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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
G.O.P. Lobbyist to Plead Guilty in Deal With Prosecutors  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 - Jack Abramoff will plead guilty to three felony counts in Washington on Wednesday as part of a settlement with federal prosecutors, ending an intense, months-long negotiation over whether the Republican lobbyist …
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Jason Leopold / rawstory.com:
How they got caught: After lobbyist broke off engagement, ex-fiancee told of illicit dealings to FBI  —  Michael Scanlon found himself at the center of one of the biggest political scandals in Washington history as a result of cheating and lying—but not the type involving the numerous clients …
CNN:
Lobbyist admits kickbacks, influence peddling  —  Abramoff agrees to cooperate in corruption probe  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former high-powered lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion charges, agreeing to cooperate in a federal corruption probe in Washington.
wfaa.com:   DeLay prosecutor subpoenas Abramoff documents
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Abramoff Makes Plea Deal, Will Cooperate
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
The GOP's Very Bad Day  —  The WaPo has fleshed out the details …
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
ABRAMOFF'S DAY IN COURT:
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
A Question For James Risen  —  James Risen, NY Times reporter and book author, has hit the talk show circuit to promote State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration .  Mr. Risen and his book have been all over the news, of course, since it was Messrs.
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Associated Press:
Families Say 12 W.Va. Miners Found Alive
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
CNN:
One body found at West Virginia mine
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Guardian:
Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile  —  Document seen by Guardian details web of front companies and middlemen  —  The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb …
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Paul Hughes / Reuters:
Iran announces further resumption of atomic work
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Bipartisan BS  —  The media is working hard to make this into a bi-partisan scandal but that is simple bulls**t.  Ed Henry on CNN, for instance, couldn't stop talking about Byron Dorgan being implicated in this scandal.  I don't know if Dorgan's going to be swept up, but let's …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan  —  MR. MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon everyone, and welcome back; Happy New Year.  I want to begin with just an update on the situation in Upshur County, West Virginia, and the coal miners who have been trapped there.  —  The President continues to be kept informed about the situation.
New York Times:
Agency First Acted on Its Own to Broaden Spying, Files Show  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 - The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to declassified documents released Tuesday.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
TIMESSPEAK: SPECIALISTS AT WORK  —  In 1984 George Orwell portrays the importance of language in controlling thought.  The totalitarian regime depicted in the novel had developed its own language — Newspeak — to meet the ideological needs of Oceania.  In the novel's appendix on the language, Orwell explains:
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Reliapundit / THE ASTUTE BLOGGER:
FLASH: THE ASTUTE BLOGGER SCOOPS POWERLINE AGAIN …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Steven E. Landsburg / Slate:
Do the Poor Deserve Life Support?  —  A woman who couldn't pay her bills is unplugged from her ventilator and dies.  Is this wrong?  —  Tirhas Habtegiris, a 27-year-old terminal cancer patient at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano, Texas, was removed from her ventilator last month because she couldn't pay her medical bills.
Opinion Journal:
Teachers' Pets  —  The NEA gave $65 million in its members' dues to left-liberal groups last year.  —  If we told you that an organization gave away more than $65 million last year to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International …
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger  —  Microsoft's MSN Spaces continues to censor its Chinese language blogs, and has become more aggressive and thorough at censorship since I first checked out MSN's censorship system last summer.  On New Years Eve, MSN Spaces took down the popular blog written by Zhao Jing, aka Michael Anti.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
GOP EXCLUSIVE!!!  —  The airwaves are full of the obedient and the credulous this morning trying to tar the Democrats with Jack Abramoff's filthy lucre, so let's set the record straight for those too busy sucking down hairspray fumes to pay full attention.  As Media Matters noted …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Barbie Accused of Being Part of the Transgender Movement  —  WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 3, 2006 — The Concerned Women for America were ... well, concerned.  Outraged, even.  Was Barbie becoming part of the transgender movement?  —  On Dec. 30, 2005, CWA, a leading Christian conservative group …
Mark Steyn / Opinion Journal:
It's the Demography, Stupid  —  The real reason the West is in danger of extinction.  —  Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within …

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