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2:25 PM ET, February 3, 2007

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Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Suicide bomber kills 121 in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 121 people and wounding scores among the crowd buying food for evening meals, the most devastating strike in the capital in more than two months.
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Mussab Al-Khairalla / Reuters:
Baghdad truck bomb kills 121 - police  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge truck bomb killed 121 people and wounded 226 in a busy market in a mainly Shi'ite area of central Baghdad on Saturday, in the deadliest single bombing in the capital since the 2003 U.S.-led war.
Discussion: Eschaton
CNN:
Truck bomb kills more than 120 in Baghdad market … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden truck in a crowded Baghdad market Saturday, killing at least 121 people and wounding 373 others, a Health Ministry official said.  —  The blast, which destroyed automobiles …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Warner Opposing His Own Resolution?
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and The Right Angle
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Republicans Rebuff Reid on Iraq Resolution
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
Maura Reynolds / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. can't prove Iran link to Iraq strife  —  Despite pledges to show evidence, officials have repeatedly put off presenting their case.  —  WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials acknowledged Friday that they had yet to compile evidence strong enough to back up publicly their claims …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Gates: We're "Not Planning" To Attack Iran
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
House Democrats to hear from Bush today  —  WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Talk about a tough crowd.  President Bush accepted an invitation to speak Saturday to about 200 House Democrats — the same bunch that in November wrestled control of the chamber away from Republicans for the first time in a dozen years.
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Washington Post:
Bush to Request Billions for Wars  —  President Bush will ask Congress for close to three-quarters of a trillion dollars in defense spending on Monday, including $245 billion to cover the cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and other elements of the "global war on terror," senior administration officials said yesterday.
joinrudy2008.com:
Rudy and the Republican Nomination  —  To:  —  Team Rudy  —  Brent Seaborn, Strategy Director  —  Re:  —  Rudy and the Republican Nomination  —  Over the last month or two there has been a good deal of public opinion polling on the 2008 Republican primary race.
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John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Hillary widens lead; McCain holds an edge
New York Post:
A FAN OBAMA DOESN'T NEED  —  SEN. Barack Obama might want to tell George Soros to shut up, now that the Hungarian-born billionaire has equated the George W. Bush administration with the Third Reich.  Soros, who spent $26 million trying to beat Bush two years ago, is a key supporter …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
NIE: It's A Civil War  —  The intelligence community released its National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq yesterday, a nine-page document that the Washington Post correctly characterizes as "bleak".  It adopts the term "civil war" for the ongoing conflict in Iraq, and at the same time notes …
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Jason / COUNTERCOLUMN:
Spitting on Veterans  —  Slate's Jack Schaefer is joining Media Matters in desperately trying to establish the meme that spitting incidents involving war veterans is myth, an urban legend.  After all, that reprehensible behavior on the part of VietNam era leftists has hung like an albatross around liberals' necks for years, now.
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Republican Senators and The Choice Before Them: Get It Right Or Get Out  —  Bill Kristol writes bluntly about the choice facing Republican senators next week.  It is a piece that will circulate throughout the Beltway this weekend, hopefully to good effect.  But even Kristol understates …
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Senator Clinton won't run out use of force to stop 'pro-terrorist' Iran  —  At a speech Friday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said "no option can be taken off the table" when dealing with Iran, RAW STORY has learned.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Candidates Pick Tunes at DNC Meeting  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Everyone needs a soundtrack - even politicians.  —  The presidential candidates who addressed the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting Friday got to choose their tunes, and it was an eclectic mix that reflected personal favorites and not-so-subtle messages.
eRiposte / Firedoglake:
The "Scooter" Libby Trial and Uranium from Africa, Part 3: Show Me Your Accord and I'll Show You Mine  —  [Preface: In the midst of her incredible live-blogging effort at FDL, Emptywheel took some time to send me links to some of the documents from the trial proceedings that have been made public by Libby's legal firm.
Atrios / Eschaton:
Happy Blogroll Amnesty Day  —  Hey, the blogroll is gone.  —  As I wrote earlier, one of the big complaints by new bloggers is that it's impossible to get onto blogrolls because established bloggers tend not to add them.  They're right.  A big reason for that is that everyone feels …
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
China Gets Cold Feet For Foreign Investment  —  New Regulations Spawn Fears of Economic Nationalism  —  SHANGHAI — "I know you don't know that you don't know."  —  Those insulting words, thrown out by a Chinese man to a Westerner, are the punchline of an Internet commercial that ends …
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Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
Chinese Official Publishes Rebuke of Bush
Discussion: FP Passport and The Peking Duck
 
 
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Swampland  —  Well, not exactly swampland, but in this edition …
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NARN, The Oh-Crap-I-Live-In-Minnesota Edition
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
BUT IT'S NOT A CIVIL WAR: … All of this, shockingly …
Ezra / Right Wing Watch:
'Patriot Pastor' Call to Imprison Adulterers Could Thin Presidential Primary
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New York Times:
Slower Job Growth, at Least for Now
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bls.gov:
Employment Situation Summary
Matt Browner Hamlin / The Huffington Post:
Ending the "Chuck Hagel Is a Maverick" Meme
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Nico / Think Progress:
Neocon Adelman: If Iraq Doesn't Improve By July 4, 'I Will Say It Is Hopeless'
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
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Media Matters for America:
On MSNBC, Viqueira asserted that political "center" supports Bush Iraq policy
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
washingtonpost.com > Live Discussions
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Andrew Norfolk / Times of London:
Plots and paranoia are mainstream views for Muslims of Sparkbrook
William M. Welch / USA Today:
Hunter out to capture White House
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sex scandal a serious obstacle to mayor's hopes for higher office
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Hope Rides Alone
 

 
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