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4:30 PM ET, January 9, 2007

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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush Works To Rally Support for Iraq 'Surge'  —  President Bush yesterday began promoting his plan to send more troops to Iraq, bringing more than 30 Republican senators to the White House as part of a major campaign to rally the American people behind another effort to stabilize the country.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
White House Gears Up to Sell Plan for Troop Increase in Iraq  —  The White House is planning an aggressive effort to sell Congress and the American public on President Bush's new strategy for Iraq, beginning with a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday night, followed Thursday …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Mission Impossible  —  BUSH'S SMART NEW GENERAL CAN'T SAVE IRAQ.  —  George W. Bush has named a new man to take charge in Iraq as a prelude to his announcement of (allegedly) a new strategy.  Will either make any difference?  —  The new commander, Lt. Gen. (soon to be promoted to simply Gen.) …
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Public Opposes Troop Surge by 61% to 36% Margin
Discussion: Gallup Poll
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
PJM: U.S. forces operating in Somalia since last month  —  CIA, Special Forces, and Marines — all part of the first group in, according to a senior military intelligence official.  Not a shock, but reassuring to know. … This part seems sketchy, but here you go: … How would the intelligence official know that?
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure
Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
DeMint endorses Romney for president  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Jim DeMint has endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the 2008 presidential race, according to a letter the South Carolina senator is sending to state Republicans.  —  The endorsement letter …
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Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney event nets more than $6.5m
Discussion: eyeon08.com
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Smarter than the Average Bear
Discussion: Patrick Ruffini and My Man Mitt
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Romney Raises $6.5 Million in One-Day Blitz
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote  —  The game is on!  Keep refreshing this page for a steady stream of updates.  The keynote should get rolling sometime after 9am PST.  —  7:54am - We're here, standing in line waiting to get in.  People have been camped out since 9pm last night …
Center for American Progress:
Congressional Limitations and Requirements for Military Deployments and Funding  —  The 110th Congress has an important responsibility to shape the country's national security policy in order to make Americans safer and advance U.S. national security interests more effectively.
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Washington Post:
Schwarzenegger Proposes Universal Health Coverage  —  California Plan Could Cost State $12 Billion  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Monday proposed a system of universal health insurance for Californians that would make the nation's most populous state the third to guarantee medical coverage for all its residents.
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New York Post:
ROSIE BLOWS UP AT 'LIAR' BABS  —  THE tension between "The View" creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O'Donnell, sparked by O'Donnell's feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters "a [bleeping] liar."  —  The fight started around 8:30 a.m …
New York Post:
RIPENS APPLE  —  BELCHING BOG BLAMED FOR CITYWIDE GAS STINK  —  Who cut the cheese?  —  New Jersey, apparently.  —  Across the length and breadth of Manhattan, people were asking, "What's that smell?" after a pungent odor like natural gas or rotten eggs blanketed the borough and northern …
Orlando Sentinel:
Geraldo wants to whoop up on Olbermann  —  So here's one I missed over the holidays — Geraldo Rivera coming to town and threatening to beat up on Keith Olbermann.  —  Apparently Geraldo was visiting with 104.1 FM's Monsters just before Christmas, when they asked him about the time he made …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
David Espo / Associated Press:
Bush Judicial Nominees Ask to Withdraw … WASHINGTON (AP) — In a concession to the Senate's new Democratic majority, four of President Bush's appeals court appointees have asked to have their nominations withdrawn, Republican officials said Tuesday.  —  These officials said that William Haynes …
Discussion: Abovethelaw.com and ACSBlog
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Michelle Malkin's credibility, R.I.P.  —  It's time for warbloggers to find a new conspiracy theory to promote because their most recent one, which involved accusing the Associated Press of manufacturing a source in Iraq and colluding with the insurgents, blew up in their faces.
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
THE BAD KLEIN.  I don't really know what to say about Joe Klein's recent tantrums and continuous self-humiliation.  Can't Ana Marie take him aside and ask him to stop?  But amidst Klein's attempts to discredit my surname and his laughable posts whining about nasty rhetoric while calling liberals fools …
Cecil Angel / Detroit Free Press:
Damage to businesses and mosques in Detroit raises wider fears  —  Was it Hussein-connected retaliation, local Shi'ites ask  —  As they repaired the broken windows of at least a dozen businesses and mosques along Warren Avenue in Detroit, many Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims wondered Monday …
 
 
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Glenn Greenwald's Chickenhawk Argument
Discussion: QandO and Sister Toldjah
Matthew Yglesias:
Enemy of the State  —  If I may pile on a bit late …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Irrational Is as Irrational Does  —  George W. Bush …
Jamal Halaby / Associated Press:
Jordanian police kill suspected activist
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Guardian:
After five years of torture, Bisher is slowly slipping into madness
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Tony Halpin / Times of London:
Russians turn off Europe's oil supply
Karen Lee Ziner / Providence Journal:
ACLU sues state police
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
New Video of Saddam's Corpse on Internet
Discussion: Gawker and The Jawa Report
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Hussein's Voice Speaks in Court in Praise of Chemical Atrocities
 

 
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