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10:50 AM ET, January 12, 2009

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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal  —  Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday.  —  The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials …
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Crisis in Gaza Imperils 2-State Plan
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
John Cushman / The Caucus:
From the White House Briefing Room, a Swan Song  —  President Bush's last press conference opened with cordial words for the reporters who have covered his remarkable eight years in office.  —  Acknowledging that relations have been strained at times - that some had “misunderestimated me …
Discussion: CNN and Michael Calderone's Blogs
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Golden Globes glow with language like that &*%$#@ Blagojevich  —  Usually it's pop culture rubbing off on politics.  —  But Sunday night it sounded like the other %#$&+* way around.  —  As our LATimes.com colleagues Rachel Abramovitz and Tom O'Neil note elsewhere on this site and elsewhere here …
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Burris lawyers in Senate Monday
The Politico:
Burris may breeze into Senate
Discussion: Congress Matters and Reuters
William Kristol / New York Times:
Continuity We Can Believe In  —  Barack Obama made news Sunday on ABC's “This Week”: The White House dog will likely be a Labradoodle or a Portuguese water dog.  —  I've got to say I'm a little disappointed.  These are nice, friendly, generally obedient breeds (or in the case of the Labradoodle, a crossbreed).
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans to Keep Estate Tax  —  Democrats Want to Freeze Levy at Current Levels Instead of Letting It Expire Next Year  —  President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, suggesting the levy might outlive the …
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Former top Bush officials back Holder  —  Two more former top Bush Justice Department officials have endorsed the nomination of Eric Holder for attorney general, the latest in a growing list of GOP backers for Holder.  —  In letters obtained by Politico and expected to be released shortly …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Shelly Paz / Jerusalem Post:
Joe the Plumber is here, and he ain't happy  —  Samuel Wurzelbacher of Ohio, aka Joe the Plumber, arrived in Sderot at noon Sunday to show local and foreign reporters how to do it right.  —  “You should be ashamed of yourself,” he told foreign reporters.  —  “You should be patriotic …
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
Pro-Joe: Plumber's Trip to Israel Scares the Establishment Media  —  After all, some of the best reporting of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War came from a cook.  (Watch Joe's first report here)  —  Pajamas TV is turning Joe the Plumber into a journalist, and the media class doesn't like it one bit.
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Hilzoy / Washington Monthly:
“I Think Media Should Be Abolished From, Uh, You Know, Reporting.”
Discussion: The Daily Dish and theheretik.us
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Obama Lobbies for Release of Second Half of Bailout  —  WASHINGTON — Even as they continued to hash out the details of a nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan, aides to President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday began lobbying a reluctant Congress to release the second half of the Treasury's $700 billion financial system bailout fund.
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The Directors / RedState:
If Not Ken Blackwell, Keep Mike Duncan  —  RedState endorses Ken Blackwell for Chairman of the Republican National Committee.  —  While RedState's endorsement in the race for Chairman of the Republican National Committee does not set us apart from many of our colleagues in the online right movement, our second choice does.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gay bishop will open inaugural weekend  —  The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who was elected the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop in 2003, will deliver the invocation for Sunday's kickoff inaugural event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the Presidential Inaugural Committee said.
Discussion: Think Progress and Concord Monitor
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
8 days to Inauguration …
Washington Post:
Bush Lead During Weakest Economy in Decades  —  Eight-Year Period Is Weakest in Decades  —  President Bush has presided over the weakest eight-year span for the U.S. economy in decades, according to an analysis of key data, and economists across the ideological spectrum increasingly view …
The Politico:
Land mines ahead for Hillary  —  Hillary Clinton, ever the preparation junkie, is cramming for Tuesday's confirmation hearing — intent on downplaying old disagreements with Barack Obama and parrying questions about her husband's overseas entanglements, aides say.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ideas for Obama  —  Last week President-elect Barack Obama was asked to respond to critics who say that his stimulus plan won't do enough to help the economy.  Mr. Obama answered that he wants to hear ideas about “how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy.”
David Carr / New York Times:
Let's Invent an iTunes for News  —  Last Tuesday, iTunes, Apple's ubiquitous online music store that sold more than 2.4 billion tracks last year alone, changed its own tune, announcing that songs would no longer be sold with copying restrictions and that they would be available at various prices.
Discussion: BuzzMachine
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
Environmentalist Creates Uproar at Oil-Lease Auction by Running Up Prices  —  LOS ANGELES — Instead of joining his protester friends on the snowy sidewalk outside the Bureau of Land Management office in Salt Lake City, Tim DeChristopher took a seat inside.  In a room milling with oil …
Discussion: Environmental Capital
Freethinkr / community.feministing.com:
Say No To...  Along with the emancipation of women, sexual liberation has become very much a part of politics around the world.  To the conservatives, both these issues challenge ‘family values’.  —  But what if there were no families?  What if we say no to reproduction?
Discussion: Wizbang and protein wisdom
 
 
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BBC:
Israeli raids as reserves move in
Discussion: TIME.com and On Deadline
John Curran / Associated Press:
Speedy trial issue lands before US Supreme Court
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Coleman is casting wider net for votes
Christian Brose / Shadow Government:
47 questions for Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Caroline Kennedy is ‘impressive’ at Brooklyn pol confab
Discussion: Spin Cycle and TIME.com
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Who Runs for Senate if Voinovich Retires?
Discussion: Political Machine and MSNBC
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
In Emphasis on Economy, Obama Looks to History
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Bush Tells His Party To Be ‘Open-Minded’
Megan McArdle:
Car success!  —  Several commenters are eager to know what happened with the car.
CBS News:
Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?
Discussion: The Big Picture and The Confluence
David Shepardson / Detroit News:
Chrysler wants $3B more in bailout aid
TigerHawk:
New Yorkers for Hamas
Discussion: Berman Post and Atlas Shrugs