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Ynetnews:
IDF deep in Strip: 50 terrorists killed
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Reuters:
Europe backs IDF incursion
Discussion: Commentary and Daled Amos
Joe Settler / The Muqata:
Day 9 of the War, Sunday, January 4, 2009
Discussion: Ynetnews and My Right Word
The Politico:
Burris puts Senate Dems in tough spot  —  The defiant move by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to name a Senate successor to Barack Obama has triggered a political and legal mess that could drag on for months and is already prompting uncomfortable racial questions for Democrats.
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Reid cracks Senate door open for Burris  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated Sunday that there is a chance that controversial Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris could be seated in the upper chamber.  —  Reid, who appeared on NBC's “Meet the Press,” …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:   Blagojevich ‘corrupt’ cloud over Ill: Reid
Chicago Tribune:
State government grinds to standstill
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Associated Press:
Congress: Stimulus bill likely after inauguration
Discussion: The Jed Report and Reuters
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Roland Burris, Harry Reid: D.C. face-off
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 …
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Michelle Malkin:
Jimmy Carter & Habitat for Humanity: Celebrity slum lords?  —  The road to hell is paved with good intentions — and, apparently, the homes in the neighborhoods along that hellish path are built by Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity.  The Times of London reports on one of the celebrity …
Discussion: Don Surber
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza  —  (updated below)  —  Former McCain-Palin campaign spokesman and current Weekly Standard editor Michael Goldfarb notes that Israel, a couple of days ago, dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a Gazan home which killed a top Hamas leader …
MSNBC:
Richardson to withdraw as Commerce secretary  —  New Mexico governor cites pending investigation of business dealings  —  New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position …
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.
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.
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Washington Post:
More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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.
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Attacks Further Split Arab Rulers, People
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Times of London:
Fears over earthquake ‘swarm’ at Yellowstone National Park  —  Hundreds of earthquakes have hit Yellowstone National Park, raising fears of a more powerful volcanic eruption.  —  The earthquake swarm, the biggest in more than 20 years, is being closely monitored by scientists and emergency authorities.
Discussion: Townhall.com and Capital Commerce
Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
George H. W. Bush: I'd like to see Jeb elected president.»  —  This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked former President George H.W. Bush about the possibility of his son, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, running for Senate.  The former president expressed his hope …
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.
Michael R. Crittenden / Wall Street Journal:
The Bailout Bowl: Big-Game Sponsors Scored Billions  —  Financial Firms That Got Government Aid Draw Fire for Spending Millions on Marketing; ‘A Fantastic Investment’  —  Football fans watching this year's college bowl games may have noticed that some of the biggest sponsors were also recipients …
Peterr / Firedoglake:
Violence is the Tool of the Incompetent  —  The apartheid wall in East Jerusalem, Nov 2006  —  My denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has long-standing ties with Lutherans in the Middle East that have focused mainly on education (building schools) and both short-term …
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