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5:25 PM ET, January 16, 2007

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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama takes 1st step in presidential bid  —  WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday he is taking the initial step in a presidential bid that could make him the nation's first black to occupy the White House.  —  Obama announced on his Web site …
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Clinton Campaign: Illness, Not Obama, Delayed News Conference
Discussion: The Fix, Swampland and New York Post
Taylor Marsh / Firedoglake:
Obama Ups the '08 Sweepstakes
Discussion: QandO and Hotline On Call
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
U.N.: 34,000 Iraqis killed last year  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in sectarian violence last year, nearly three times the number reported dead by the Iraqi government.  —  The Iraqi Health Ministry did not comment on the report …
Discussion: Democrats.com and The New Editor
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Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
U.N.: 34,452 Iraq civilians killed in '06
Discussion: The Sundries Shack and Don Surber
CNN:
Bombs kill 65 at Baghdad university
Discussion: Rox Populi
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse  —  For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.  —  In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse …
Laura Rozen / Washington Monthly:
Rumsfeld is gone, but the veep's other loyalists remain.  —  With the departure of his longtime friend Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton's resignation as U.N. ambassador, and Democrats taking over Congress, times seem grim for the Dick Cheney wing of the Bush administration.
Discussion: Classical Values
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Choice of Martinez sparks GOP rebellion  —  Rebellion is brewing among conservatives on the Republican National Committee over President's Bush's attempt to "impose" Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida as "general chairman" of the party, who favors "amnesty" for illegal aliens.
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and Daily Kos
Anne Applebaum / Slate:
Legalize It  —  HOW TO SOLVE AFGHANISTAN'S DRUG PROBLEM.  —  The British Empire once fought a war for the right to sell opium in China.  —  In retrospect, history has judged that war destructive and wasteful, a shameless battle of colonizers against colonized that in the end helped neither side.
Discussion: Jay Reding.com, FP Passport and TAPPED
Examiner:
Yeas and Nays: Tuesday, Jan. 16  —  WASHINGTON - Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday.  Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .  —  Little to head WHCA's big night  —  He does a mean Ronald Reagan impersonation and his imitation of Richard Nixon is legendary.
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
AP: Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Sale  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries - including Iran and China - who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions.
Alex Koppelman / Salon:
Iranian regime change: "Faster, please!"  —  ut as a politically divisive figure.  He's loved — and consulted at the highest levels — by his fellow travelers for his hard-line positions on the Middle East.  His catchphrase, "faster, please!" refers to the speed with which he'd like the United States to compel regime change in Iran.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Times of London
progressivestates.org:
Stop the Escalation in Iraq  —  To: Legislators, Staff, and Interested Parties  —  From: Progressive States Network  —  Re: Preventing Escalation in Iraq  —  This LegAlert discusses the President's proposed escalation in Iraq, its implications for states and the nation …
Paul Crespo / NewsMax.com:
Dinesh D'Souza: 'The Left is Afraid of Bush'  —  A new book by respected conservative pundit and best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza argues that Islamic antipathy toward the U.S. stems from liberal values promulgated by the "cultural left" and promoted abroad.
Natasha Pearlman / Daily Mail:
A crowded womb  —  A twin leans over and kisses the cheek of her sister in a heart-warming picture that would not be out of place in any family home.  —  Yet these siblings are a not even born and the astonishing images have been captured on a new 'four-dimensional' ultrasound scan of the womb.
Cliff Schecter:
McCain Was Against War In Iraq Before He Was For It  —  So I began looking through some old newspaper clippings on the Gulf War for some research I have been doing, and you just wouldn't believe what I happened across.  Featured prominently in one article from August of 1990 …
Los Angeles Times:
Iraq edges closer to Iran, with or without the U.S.  —  BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government is moving to solidify relations with Iran, even as the United States turns up the rhetorical heat and bolsters its military forces to confront Tehran's influence in Iraq.
Discussion: Associated Press and PoliBlog (TM)
Washington Post:
What Congress Can (And Can't) Do on Iraq  —  Congressional Democrats (and Republicans) who oppose President Bush's decision to send additional American troops to Iraq may frustrate his plan, but not — as suggested by Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn — by imposing 21,500 strings on the 21,500 new troops.
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Democrats Seek the Middle on Social Issues  —  The promise may not outlast their political honeymoon, but Democratic Congressional leaders say they are committed to governing from the center, and not just on bread-and-butter issues like raising the minimum wage or increasing aid for education.
 
 
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Campos Heap  —  Evidently, "if chutzpah was a crime," …
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Washington Post:
Some at Guantanamo Mark 5 Years in Limbo
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Josh White / Washington Post:
Interrogation Research Is Lacking, Report Says
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
 Earlier Items: 
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Our Tunnel Vision  —  Some years ago, I accompanied John McCain to Vietnam.
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Giuliani Hires Ex-Congressman As Adviser
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Rice Speaks Softly in Egypt, Avoiding Democracy Push
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Second Iraq Hanging Also Went Awry
Washington Post:
Burden Set to Shift On Balanced Budget
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
'All Star Game' Taking Shape in Libby's Trial
Washington Wire:
Grumbling in the Ranks  —  Vocal opposition to President's …
Associated Press:
Castro Reportedly in Grave Condition