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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation — Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists' influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let the bill pass without a vote on an unrelated measure that would give President Bush virtual line-item-veto power.
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Robert Bluey / Examiner:
How bloggers took on Harry Reid and won on earmark reform — WASHINGTON - In ways both big and small, bloggers are changing how business is done on Capitol Hill. — Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., learned firsthand last week the effect bloggers can have on public policy when he was handed …
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An American in Paris — Buchwald launched his career as a columnist in 1949 in Paris, where he wrote about the light side of Paris nightlife in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He returned to the United States around 1962 and moved to Washington, where he began writing columns filled …
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Richard Severo / New York Times:
Art Buchwald, 81, Columnist and Humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd
Art Buchwald, 81, Columnist and Humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd
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Brett Arends / Boston Herald:
McCain no longer rocks in Granite State — As Mitt, Hillary, Barack and a dozen others jump into the presidential stampede, something interesting is happening in New Hampshire. — For seven years, conventional wisdom has said that the state's pivotal independent voters would line …
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Zogby:
Zogby New Hampshire: 3 Dems In Tight Race; McCain Leads Republican Field — Zogby's latest telephone polling in New Hampshire shows Obama holds slight edge over Clinton and Edwards in tight Dem battle, while Arizona's senior senator leads in what is—at least for now—a two-man GOP race
Melissa Drosjack / Fox News:
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY TO ALLOW REBUTTAL AFTER CARTER SPEECH — WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter won't go unchallenged after his appearance next week at Brandeis University, where he is lecturing on his latest book about what he terms the Palestinian apartheid by Israel.
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Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
A New Chance for Peace? — I am concerned that public discussion of my book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" has been diverted from the book's basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended.
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Mahdi Army expressing siege mentality — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army fighters said Thursday they were under siege in their Sadr City stronghold as U.S. and Iraqi troops killed or seized key commanders in pinpoint nighttime raids. Two commanders of the Shiite militia said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Grave and Epic War — Spending time with Alberto Gonzales, Orrin Hatch and Russ Feingold — The inanities one observes when watching Congress in action exceed those which one finds anywhere else on the planet outside of the right-wing blogosphere. At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
After Iraq Trip, Clinton Proposes War Limits — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday called President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq "a losing strategy" and proposed placing new limits on the White House's conduct of the war. — Her comments came after a weekend trip to Iraq …
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Speaking Chic to Power — LAUDING someone for their style on Capitol Hill is a lot like celebrating the best surfer on Florida's Gulf Coast — it's all relative, and some would argue irrelevant. Washington has never embraced fashion (nor, for that matter, has the fashion world embraced Washington), and for understandable reasons.
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Associated Press:
Report: Washington rejected Iranian concessions in 2003 — LONDON (AP) — An Iranian offer to help the United States stabilize Iraq and end its military support for Hezbollah and Hamas was turned down by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in 2003, a former top State Department official told the British Broadcasting Corp.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: MOST THINK TROOP SURGE IS BUSH'S LAST CHANCE IN IRAQ — NEW YORK — A majority of Americans consider President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq his last chance for victory there, according to a new FOX News poll. — Overall, the president's plan receives only minority support …
epw.senate.gov:
Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics — Posted by Marc Morano 202-224-5762 marc_morano@epw.senate.gov (8:50pm ET) — The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Retreats on Use of Executive Power — Allowing Court's Role in Surveillance Is Latest Step Back — President Bush's decision to submit his warrantless-surveillance program to the jurisdiction of a special intelligence court represents the latest step back from the expansive interpretation …
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Clinton Remains the Front-runner Among Democrats — McCain and Giuliani are front-runners among Republicans — PRINCETON, NJ — Although the first primaries and caucuses of the 2008 presidential race are still one year away, there has already been a great deal of focus on the election.
Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Bush Faces Deepening War Opposition, Demand for Congress to Act — Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush failed to rally public support with his nationally televised speech announcing plans to send more soldiers to Iraq, as most Americans say they want Congress to find a way to stop the troop increase.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Time Inc. Lays Off More Than 250 — Time Inc. began laying off more than 250 people today at its top magazines, including its most profitable title, People, which said it was shutting down its Washington, Miami and Chicago bureaus entirely. — Employees in those bureaus said they were …