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12:30 PM ET, January 21, 2007

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Jonathan Greenberger / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Richardson Enters 2008 Presidential Race  —  New Mexico Governor Would Be Nation's First Hispanic President  —  The field for the Democratic presidential nomination got still more crowded this morning, with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announcing he will take the first step …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton's Success in Presidential Race Is No Sure Thing  —  Compared with the other Democrats who plan to run for president in 2008, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most battle-tested, has the biggest fund-raising network and can walk into the job with a unique set of skills …
Discussion: Is That Legal? and Prairie Weather
ROB / Intrepid Liberal Journal:
Yawn: Hillary's Running  —  Hillary Clinton made it official today and joined the fray.  Click here to listen to Clinton's official announcement from her website and here to read the actual text.  —  Frankly, reading and listening to Hillary's announcement is like drinking soda without carbonation.
Discussion: Reason Magazine and Daily Pundit
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Clinton Leads '08 Dems; No Bounce for Obama
Michelle Malkin / New York Post:
LURID AP REPORT ON IRAQ OUTRAGE DOESN'T CHECK OUT  —  WELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist.  But at least one story he told the AP just doesn't check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as "destroyed …
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Michelle Malkin:
Fact-checking the AP and Jamil Hussein  —  My report on our investigation of the Associated Press's four destroyed mosques/six immolated Sunnis story is up at the New York Post.  We'll have video and audio, including comments from Dagger Brigade members about the AP's faulty coverage …
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Colombian Government Is Ensnared in a Paramilitary Scandal  —  The government of President Álvaro Uribe, the largest recipient of American aid outside the Middle East, has found itself ensnared in a widening scandal as revelations surface of a secret alliance between some of the president's …
Real Cities:
Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad  —  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - As the Iraqi government attempts to secure a capital city ravaged by conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs, its decision to bring a third party into the mix may cause more problems than peace.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Telegraph:
Hands up if you've lost the plot  —  First, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alienated the rest of the world with his religious extremism, nuclear ambitions and global grandstanding.  Now, due to domestic failures and economic incompetence, he is doing the same to ordinary Iranians  —  Imagine you are the president of Iran.
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran Plans to Conduct Missile War Games  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran plans three days of military maneuvers, including short-range missile tests, beginning Sunday - its first since the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against it in late December, state-run television said.
M. Gregg Bloche / Los Angeles Times:
Insurance that lets you decide your own rates  —  The governor's healthcare plan puts a premium on personal responsibility.  —  Should smokers, brie eaters and bungee jumpers bear the higher health insurance costs they inflict on others through their risky behavior?
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)  —  A conversation has cropped up since the recent publication of a paper scrutinizing how Windows handles digital rights management, especially for HD video.  I've since looped back with Dave Marsh, a Lead Program Manager responsible …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:   AUDIO/VIDEO QUALITY ON WINDOWS VISTA: Microsoft responds to critics …
Nico / Think Progress:
Kristol On War Critics: 'It's So Irresponsible That They Can't Be Quiet For Six Or Nine Months'  —  This morning on Fox News, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol said that opponents of escalation in Congress are "leap-frogging each other in the degrees of irresponsibility they're willing to advocate."
CNN:
Youth arrested in Turkish journalist's killing … ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) — Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of outspoken Turkish journalist Hrant Dink after a 32-hour search, authorities said Sunday.  —  Police have identified him as Ogun Samast.
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Benjamin Harvey / Associated Press:   Outspoken Editor Is Slain in Turkey
Los Angeles Times:   Journalist slain in Turkey
Washington Post:
Embattled, Bush Held To Plan to Salvage Iraq  —  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had a surprise for President Bush when they sat down with their aides in the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman, Jordan.  Firing up a PowerPoint presentation, Maliki and his national security adviser proposed …
Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Attorney General: no right to habeas corpus  —  No, dammit, I'm not making this up: … Of course, by that logic, the Constitution doesn't grant freedom of speech or the right to keep and bear arms; all it does is forbid Congress to take them away.  But forget that.
Observer:
Don't you know your left from your right?  —  As a child of politicised parents, Observer columnist Nick Cohen followed in their tradition and became a trenchant voice on the liberal-left in the 1980s and 90s.  But the Iraq War changed all that and forced him to rethink.
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Sunday Roundup  —  The last week has featured several extraordinary articles from the mainstream media.  In addition to the must-read Charlotte Allen article in Weekly Standard (highlighted yesterday by Liestoppers), begin with a two-part commentary from John Podhoretz in the New York Post, "Senseless" and "Orwell University."
Jan Crawford Greenburg / Washington Post:
The Cause Bush Did Justice To  —  The courtroom crackled with tension on the final day of the Supreme Court's 2004-05 session.  It was shaping up to be a historic day, many believed, and the seats were packed with top government officials and people who had camped out overnight in the sticky heat of a Washington summer.
CNN:
13 killed in U.S. copter crash in Iraq, 5 in militia attack … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — All 13 people aboard a U.S. military helicopter Saturday were killed when it went down northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.  —  Later in the day, five U.S. soldiers were killed and three wounded …
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Associated Press:
Nearly 40 illegal immigrants arrested at military bases  —  ATLANTA: Nearly 40 illegal immigrants hired by contractors working on three military bases in Georgia, Virginia and Nevada were arrested over the last three days by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the agency said Friday.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
 
 
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Equality Engineer  —  Barney Frank, the 14-term Massachusetts …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
I Want My HDTV
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Departing Chief Warns G.O.P. on Outlook for 2008 Races
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Denny Doherty, 66, Mamas and Papas Singer, Dies
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
At Border, Signs of Pakistani Role in Taliban Surge
John Robb / Global Guerrillas:
JOURNAL: Blackwater in Sudan?
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Patrolling with the Snake Eaters
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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