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10:15 AM ET, January 2, 2009

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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Moral Clarity in Gaza  —  Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons.  —  Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated.  The Israel-Gaza war is not.
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Associated Press:
Israel destroys Hamas homes, flattens Gaza mosque  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel bombed a mosque it claimed was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives Friday, but under international pressure, the government allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports to leave besieged Gaza.
Guardian:
Israeli warplanes destroy Gaza houses and mosque as air strikes continue  —  Israeli warplanes struck around 20 targets in Gaza today, raising the death toll in the territory to at least 414 in seven days of intensive bombing.  —  The continued air strikes, which killed two Palestinians …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
In a Broadening Offensive, Israel Steps Up Diplomacy
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Two Advisers Reflect on Eight Years With Bush  —  White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley remember conferring with President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq war, in 2005 and 2006, when violence was out of control.
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
The Blago Vortex  —  Roland Burris isn't going away quietly.  In fact, he's not going away at all.  He's figured out he may have a fairly good legal argument to keep his senate seat — and he's liking his new perch just fine.  This report suggests he's not going to be bullied or cajoled by the likes of Harry Reid:
Discussion: Redhot
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Folding Blago's Big Top
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
9 Muslim Passengers Removed From Jet  —  Others on Flight Say a Remark Was ‘Suspicious’  —  Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark.
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Mike M. Ahlers / CNN:
‘Safest’ seat remarks get Muslim family kicked off plane  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing.
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bigger Than Bush  —  As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.  —  Some of the whining almost defies belief.  Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty …
Discussion: driftglass
Associated Press:
Governor may be leaning toward Kennedy  —  Two people close to Paterson tell AP they believe she'll be his choice  —  ALBANY, N.Y. - Officials say the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy will be the governor's choice to fill the New York Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Rebecca Skloot / New York Times:
Creature Comforts  —  ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN A SUBURB of Albany, a group of children dressed as vampires and witches ran past a middle-aged woman in plain clothes.  She gripped a leather harness — like the kind used for Seeing Eye dogs — which was attached to a small, fuzzy black …
Discussion: The Corner and Marginal Revolution
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Steel Industry, in Slump, Looks to U.S. Stimulus  —  The steel industry, having entered the recession in the best of health, is emerging as a leading indicator of what lies ahead.  As steel production goes — and it is now in collapse — so will go the national economy.
Discussion: TPMCafe and danieldrezner.com
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Republicans to flee DC for inauguration  —  While millions descend on Washington for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, some Republicans see it as an occasion to get out of town.  —  Out of power on both ends of Pennsylvania Ave and mostly out of favor on K Street …
Haaretz:
Bernard Henri Levy among 6 Jews said targeted by Islamist group  —  Jewish-French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy was listed by a Belgium-based Islamist group as a target for assassination alongside other leading Jewish personalities in Europe, the Belgian daily La Derniere Heure reported earlier this week.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch
 
 
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Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
Fox News allows ‘magic negro’ New Year's message to be broadcast.»
Discussion: At-Largely
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Obama Wraps Up His Hawaiian Vacation
Discussion: The Caucus and TIME.com
Gurcharan Das / New York Times:
The Next World Order
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
New Evidence of Meteor Bombardment
New York Times:
A Focus on Violence by G.I.'s Back From War
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Phil Nourie / PR Newswire:
Poll: 77% of Americans Blame Media for Making Economic Crisis Worse
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Sarah Palin: Bristol & Levi ‘Working Their Butts Off to Parent’
Discussion: TIME.com
New York Times:
Donald E. Westlake, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 75
Discussion: Amygdala, The Corner and Crooked Timber
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
On Fast Track for Clemency, via the Oval Office
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Washington Monthly
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

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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