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1:50 PM ET, January 3, 2009

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Chicago Sun Times:
Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama's U.S. Senate seat  —  Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made it clear who he didn't want in the post …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Roland Burris tells Lynn Sweet: ‘We are the senator’  —  NO CIRCUS?  Says he'll try to avoid a scene when he shows up to claim seat  —  WASHINGTON — Roland Burris, being Roland Burris, put it to me this way Friday when we talked: “We are the senator.”  —  And we, that is he …
Laurence H. Tribe / Forbes:
Blagojevich And The Constitution  —  The Senate doesn't have to seat Burris.
Discussion: Balkinization and PoliBlog
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
As 111th Senate Is Set to Begin, Four Seats Still Up in Air
Discussion: The Caucus and New York Times
Chicago Breaking News:
Burris asks high court to move fast
Discussion: TIME.com
Haaretz:
Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza Strip  —  Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a large explosion in Gaza City as well as a series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel.  —  Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel …
Discussion: Israellycool and Israpundit
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Ron Ben-Yishai / Ynetnews:
IDF artillery targets Gaza  —  IDF escalating attacks?  For first time since Gaza op's start, IDF artillery units shell targets in Strip.  Meanwhile, Air Force hunts for senior Hamas terror activists in Strip, hits dozens of targets Saturday; Hamas officer killed after car hit by aircraft
Associated Press:
IDF begins shelling northern Gaza for 1st time since op began  —  For the first time since the start of Operation Cast Lead, the IDF began firing artillery shells into northern Gaza on Saturday afternoon, IDF officials said.  —  According to reports, the artillery units were attacking targets …
Discussion: A Blog For All, Ynetnews and Haaretz
The Raw Story:
CNN: US weapons ‘killing innocent civilians’ in Gaza
Discussion: Mondoweiss and Guardian
Khalid al-Ansary / Reuters:
U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush “utter failure”  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an “utter failure” that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country.
Dave Rochelson / Change.gov:
American Recovery and Reinvestment  —  In this week's weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama lays out the challenges that face us in the new year, and his plan for taking them on.  —  “We need an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that not only creates jobs in the short-term …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Back at Work, Obama Pitches His Stimulus Plan
Discussion: Buck Naked Politics
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Rangel Pushed for a Donation; Insurer Pushed for a Tax Cut  —  On April 21, 2008, Representative Charles B. Rangel met with officials of the American International Group, the now-troubled insurance giant, to ask for a donation to a school of public service that City College of New York was building in his honor.
Justin Lahart / Real Time Economics:
Ignoring the Oracles: You Are With the Free Markets, or Against Them  —  It's hard to tell what's more striking about Raghuram Rajan's 2005 presentation at the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole symposium — the way many of the dangers he laid out came to pass, or the way he was attacked, and then discounted.
Cynthia Dizikes / Los Angeles Times:
Khat — is it more coffee or cocaine?  —  ‘FLOWER OF PARADISE’: In East African countries like Somalia, khat leaves have been used as a stimulant and social tonic.  But in the U.S. khat is illegal, and increased demand is leading to clashes between narcotics officers and immigrants.
Discussion: PoliBlog and Althouse
Julian Sanchez / Law & Disorder:
Reinventing conservatism, one tweet at a time  —  Since the humbling results of the November election came in, the conservative movement has been scrambling to assess what happened—and to figure out how to prevent it from happening again.  Much of this effort, in light of the Obama campaign's …
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate recount proceeds as high court seeks more ballot information  —  A statewide review that is adding wrongly rejected absentee ballots to the Senate recount moved toward a conclusion today.  Meanwhile, all were waiting for a decision by the state Supreme Court on a Coleman motion to modify the review procedure
Discussion: D-Day, TalkLeft and On Deadline
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Jeff Taylor / Reason:
Why 2009 Will be Worse than 2008  —  Whew.  Now that 2008 is in the history books, $8.5 trillion in federal bailout money is in the pipeline, and bold leadership is set to take command, Americans can all breathe a little easier, right?  —  Uh, no. The unhappy fact is that 2009 is almost certain …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
U.S. Debt Set to Soar in This Year  —  $2 Trillion Increase May Test Federal Ability to Borrow  —  With President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats considering a massive spending package aimed at pulling the nation out of recession, the national debt is projected to jump …
Discussion: Macsmind
 
 
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
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Orange County Register:
Mark Steyn: Gaza has its version of rocket scientists
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TheJC.com:
Gaza: Gang on rampage in Golders Green
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Social activist, organizer ... and FBI informant
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Washington Post:
Peacemaking Event Is Attacked in Iraq
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Taking a Break From War With a Game Anything but Gentle
Discussion: Radosh.net
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Early Test of Obama View on Power Over Detainees
Discussion: Political Punch
Demian McLean / Bloomberg:
Obama Moves to Counter China With Pentagon-NASA Link
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Frank Main / Chicago Sun Times:
Blagojevich stripped of access to classified federal security information
Andy Barr / The Politico:
States want $1 trillion to ‘keep afloat’
Discussion: Donklephant and Reuters
Bill Ayers / The Huffington Post:
Obama and Education Reform