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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 …
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Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, CANNONFIRE, The Jawa Report, It Shines For All and Ace of Spades HQ
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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James Burkee / Los Angeles Times:
Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton — The U.S. needs a leader in 2008 who doesn't inherit the office because of a last name. — HAVING REFUSED a third term as president, George Washington offered the nation a farewell address in 1796, urging Americans to cherish the Union and to avoid the "baneful effects" of political partisanship.
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Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton's camp fires first salvo
Clinton's camp fires first salvo
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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
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Unhappy Days — Has Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped the shark? — When politicians break their pledges not to raise taxes, they come up with the darnedest evasions. Take Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wants to levy new charges on California doctors, hospitals and employers to help pay for his $12 billion health-care plan.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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 …
Billy House / Arizona Republic:
Migration reform to top Bush address — Dem-led Congress raises plan's chances — WASHINGTON - President Bush will urge passage of comprehensive immigration reform during his sixth State of the Union address to be delivered Tuesday night. — It will be one of the main themes of the speech.
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