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10:25 PM ET, January 15, 2007

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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Allard: No third term  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Wayne Allard said today he will honor his term-limits pledge and leave at the end of 2008, creating a replacement fight that should turn Colorado into one of the country's biggest electoral battlegrounds.  —  "I just didn't think I could back away from the (term limits) commitment.
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo backing off Senate bid
Discussion: TalkLeft
CBS News:
WHAT DO YOU THINK?  —  (CBS) On Jan. 12, 2007, two days after President George W. Bush told the country that he would send 21,000 more troops into Iraq, the president sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for a candid conversation.  The two met in Camp David's Laurel Cabin …
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
President Bush on 60 Minutes: UPDATED
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Caucus
CNN:
Hussein's half-brother decapitated during hanging … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein's aides early Monday, and one of the men was decapitated in the process.  —  The official video of the hangings showed Hussein's half-brother lying headless below the gallows …
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Guardian:
Iran target of US Gulf military moves, Gates says  —  Mark Tran and agencies  —  Increased US military activity in the Gulf is aimed at Iran's "very negative" behaviour, the Bush administration said today.  —  The defence secretary, Robert Gates, told reporters that the decision to deploy …
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Jim Krane / Associated Press:
UAE beats Americans' environmental harm  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When it comes to squandering the earth's natural resources, residents of this desert land of chilled swimming pools, monster 4x4s and air-conditioned malls are on a par with even the ravenous consumption of Americans, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream  —  In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.  —  That's the good news.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Why the right doesn't get Martin Luther King
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
IRAQ: WHY THE MEDIA MISSTEP  —  JUST outside Um al-Qasar, a port in south east Iraq, a crowd had gathered around a British armored car with a crew of four.  An argument seemed to be heating up through an interpreter.  —  The interpreter told the Brits that the crowd was angry and wanted U.K. forces out of Iraq.
See-Dubya / Michelle Malkin:
KSFO: not helping matters one bit  —  KSFO, San Francisco's conservative talk-radio station, is being hounded by left-wing bloggers.  Now, most of what KSFO does is just your regular conservative talk radio, with Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh.  A lot of my friends in earshot of their station consider …
Francis McCabe / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada U.S. attorney given walking papers  —  The Bush administration has forced Daniel Bogden out of his position as U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, Nevada's two senators said Sunday.  —  It was unclear whether Bogden was fired or asked to resign and for what reason.
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Guardian:
France and UK considered 1950s 'merger'  —  Staff and agencies  —  Britain and France talked about a "union" in the 1950s, even discussing the possibility of the Queen becoming the French head of state, it was reported today.  —  On September 10 1956, Guy Mollet, the then French prime minister …
Discussion: OxBlog and Political Animal
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Differ on Iraq Bill's Bite  —  Some See It as a Powerful Statement, but Murtha Would Give It Fiscal Teeth  —  Members of the House and Senate yesterday outlined plans for legislation that if approved would put Congress on record opposing President Bush sending more troops to Iraq …
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Gerard Henderson / Times of London:
How Australia confronts militant Islam  —  A nation's blunt refusal to back down to terror  —  Australians are sometimes accused of being direct, even blunt.  But this way of going about things seems to have worked well enough when dealing with the threat of radical Islamism Down Under.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Newsdesk / The Swamp:
Bush: It's all 'unacceptable'  —  In six years in office, President Bush has found a lot of things to be unacceptable - most recently, the situation in Iraq.  Sometimes the president has accepted responsibility for the situation, as he has in Iraq, and sometimes he has attempted to hold others accountable for all that is unacceptable.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Attytood
Bill / INDCJournal:
"Because the language they use is killing:" An Interview with a Fallujan Police Officer  —  The difficulty of obtaining this interview underscores the political and cultural complexities of the American effort in Fallujah.  In order to get a few minutes of alone candor with an Iraqi patrolman …
Discussion: Hot Air
Thers / Whiskey Fire:
Marinating in the Swamp  —  I read the new Time online magazine blog because it keeps me off the streets.  More specifically, it keeps me from reading that HotSoup thing.  See, I have a job, and kids, and diverse other interests, like enjoying bacon and calling Ann Althouse a dink.
Discussion: Eschaton
USA Today:
Police in Iraq see jump in recruits  —  RAMADI, Iraq — The U.S. military is reporting a dramatic and unexpected increase in the number of police recruits in Anbar province, the center of Sunni insurgent activity in Iraq.  —  In the past two weeks, more than 1,000 applicants have sought police jobs in Ramadi, the provincial capital.
Discussion: Hot Air and Olbermann Watch
New York Post:
HILL JABS AT JOHN  —  TAKES HER FIRST SHOT VS. AN '08 PREZ FOE  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last night ripped into 2008 White House contender John Edwards - her first direct assault on any of her potential Democratic presidential rivals.  —  Clinton's surprising broadside came just hours after Edwards …
 
 
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CNN:
Bush: Congress can't stop troop increase
Discussion: Sirotablog
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
American Samoa, Pelosi's 17 Million In Del Monte Stock, And The Minimum Wage
Discussion: QandO and Riehl World View
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: "Dispatches: Undercover Mosque"; Update: Part 2 added
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Great and Glorious First Gulf War
Discussion: TalkLeft and Dover Bitch
Matt Stearns / Wichita Eagle:
Brownback adds flat tax to platform
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jim Yardley / New York Times:
In City Ban, a Sign of Wealth and Its Discontents
Christian Caryl / Newsweek:
Iraq's Young Blood
Cillizzac / The Fix:
Romney, McCain Tout New Backers
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John Bolton calls Iraq situation a Civil War
Joseph Neff / Charlotte Observer:
State Bar has letter from lawyer warning prosecutor of ethical violations
Discussion: Hot Air, TIME and A Blog For All
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
When Laura Snarked Condi
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
from the protein wisdom archives: "There's no such thing as race …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
The Other Team's Playbook  —  George W. Bush has managed …
Ronald A. Cass / Real Clear Politics:
Sandy Berger: What Did He Take and Why Did He Take It?
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Bill O'Reilly And NBC, Shouting to Make Themselves Seen?
Youssef Ibrahim / New York Sun:
Will Saudis Ban the Letter 'X'?
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

 
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