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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Dean issues Smack-down on Wolfie  —  They are trying so hard to link Democrats to Abramoff's scandal that on today's Late Edition, Howard Dean almost set Wolfie's beard on fire.  —  Video-WMP Video-QT (transcript)  —  Blitzer has been doing much better as an interviewer lately …
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CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER  —  Interview With Shimon Peres; Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  WOLF BLITZER, HOST: It's 11:00 a.m. in Washington, 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m. here in Jerusalem and 7:00 p.m. in Baghdad.
Discussion: Flopping Aces
MSNBC:
Transcript for January 8  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday-with ethical charges swirling, Congressman Tom DeLay will not return as House majority leader.  Washington lobbyists and fund-raiser Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion.
Time:
Bush and DeLay: Never A Texas Two-Step  —  The Bush Administration sees the former House majority leader as a necessary burden  —  When legal and ethical questions began spinning around House majority leader Tom DeLay last year, President George W. Bush was publicly supportive.
Washington Post:
Ethics Issues Snared GOP's Champion
Discussion: MyDD and First Draft
Associated Press:
DeLay Gives Up Post as House Majority Leader
Discussion: Gay Patriot
Gateway Pundit:
40 0f 45 Democratic Senators Took Abramoff Money!
Jane Roh / Fox News:
Democrats Hit Possible Snag Ahead of Alito Hearings  —  A key witness to the character of Judge Samuel A. Alito has been removed from the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats' testimony list, FOXNews.com has learned.  —  Stephen R. Dujack, editor of The Environmental Forum magazine …
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Specter Seeks Gonzales Testimony on Spying  —  WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
Time:
How to Stay Out of Power  —  Why liberal democrats are playing too fast and too loose with issues of war and peace  —  House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week.  She released a letter, which quickly found …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
72 HOURS: WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE?  —  We've been getting emails from liberals demanding to know why we haven't written about the 72-hour provision of FISA, which, they say, definitively proves that there couldn't possibly have been any need to go outside the FISA structure for purposes of speed.
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WHAT THE TIMES HAS WROUGHT  —  Time has posted Joe Klein's …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Alito may be the worst choice  —  AT THIS moment in American history, it would be hard to find a worse Supreme Court nominee than Samuel A. Alito Jr. His ideology captures everything extremist about the Bush administration.  If confirmed, Alito would serve as Bush's enabler.
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction?  —  Here is a report on Friday's panel at the AALS annual meeting sponsored by the Section on Scholarship on Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction?  The program described the session as follows: … After moderator Dennis M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden) …
Mediacrity:
The Times Misquotes the Roadmap  —  In a front page story in the New York Times today, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Steven Erlanger breaks with Times policy by acknowledging that Palestinians, and not just Israelis, have obligations under the Road Map for Peace.  Bravo!  Bravo!
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:   With Sharon Ill, Palestinians Face Own Travails
Jason / COUNTERCOLUMN:
Saddam's terror training camps - and how Stephen Hayes misses the mark  —  Stephen Hayes is reporting that Saddam's regime was running three separate training facilities in Iraq - in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak - graduating 2,000 foreign terrorist every year from 1999 to 2002.
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BBC:
The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks  —  In stark contrast to the generally turgid language of politics, Tony Banks was known for his acid tongue and sharp wit.  —  He called the once feared Tory Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher, "half mad", William Hague was labelled a "foetus" …
Discussion: Crooked Timber and Biased BBC
Nicholas Wapshott / Independent:
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch  —  Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites.  —  The 38 million subscribers to MySpace …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
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Mark / Decision '08:
None Dare Call It Treason? (Part Two)
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
David Rose / Observer:
Scandal of force-fed prisoners  —  Hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes, admits Guantánamo Bay doctor  —  New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed …
Smash / The Indepundit:
SMASH vs. Filner  —  SATURDAY AFTERNOON, I attended an "Out of Iraq" forum at a local church, featuring a keynote address by anti-war Congressman Bob Filner.  After his speech, Filner opened up the floor for questions.  He fielded a few softballs from the largely friendly crowd.  —  Then he called on me.
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
DOES Everybody Do It?  —  You're reading a lot about a corruption scandal in Washington.  Some people are trying to tell you that "everybody does it" and that both parties are involved and that whenever you try to take the money out of politics it finds another way in.
Discussion: Rook's Rant
Miriam Pawel / Los Angeles Times:
Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots  —  The movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing poor rural laborers.  As their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others, services for those in the fields are left to languish.
Discussion: MyDD and Burnt Orange Report
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:   FARM WORKERS AND THE UFW....The United Farm Workers union …

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