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4:25 PM ET, January 22, 2007

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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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James Burkee / Los Angeles Times:
Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Democratic Daily
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Fox, Insight Pull An AP
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.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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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.
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.
Discussion: Hotline On Call
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Redstate:   Romney Backed RU-486?
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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.
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 …
 
 
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Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
Just $83.8 million?  No thanks  —  Clinton passes on public funds …
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Programming notes  —  Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip returns …
Bill Ardolino / Examiner:
A calling card for death and destruction on recruiting day
Crew / Citizens Blogging for Responsibility …:
BREAKING: DOJ Inspector General finds FBI provided public with …
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Jules Crittenden:
Brave New World: Click The Ads, Please
Billy House / Arizona Republic:
Migration reform to top Bush address
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Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran bars 38 U.N. IAEA inspectors
White House:
President Calls March for Life Participants
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Rand Simberg / TCS Daily:
A One-Sided Arms Race
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ANDREW SULLIVAN WONDERS WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE SURGE …
Colin Fernandez / Daily Mail:
Blue Monday: The unhappiest day of the year
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
A word about '08 polls — and electability
Frank Luntz / The Huffington Post:
Words That Don't Work  —  I am not in the habit of offering …
New York Times:
Rush of Entries Gives '08 Race Early Intensity
Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Bombs kill at least 65 people in Baghdad
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