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11:35 AM ET, January 25, 2007

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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kerry won't run for president in '08  —  WASHINGTON —An emotional Senator John F. Kerry today said he will not run in the 2008 presidential race and vowed to use his Senate perch to hasten an end to the war in Iraq, saying he would work with lawmakers from both parties to reverse President Bush's troop …
Discussion: newsweek
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Two Vets Passing in the Night
Discussion: TAPPED and Whiskey Fire
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Kerry Rules Out 2008 Run for President
Roger Simon / The Politico:   The Money Just Wasn't There for Kerry
Opinion Journal:
Senators-in-Chief  —  Congress has no Constitutional power to micromanage a war.  —  To understand why the Founders put war powers in the hands of the Presidency, look no further than the current spectacle in Congress on Iraq.  What we are witnessing is a Federalist Papers illustration …
Discussion: Redstate
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Talking Ourselves Into Defeat
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
M.R. Kropko / Associated Press:
2 election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential recount  —  CLEVELAND (AP) — Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the votes.
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M.R. Kropko / Associated Press:
Election staff convicted in recount rig
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Big States' Plan for Earlier Primaries Scrambles Race  —  As many as four big states — California, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey — are likely to move up their 2008 presidential primaries to early next February, further upending an already unsettled nominating process and forcing candidates …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
New York Times:
At the Libby Trial, Hints of Intrigue and Betrayal  —  The assertion by lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. that White House aides had sacrificed him to protect Karl Rove, the senior political adviser, appears to be based primarily on Mr. Libby's own sense that the administration had failed to defend …
Discussion: New York Sun and TPMmuckraker
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Rumsfeld's transition raises questions  —  Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon, but not the Defense Department.  —  On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said.
Marcus Baram / ABCNEWS:
Hillary's Hollywood Friends Switch Sides  —  Steven Spielberg and David Geffen Invite Hundreds of Stars to Their Big Barack Obama Fundraiser  —  Is Hollywood abandoning Hillary?  —  On Wednesday morning, hundreds of Hollywood's movers and shakers received an invitation that they may find hard to refuse.
The Politico:
Senate Shows Its Age; Health Problems Pose Challenge For Governing  —  The average age of members of the U.S. Senate is older than it has ever been, according to Senate Historian Richard Baker.  For many senators, advanced age is starting to show, raising questions about their ability to govern.
Discussion: wonkette.com
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
Incomes and Inequality: What the Numbers Don't Tell Us  —  The growing inequality in wealth and income has led many people to question whether the contemporary American economy is rigged in favor of the rich.  While there is little doubt that the gap between the wealthy and everybody else …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Defending Iraq War, Defiant Cheney Cites 'Enormous Successes'  —  Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the administration has achieved "enormous successes" in Iraq but complained that critics and the media "are so eager to write off this effort or declare it a failure" …
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
The Democrats' Rude Rebuff  —  When President Bush called for a bipartisan "special advisory council" of congressional leaders on the war against terrorism in his State of the Union address, he had in his pocket a rude rejection from Democratic leaders.  Thank you very much …
ESPN:
Being Inmate No. 1187055  —  Genarlow Wilson is standing on a threshold all right, at the end of the last hall of Burruss Correctional Training Center, an hour and a half south of Atlanta.  He's just a few feet from the mechanical door that closes with a goosebump-raising whurr and clang.
Discussion: Reason Magazine, TigerHawk and digg
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Obama's Appeal to Blacks Remains an Open Question  —  CHICAGO — Looking around at the overwhelmingly white audience that was applauding Sen. Barack Obama's luncheon speech on Iraq at a downtown hotel recently, the Rev. B. Herbert Martin expressed both satisfaction and concern.
Discussion: The Corner and Althouse
StrategyPage:
The Secret War Against Iran  —  Bringing democracy to Iraq has forced the Islamic world to confront the terrorism monster they have created.  Before Saddam was taken down, the Gulf Arabs depended on Saddam, as loathsome as he was, to keep Iran busy.  Since 1979, Shia radicals have been running Iran, and supporting Islamic terrorism.
Michael Young / Lebanon Daily Star:
Next time around, Lebanon will be in a civil war  —  For the third time in almost a year Lebanon has averted a civil war, but we're nearing the end of the rope.  If the Danish Embassy demonstrations and Hizbullah's mobilization in early December were, ultimately, manageable when it came …
Discussion: A Blog For All
 
 
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Ian / Hot Air:
Video: US forces engage Mahdi militia in Baghdad
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Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
The Enemy At Home  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today …
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William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Hillary in Blogistan: On Blogads, The Netroots and Peter Daou
Discussion: wonkette.com
Paul Bedard / US News:
And You Thought Katherine Harris Lost
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and wonkette.com
New York Times:
In a New Joint U.S.-Iraqi Patrol, the Americans Go First
Discussion: Hot Air and The News Blog
glaad.org:
GLAAD Criticizes CNN Host Glenn Beck's On-Air Use Of Anti-Gay Slur
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Of Gay Sheep, Modern Science and the Perils of Bad Publicity
BBC:
Police chief calls on communities
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LAW UNTO ITSELF?
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City Journal:
Yes, Rudy Giuliani Is a Conservative
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Ayatollah's snub pressures Iran president
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and QandO
Ben Smith / The Politico:
The Giuliani Dossier: A Brief Tour
David Stout / New York Times:
Minimum Wage Bill Suffers Setback in Senate
 

 
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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”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

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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