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Associated Press:
Lott succeeds in leadership comeback — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the No. 2 post Wednesday for the minority GOP in the next Congress.
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Michelle Malkin:
Another GOP Maalox moment — Just when the MSM focus had fixed on the Democrats' culture of corruption and business-as-usual, along come Beltway Republicans to remind us of how lame the GOP leadership is. — Trent Lott is back. — Flashback 2002: I called Trent Lott the Republican Party's eternal Maalox moment.
Laurie Kellman / ABCNEWS:
Trent Lott Wins Back Leadership Slot — Trent Lott Wins Back Leadership Slot in Senate GOP Caucus, Edging Tennessee's Lamar Alexander — Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Lamar Alexander For Minority Whip
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The Blotter:
Abramoff Reports to Prison; Officials Focus on Reid, Others — Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report: — As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Unfit for Majority Leader — The videotape is grainy, dark and devastating. The congressman and the FBI undercover agents — the congressman thinks they represent an Arab sheik willing to pay $50,000 to get immigration papers — are talking business in the living room of a secretly wired Washington townhouse.
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate From Baker Group's — President Bush formally launched a sweeping internal review of Iraq policy yesterday, pulling together studies underway by various government agencies, according to U.S. officials. — The initiative, begun after Bush met …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Get Out Now? Not So Fast, Experts Say — One of the most resonant arguments in the debate over Iraq holds that the United States can move forward by pulling its troops back, as part of a phased withdrawal. If American troops begin to leave and the remaining forces assume a more limited role …
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Jim Webb / Opinion Journal:
Class Struggle — American workers have a chance to be heard. — The most important—and unfortunately the least debated—issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century.
Associated Press:
Bush reappoints overseas broadcast chief — WASHINGTON —President Bush on Tuesday renominated the chairman of the agency that directs U.S. overseas broadcasts even though the nomination has been stalled in the Senate amid allegations of misconduct. — Kenneth Y. Tomlinson was nominated again …
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Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives wary of choice to lead RNC — Martinez should appeal to Latinos, but may lose support on immigration. — WASHINGTON — President Bush's decision to back Sen. Mel Martinez to help lead the Republican Party, a move intended to appeal to disaffected Latino voters …
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Washington Wire:
One More Time for Judicial Nominees — After calling for bipartisanship, President Bush surprised Senate Democrats with plans to renominate a controversial list of judges - some of whom may be unacceptable even to a few Republican senators. "It's an unfortunate signal," said one senior Democratic Senate aide.
Ralph Peters / New York Post:
ARABIAN NIGHTMARES — YESTERDAY, 80 terrorists in police uniforms raided an Iraqi research institute in Baghdad, rounded up 100-plus male students, loaded them into vehicles in broad daylight and drove away. — They couldn't have pulled it off without the complicity of key elements within …
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Randy Hall / CNSNews:
Giuliani 'Unacceptable' for President, Conservatives Say — (CNSNews.com) - Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani enjoys "a lot of good will" from Republicans from his handling of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but his stance on social issues like abortion and gun control …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Qaeda Leaders Losing Sway Over Militants, Study Finds — As radical Islam spreads globally through online forums and chat rooms, a group of obscure Arab religious thinkers may come to exert more influence over the jihadist movement than Osama bin Laden and other well-known leaders of Al Qaeda …
Daniel Pipes Columns:
Ahmadinejad - Hostage Taker? — Original title: "Цена Вопро
89;а" ["Cost of the Question"] — Soon after his election as president of Iran, on June 25, 2005, pictures of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged showing him as a hostage-taker.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Uncle Sam, keep out — Prior to the 2006 midterm election, the closest thing to a sure bet in politics was a statewide referendum to ban same-sex marriages. Twenty states had considered such ballot measures, and twenty states had approved them, all by wide margins.
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
freed for $2 million — Terrorists used cash for arms to 'hit Zionists,' payment said to encourage more abductions — JERUSALEM - Palestinian terror groups and security organizations in the Gaza Strip received $2 million from a United States source in exchange for the release …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Enter, Pariah: Now It's Hugs for Lieberman — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman strode into a Democratic caucus gathering like he owned the place or, at the very least, like someone who is a flight risk and could leave at any minute, taking the Democrats' new majority with him.
BBC:
Pakistan votes to amend rape laws — Pakistan's national assembly has voted to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery. — Until now rape cases were dealt with in Sharia courts. Victims had to have four male witnesses to the crime - if not they faced prosecution for adultery.
Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:
What motivated man accused of sending threats? — Chad Castagana linked to several right-wing blogs … MSNBC TV — Anchor, 'Countdown' — Keith Olbermann — Anchor, 'Countdown' … OLBERMANN: Federal authorities still expect the preliminary hearing for Chad Conrad Castagana to continue day after tomorrow.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Conservatives in Denial — On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don't yet seem to have gotten past denial. — Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only because they misplaced their ideology. "[T]hey were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism …
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Exultant Chuck Says He'll Veto the Next Alito — New King of Washington Promises Moderate Court; Rove-like, Plans Permanent Democratic Majority; More N.Y. Homeland Money, Iraqi Federalism — More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President's tax cuts …
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