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8:20 AM ET, January 14, 2007

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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Shows Its Fractiousness In the Minority  —  House Republican leaders, who confidently predicted they would drive a wedge through the new Democratic majority, have found their own party splintering, with Republican lawmakers siding with Democrats in droves on the House's opening legislative blitz.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Newly in the Minority, G.O.P. Shows Signs of Division on Iraq and Domestic Policies  —  After years of rock-solid party discipline and fealty to President Bush, Congressional Republicans have suddenly fractured in their new role as members of the minority, with some prominently deserting …
Discussion: Needlenose
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Democrats may push to shutter war prisons  —  Party leaders say they'll cut funding  —  WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders yesterday outlined plans to try to force the Bush administration to close the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba …
New York Times:
Military Expands Domestic Surveillance  —  The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Open Your Wallet And Show Us What You've Got
Discussion: The American Street
Digby / Hullabaloo:   Sharkskin Suits  —  While the government is digging around …
TChris / TalkLeft:   The Military Quietly Gathers Domestic Financial Records
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Barney Frank throws a fit ... on the House floor  —  The Republican arguing with power-hungry Barney Frank is Patrick McHenry.  McHenry rose to offer an amendment that would exempt American Samoa from the stem-cell bill — a clear dig at the fact that Samoa, which is home to StarKist factories …
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money.excite.com:
Democrats Pledge to Extend Minimum Wage  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fending off charges of favoritism, House Democrats say a just-passed minimum wage bill will be changed to cover all U.S. territories — including American Samoa — before it reaches President Bush's desk.
Discussion: Angry Bear
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Pelosi moves to close Samoa wage loophole
Discussion: Redstate and Gateway Pundit
Redstate:
Paul Pelosi's $17 million Is More Important Than American Samoan Lives
Washington Post:
NAMES & FACES  —  It all started with a simple video rental.  Who knows where it will end?  —  Potomac Video store clerk Charles Williamson, 28, posted a message on his blog, Freelance Genius, Dec. 23 that described how he set up a movie rental account for MSNBC host Tucker Carlson at the MacArthur Boulevard store the day before.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Guess What Blog MSNBC'S Tucker Carlson Doesn't Like?  —  No, it isn't The Moderate Voice, although he may not be happy with the picture at left.  We got it off the Internet.  (It IS NOT of Tucker Carlson and we are not saying it is.  It's not dancing.).
Discussion: Riehl World View
Associated Press:
General: Kurd brigade will go to Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Kurdish army brigade from northern Iraq is undergoing intensive urban combat training for deployment to Baghdad, where it expects to take on the Mahdi Army Shiite militia, its commander said Saturday.
Discussion: The Agonist and Ace of Spades HQ
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Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
Battling With Sadr for Iraqi Soldiers' Hearts  —  BAGHDAD — The Iraqi soldiers broke into chants to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the creation of their army.  —  "Muhammad, Haider, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn!" shouted a group of dancing soldiers, bellowing the names of the prophet …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Boxer: I spoke "truth to power" by suggesting that childless hawks are moral monsters  —  It's not her logic that bugs me since it's just Chickenhawk 101, i.e., those who support the war but stand to suffer no personal loss from it must necessarily be indifferent to the human toll and therefore lack moral authority for their position.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Boxer comments to Rice draw fire from the right
Discussion: Wizbang
jules crittenden:
Woman is the N-word of the World
Discussion: Riehl World View
New York Times:
Deletions in Army Manual Raise Wiretapping Concerns  —  Deep into an updated Army manual, the deletion of 10 words has left some national security experts wondering whether government lawyers are again asserting the executive branch's right to wiretap Americans without a court warrant.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and TalkLeft
Lane Hudson / The Huffington Post:
Steve Kagen: My Favorite New Member  —  I saw this link on Drudge.  Yes, I actually look at that once a day.  Maybe twice.  —  http://www.valleyscene.com/coverstory.h tml  —  Before the midterm election, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Steve Kagen at a fundraiser for his campaign.
Observer:
Bush set for climate change U-turn  —  Downing Street says that belated US recognition of global warming could lead to a post-Kyoto agreement on curbing emissions  —  Gaby Hinsliff, Juliette Jowit and Paul Harris  —  George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position …
Discussion: Political Animal
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
On Iraq, U.S. Turns to Onetime Dissenters  —  Timothy M. Carney went to Baghdad in April 2003 to run Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Minerals.  Unlike many of his compatriots in the Green Zone, the rangy, retired American ambassador wasn't fazed by chaos.  He'd been in Saigon during the Tet Offensive …
Michael O'Hanlon / Washington Post:
A Skeptic's Case For the Surge  —  President Bush's plan for a surge of American troops in Iraq has run into a brick wall of congressional opposition.  Critics rightly argue that it may well be too little, way too late.  But for a skeptical Congress and nation, it is still the right thing to try …
Discussion: The RBC and Matthew Yglesias
J.M. Guardia / Barcepundit:
NO, TODAY'S DEMONSTRATION in Madrid -taking place as I type this- doesn't mean that people have finally grown a spine (I found no link in English yet, probably because it's still ongoing).  —  After Zapatero's controversial initiative to negotiate with the Basque terrorist group …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:   HUGE ANTI-ETA PROTEST IN SPAIN
CBS News:
"I'm shocked.  The lawyers who are doing the representation should be shocked.  The American people should be shocked."  —  (CBS/AP) The Pentagon on Saturday disavowed a senior official's remarks suggesting companies boycott law firms that represent detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan and New York Times
 
 
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CNN:
ABOUT THE SHOW  —  Since its debut in 1993, "Late Edition" …
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Gateway Pundit:
Reports: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Leader Arrested in Iraq
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Call and Raise 2  —  The explosively formed projectiles referred …
BBC:
Criticism over golly exhibition
Discussion: Biased BBC and Tim Worstall
Deacon / Power Line:
A DISINGENUOUS SLAP AT CHRISTIANS
Discussion: Townhall.com
60 Minutes Sunday:
Bush: Toppling Saddam Was No Mistake
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Reactions  —  [update, 7.30pm] Liestoppers has a lengthy post examining …
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Reuters:
Turk PM asserts right to intervene in Iraq, raps US
Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
Hostile Intent  —  Just what is the Bush administration up to regarding Iran?
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Obama, Clinton making 2008 moves
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Bush Lashes Out at Opponents on Iraq Plan
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West Is Going in Democrats' Direction
 

 
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