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8:20 AM ET, January 23, 2007

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Death Knell May Be Near for Public Election Funds  —  The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post-Watergate initiative hailed for decades as the best way to rid politics of the corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died over the weekend.
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Washington Post:
Clinton Bid Heralds Demise of Public Financing  —  The public financing system designed to clean up presidential campaigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal may have died on Saturday when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) announced her bid for the White House.
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Dives in Media Waters
Discussion: Althouse
CBS News:
Poll: Bush Approval Rating At New Low  —  On Eve Of State Of Union, President's Approval Rating Falls To 28%, A New Low  —  (CBS) President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a nation that's strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq …
CNN:
CNN debunks false report about Obama  —  JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.  —  Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times …
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Nico / Think Progress:
CNN Debunks False Obama 'Madrassa' Smear  —  Last week, Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch outlets amplified a right-wing report alleging that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic "madrassa" school as a 6-year-old child.  One Fox News caller questioned whether Obama's schooling means that …
Discussion: digg, Unfogged and Bark Bark Woof Woof
Insight:
Insight responds to a Washington Post attack  —  The liberal media establishment is at it again.  For years, they have been carrying water for liberal Democrats.  Today's hit piece on Insight in The Washington Post is another case in point.  —  Howard Kurtz's "Media Notes" …
New York Times:
Key Republican Senator Offers Bipartisan Call to Reject Bush Plan for More Troops in Iraq  —  Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, one of Congress's leading authorities on the military, presented a bipartisan proposal on Monday that soundly rejected President Bush's plan to send more American troops …
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SITE Institute:
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Addresses U.S. President Bush's Baghdad Security Plan in Video Speech from as-Sahab, "The Correct Equation" - 1/2007  —  Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two, presents a speech titled: "The Correct Equation," in a 14:11 minute video produced by the group's multimedia arm, as-Sahab.
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Hot Air
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Andrew Cochran / Counterterrorism Blog:   New Video of Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri: Warning & "Deal" (with video link)
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:   New al Qaeda Video: Zawahiri Taunts Bush
Liz Cheney / Washington Post:
Retreat Isn't an Option  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton declared this weekend, " I'm in to win."  Anyone who has watched her remarkable trajectory can have no doubt that she'll do whatever it takes to win the presidency.  I wish she felt the same way about the war.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Libby Jury Is Chosen; Arguments Set to Start  —  A federal judge empaneled a jury yesterday in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, seating a largely apolitical, educated group of D.C. residents to decide whether Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff lied to investigators …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Court finalizes jury for CIA leak case
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Nearly two-thirds in U.S. have given up on Iraq  —  NBC/WSJ poll: Bush 'really in the cellar of public opinion'  —  WASHINGTON - When President Bush delivers his next-to-last State of the Union address Tuesday night, he will confront this reality, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Oliver Willis
Josephine Hearn / politico.com:
Black Caucus: Whites Not Allowed  —  Freshman Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, D-Tenn., is not joining the Congressional Black Caucus after several current and former members made it clear that a white lawmaker was not welcome.  —  "I think they're real happy I'm not going to join," said Cohen …
Daniel Freedman / New York Sun:
Can I Be President?  —  "No person except a natural born citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President."  —  Forget Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Obama, and Clinton.  There is only one candidate that every American envisions in the White House: oneself.
New York Times:
Bush, at Low Point in Polls, Will Push Domestic Agenda  —  Carrying some of the worst public approval ratings of any president in a generation, President Bush is heading into his State of the Union address on Tuesday night seeking to revitalize his domestic agenda but facing stiff resistance …
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
New Coalition Aims to Keep Dems in Check  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers who stray too far from the party line could find themselves facing primary opponents financed by unions, trial lawyers and political activists eager to put the new congressional majority to the test.
Discussion: Swampland, Daily Kos and Sirotablog
Haaretz:
1 dead, 10 hurt as opposition moves to topple Lebanon gov't  —  At least 11 men were wounded Tuesday in clashes during the first hours of a Lebanese general strike called by the Hezbollah-led opposition to try to topple Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's Western-backed government.
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 …
 
 
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Nadine Elsibai / Bloomberg:
Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level (Update2)
Discussion: All Spin Zone and TalkLeft
Nadia Abou El-Magd / Associated Press:
Group Says al-Qaida No. 2 Mocks Bush
Discussion: A Blog For All
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT: If you take …
Discussion: The Liberty Papers
Emily Heil / The Hill:
Drudge, global warming shut down Senate site
Reuters:
MP says Iran bars 38 atomic inspectors: agency
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
US, Canada Clash over Former Detainee
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Faulted for Inaction in Foley Scandal
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and The RBC
Fox News:
WEB SITE KICKS SAND IN FACES OF GIS IN IRAQ ASKING FOR MATS …
 Earlier Items: 
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
General May See Early Success in Iraq
Victoria Shannon / International Herald Tribune:
Record labels rethink digital rights management at Midem
Discussion: CF2 TechNotes Blog
rushlimbaugh.com:
What about Sam Brownback?  —  RUSH: Jody, in Lake Orient …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Luntz tells Dems to be nice
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Constrains Judges' Power in Sentencing
Discussion: TalkLeft
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Playing the Electability Card
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
USA Today:
Pondering legacy is left to others
Steve Silberman / Wired News:
The Invisible Enemy in Iraq
 

 
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