparency and accountability from these bureaucratic dinosaurs tottering on the bottom line of extinction; they want files thrown open, memos released, heads lopped, apologies tendered.
