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Hindrocket / Power Line:
AHABS EVERYWHERE — Most Democrats see every event through the filter of their hatred for President Bush. No matter what happens, anywhere in the world, their spin on events is that they discredit the President. Democrats and their media allies are like an armada of Ahabs …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
U.S. Policy Seen as Big Loser in Palestinian Vote — Standing in a sunny Rose Garden on June 24, 2002, surrounded by his top foreign policy advisers, President Bush issued a clarion call for resolving the deadly Israeli-Palestinian conflict: "I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror."
Ian Fisher / New York Times:In Hamas's Overt Hatred, Many Israelis See Hope
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:Thousands of Fatah Activists March in Gaza
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Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
ABC's Woodruff, Cameraman Injured in Iraq — ABC News Co-Anchor Bob Woodruff and a Cameraman Injured in IED Attack in Iraq — NEW YORK Jan 29, 2006 — ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.
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Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Embedding, No Silver Bullet — I've been one of the people making the argument that if reporters have felt unsafe leaving the Green Zone in Iraq, that embedding with the military more often is one solution. — But clearly that isn't a "silver bullet," a way to guarantee people's saftey …
New York Times:
Kerry Gets Cool Response to Call to Filibuster Alito — WASHINGTON, Jan 27 — Senator John Kerry today continued his apparently futile attempt to block the confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme Court, saying that the vote on President Bush's nominee would be "a vote for history."
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:Kerry Defends Senate Filibuster on Alito as 'a Vote of History'
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:Some Real Questions — After reading the thirtieth article …
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New York Times:
Spies, Lies and Wiretaps — A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years. Instead, we got the familiar mix of political spin …
Newsweek:
Palace Revolt — They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. A NEWSWEEK investigation. — Khue Bui for Newsweek — The White House — By By Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change — Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee 'Tipping Point' When It Is Too Late to Act — Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that …
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Diana Jean Schemo / New York Times:
Public-School Students Score Well in Math in Large-Scale Government Study — WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — A large-scale government-financed study has concluded that when it comes to math, students in regular public schools do as well as or significantly better than comparable students in private schools.
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Tracey Boles / Times of London:
Shell and Exxon to smash transatlantic profit records — OIL companies on both sides of the Atlantic will gush record profits this week, with America's Exxon Mobil posting the world's biggest-ever profit, and Shell setting a new record for British companies.
Daily Kos:
And now, let's get to work... This is a follow-up to Armando's great posts this morning on the filibuster. Improbable? Yeah. Impossible? Never. Take 15 minutes out of your weekend for democracy's sake. Track the updates on the cloture count here. Here is the latest update:
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The WSJ Almost Gets It Right — The latest Wall Street Journal editorial on pork once again sounds all the right alarms in dealing with the profligate spending in Washington and the ensuing corruption that it brings. It starts off by scoffing at an earmarked subsidy from the US Navy on a …
Creature / State of the Day:
Perspective, Perspective, Perspective — This thoughtful NYT Op-Ed by history professor Joseph J. Ellis successfully helps us put the tragic events of September 11th into historical perspective. … The historical perspective offered by Ellis is important, not only because it exposes …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Hurricane Investigators See 'Fog of War' at White House — WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — The White House was beset by the "fog of war" in the crucial days immediately after Hurricane Katrina, leaving it unable to respond properly to the unfolding catastrophe, House investigators said Friday …
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Doug / Below The Beltway:
It seems like yesterday, but it was twenty years ago today that the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts, including New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe, who would have been the first civilian to orbit the Earth.
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Hossein Derakhshan / New York Times:
Democracy's Double Standard — THE day before Iran's ninth presidential elections last June, President Bush sent a discouraging message to potential voters. Iran's electoral process "ignores the basic requirements of democracy," Mr. Bush declared, and these elections would be "sadly consistent" with the country's "oppressive record."
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Liz Marlantes / The New Republic:
Newtered — In Democratic circles these days, there is much talk of 1994—with good reason. The president's approval ratings are bad, Congress's are even worse, and, most importantly, scandal is sweeping the nation's capital. The atmosphere is poisonous enough that some Democrats believe …
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Documents show US military in Iraq detain wives — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
A BIPARTISAN SCANDAL?....The American Prospect has commissioned Dwight L. Morris and Associates, a specialist in campaign finance, to examine the contribution records of Indian tribes since 1991 to find out how their giving patterns changed based on whether or not they hired Jack Abramoff to represent them.
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Rocky Mountain News:
Kopel: Did blogosphere influence vote? — Corruption inquiry covered only on Web might have tipped Canadian election — On Monday, Canadian voters elected a new government, led by Stephen Harper and the Conservative party. Without the Internet, Paul Martin and the Liberals might still be ruling Canada.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Take The Money And Run — Jim VandeHei of the WaPo puts his head in the lion's mouth: … Steve Elmendorf has been marked for doom by the Kos himself. Continuing: … Well, yes - the DLC was formed twenty years ago in an attempt to drag the party to the center. How's it going?
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Rob / AMERICAblog:
Bush CUTTING Army Reserve, National Guard — As Katrina showed, the National Guard is already stretched thin in doing the job that it was designed for - protecting the nation. War abroad may be protecting the nation by proxy, but it leaves you short-handed at home.
