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10:45 AM ET, January 22, 2007

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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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Washington Post:
Confidence in Bush Leadership Continues to Drop, Poll Finds  —  President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday at the weakest point of his presidency, with dissatisfaction over his Iraq war policies continuing to rise and confidence in his leadership continuing to decline …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
U.S. Toll in Iraq Is 27 for Deadly Weekend  —  The United States military said that two marines died Sunday in western Iraq and that an additional seven service members died Saturday.  The deaths brought the weekend toll to 27 and made Saturday the third-deadliest day for United States forces since the war here began.
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Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Bombs kill at least 65 people in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 65 people were killed and 113 wounded after two nearly simultaneous bombs struck a predominantly Shiite commercial area in central Baghdad Monday, police said.  —  The first blast occurred shortly after noon when a bomb left …
Discussion: All Spin Zone
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Iraq PM Stops Protecting Shiite Militia
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
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 …
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Nadine Elsibai / Bloomberg:   McCain, Graham May Oppose General Casey as Army Chief (Correct)
Hope Yen / Associated Press:   Senators seek support against Iraq surge
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
For the Clinton Candidacy, a Soft Launch  —  One day after declaring for president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) gave her first public glimpse of how she will run: as the mother of a daughter, as a serious student of policy and as a two-term senator from New York.
Discussion: New York Times
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Announces Presidential Bid
Discussion: The Reaction
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: SNL hammers Hillary on Iraq  —  Lieberman and a precious few others aside, their "hawks" are opportunistic liars who only supported the war initially because it was politically expedient to do so.  We've always known that.  —  Their base knows it, too.  —  Blowback
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Video: SNL on Islamophobia, redux
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 …
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 …
Opinion Journal:
Milton Friedman @ Rest  —  Email from a Nobel Laureate.  —  In July last year, the late Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics in 1976, granted an interview to The Wall Street Journal.  Today we publish material from a question-and-answer exchange he had by email—shortly after their meeting …
Discussion: EconLog and Daily Pundit
StrategyPage:
China Goes Rogue  —  On January 11th, China launched an anti-satellite system (a KillSat, or Killer Satellite).  The target was an old Chinese weather satellite, about 850 kilometers up.  That's at the upper range of where most reconnaissance satellites hang out.
Discussion: Instapundit.com
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Meteor Blades / Daily Kos:
Chinese Anti-Satellite Blast Product of U.S. Star Wars Policy
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.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Sydney Morning Herald:
Website offers whistleblowers chance to go global  —  THE internet could become even more difficult for governments to regulate with a new website, Wikileaks, promising to provide a safe haven for whistleblowers to upload confidential documents.  —  Australians are among the volunteers behind the site.
Discussion: Unfogged
Los Angeles Times:
Lobbyists find new Congress is open for business  —  Lobbyists who dreaded Democratic control find they're being heard.  —  WASHINGTON — Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi terrified the oil industry late last year when she outlined her priorities for the new Democratic majorities in Congress.
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
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.
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
Big Mommy's House  —  HILLARY JOINS THE LAKOFF BAKE-OFF.  —  Not Another Mommy: Anne Kornblut on Hillary— … It's not clear that Mommyism is the best antidote to Hillary's image as a scold who knows what's good for us and is willing to use government to make us do it.
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.
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
 
 
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