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1:55 PM ET, January 22, 2007

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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Announces Presidential Bid  —  New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson began a run for the Democratic presidential nomination this morning, betting that his deep résumé and Hispanic heritage will boost his chances in a field already stocked with better-known candidates.
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New York Times:
Rush of Entries Gives '08 Race Early Intensity  —  Two years before the next president is inaugurated and a full year before the first vote is cast, the contest for the White House is off to a breathtakingly fast start, exposing an ever-growing field of candidates to longer …
Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton's camp fires first salvo  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's pollster fired an opening salvo at Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards yesterday, claiming their campaigns are "stalled or falling" — and suggesting Obama isn't tough enough to withstand GOP attacks in 2008.
USA Today:
Why some Democrats worry that Clinton can't win
Brian E. Crowley / Palm Beach Post:
Earlier primary could give state more of a role
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Opens Her Campaign With Health Insurance Plan
Discussion: QandO
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 …
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.
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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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Disguises Used in Attack on Troops
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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Donna Smith / Reuters:
McCain casts doubt on Gen. Casey as U.S. Army head
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ANDREW SULLIVAN WONDERS WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE SURGE: I thought I'd been fairly straightforward, but sometimes my thoughts, scattered across a lot of short posts, come across as more cryptic than I realize, so I appreciate being prodded to pull them together in one place.
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 …
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Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Voir Dire, the Never-Ending Story
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Rand Simberg / TCS Daily:
A One-Sided Arms Race
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Libby Trial to Display Changed Reporter-Source Relations
Colin Fernandez / Daily Mail:
Blue Monday: The unhappiest day of the year
Rob Christensen / Raleigh News & Observer:
Bush may lose N.C. ally
Discussion: Daily Kos
George F. Will / Newsweek:
Golly, What Did Jon Do?
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
A word about '08 polls — and electability
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Top Dissident Cleric Slams Ahmadinejad
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Frank Luntz / The Huffington Post:
Words That Don't Work  —  I am not in the habit of offering …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court strikes down California sentencing law
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Jon Keller / CBS4Boston:
Room For 1 More? Kerry May Join Mix For President
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Bryan / Hot Air:
Hurriya's Mosques: Still Standing
Los Angeles Times:
Lobbyists find new Congress is open for business
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
On the Electronic Campaign Trail
Discussion: Extreme Mortman
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Unhappy Days  —  Has Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped the shark?
Sydney Morning Herald:
Website offers whistleblowers chance to go global
Discussion: Unfogged
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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