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Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Pelosi 'will ensure' Murtha win, Murtha ally says — House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will ensure that Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) wins his race for majority leader, a key Murtha ally said Monday night. — "She will ensure that they [the Murtha camp] win.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
In Backing Murtha, Pelosi Draws Fire — House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Rep. John P. Murtha's bid for House majority leader set off a furor yesterday on Capitol Hill, with critics charging that she is undercutting her pledge to clean up corruption by backing a veteran lawmaker …
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Washington Post:
A Choice for Democrats — LOYALTY IS an admirable quality, but sometimes it can be taken too far. That is the case with the decision by the incoming House speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to offer a public endorsement of the bid of Pennsylvania Rep. John P. Murtha (D) to become majority leader.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Backing Murtha Is Risky for Next House Speaker
Backing Murtha Is Risky for Next House Speaker
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PR Newswire:
Plutonium Found in Iran Waste Facility — International Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained plutonium and enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for an explanation, an IAEA report said Tuesday. — The report prepared for next week's meeting …
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Iran 'is training the next al-Qa'eda leaders' — Iran is seeking to take control of Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'eda terror network by encouraging it to promote officials known to be friendly to Teheran, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. — According to recent reports received by Western intelligence agencies …
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Says Nuke Program Is Near Complete — TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran would soon celebrate completion of its nuclear fuel program and claimed the international community was ready to accept it as a nuclear state. — Iran has been locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Says He's Open to Change in Iraq, but ... President Bush spent more than an hour on Monday with the independent panel examining strategic options for Iraq, and cautioned afterward that while he was open to new ideas, it was important for "people making suggestions to recognize …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Military Commissions Act in action — The Bush administration's treatment of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri ought to be shocking and horrifying. Instead, it is now not only depressingly familiar, but also something that is formally sanctioned by the U.S. Congress.
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Get Jim in Here, Pronto! — If I told you that there was something in Washington called the Baker commission but didn't tell you what it was about, you still could probably name many of its members. If you are of a certain age, you might wonder, "Jim or Howard?" And you might have a quibble or two.
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Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
IRAQ: A FINAL (BIPARTISAN) PUSH?
IRAQ: A FINAL (BIPARTISAN) PUSH?
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Michelle Malkin:
Blogging for Bolton — The Democrats want John Bolton's scalp. This is a moment for conservatives to stand up to the Left's empty, vindictive obstructionism and support a strong voice for America's interests at the corrupted, soft-on-jihad offices of Turtle Bay. — We're videoblogging for Bolton over at Hot Air.
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Guardian:
Al-Qaida plotting nuclear attack on UK, officials warn — Vikram Dodd — British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday. The announcement, from an officially organised Foreign Office counter-terrorism briefing …
John Tierney / New York Times:
Bring On the Seinfeld Congress — A do-nothing Congress is bad for the local economy. But it's fine for the rest of the country. — To continue reading this article, you must be a subscriber to TimesSelect. Log in now. — What is TimesSelect? — Newspaper subscribers, upgrade to TimesSelect for free now.
Little Green Footballs:
The Media Are the Enemy — You're not going to believe this one. — All our suspicions about mainstream media slanting and distorting the news from the Middle East are confirmed in a bombshell of a post by Bruno Stevens, at the Lightstalkers pro photographers' forum: The Lebanon 'garbage dump' story: complete explanation.
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Lott running for whip post — After keeping his plans close to the vest since Election Day, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) formally declared his bid for minority whip on Monday evening. — Lott had refrained from openly discussing his intentions for the whip race even after GOP Conference …
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Neil Sears / Daily Mail:
Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth — The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die. — Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs …
City Journal:
The Trash Princess — Why Americans love to hate Paris Hilton — Maybe 500 channels and an epidemic of bloggerhea mean that Americans have less of a common culture, but we all still share . . . Paris Hilton. The naughty blond heiress is, like, wallpapering our brains.