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Lara Setrakian / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: DA in Duke Rape Case Asks to Be Taken off Case — After Weeks of Criticism, District Attorney Mike Nifong Asked to Be Recused — ABC News Law & Justice Unit — District Attorney Mike Nifong has requested that he have himself removed from prosecuting the Duke Lacrosse rape investigation, ABC News has learned.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Duke prof resigns committee posts over defendants' return to campus; Update: Nifong asks to be recused (Bumped) — Innocent until proven guilty, unless you're a cog in the patriarchy's institutionalized frat-boy rape machine. … We must not judge by adjudging them presumptively not guilty.
Fox News:
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN BLASTS SEN. BOXER'S EXCHANGE WITH SECRETARY RICE — Jan. 11: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses U.S. policy in Iraq while testifying on Capitol Hill. — WASHINGTON — The White House fired back Friday at Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's verbal slap …
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New York Post:
BOXER'S LOW BLOW — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling scold from California, wasted no time yesterday in dragging the debate over Iraq about as low as it can go - attacking Secre tary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman. — Boxer was wholly in character for her party …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Boxer gets personal with Condi at Senate hearing; Update: "Great leap backward for feminism," says Snow — I don't recall the lack of fruit from Janet Reno's womb figuring heavily into scrutiny of Waco or l'affaire Elian, but that was a different time.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Democrats in Senate Fail to Block Bill on Ethics — After campaigning for months on a promise to tighten ethics rules, Senate Democratic leaders tried unsuccessfully Thursday to block a measure that would shine a light on the shadowy practice of earmarking federal money for lawmakers' pet projects.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Boneless Wonders — Meet the spineless members of Congress. … Today, Boneless Wonders sit on the benches of both parties in Congress. More are to be found on the Democratic side of the aisle than the Republican. But the herd of Boneless Wonders these days is a bipartisan one.
CBS News:
Read more about the CBS News poll '08 Contenders Weigh In — Bush, visiting with troops at Fort Benning, Ga., cautioned that the troop increase "is not going to yield immediate results. It's going to take a while." — The president's plan, outlined in a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The President's power to attack Iran
The President's power to attack Iran
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Washington Post:
Unveiled Threats — A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights — MOST AMERICANS understand that legal representation for the accused is one of the core principles of the American way. Not, it seems, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.
Murray Waas / National Journal:
CIA Leak Probe: Inside The Grand Jury — Late in the morning of July 12, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney stood atop a pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia awaiting the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, a ship 20 stories high that took eight years to construct.
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MSNBC:
Bush's Best Democratic Buddy — Joe Lieberman gives the president a pass on Katrina. — Newsweek — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush's new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn …
Sky News:
Leftist Group Claims Attack — A leftist group has reportedly claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the US embassy in Athens. — The Greek government said it had received two calls claiming the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle was behind the attack.
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Amir Taheri / New York Post:
HOW IRAQIS SEE W'S NEW PLAN — GREAT RELIEF - AND SOME CONCERNS — 'A SIGH of relief! So one resident of Haifa Street, in the heart of Baghdad's badlands, reacted to the new plan to secure the Iraqi capital with the help of thousands of additional American troops.
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Convicted lawmakers to lose pensions — WASHINGTON - Members of Congress convicted of serious crimes would lose their taxpayer-paid pensions, sometimes totaling more than $100,000 a year, under a measure unanimously approved by the Senate Friday. — The 87- vote to deprive lawbreaking lawmakers …
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Note from Flynt Leverett: Most Important Parts of Bush Speech About Iran — Not Iraq — I asked former CIA and Bush administration National Security Council senior official Flynt Leverett for a quick summary of his thoughts on President Bush's Address to the Nation.
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PunkAssBlog.com:
Wake up, America! Pelosi's uterus has you hypnotized! — It must be difficult to be a famous woman. If you don't have children, you're an old maid with shriveled ovaries who has forsaken your godly purpose. If you have children and don't talk about them, you're a cold parent who puts her career ahead of her offspring.
Alexis Debat Reports / The Blotter:
New Arms Shipments to Iraqi Militia Detected — Alexis Debat Reports: — US military intelligence sources tell ABC News that large shipments of weapons have been smuggled to Iraqi militia over the past five weeks, including dozens of Iranian supplied EFP's , or Explosive Form Projectiles, highly effective against armored vehicles.
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Lam is asked to step down — Job performance said to be behind White House firing — The Bush administration has quietly asked San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, best known for her high-profile prosecutions of politicians and corporate executives, to resign her post, a law enforcement official said.