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1:35 PM ET, February 2, 2007

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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution  —  A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.
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Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Split on Measure Opposing Bush  —  Compromise Called Weak; Report Raises Estimate of Troops Needed for 'Surge'  —  Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran …
CNN:
Cost balloons when 'surge' support troops are counted
Discussion: Washington Post and Demagogue
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
Discussion: Bradford Plumer
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agent Says Libby Denied Being Leak Source  —  An F.B.I. agent told a jury Thursday that I. Lewis Libby Jr. "claimed" during formal interviews she conducted that he had not disclosed to two reporters the identity of Valerie Wilson, a Central Intelligence Agency operative.
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Agent: Libby may have talked of outing operative with Cheney
Discussion: Firedoglake
David Corn:
Libby Trial:Was Scooter Set Up? Did Cheney Conspire?
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial: Where Everybody Knows...
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Craig Gordon / Newsday:
On paper, Rudy's unsure  —  Giuliani's government filings don't lend hints to his presidential run - he hasn't submitted a declaration form or checked the Republican box  —  WASHINGTON - Republicans looking at Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for president always ask two questions - is he really running, and is he a "real Republican?"
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New York Post:
MCCAIN TO CRASH RUDY'S MANHATTAN PARTY  —  By MAGGIE HABERMAN in N.Y. and FREDRIC U. DICKER in Albany  —  The New York GOP chairman has lined up Arizona Sen. John McCain to star at a major party fund-raiser alongside presidential-primary rival Rudy Giuliani, a move some see as a diss of the former mayor in his home state.
Discussion: race42008.com
Thomas Z. Freedman / Washington Post:
How to Really Help Low-Wage Workers  —  If the House and Senate are able to agree on a minimum-wage hike and the president signs the bill, some may say we will have done enough to help low-income workers.  It's true that low-wage workers urgently need a raise, that millions of Americans work full …
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coburn.senate.gov:
Dr. Coburn Votes to Protect Salaries of Low-Income Families from Flawed Wage Bill
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jerusalem Post:
Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting  —  Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen.  —  Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …
Discussion: Classical Values
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Daily Mail:
Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang  —  Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged.  —  The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Websites denounce British Muslim soldiers
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for The Killing  —  This week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering — Sunni vs. Shiite, Kurd vs. Arab, jihadist vs. infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom — went bizarre.  In one of the biggest battles of the war …
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Exxon and Shell Report Record Profits for 2006  —  Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday.  —  By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed …
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John Porretto / Associated Press:
Exxon Mobil Posts Record Annual Profit
Tim F. / Balloon Juice:
Congrats, Glenn  —  Greenwald joins Salon.  —  In response to some reader complaints Glenn wrote: … I have a hard time understanding this "controversy."  The blogosphere isn't one uniform place.  There isn't one way to be a blogger, there isn't one way to be a liberal blogger …
Maya Angelou / Washington Post:
Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call  —  The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking.  —  That Jericho voice is stilled now.  —  Molly Ivins has been quieted.  —  The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Pottersville
Danny / Beltway Blogroll:
Anti-Blog Hysteria In The State Capitols  —  First Texas, now Tennessee.  There's something strange in the state legisaltive air, as lawmakers keep introducing anti-blog bills and then backing down when bloggers start screaming.  —  I mentioned the Texas story in passing a couple of months ago in one of my blog bits roundups.
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
NIE: The Surge Can't Work  —  Wow, this is grim.  According to the just-released Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, political reconciliation is likely a bridge too far over the next year and a half.  —  The Sunnis remain "unwilling to accept minority status" …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Reason Magazine
Associated Press:
Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring  —  PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction.  —  Phil did not see his shadow on Friday, which, according to German folklore …
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Benedict Brogan / Daily Mail:
No 10 kept Blair's questioning by police secret for a week  —  Tony Blair's premiership was on the verge of complete paralysis last night after it emerged that he was interviewed a second time in secret by police investigating the cash for honours scandal.  —  Detectives questioned …
Discussion: One Hand Clapping
 
 
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given
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Pawlenty drawing more national interest
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Border Policy's Success Strains Resources
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Right On: The straightforward arithmetic of jihad
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