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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Campaign Allegation A Source of Vexation — Days after Barack Obama jumped into the presidential sweepstakes, he was hit with a thinly sourced story from his past—39 years in his past, to be exact. — The allegation, by a conservative magazine, raised questions about whether the Illinois senator …
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Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton's camp fires first salvo
Clinton's camp fires first salvo
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Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Jury Instructions 2 — The schedule for the afternoon appears to be this: Start by resolving the jury intstructions. Then get into the peremptories. — We're starting ... Walton asks if anyone has any comment about proposed instructions.
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Think Progress:
BREAKING: Sen. John Warner To Introduce Resolution Opposing Iraq Escalation — Sen. John Warner (R-VA) will introduce a resolution today "making clear that he does not support the President on increasing the troop levels in Iraq" and calling escalation "a mistake," CNN's Dana Bash reports.
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The Carpetbagger Report, Booman Tribune, Unclaimed Territory, Political Animal, NO QUARTER and Suburban Guerrilla
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Details Emerge About Possible Terror Threat — Suspects, Reportedly Tied to Al Qaeda in Iraq, Sought Student Visas — Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
State of the Union: Unhappy With Bush — Bush's 33 Percent Approval Rating Lowest Since Nixon for President Entering State of the Union Speech — President Bush faces the nation this week more unpopular than any president on the eve of a State of the Union address since Richard Nixon in 1974.
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Liz Mair / GOPProgress.com:
Pro-lifers go after Romney — For those of you not aware, today is the Right to Life March here in Washington. — I was just sent a copy of material being passed out by a number of pro-lifers down on the Mall, attacking Romney. The full text is below the fold.
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Reuters:
Man kicked off flight for Bush-bashing T-shirt — CANBERRA, Jan 22 (Reuters Life!) - An airline passenger barred from a flight for wearing a T-shirt labeling President Bush a terrorist has threatened legal action against Australia's flag carrier Qantas. — Allen Jasson, 55 …
Eric Berger / Houston Chronicle:
Climate scientists feeling the heat — As public debate deals in absolutes, some experts fear predictions 'have created a monster' — Scientists long have issued the warnings: The modern world's appetite for cars, air conditioning and cheap, fossil-fuel energy spews billions of tons …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real — The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes. — Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios …
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Ace of Spades HQ
City Journal:
Facing the Islamist Menace — Mark Steyn's new book is a welcome wake-up call. — In the prologue to his new book, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, Mark Steyn sarcastically alludes to two people whom, in different ways, I know well. The first is novelist Martin Amis …
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Running The Gauntlet, Andrew Sullivan, New Sisyphus - PDX, Secular Blasphemy, Ace of Spades HQ and Hot Air
Washington Post:
McCain May Oppose Pick For Army Staff Chief — Senator Says Casey Led A 'Failed Policy' in Iraq — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said yesterday that he is inclined to oppose President Bush's appointment of Gen. George W. Casey Jr. as the new Army chief of staff, on the grounds …
Kenneth Turan / Los Angeles Times:
Documentary on beastiality premieres at Sundance Film Festival — PARK CITY, Utah — "Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted.
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Right Wing Nut House, LIBERTAS, Blogs for Bush, Preemptive Karma, Blue Crab Boulevard and Riehl World View
CAMERA Snapshots:
Al Dura II? — Slain 10-year-old Abir Aramin is remembered in Ramallah/Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters — The investigations that exonerated Israel for the killing seven years ago of 12-year-old Mohammed Al-Dura did little to soothe the raging Muslim world. Once again, Israel has been blamed …
Bill / INDCJournal:
(UPDATE: Khalid "Relieved") — Posted by Bill — Members of General Khalid Juad Khadim's staff light a pyre in the late evening hours. — Something quite strange even for Fallujah happened here Saturday when the occupants of three civilian vehicles stopped at the home …
Sen. Chuck Schumer / Newsweek:
We Can Win the White House — To build on our midterm gains, Dems should follow my '50 Percent Solution.' — I am blessed. I love my job. I wake up every Monday morning excited about the week ahead. The one downside is how consuming it is. I don't have much time for leisure activities.
Steve Silberman / Wired News:
The Invisible Enemy in Iraq — A homemade bomb exploded under a Humvee in Anbar province, Iraq, on August 21, 2004. The blast flipped the vehicle into the air, killing two US marines and wounding another - a soft-spoken 20-year-old named Jonathan Gadsden who was near the end of his second tour of duty.
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Fragile Hopes for Bipartisan Rescue of Social Security — President Bush is renewing his call for a bipartisan effort on Social Security, but few other issues so clearly highlight the limits of bipartisanship these days, the mistrust and ideological division just barely below the surface.
Lizardbreath / Unfogged:
Blog For Choice Day — Some Politically Counterproductive Personal History — Given that it's Blog for Choice Day, I figure it's a good reason to explain why I'm glad that the current legal regime protects abortion rights with very few restrictions. — I've mentioned here before that I've …