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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Reported Dead — A source close to Pajamas Media has learned that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has apparently succumbed to the cancer that hospitalized him last month, as exclusively reported by Pajamas Media, at age 67.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Pajamas Media: Iran's supreme leader dead — This is either going to be a two-ton feather in Pajamas's cap or a major embarrassment. I have my fingers crossed for them. There's not a word about it on Google News and Iranian dissidents have been known to exaggerate, but this report at AKI …
James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
W pushes envelope on U.S. spying — New postal law lets Bush peek through your mail — WASHINGTON - President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned. — The President asserted his new authority …
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Pelosi ready to make history as new speaker — A new Congress convenes today with a narrow Democratic majority lording over a despondent Republican minority. — While the full weight of Republicans' powerlessness sinks in after 12 years of control, Democrats are celebrating …
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Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Passed Over by Pelosi, Harman Doesn't Get Even. She Gets Mad. — Catfight aftermath: Rep. Jane Harman is still quite irked that House Speaker-designee Nancy Pelosi nixed her for chairman of the House intelligence committee — and she's not exactly being stoic about it.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
D.C. Notes: Wes Clark is Steamed, Jane Harman Isn't, and Terry …
D.C. Notes: Wes Clark is Steamed, Jane Harman Isn't, and Terry …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
The Democrats' Cautious Tiptoe Around the President's Tax Cuts — President Bush is all but daring Democratic leaders to attack his signature tax cuts as they take over Congress. But Democrats, perhaps to his frustration, are having none of it. — In an opening salvo on Wednesday …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Right Minimum Wage — A federal minimum wage is an idea whose time came in 1938, when public confidence in markets was at a nadir and the federal government's confidence in itself was at an apogee. This, in spite of the fact that with 19 percent unemployment and the economy contracting …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Eye on the Clock, House Democrats Put Their Focus On '100 Hours' — It sure sounds like a race against time. Democrats have given themselves a mere 100 hours to break the bonds between lobbyist and lawmaker, boost homeland security, raise the minimum wage, fund stem cell research …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In the House, Suddenly Righteous Republicans — Thirty-one-year-old Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is not a large man, standing perhaps 5 feet 3 inches tall in thick soles. But he packed a whole lot of chutzpah when he walked into the House TV gallery yesterday to demand …
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Barack Obama / Washington Post:
A Chance To Change The Game — This past Election Day, the American people sent a clear message to Washington: Clean up your act. — After a year in which too many scandals revealed the influence special interests wield over Washington, it's no surprise that so many incumbents were defeated …
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Miers Resigns As White House Counsel — WASHINGTON (AP) — Harriet Miers, President Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee, has submitted her resignation as White House counsel, the White House announced Thursday. — White House press secretary Tony Snow said the president reluctantly accepted …
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Robert Tracinski / realclearpolitics.com:
To Win in Baghdad, Strike at Tehran — As early as next week, President Bush is expected to give a major speech announcing a new strategy in Iraq. This is an excellent opportunity for the administration to announce a big strategic change that could dramatically improve America's prospects in Iraq.
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New York Post:
RANGEL BOOTS VEEP — EVICTS CHENEY FROM CHOICE CAPITOL DIGS — Rep. Charles Rangel has evicted Vice President Dick Cheney from his office in the Capitol, and the Harlem heavyweight is moving into the prime digs today, The Post has learned. — Gilded letters were freshly painted atop …
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Majority of Americans View Media Coverage of Iraq as Inaccurate — Most likely to say coverage is too negative — PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans — 56% — believe that the news media's coverage of the situation in Iraq is generally inaccurate. About 4 out of 10 Americans agree …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Best Friends Forever? — Just now on MSNBC, I saw Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) make his way over to introduce himself to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA), whose back is to the camera. And that's Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) looking on as the Muslim-fearing Goode shakes hands with the House's first elected Muslim.
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Rehnquist Files Reveal Bolton Shenanigan — Here's a piece of muck history unearthed yesterday from deceased Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist's FBI files. — In 1986, the Reagan administration was eager to protect its nomination of Rehnquist to be chief justice the Supreme Court.