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11:00 AM ET, January 4, 2009

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Jerusalem Post:
Two senior Hamas terrorists killed in IAF strike  —  Senior Hamas terrorist Hussam Hamdan, who was in charge of Grad-type rocket launches into Beersheba and Ofakim, was killed in an IAF strike on Khan Yunis on Sunday afternoon.  —  Another senior Hamas terrorist, Muhammad Hilo, was also killed in the same airstrike.
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Ynetnews:
IDF deep in Strip: 50 terrorists killed
Reuters:
Europe backs IDF incursion
Discussion: Commentary and Daled Amos
IDF Spokesperson:
Rocket Statistics, 3 Jan 2009
Daily Mail:
Bodies of Hamas leader's children paraded as group promises …
Discussion: Israel Matzav and New York Times
Chicago Tribune:
State government grinds to standstill  —  The governor was arrested by the FBI and faces impeachment proceedings, his appointee to a U.S. Senate seat is in limbo and the state treasury is in shambles—a combination that has turned Illinois into a national punch line.  —  But who's laughing around here?
Discussion: TIME.com and On Deadline
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Roland Burris, Harry Reid: D.C. face-off  —  Former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris and Senate Democratic leaders determined to block his seating in the U.S. Senate plan to sit down Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol for a face-to-face meeting.  —  Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
The Politico:
Burris puts Senate Dems in tough spot
Discussion: Associated Press and Commentary
John Harlow / Times of London:
Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble  —  RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.  —  Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers …
New York Times:
The End of the Financial World as We Know It  —  AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics.  We've been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our harshest critics have been inclined to believe that we knew what we were doing.
Aaron David Miller / Newsweek:
He should get tough with Israel.  —  In Search of the High Ground: In July, Obama got a bird's-eye view of the Holy Land with Livni (right) and Defense Minister Ehud Barak  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 12, 2009  —  Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so.
Discussion: Daled Amos and Redhot
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Attacks Further Split Arab Rulers, People
Discussion: TIME.com and Soccer Dad
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
The New Meaning of an Old Battle
Discussion: Wizbang
Frank Rich / New York Times:
A President Forgotten but Not Gone  —  WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella.  So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down.  Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
16 days till Inauguration — Game on: The President-elect is scheduled to arrive at Andrews this evening — Plus ‘Article of the Month’  —  SIREN: Bloomberg News says Labor Department figures out Friday are likely to show U.S. job losses for the year were the worst since 1945.
Yossi Klein Halevi / Washington Post:
As My Son Goes to War, I Am Fully Israeli At Last  —  “I just heard on the news that Gavriel's base has been shelled,” my wife, Sarah, said to me last Tuesday, referring to our 19-year-old son, a member of an Israeli army tank unit waiting on the Gaza border for the order to enter.
Discussion: abu muqawama and My Right Word
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate race certification set for Monday with Franken up 225 votes  —  The Supreme Court has yet to rule on Coleman's request to consider more wrongly rejected ballots.  —  DFLer Al Franken won an impressive share Saturday of what may be the last ballots tallied in the U.S. Senate recount …
Haaretz:
U.S. quashes Arab-backed Gaza cease-fire resolution in UN Security Council meet  —  The United States thwarted an effort by Libya on Sunday to persuade the UN Security Council to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after Israel launched a ground invasion, diplomats said.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SURVEILLANCE STATE RUN AMOK.... In July, the Washington Post reported on undercover Maryland State Police officers conducting surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents.  Today, we learn that the monitoring was worse, and more pervasive, than first believed.
Michael Sheridan / Times of London:
China rattled by Sun King attack  —  An elite dissident has split party leaders with criticism of their ‘sham’ reforms  —  THE most prominent dissident still living in China has attacked the Communist party's economic reforms and compared Deng Xiaoping, its late leader, to Louis XIV.
Discussion: Fresh Bilge
Robert H. Frank / New York Times:
Should Congress Put a Cap on Executive Pay?  —  IT'S no wonder that voters' outrage over exorbitant executive pay is mounting.  After all, the government just had to bail out financial firms that paid big bonuses last year to many of the same executives who helped precipitate the current financial crisis.
Discussion: Economist's View
 
 
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Agence France Presse:
Obama keeps silent on explosive Gaza conflict
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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Says U.S. Must Act Swiftly to Address Economy
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and RedState
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Wall Street Journal:
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