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Pajamas Media:
U.S. Justice Department opens probe into leak of Bush's domestic spying  —  Categories: politics / crime, law and justice / United States / government / law enforcement / crime / man-made disaster / terrorist attack / anti-terror / disaster and accident / law and the judiciary (system of justice) …
Agence France Presse:
US Justice Department to probe secret wiretap leak
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory and Power Line
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail  —  Nonprofit Group Linked to Lawmaker Was Funded Mostly by Clients of Lobbyist  —  The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
So, Guy Walks Up to the Bar, and Scalia Says...  Justice Antonin Scalia's wit is widely admired, and now it has been quantified.  He is, a new study concludes, 19 times as funny as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  —  Transcripts of oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court have long featured …
USA Today:
College football fumbles minority hiring  —  Equal opportunity?  For black coaches, those words ring hollow.  —  On this New Year's Day, an occasion traditionally reserved for a college bowl smorgasbord, the sidelines of nationally televised football games will be positively teeming with successful …
Discussion: Discriminations
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Charlotte Westerhaus / USA Today:   We're working on it  —  But NCAA can't improve diversity hiring without its members' help.
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Lobbyist Is Given Deadline to Take Deal or Go to Trial  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - The indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff must decide by Tuesday whether he will accept a plea or stand trial on fraud charges in a Florida case, a judge in Federal District Court told Mr. Abramoff's lawyers and prosecutors in a court hearing on Friday.
Discussion: Patridiot Watch
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Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Lobbyist, Prosecutors Said Close to Deal
Discussion: MyDD
service.spiegel.de:
Is Washington Planning a Military Strike?  —  It's hardly news that US President George Bush refuses to rule out possible military action against Iran if Tehran continues to pursue its controversial nuclear ambitions.  But in Germany, speculation is mounting that Washington is preparing …
Petra Pasternak / LAW.com:
Judge Delivers Order to FedEx: Pay Misclassified Drivers  —  In a decision expected to spur wage-and-hour suits in the courier industry, a judge earlier this month ordered FedEx to pay $5.3 million to a group of drivers he found had been improperly classified as independent contractors.
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Christine Hurt / Conglomerate Blog:
The Courier Wars: Employees or Independent Contractors?
Associated Press:
Report: Trump Weighs Run for N.Y. Governor  —  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Donald Trump is considering running for governor, a leading Republican said Friday.  —  Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday suggested that a big-name candidate could be flirting with entering the 2006 contest.
Discussion: Running Scared
Associated Press:
Pack of Angry Chihuahuas Attack Officer  —  FREMONT, California - A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was escorting a teenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said.  The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on Thursday …
Discussion: Argghhh!
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Prayers Needed For FM  —  Got some bad news today on the transplant front.  The biopsy came back from the hospital, and the tissue shows a polyoma virus infection of the transplanted kidney, which has led to the lessened kidney function that we have seen the past few weeks.
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and SCSUScholars
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Latter-day President?  —  A Mitt Romney candidacy would test the religious right.  —  BOSTON—Mitt Romney insists he has hardly thought about running for president: "That's a decision you make way down the road."  With the 2008 election 1,039 days away, that's fair enough.  But I'm guessing he'll run.
Gateway Pundit:
Media Blackout on Iraqi Body Counts  —  This is startling news!  It is a shame the media is not reporting it!  —  Iraq has seen a very dramatic decrease in the number of civilian casualties this past year!  —  (click on picture to enlarge)  —  In fact if you take out that horrible …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and TigerHawk
USA Today:
Bush grants pardons less than predecessors  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush demonstrated again this month that penitent lawbreakers have little chance of gaining a pardon unless their crimes were non-violent and occurred years before he took office.  Political connections probably aren't much help …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Amos Harel / Associated Press:
Islamic Jihad claims Thursday's West Bank suicide bombing  —  The Islamic Jihad militant group claimed responsibility Friday for a suicide bombing in the West Bank that killed one soldier and two other Palestinians.  —  Islamic Jihad activists in the West Bank village of Atil, near Tul Karm …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy

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