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3:30 AM ET, January 19, 2011

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The Politico:
Lieberman won't run again  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman is retiring from the Senate in 2012, closing out a two-decade career that saw him rise to the Democratic presidential ticket only to be dismissed by his own state party a few years later over his support for the war in Iraq.
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David M. Halbfinger / City Room:
Lieberman Will Not Run for Re-election  —  Senator Joseph I. Lieberman will announce on Wednesday that he will not seek a fifth term, according to a person he told of his decision.  —  Mr. Lieberman, whose term is up in 2012, chose to retire rather than risk being defeated, said the person, who spoke to the senator on Tuesday.
Ezra Klein:
Joe Lieberman: Democratic hero?  —  If you look back over the past two years, perhaps the most consequential decision made by President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was to give Joe Lieberman his chairmanship, even though Lieberman had endorsed John McCain in the 2008 campaign.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Why Lieberman would have lost  —  If it's true that Joe …
Discussion: Hot Air and AMERICAblog News
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Lieberman Gets a Democratic Challenger
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
msnbc.com:
FBI: Spokane bomb is ‘domestic terrorism’  —  In an interview on msnbc cable's “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Spokesman-Review reporter Thomas Clouse said confidential sources told him that the device was equipped with a remote control detonator and contained shrapnel.
Discussion: Raw Story and Firedoglake
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Spokesman.com:
FBI says backpack on Spokane parade route was a bomb  —  The abandoned backpack found Monday along the route of Spokane's annual Martin Luther King Jr. march contained a bomb capable of inflicting “multiple casualties,” the FBI has confirmed.  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation's terrorism task force …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Just another ‘isolated incident’: Lethal bomb at MLK Day parade …
Discussion: Hatewatch and KREM-TV
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
FBI: Bomb Planted Along MLK Day Parade Route In Spokane
Discussion: KXLY-TV and Hullabaloo
ABCNEWS:
FBI: Pipe Bomb Found On MLK Parade Route
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Bill McGuire / ABCNEWS:
Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Founder and VP Candidate, Dies  —  Shriver, 95, Ran on McGovern Ticket in 1972, Founded Peace Corps, Special Olympics  —  Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Peace Corps founder Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. died today at age 95, family sources told ABC News.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
R. Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Leader, Dies at 95
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
Sargent Shriver's Death Severs the Last Major Link to the Kennedy Years
Scott Stossel / The Atlantic Online:
The Good Works of Sargent Shriver
Discussion: Swampland and The New Republic
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport:
Seymour Hersh unleashed  —  DOHA, Qatar—David Remnick, call your office.  —  In a speech billed as a discussion of the Bush and Obama eras, New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh delivered a rambling, conspiracy-laden diatribe here Monday expressing his disappointment with President Barack Obama …
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Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org blogs:   Media Reality Check: By 8-to-1 Margin, Networks Target Conservative …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Oh, Let's Not Say “Right” And “Wrong”
The Politico:
Eric Cantor dares Harry Reid to hold repeal vote  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) isn't one to hold his feelings back — especially when it comes to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).  —  On Tuesday, he threw a little more flame on the fire, suggesting Reid was afraid …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Boehner Favorability Jumps; Obama Back Above 50%
Discussion: The Politico and The Hill
The Note:
The Death of “Job Killing”
Discussion: The Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Palin shoots herself in the foot  —  Sarah Palin might have really squandered an opportunity to improve her image last week.  —  Despite endless discussion in the wake of the Arizona shootings about whether Palin might bear any responsibility for fostering an atmosphere conducive to such an attack …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Chicken, The Egg, The Media and Sarah Palin
Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
Right wing's breathtaking bait and switch on Tucson  —  In the week since the Tucson, Ariz., massacre, pleas for “civility” have turned into accusations of incivility, and the whole, useful discussion of “civility” versus “vitriol” has turned into the usual argument over competitive victimhood.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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Washington Post:
Law-enforcement officials interview 300 people in probe of Tucson shooting
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Michael Kinsley: Hey, Let's Blame the Right Some More
Discussion: Verum Serum
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Video Captured ‘Calculated’ Gunman in Tucson  —  TUCSON — The chief investigator for the sheriff's department here has for the first time publicly described the brief and gory video clip from a store security camera that shows a gunman not only shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords …
Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Sheila Jackson Lee Says Repealing ObamaCare Violates Constitution  —  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution.  —  Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare …
Tom Junod / Esquire:
Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America?  —  An exclusive and unbiased investigation into the highly paid operative of a foreign-born tycoon, a man who reengineered political and media culture and fomented a revolt that threatens the very stability of our country  —  Today, here at Esquire …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited  —  (Reuters) - Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration's public statements to the contrary.
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
CNN Apologizes For Guest Using Term “Crosshairs”  —  CNN's John King: “Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point.  We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race.  My friend Andy Shaw used the term ‘in the crosshairs’ in talking about the candidates.
Ed Koch / Real Clear Politics:
Palin Holds High Ground Over Harsh and Unfair Critics  —  As I see it, in the current battle for public opinion Sarah Palin has defeated her harsh and unfair critics.  —  After the January 8 shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six others in Tucson, Arizona …
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Report: Pakistani spy agency rushed Mullah Omar to hospital  —  Mullah Omar, the elusive, one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, had a heart attack Jan. 7 and was treated for several days in a Karachi hospital with the help of Pakistan's spy agency, according to a private intelligence network run …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Big Government
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Venerable Lefties at Harper's Divided by Union  —  James “Rick” MacArthur  —  Harper's, one of the last bastions of old-line liberalism and a lonely defender of a certain idea of what literary culture should be, has long been supported by the largesse of its owner and patron, John “Rick” …
The Politico:
Muslim groups nervous about King hearings  —  American Muslim leaders, who have struggled to present a clear public voice or organize politically in the decade since Sept. 11, are increasingly apprehensive about the direction Rep. Pete King will take when he convenes hearings next month on the threat posed by radical Islam in America.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
The Huffington Post:
Bill Frist: Health Care Is ‘Law Of The Land,’ GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It … WASHINGTON — As congressional Republicans ready themselves for a largely symbolic effort to repeal President Obama's health care reform law, at least one former GOP leader is urging them to drop the charade and build on the legislation instead.
 
 
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Brian Bond / White House.gov Blog:
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Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
U.S. Appeals Ruling Striking Down Obama's Health Law
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