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1:45 PM ET, January 23, 2007

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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Headmaster Disputes Claim That Obama Attended Islamic School  —  Fresh doubt was cast yesterday on a magazine's allegation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) attended a madrassah, or religious school that teaches a fundamentalist version of Islam.  —  Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster …
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Ed Morrissey / Examiner:
Richardson could be '08's most dangerous candidate
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Dives in Media Waters
Discussion: Althouse and The Liberty Papers
MSNBC:
Prosecutor: Libby 'wiped out' Cheney memo  —  Defense in CIA leak trial counters that White House tried to set up Libby  —  WASHINGTON - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald used his opening statement in the CIA leak trial Tuesday to allege that Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff lied …
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Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Well's Opening Statement, Part One
Discussion: TalkLeft and Booman Tribune
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:   Libby Liveblog: Fitzgerald's Opening Statement
Think Progress:   BREAKING: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney 'Deeply Involved'
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Jay Carney / Swampland:
The Clinton Playbook  —  When George W. Bush takes the podium …
Discussion: The Caucus
Roger Si / politico.com:
McCain Bashes Cheney Over Iraq Policy  —  With his presidential hopes tied to an administration whose Iraq policy he supports but cannot control, John McCain for the first time blamed Vice President Cheney for what McCain calls the "witch's brew" of a "terribly mishandled" war in which U.S. forces are on the verge of defeat.
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PittsburghLIVE.com:   Sen. McCain running for president in 2008
Los Angeles Times:
Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link  —  U.S. warnings of advanced weaponry crossing the border are overstated, critics say.  —  BAQUBAH, IRAQ — If there is anywhere Iran could easily stir up trouble in Iraq, it would be in Diyala, a rugged province along the border between the two nations.
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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 …
Discussion: Right Wing News, Redstate and Hot Air
PJM / Pajamas Media:
The State of the Union is a Disaster:  —  The Speech George Bush Should Make Tuesday Night  —  Don't bother standing up or clapping, any of you.  I already know who won the election, and I know how you feel.  —  I come before you tonight not to make amends, not to make it good, curry any favor or find any middle ground.
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.
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Bush Insurance Plan Gets Cold Reception  —  President Bush's proposed tax deduction for health insurance appears to be shaping up as a tough sell in the Democratic Congress.  —  Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., said Monday that the tax changes, which Bush will promote in Tuesday night's State …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Economist's View
Confederate Yankee:
CRACKDOWN: Iraqi PM Locks Down Official Media Access to Key Government Ministries  —  An anonymous source from within Baghdad's Green Zone has provided me with a copy of a document issued from the office of Iraqi Prime Minster Nouri Al-Malki, ordering the shutdown of contacts with the world press on …
Discussion: protein wisdom and The Jawa Report
Fox News:
WEB SITE KICKS SAND IN FACES OF GIS IN IRAQ ASKING FOR MATS TO EASE HARDSHIP OF SLEEPING ON GROUND  —  An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT: If you take Second Amendment issues into account when deciding whom to support, or if you simply are interested how the candidates will likely fare with an important bloc of voters, here's a preliminary assessment of some of the people who have been listed as likely or definite candidates.
Washington Post:
Abortion Foes to Renew Efforts  —  Activists Rally on Mall, Vow to Keep Pressure on Congress  —  Tens of thousands of abortion opponents marched through melting snow on the Mall yesterday and vowed to work harder — since Democrats have taken control of the Capitol — to overturn …
Jonathan Martin / politico.com:
Hastert To Endorse Romney  —  Sources inside former Gov. Mitt Romney's camp tell The Politico that they've picked up yet another major Washington endorsement: former House Speaker Dennis Hastert.  The Illinoisan is set to publicly endorse Romney today.  —  Romney has cultivated …
Nadine Elsibai / Bloomberg:
Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level (Update2)  —  Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush's approval ratings are now the lowest for any president the day before a State of the Union speech since Richard Nixon in 1974, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
John Solo / Washington Post:
Casino Executive Contributes $1 Million to Gingrich Group  —  Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and a possible presidential contender, jump-started his new political group with a check for $1 million from a source many in his conservative base would shun — the gambling industry.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Marc Santora / New York Times:
In the Vortex of Baghdad, Staying Put This Time  —  Two blocks from the new American outpost in Ghazaliya, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods, a fight was raging.  Shiites were battling Sunnis, the latest skirmish in a sectarian war that has left this area a wasteland.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The News Blog
 
 
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Amanda / Think Progress:
CNN's Glenn Beck Calls Anti-Gay Slur Simply A 'Naughty Name'
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Hezbollah Riots in Lebanon
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End of multiculturalism  —  PRIME Minister John Howard officially …
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Surprises From Gates's 1996 Memoir
Discussion: Demagogue
Gail Heriot / The Right Coast:
Huh?  Duke University's Provost Draws Profoundly Misguided Lessons …
Washington Post:
Internal Rifts Cloud Democrats' Opportunity on Warming
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Associated Press:
List of Oscar Nominations
Discussion: Don Surber and A Blog For All
aflcio.org:
Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Urging the Senate …
USA Today:
Lawmakers have loved ones in combat zone
Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
Is the Surge Already Producing Results?
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
PREZ-MINDED RUDY TO SHED FINANCE BIZ
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Faulted for Inaction in Foley Scandal
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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