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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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Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Warner leads effort on second resolution criticizing Bush's Iraq plan — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush's call …
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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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Campaign Allegation A Source of Vexation
Campaign Allegation A Source of Vexation
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Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton's camp fires first salvo
Clinton's camp fires first salvo
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New York Times, Washington Post, The Heretik, CNN Political Ticker, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh and Liberal Values
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Voir Dire, the Never-Ending Story — Hey guess who I found in the Libby trial media room? Pachacutec and Christy!! — This is Pach: I'm handing the baton, and the press passes, to my illustrious co-bloggers, though I'm hanging around today to complete my notes on voir dire.
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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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New York Times, Booman Tribune, DownWithTyranny!, Michelle Malkin and Tennessee Guerilla Women
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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, Ace of Spades HQ and It Shines For All
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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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
A word about '08 polls — and electability — When it comes to the 2008 presidential race, polling is so premature, it's almost better to ignore it. Indeed, as my friend Anonymous Liberal explained in a great guest post here in November, at this point in the 2004 presidential race …
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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 …
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.
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.
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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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, Riehl World View and Blue Crab Boulevard
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 …
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, Ace of Spades HQ, Secular Blasphemy and Hot Air
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 …