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1:25 AM ET, January 4, 2007

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Fox News:
SHEEHAN, IRAQ WAR PROTESTERS BREAK UP HOUSE DEMOCRATS' PRESS CONFERENCE  —  Jan. 3: Peace activist Cindy Sheehan speaks on Capitol Hill.  —  WASHINGTON — Iraq war protesters broke up a press conference by House Democrats on Wednesday with chants to bring American troops home from Iraq.
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IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Sheehan, protesters shout down Dem press conference  —  Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan interrupted a press conference by House Democrats .  FOX News' Major Garrett reports: … Blowback
Bob Fertik / Democrats.com:   BREAKING: Cindy Sheehan Hijacks Pelosi Press Conference
New York Times:
In Meetings With Allies, Clinton Hones '08 Strategy  —  The topic was the Democratic sweep in New Hampshire in November, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton couldn't get enough of it.  —  Dining in Washington recently with three allies from New Hampshire, which has the first-in-the-nation primary …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Signals Budget Accord  —  President Bush promised yesterday to produce a plan to balance the federal budget in five years and challenged lawmakers to slash their special pet projects in half next year, embracing priorities of the new Democratic leadership that will assume control of Congress today.
Washington Post:
But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran!  —  Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran — especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
White House Won't Condemn Saddam Taunts  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration sent conflicting signals Wednesday about the taunting and baiting that accompanied Saddam Hussein's execution, with the White House declining to join criticism of the procedure and the State Department and U.S. military raising questions about it.
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Official Held in Hussein Video Probe
Discussion: Decision '08
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Intelligence Chief Is Shifted to Deputy State Dept. Post  —  John D. Negroponte, whom President Bush installed less than two years ago as the first director of national intelligence, will soon leave his post to become the State Department's second-ranking official, administration officials said Wednesday.
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Associated Press:
Negroponte stepping aside as top spy to become deputy secretary of state
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Psikhushka  —  I have written before about this amazing essay, with which many of you are no doubt familiar.  It was written in December 2005, by former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who knows a lot about its subject —  torture.  —  Bukovsky was a very brave dissident and was widely touted …
Discussion: the talking dog and Daily Kos
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Deborah Sontag / New York Times:
In Padilla Wiretaps, Murky View of 'Jihad' Case
Discussion: Attytood and Discourse.net
Michelle Malkin:
Going to Iraq  —  My blogging has been lighter than usual the past few weeks due to family time, Fox News duties, holiday chaos, holiday illness—and, yes, planning for a trip to Iraq.  As you know, ex-CNN newsman Eason Jordan extended an invitation to me three weeks ago to go to Iraq …
Mike Males / New York Times:
This Is Your Brain on Drugs, Dad  —  WHEN releasing last week's Monitoring the Future survey on drug use, John P. Walters, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, boasted that "broad" declines in teenage drug use promise "enormous beneficial consequences not only for our children now …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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Jerry Taylor / Cato-at-liberty:
Drug War Update
Associated Press:
Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007 … VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) — Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007.  —  "I'm not necessarily saying it's …
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: And They Call Us 'Unhinged', Partie Deux  —  We'll, there's just nothing like that good old Right Wing Civility, now is there? … Isn't that special?  —  Can you imagine the s**t-storm that would erupt if a liberal posted an entry like that on their blog?
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Healing Process  —  Following up on my post below, I noticed that the transcript of last night's Shields and Brooks was available and I think it deserves a little bit more attention: … There are so many things in that little exchange that I find apalling I don't know where to start.
Will / Attytood:
UPDATED: The long strange trip of "Mow Baker": From spokesman for anti-U.S. terrorists to our man in Saddam's death chamber  —  About three years, Newsweek magazine wrote a very insightful profile of Iraq's national security advisor, Mowaffak Al-Rubaie.  They called him "Iraq's Mr. Cellophane …
Defense Tech:
THE LAW CATCHES UP TO PRIVATE MILITARIES, EMBEDS  —  Since the start of the Iraq war, tens of thousands of heavily-armed military contractors have been roaming the country — without any law, or any court to control them.  That may be about to change, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow P.W. Singer notes in a Defense Tech exclusive.
Times of London:
Young celebrate freedom in a city where fear is still lurking  —  There was not a hijab or niqab in sight as clubbers at the Global Dance Hall worked up a sweat to gangsta rap and Kenyan hip-hop.  Instead, women shook their hair and stole glances at the men lining the wall.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Editor and Publisher:
AP: Sen. Lieberman's Party Taken Over By Critic  —  STAMFORD The Connecticut for Lieberman Party, the minor political party created by Sen. Joe Lieberman for his successful independent bid for re-election, has been taken over by a longtime critic of the senator.
Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Meets with Cabinet  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  We just finished our first Cabinet meeting of 2007.  I want to thank my Cabinet officers for joining me here.  We discussed our priorities for the next two years, and how we plan to achieve them.
 
 
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Faster, Please!:
The Time May Have Come  —  There is no escape from the war Iran …
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
THE GREAT RISK SHIFT: WAL-MART EDITION.  Wal-Mart is moving …
Discussion: The RBC and Bradford Plumer
James Vicini / Reuters:
FBI: Guantanamo interrogator squatted over Koran
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Why the botched execution matters
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New video shows 5 kidnapped in Iraq
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Justice John Paul Stevens: And He's Telling You He's Not Going
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Foreign Policy:
Why Hawks Win
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Fox News reporter says Bush admitted using cocaine, then retreats …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Guess Who Is Going To DC?  —  Well, aside from Patrick Fitzgerald …
Amos Harel / Associated Press:
Think tank: Israel could attack Iran's nuclear program alone
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