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11:30 PM ET, January 16, 2007

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee  —  Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D), one of the Democratic Party's brightest young stars, jumped into the 2008 race for the White House today, establishing a presidential exploratory committee that is expected to lead immediately into a full-blown campaign for president.
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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 …
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial Jury Selection: Day One Recap of Libby's Dilemma  —  "I am completely without objectivity.  There is nothing you can say that would make me feel positively about President Bush."  Thus spake the eighth of nine prospective jurors reviewed by Judge Reggie Walton …
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
We've Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List
Discussion: JustOneMinute
David Corn:   Libby Trial, Day One: Can You Trust Cheney?
MSNBC:
Jury selection ends for day in Libby perjury trial
Discussion: Firedoglake and TalkLeft
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
What's the White House Doing to Prosecutors?  —  During a floor speech on the topic moments ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the White House has told her it was replacing from five to 10 Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys with its own interim appointees.  —  We know of seven who have left during …
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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 …
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Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
McCain to make amends with Dobson
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Three Time [Loser] Winner  —  There just didn't seem to be any other way to explain why I'm not going to be present for the first two weeks of the Libby trial so I decided to resort to the truth.  —  As someone who has devoted years to building this blog around coverage of the CIA leak investigation …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Mahablog
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.
Faiz / Think Progress:
ABC's The Note: Bush Gave His 'Best TV Performance In Years' On 60 Minutes  —  President Bush appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday night.  A host of media and conservative blogs were not terribly impressed with his performance:  —  New York Times blog: … Houston Chronicle blog:
Discussion: Blue Bayou and Yahoo! News
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rushlimbaugh.com:
Why Does the White House Deal with CBS?
Discussion: CBS News and NewsBusters.org
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.
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.
MSNBC:
Saudis consider sending troops to Iraq  —  Government 'deeply skeptical' al-Maliki can make Bush surge plan work  —  Saudi Arabia believes the Iraqi government is not up to the challenge and has told the United States that it is prepared to move its own forces into Iraq should the violence …
Online NewsHour:
President Bush Defends Decision to Send Additional Troops to Iraq  —  JIM LEHRER: Mr. President, welcome.  —  PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Thank you, sir.  —  MR. LEHRER: How do you feel about the way the Iraqi government handled the hangings of Saddam Hussein, and now more recently, two of his top aides?
Charles Murray / Opinion Journal:
Intelligence in the Classroom  —  Half of all children are below average, and teachers can do only so much for them.  —  Education is becoming the preferred method for diagnosing and attacking a wide range problems in American life.  The No Child Left Behind Act is one prominent example.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Bush bungles budget — and tells Dems to fix it?  —  The Washington Post ran a front-page piece today on a White House budget strategy that's characterized as somehow being clever.  Maybe I'm missing the punch line because the story doesn't make a lot of sense to me. … I have no idea what this means.
The Blotter:
Pakistan Strikes Al Qaeda's Winter Hideout  —  Habibullah Khan and Alexis Debat Report:  —  Gretchen Peters contributed to this report.  —  Five compounds of al Qaeda's winter hideout, where foreigners and local militants train to make bombs, were the target of an air strike this morning …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE LEFT AND THE WAR....If anti-war liberals were right about the war from the start, how come they don't get more respect?  Here's the nickel version of the answer from liberal hawks: It's because they don't deserve it.  Sure, the war has gone badly, but not for the reasons the doves warned of.
Discussion: Eschaton and Sirotablog
 
 
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
When Blogospheres Collide
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An op-ed by Professor Charles Fried discusses legal representation in America
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Today  —  Today is book deadline day, which is what explains …
Discussion: The Impolitic and Norwegianity
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Tancredo's Dubious Allies
Discussion: Orcinus, Lonewacko and Redstate
Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Opinion Journal:
The Poor Get Richer  —  Incomes in the developing world start to catch up.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
washingtonpost.com > Live Discussions
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Romenesko
Alex Koppelman / Salon:
Iranian regime change: "Faster, please!"
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Campos Heap  —  Evidently, "if chutzpah was a crime," …
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Pit bulls vs. stalwarts in House GOP
Natasha Pearlman / Daily Mail:
A crowded womb  —  A twin leans over and kisses the cheek …
progressivestates.org:
Stop the Escalation in Iraq
Washington Post:
Some at Guantanamo Mark 5 Years in Limbo
Discussion: Balkinization and The Heretik
Examiner:
Yeas and Nays: Tuesday, Jan. 16
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
AP: Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Sale
 

 
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William Earl / Variety:
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