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3:40 PM ET, January 19, 2007

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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Plausible Plan B  —  If we were allied with an Iraqi government that, however weak, was truly national — cross-confessional and dedicated to fighting a two-front war against Baathist insurgents and Shiite militias — a surge of American troops, together with a change of counterinsurgency strategy …
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Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Muqtada al-Sadr aide arrested in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr's top aides Friday in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increases on the radical Shiite cleric's militia ahead of a planned security sweep aimed at stemming the sectarian violence ransacking the capital.
New York Times:
Flexing Muscle, China Destroys Satellite in Test  —  China successfully carried out its first test of an antisatellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said yesterday.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'  —  Yesterday, during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed there is no express right to habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution.  Gonzales was debating Sen. Arlen Specter …
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Art Buchwald's Moveable Feast  —  From Paris to D.C., He Lived by His Wit  —  They say Art Buchwald is dead, but I have my doubts.  —  The last time Art was dying, months and months ago, he turned the hospice common room into a cavalcade of stars, from Ethel Kennedy to Donald Rumsfeld.
Discussion: BuzzMachine and MaxSpeak
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Editor and Publisher:
Buchwald's Farewell Column, Written to Be Released at Death
Washington Post:
Senate Passes Ethics Package  —  Parties Reach Hard-Fought Deal On Lobbying and Other Reforms  —  Senate Democrats and Republicans broke a difficult stalemate last night and approved 96 to 2 expansive legislation to curtail the influence of lobbyists, tighten congressional ethics rules …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Senate Passes Vast Ethics Overhaul
Discussion: Washington Post and Firedoglake
Jonathan Allen / CQPolitics.com:
Former Rep. Ney Sentenced to 30 Months  —  Former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, the only member of Congress to face criminal prosecution in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison.  —  Ney, 52, pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2006, to making false statements and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Discussion: Wonkette
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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:   Ex-Ohio Rep. Ney sentenced to 30 months
Daryl Lang / pdnonline.com:
Reuters Investigation Leads To Dismissal Of Editor  —  Reuters fired a top photo editor for the Middle East during an internal investigation of two doctored photos from the Israel-Lebanon war that were published last summer.  —  The editor was the second casualty of the photo manipulation …
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Think Progress:
Obama Smeared As Former 'Madrassa' Student, Possible Covert Muslim Extremist  —  This morning, Fox News featured a segment highlighting a right-wing report that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic "madrassa" school as a 6-year-old child.  —  Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy pointed …
Michael J. Totten:
The Blitzing of Haret Hreik  —  HARET HREIK, LEBANON - I have been to Haret Hreik, Hezbollah's dahiyeh and de-facto "capital" south of Beirut, many times.  But I didn't expect to see it on my most recent trip.  Every Lebanese person I know warned me to stay out of there.
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
WHCA Chief Says He Did Not Tell Comedian to Back Off Bush and Iraq  —  NEW YORK Earlier this week word emerged that impersonator Rich Little would be the star performer at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington in April.  Organizers admitted they wanted a somewhat more …
Teri Karush Rogers / New York Times:
Ordeal by Appliance: Weekend Home Tales  —  FOR some people, the most elusive aspect of owning a vacation home that sits beyond big-city borders isn't finding the time to enjoy it.  It's finding someone to service the deluxe appliances inside.  —  "We called Viking over the holidays every year …
Discussion: Crooked Timber
George Russell / Fox News:
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REVEALS NORTH KOREA'S MISUSE OF U.N. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUNDS AND OPERATIONS  —  NEW YORK — Has North Korean leader Kim Jong Il subverted the United Nations Development Program, the $4 billion agency that is the U.N.'s main development arm, and possibly stolen tens …
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Putting the Brakes on Light Speed  —  Researchers Slow Waves While Maintaining Their Ability to Carry Information  —  Scientists said yesterday that they had achieved a long-sought goal of slowing waves of light to a relatively leisurely pace and using those harnessed pulses to store an image.
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
David Hammer / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Road Home seldom leading out of state  —  Most plan to use grants to rebuild, not to relocate  —  Unlike most Arabi homeowners displaced by the 2005 hurricanes, John and Diane Johnson don't face the stress of rebuilding their destroyed property during an interminable wait for state aid.
 
 
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Democrats warn Bush not to attack Iran
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Judge postpones start of CIA leak trial
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Bob / Crash Landing:
Those Evil Iranians  —  I was listening to some news piece on NPR …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Pentagon Revises Its Rules on Prosecution of Terrorists
New York Times:
Rebuke in Iran to Its President on Nuclear Role
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House Repeals Tax Break for Big Oil
Maha / The Mahablog:
The Purge  —  Following up yesterday's post on replacing U.S …
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Bloomberg:
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