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Matt Stoller / Open Letter To Chris Matthews:
Chris Matthews accuses Sen. Kennedy of molesting Judge Alito's wife — Yes, it's that bad. After his on-the-air gay-bashing, his creepy stereotyping of Latinos, his incredibly offensive comparisons of peaceful Americans to Osama bin Laden, and his ever-growing right-wing bias, MSNBC's Chris Matthews has gone off the deep end.
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Brilliant at Breakfast
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Senate Ends Alito Filibuster Attempt — 75-25 Vote Virtually Assures Nominee's Confirmation — By a 72-25 vote, the Senate cut off a symbolic filibuster attempt today on the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr., all but assuring that the federal appeals court judge will be confirmed Tuesday morning by the Senate.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Two Nominee Strategies. One Worked. — WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 — The week before his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. e-mailed the text of his opening statement to the White House. It included very little about his legal thinking, dwelled at length on his family …
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The Moderate Voice
Michelle Malkin:KENNEDY UNHINGED: LIVEBLOGGING THE MELTDOWN
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
"It Is The Only Way We Can Live" — So we only got 25 Senators to vote for a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee who, if defeated, would be replaced by someone just as bad by a president in the pocket of his radical right wing. Well. — Do you know how many votes the Republicans managed …
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Reuters, The Carpetbagger Report, The Heretik, Seeing the Forest, Making Light and Sisyphus Shrugged
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Thanks — The Judiciary Committee hearings on Alito were a real eye opener for me and I think for many others as well. Not so much because the members of the committee were in such disarray — that's been going on for a long time — but because as we sat here together and watched …
Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Security Council to Review Iran Nuke Case — LONDON - The United States and the other four permanent members of the U.N. Security Council reached surprising agreement Tuesday that Iran should be hauled before that powerful body over its disputed nuclear program.
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Iran sets up secret team to infiltrate UN nuclear watchdog, say officials — Iran has formed a top secret team of nuclear specialists to infiltrate the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the UN-sponsored body that monitors its nuclear programme, The Daily Telegraph has been told.
Deepa Babington / Reuters:
Exxon profit tops $10 billion, capping record year — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Monday reported a quarterly profit of $10.7 billion, capping a year of record earnings dominated by surging oil and gas prices.
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Donna Abu-Nasr / Associated Press:
Protests Over Muhammad Cartoon Grow — BEIRUT, Lebanon - The controversy over Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad escalated Monday as gunmen seized an EU office in Gaza and Muslims appealed for a trade boycott of Danish products. Denmark called for its citizens in the Middle East to exercise vigilance.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Gonzales Is Challenged on Wiretaps — Feingold Says Attorney General Misled Senators in Hearings — Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) charged yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing a year ago when he appeared to try to avoid answering …
Aljazeera:
Zawahiri says he escaped US raid — Aljazeera has aired a new video in which al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls George Bush a butcher and threatens a new attack in the US. — Monday's video was his first appearance since a US air strike that targeted him on 13 January in Pakistan.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:New Zawahiri tape shows terror-leader defiant …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
President facing 'gray and gloomy' electorate — NBC/WSJ poll: Small slice of good news for Bush on domestic wiretap issue … WASHINGTON - — Mark Murray — Heading into Tuesday's State of the Union address and the beginning of the 2006 political season, President Bush faces …
ABCNEWS:
ABC News' Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt Show Improvement — 'World News Tonight' Co-Anchor and Cameraman Injured by Roadside Bomb in Iraq — Jan. 30, 2006 — Doctors, colleagues and family members received positive news about the progress of "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Tasting Victory, Liberals Instead Have a Food Fight — The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds congressional Democrats in the best position they've held in 14 years, besting President Bush and Republican lawmakers on Iraq, the economy, health care, immigration, ethics and more.
John Bazemore / MSNBC:
Coretta Scott King dead at 78 — Widow of civil rights leader suffered heart attack in August — Coretta Scott King speaks during an interview at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in this Jan. 13, 2004 file photo. — NBC VIDEO … ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King …
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
A New Kind of Care in a New Era of Casualties — TAMPA, Fla. — Morning rounds at the Tampa veterans hospital, and a phalanx of specialists stands at Joshua Cooley's door. — Inert in his bed, the 29-year-old Marine reservist is a survivor of an Iraq car bombing and a fearsome scramble of wounds …
