OFFICIALS: WHITE HOUSE HOLDING BACK REPORT DETAILING IRAN'S MEDDLING IN IRAQ  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A plan by the Bush administration to release detailed and possibly damning specific evidence linking the Iranian government to efforts to destabilize Iraq have been put on hold, U.S. officials told FOX News.

Senators Assert Right to Block Bush on Iraq  —  Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee began laying the constitutional groundwork today for an effort to block President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq and place new limits on the conduct of the war there, perhaps forcing a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

Libby Live: Judy Three  —  Go buy Anatomy of Deceit.  Don't update crazily.  And don't expect a transcript.  —  We're in sidebar.  She's back to breathing.  Looks down.  She's wiping the sweat from under her eyes.  Sees someone is laughing.  Leans back.  Someone made her relax.

10 years to save the planet  —  Global Cool ... Pearl Harbor star Josh Hartnett  —  A NEW worldwide movement backed by celebrities, musicians, politicians and business leaders is aiming to reverse the effects of global warming over the next decade.  —  Global Cool launched in London …

Maverick Costco CEO Joins Push to Raise Minimum Wage  —  The chief executive of Costco Wholesale, the nation's largest wholesale club, yesterday became the most prominent member of a new organization of business owners and executives pressing Congress to approve an increase in the federal minimum wage.

The Obama Messiah Watch  —  INTRODUCING A PERIODIC FEATURE CONSIDERING EVIDENCE THAT OBAMA IS THE SON OF GOD.  —  Is Barak Obama—junior U.S. senator from Illinois, best-selling author, Harvard Law Review editor, Men's Vogue cover model, and "exploratory" presidential candidate …

The Case for Outing Jamil?  —  I'm presenting working on what will likely be my last post on the Jamil Hussein/Hurriyah mosque attacks debacle.  I've got some emails out to several sources and the AP itself attempting to tie up loose ends, and I won't write a final draft until those addressed …

Lara Logan & al Qaeda: What's the 411, CBS?  —  First, read this heart-rending appeal from Lara Logan complaining about CBS News refusing to air one of her Haifa Street reports, which highlighted a masked "Haifa Street resident" who "blamed the fighting on the U.S. Here's a screen shot of her source:

Obama Offers Plan to Stop Escalation of Iraq War, Begin Phased Redeployment of Troops  —  Contact: Tommy Vietor or Robert Gibbs, 202-228-5511  —  Obama Offers Plan to Stop Escalation of Iraq War, Begin Phased Redeployment of Troops  —  Goal to Redeploy All Combat Brigades out of Iraq by March 31, 2008

Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Resenting History  —  When Abraham Lincoln decided to run for a second term in the midst of the Civil War, he used a homespun analogy that nearly everybody could relate to: "You don't swap horses in the middle of a stream."  In 1864, after all, people still rode horses to go places.

FBI turns to broad new wiretap method  —  The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.  —  Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing …

Landmark Court Ruling Orders Apple To Pay $700,000 For Blogger's Legal Fees  —  Santa Clara, CA (AHN)-In a landmark ruling in favor of bloggers and cyber journalists, a Santa Clara County Court defended the First Amendment rights of online journalists to protect their confidential sources …

Andrew Sullivan and the hollow "Conservative Soul"  —  (updated below)  —  There is a serious fraud emerging in the political landscape that, though easily predictable and predicted, is now being perpetrated with full force — namely, that the so-called "conservative movement" …

Webb to Secretary Rice: Ahem  —  A couple weeks ago, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) asked Secretary Condoleeza Rice if the administration thought President Bush had the power to take military action against Iran without permission from Congress.  —  She deferred an answer, saying …

Paulson May Find Bush Is Biggest Hurdle to Social Security Deal  —  Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who left one of Wall Street's most powerful posts in part to broker a Social Security overhaul, may find his biggest hurdle is his boss, President George W. Bush.