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8:15 PM ET, January 8, 2007

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Mike Allen / Time:
Exclusive: Bush Picks a Replacement for Harriet Miers  —  In a signal that he could be open to working more closely with congressional Democrats rather than stonewalling, President Bush plans to name the widely respected Republican lawyer Fred F. Fielding as White House counsel this week, party sources tell TIME.
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Surging in Afghanistan  —  While the White House continues …
LindaSoG / Something:
Traces of C4 at Port of Miami  —  Test show traces of C4 at the Port of Miami, yes, this is breaking news on Fox, right now.  Related to the non-event yesterday?  I'm at work dagnabit and can't monitor the news from here.  —  Word is that they have restricted the airspace over the Port, including news helicopters.
Discussion: Riehl World View and Hot Air
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Fox News:
BOMB SQUAD DETONATES SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE AT PORT OF MIAMI  —  MIAMI — A suspicious device was found Monday at the Port of Miami, and later detonated, according to officials.  —  Officials later gave the "all clear" sign for the area.  —  A spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police …
Kelli Kennedy / Associated Press:
Authorities: Miami package was harmless  —  MIAMI - The Port of Miami was hit by its second terrorism scare in two days Monday when a package that was to be loaded onto a cruise ship tested positive for plastic explosives.  Authorities later determined it was just a box of sprinkler parts.
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
Bill Hobbs / ElephantBiz:
Investments in the Red  —  Investors normally don't like to hear that their investments are "in the red," but there's a new exception for Republican investors who want their investing strategy to support their political point of view.  From the New York Times comes this story (also online here) …
Discussion: Media Blog and Redstate
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J. Alex Tarquinio / New York Times:   Mutual funds offer options along political lines
Good Lt / The Jawa Report:   NYT Co., CBS Are Large Shareholders in "Blue" Fund
CBS News:
The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second.  —  (CBS/AP) A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.  —  The targets included …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
New Saddam Execution Video  —  A video showing Saddam Hussein shortly after he was executed has emerged on the internet.  The video and images from it are shown below.  The first uncut, uncensored, unedited video showing Saddam Hussein executed caused quite a stir.
Discussion: Hot Air and The American Mind
Hotline On Call:
Romney's Call-A-Thon Begins In Boston  —  Boston — Mitt Romney calls it the most "extraordinary advanced technology ever employed in a fundraising effort."  More than 350 of Romney's friends and early financial supporters gathered today in a canvernous convention hall in South Boston.
Discussion: Power Line and eyeon08.com
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Romney kicks off presidential campaign with fundraising blitz
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone National Affairs Daily:
Lieberman on Surge: What's "The Worst that Could Happen"?  —  Over the weekend, I caught a snippet of CSPAN's coverage of the McCain/Lieberman "surge" party at the American Enterprise Institute.  It was after all the speeches, with the Senators kibitzing with reporters as the hour ran down.
David Carr / New York Times:
Slimmer Time in the Age of the Internet  —  Richard Stengel, the managing editor of Time, took his wife and kids out to dinner Friday night.  —  As historic moments go, not a big deal, but it does reflect a seismic change.  Time magazine, which has been coming out every Monday for over 36 years, hit the streets on Friday instead.
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Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
PAUL KRUGMAN: Quagmire of the Vanities
Discussion: CorrenteWire and The Impolitic
wnbc.com:
Gas Smelled Over Large Area Of Manhattan  —  NEW YORK — People over a large part of New York City are smelling a gas, but no cause has been identified.  —  Numerous people have called 911 concerned about the odor.  Con Edison, the Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating.
Peter Wehner / Real Clear Politics:
The War Against Global Jihadism  —  President Bush has said that the war against global jihadism is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.  We are still in the early years of the struggle.  The civilized world will either rise to the challenge …
Michael Bérubé:
Til we meet again  —  So today's the last day of this humble blog's existence—though I hear there might be some fireworks here tomorrow (and of course I'll keep all the archives available).  Thanks to everyone who's stopped by in the past week to pay respects, offer condolences, ask me to keep at it, or just say hello.
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says  —  Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush's tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study.  —  The study, by the nonpartisan …
Wesley K. Clark / Washington Post:
The Smart Surge: Diplomacy  —  The odds are that this week President Bush will announce a "surge" of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq.  Will this deliver a "win"?  Probably not.  But it will distract us from facing the deep-seated regional issues that must be resolved.
Glenn Greenwald / Crooks and Liars:
Pajamas Media and "major embarrassment" — connect the dots  —  (1) Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute (and a Contributing Editor of National Review), on his Pajamas Media blog last Thursday: "BREAKING NEWS -Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, is dead."
 
 
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
A Disputed A.P. Source Turns Up, but Bloggers Are Not Appeased
Discussion: The Corner
Hotline On Call:
Obama's Big Splash
Discussion: Hot Air and Michelle Malkin
Youssef Ibrahim / New York Sun:
New in America: Not Muslim, No Taxi
NY Daily News:
Chuck's wagon rollin'
Discussion: MyDD and Redstate
CNN:
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Peter Brown / Real Clear Politics:
Poll: Critique of Wal-Mart is a Political Loser
Discussion: QandO and Blue Crab Boulevard
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Candidate's Not-So-Candid Camera?
Discussion: CBS News and JoeTrippi.com
Dymphna / Gates of Vienna:
Rep. Keith Ellison's Excellent Opportunity
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Connor / Independent:
The universe gives up its deepest secret
Yitzhak Nakash / Los Angeles Times:
If U.S. drops the ball, Iraq shatters
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
ATTENTION: War supporters - your country needs you
Discussion: QandO, The Impolitic and Eschaton
The Blotter:
Dead U.S. Soldier in Anti-War Video 'Alive and Well'
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Trying Times, Papers Retreat From Washington
Discussion: Media Blog and CBS News
Charlotte Allen / Los Angeles Times:
I got an A in Phallus 101  —  The list of the 12 most bizarre …
Judd / Think Progress:
VIDEO FLASHBACK: Bush Says Sending More Troops To Iraq Would …
Opinion Journal:
A Heavier Iraq 'Footprint'
 

 
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