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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Kerry rips Bush in front of former Iranian president at Davos; Update: Video added — This isn't the first time a major Democratic politician, or even Waffles himself, has handed Islamic fundamentalists a propaganda freebie. — The unwritten rule about politics ending at the water's edge …
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CBS News:
Kerry: U.S. A "Pariah" Nation Under Bush — Senator Blasts Administration For Failing To Properly Address Foreign Policy Issues — (CBS/AP) Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become "a sort of international pariah."
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Kerry Slams US In Davos Summit — There's something about the Davos economic summit that drives American leftists to slam their own country while abroad. Two years ago, Eason Jordan lost his job at CNN over his accusations in Davos that the US military had a policy of assassinating journalists in war zones.
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Tens of thousands in D.C. protest war — WASHINGTON - Protesters energized by fresh congressional skepticism about the Iraq war demanded a withdrawal of U.S. troops in a demonstration Saturday that drew tens of thousands and brought Jane Fonda back to the streets.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Protest Focuses on Troop Increase for Iraq — Tens of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall on Saturday to oppose President Bush's plan for a troop increase in Iraq in what organizers hoped would be one of the largest shows of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the war began.
Associated Press:
Tens of Thousands Demand Iraq Withdrawal — WASHINGTON (AP) — Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
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Washington Post:
Thousands Protest Bush Policy — Actors, Activists, Politicians and a Presidential Candidate Among Demonstrators — A raucous and colorful multitude of protesters, led by some of the aging activists of the past, staged a series of rallies and a march on the Capitol yesterday to demand that the United States end its war in Iraq.
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Bruce Nussbaum / NussbaumOnDesign:
Davos—Senator McCain on China. — I just had breakfast with Senator McCain at a media briefing. If I were still doing editorials, I would go into the details of his remarks on Iraq but I'm not and I won't. The Senator's comments on China are, however, important to the business community …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Davos Notes: John McCain Bites My Head Off — It was snowing heavily outside in Davos, but things got pretty heated inside a small dining room in the rustic Rinaldi Hotel where, Saturday morning, roughly 20 journalists from around the world had gathered around a rectangular table for an informal …
Real Cities:
Gonzales appoints political loyalists into vacant U.S. attorneys slots — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is transforming the ranks of the nation's top federal prosecutors by firing some and appointing conservative loyalists from the Bush administration's inner circle who critics say are unlikely to buck Washington.
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Brian Braiker / Newsweek:
A Sorry State — Following his State of the Union address, President Bush's approval rating hits a new low in the NEWSWEEK poll, as Sen. Hillary Clinton enjoys an early lead among the field of likely candidates in the '08 race. — Only 42 percent think Bush's domestic-policy proposals will be seriously considered by the Congress
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Giuliani Inches His Way to the White House
Giuliani Inches His Way to the White House
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On The Trail: A Subdued Crowd Greets Rudy In New Hampshire — MANCHESTER, NH — A week before Frank Santos, "The R-Rated Hyptonist" takes the stage in at the Palace Theater in Manchester, New Hampshire, former New York Mayor Rudoph Giuliani devlivered a subdued speech to the state Republican annual meeting.
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Political Insider
Guardian:
'If they pay we kill them anyway' - the kidnapper's story — In the second of two remarkable dispatches from behind Baghdad's front lines, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the commander of a Shia death squad — Fadhel is a slim, well-muscled 26-year-old Mahdi Army commander with a thin goatee beard …
Reuters:
Bush's father complains of news media "hostility" — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set.
Graham Allison / The Huffington Post:
Iran's Nuclear Bomb: Acquiesce or Attack? — The top line at Davos this year is euphoria about the performance of global economies and financial markets and confidence that 2007 will bring more of the same. Beneath the surface optimism, however, a deeper unease has emerged repeatedly about Iran …
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Tale of Wayne Dumond — Wayne Dumond was convicted in 1985 for the rape of Ashley Stevens. In 1999, he was released after the parole board, under pressure from Huckabee, voted to do so. Two years later he was convicted of murdering a woman, who he also sexually assaulted.
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Garry Wills / New York Times:
At Ease, Mr. President — WE hear constantly now about "our commander in chief." The word has become a synonym for "president." It is said that we "elect a commander in chief." It is asked whether this or that candidate is "worthy to be our commander in chief." — But the president is not our commander in chief.
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