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8:55 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 …
Steve Rosenbaum / The Huffington Post:
Video Showdown: Obama vs. Hillary
Discussion: Beet.TV and Patrick Ruffini
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 …
Confederate Yankee:   Hussein of Cards  —  And finally, we get to the truth of the matter:
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."
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
A Question for Bill Richardson  —  I really wish New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson would remain the globe-spanning international problem fixer that he has been for many years.  New Mexicans seem to like their Governor-Diplomat, and Richardson seems not to be in any trouble for expanding …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Payson / Think Progress:
Hagel Says Cheney Criticism Is 'Complete Nonsense'  —  Last weekend on Fox News Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney claimed congressional opposition to the administration's escalation plan undermines the troops.  Cheney said "you cannot run a war by committee," and whatever Congress does …
Discussion: CorrenteWire and The Impolitic
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 …
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.
Alan Wolfe / New York Times:
None (but Me) Dare Call It Treason  —  At first Dinesh D'Souza considered him "a dark-eyed fanatic, a gun-toting extremist, a monster who laughs at the deaths of 3,000 innocent civilians."  But once he learned how Osama bin Laden was viewed in the Muslim world, D'Souza changed his mind.
Telegraph:
Muslims in police will rise up, Bakri insists  —  Moderate British Muslims in the police, Armed Forces and Civil Service will one day revolt against the system to "crush it from within", according to Omar Bakri Mohammed, the notorious Islamic extremist.  —  In claims condemned as a cynical attempt …
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 …
Discussion: CF2 TechNotes Blog
Opinion Journal:
Will Al Gore Melt?  —  If not, why did he chicken out on an interview?  —  Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming.  Last week he was in Denmark to disseminate this message.
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?  —  Early on a a windy Saturday morning in November, Rhonda Arias drove her Dodge Caravan past a Wal-Mart at the end of her block and onto the Interstate.  She was beginning the 50-mile drive from her house in southwest Houston to Plane State Jail …
Discussion: Feministe
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Dan Riehl versus Mike Stark on "Reliable Sources"  —  Kurtz did a good job with the intro so I won't bother with background.  You might remember "guerrilla tactics" aficionado Stark from Campaign '06, where he shoved his way past George Allen's handlers to ask the senator if he'd ever spat …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Media are gonna Barack around the clock  —  Did you see that poll about Iraq suggesting that . . . What's that?  Barack Obama?  Oh, sorry.  According to the new rules from the American Media Practitioners Association, we're obliged to make at least one flattering reference to Barack Obama per column …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Power Line
 
 
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TRex / Firedoglake:
A Shark in the Kiddie Pool (FDL Book Salon Presents Cliff Schecter)
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
With Rich Little, Press Corps Is Assured a Nice Impression
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Jeff Stein / CQ.com:
Spying in Baghdad: The CIA's Real Mission Impossible
David Boaz / Cato-at-liberty:
Worse Than Hillary?  —  The airwaves are abuzz today …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Benny Morris / Jerusalem Post:
Essay: This Holocaust will be different
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Look Up! Is It a Threat? Or a Plea for a Ban?
Discussion: Redstate
Solomon / Solomonia:
Exclusive: The Islamic Society of Boston and Intimidation 101 by Charles Jacobs
Washington Wire:
Poll Shows Voters Unconvinced on Iraq
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Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain: Bush Escalation Is Too Small
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Rough Treatment for 2 Journalists in Pakistan
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and OxBlog
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Brownback Announces Presidential Bid
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran Plans to Conduct Missile War Games
M. Gregg Bloche / Los Angeles Times:
Insurance that lets you decide your own rates
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Colombian Government Is Ensnared in a Paramilitary Scandal
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Clinton Leads '08 Dems; No Bounce for Obama
Telegraph:
Hands up if you've lost the plot