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1:20 AM ET, January 26, 2007

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Nibras Kazimi / New York Sun:
Turnaround in Baghdad  —  There has been a flurry of press reports recently about insurgents battling American and Iraqi security forces on Haifa Street in Baghdad, and around the rural town of Buhruz in Diyala Province.  These same insurgents also claimed to have shot down a Black Hawk helicopter near Buhruz.
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Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
Does Anyone Else Detect a Trend?  —  Read through the last couple or three weeks of posts at B5 and Mudville, and one might get the impression that something good is afoot.  Without sounding too optimistic, I'm sure there must be a reason for the progress we are seeing in Iraq, and …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Chimpy McHitlerburton's smirky rodeo ride through history, 23 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Tony Karon / Time:
2008: Hillary vs McCain?  —  Hillary Clinton is the clear front-runner to win the Democratic party's nomination for President in 2008, but the Republican race will be a close contest between Senator John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani — with McCain edging Giuliani by a three- to four-point margin.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Schumer Believes Ordinary People, Not War, Will Become '08 Focus  —  Sen. Charles Schumer, architect of the new Democratic Senate majority, argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the 2008 elections will not center on Iraq.  —  "I think Iraq will not be as strong an issue in the 2008 elections …
Discussion: MyDD
Washington Post:
Congress's Iraq Quagmire  —  ON TUESDAY nearly every member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warmly endorsed Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new U.S. commander in Iraq, and a number wished him success or "Godspeed" in his mission.  Yesterday some of the same senators voted …
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Angry Dispute Erupts Among Iraqi Lawmakers  —  Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's presentation of a new Baghdad security plan to the Iraqi Parliament on Thursday broke down in bitter sectarian recriminations, with Mr. Maliki threatening a Sunni Arab lawmaker with arrest and, in response …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Iraqi Shiite soldiers put the boots to Sunni insurgents
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Pajamas Media:
BAGHDAD TODAY. QUIET. TOO QUIET.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Bob Geiger:
Senate GOP Leadership Tries To Eliminate Federal Minimum Wage  —  Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), evidently convinced that he was beating a dead horse by continuing his quest to ban flag-burning and discriminate against gay people, announced this month that he would not seek reelection in 2008 …
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CBS News:
Pelosi Says She Wasn't Consulted On Iraq  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that President George W. Bush did not consult her before announcing his new strategy for the war in Iraq — a sign that, despite the cozy rhetoric, the relationship between Washington's two powerhouses has already had its share of friction.
Jonathan S. Landay / Real Cities:
Rockefeller: Cheney applied 'constant' pressure to stall investigation on flawed Iraq intelligence  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney exerted "constant" pressure on the Republican former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration's use …
MediaChannel:
Helping Lara Logan  —  Sometimes it's hard to swim in the mainstream.  —  There has been much heated debate over the past few years over media coverage of the Iraq War.  The Bush administration has repeatedly attacked the 'liberal bias' of the mainstream news industry …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Ex-Aide's Testimony, A Spin Through VP's PR  —  Memo to Tim Russert: Dick Cheney thinks he controls you.  —  This delicious morsel about the "Meet the Press" host and the vice president was part of the extensive dish Cathie Martin served up yesterday when the former Cheney communications director took …
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq  —  Administration Strategy Stirs Concern Among Some Officials  —  The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across …
Discussion: First Draft
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Live: Cathie Martin, Three  —  Breaking!  Word from one of the (male) journalists: Ari Fleischer is in the bathroom.  He uses the bathroom just like anyone else.  He doesn't know whether he's going to testify today.  —  I bet you're glad I told you that...  Well still up [questioning Martin].
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Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Cathie Martin One
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Strata-Sphere
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.
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust council  —  Former president also rejected Christian historian because name sounded 'too Jewish'  —  TEL AVIV - Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were "too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman …
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Tammy Bruce
Paul Krugman / New York Review of Books:
Who Was Milton Friedman?  —  1.  —  The history of economic thought in the twentieth century is a bit like the history of Christianity in the sixteenth century.  Until John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936, economics …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Run, Al, Run  —  The ideal candidate for the Democrats may be the man who won the popular vote in 2000 — and who opposed the war in Iraq from the very start  —  A stiff Vice President campaigns on his administration's legacy of unprecedented prosperity.  Looks terrible on TV.
 
 
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Jamie Court / The Huffington Post:
Time To Unionize The LA Times To Save It
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President's Sin of Omission?
Nico / Think Progress:
NPR's Rehm: Delayed Iraq NIE Will Undermine Case For Escalation
Discussion: speaker.gov
Robert F. Kennedy Jr / Rolling Stone:
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and O'Connor: Continued Lame False Defense of Bush v. Gore
Discussion: wtopnews.com
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Senate Firefighters  —  Despite the raging controversy …
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INTERVIEW-U.N. climate report will shock the world -chairman
The Smoking Gun:
Outrage Over Texas College MLK Day Party
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush Plans New Focus On Afghan Recovery
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Iraqi Official Offers Terms From Militia to Avoid Fight
Discussion: Hot Air and The News Blog
Micah L. Sifry / Personal Democracy Forum blogs:
2008: Who's Ahead Online (Rs)
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
HALFWAY MEASURES....I don't want to jump all over Barack Obama …
Greg Gutfeld / The Huffington Post:
New Trend on The Rise: the Patriotic Terrorist
Eric / Classical Values:
THE YEAR THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME?
 

 
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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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