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1:10 PM ET, January 25, 2007

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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 …
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Ezra Klein:
California's Dreaming  —  As a native, I feel almost disloyal saying this, but California should keep its primary precisely where it is.  This is a 35,000,000 person, 158,000 square mile state.  There's no way, within the context of the early-primary rush, for Democrats to seriously …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
GO WEST, YOUNG MAN....In an unforgivable act of Golden State treason …
Discussion: Eschaton and PoliBlog (TM)
Daniel Henninger / Real Clear Politics:
Talking Ourselves Into Defeat  —  The United States is talking itself into defeat in Iraq.  Its political culture is now in a downward spiral of pessimism.  In the halls of Congress, across endless newspaper columns, amid the punditocracy and on Sunday morning talk shows—all emit a Stygian gloom about America.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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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 …
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 …
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Steven Kyle / Angry Bear:   Tyler Cowen Makes Two Mistakes
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Hillary in Blogistan: On Blogads, The Netroots and Peter Daou  —  Hillary Clinton did not wait long after her weekend presidential campaign announcement to step foot in the blogosphere: By Monday her technically fledgling but long-assumed campaign had a major step toward engaging web users …
Discussion: MyDD and Wonkette
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LAW UNTO ITSELF?  —  Last summer, against the advice of a few of our best friends, John and I hosted a Frontline crew for interviews over the better part of a Saturday afternoon.  The interview footage may have been left on the cutting room floor …
Discussion: Media Blog
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pbs.org:   NEWS WAR: SECRETS, SOURCES & SPIN (PART I)
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: TAPPED and wonkette.com
Eric / Classical Values:
THE YEAR THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME?  —  In China, it's the Year Of The P-P-P-Pig!  —  Yay!  Right?  —  Not in China.  According to this detailed WSJ report, the Chinese government is systematically censoring all mentions of pig and pig images — putting Western advertisers in a mad editing scramble:
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Our Supreme General has spoken  —  (updated below - updated again)  —  There is nothing like a feeling of besiegement and desperation to make a political movement — one that knows it is in its "last throes" — show its true colors.  The Supreme General-Commander has now decreed that any opposition to the "surge" helps The Enemy.
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.
glaad.org:
GLAAD Criticizes CNN Host Glenn Beck's On-Air Use Of Anti-Gay Slur  —  media center > press releases > GLAAD Criticizes CNN Host Glenn Beck's On-Air Use Of Anti-Gay Slur  —  Contact: Marc McCarthy, Senior Director of Communications  —  Phone: (323) 634-2051 Email: mccarthy@glaad.org
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Of Gay Sheep, Modern Science and the Perils of Bad Publicity  —  Charles Roselli set out to discover what makes some sheep gay.  Then the news media and the blogosphere got hold of the story.  —  Dr. Roselli, a researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University, has searched …
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.
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.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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 …
City Journal:
Yes, Rudy Giuliani Is a Conservative  —  And an electable one, at that.  —  Not since Teddy Roosevelt took on Tammany Hall a century ago has a New York politician closely linked to urban reform looked like presidential timber.  But today ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani sits at or near …
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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Greg Gutfeld / The Huffington Post:
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Agence France Presse:
Letters from Anne Frank's father surface
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
Senate Republicans block minimum wage hike
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Run, Al, Run  —  The ideal candidate for the Democrats …
Desmond Butler / ABCNEWS:
Georgian Sting Seizes Bomb Grade Uranium
Michael Young / Lebanon Daily Star:
Next time around, Lebanon will be in a civil war
Discussion: A Blog For All
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: US forces engage Mahdi militia in Baghdad
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
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Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
The Enemy At Home  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today …
Discussion: Hot Air and Jihad Watch
New York Times:
In a New Joint U.S.-Iraqi Patrol, the Americans Go First
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Obama's Appeal to Blacks Remains an Open Question
New York Times:
At the Libby Trial, Hints of Intrigue and Betrayal
Mark Trevelyan / Reuters:
Climate change seen fanning conflict and terrorism
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Dems seek GOP support on Iraq resolution
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Ayatollah's snub pressures Iran president
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and QandO
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Defending Iraq War, Defiant Cheney Cites 'Enormous Successes'
 

 
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

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

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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