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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
DeLay Ends Bid to Regain Post as G.O.P. Leader — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Representative Tom DeLay, under pressure from colleagues and swept into an election-year lobbying scandal, abandoned his effort to remain House majority leader on Saturday. The move touched off a battle …
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Houston Chronicle:
DeLay won't reclaim House post — WASHINGTON - Entangled in criminal investigations of political activities in Texas and Washington, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay abandoned claims to his House majority leader's post Saturday, a dramatic reversal for the former pest-control company owner who rose to the height of power in Congress.
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CBS News:
DeLay Surrenders Leadership Post — (CBS/AP) Rep. Tom DeLay, the defiant face of a conservative revolution in Congress, stepped down as House majority leader on Saturday under pressure from Republicans staggered by an election-year corruption scandal. — "During my time in Congress …
New York Times:
Judging Samuel Alito — Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice to fill Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, was hounded into withdrawing by the far right …
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New York Times:
Hearings a Test for Democrats and Alito — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - The showdown begins Monday at high noon. — Even before Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. arrives on Capitol Hill for his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appear lined up solidly against him.
Caren Deane Thomas / New York Times:Sam He Was — WHEN I recently received an invitation to a reunion …
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The Easy Way — The Washington Post makes simple corrections but does not address the real issues — The Washington Post has printed corrections to the article Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War - U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front, Pays Iraqi TV Stations for Coverage:
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Patrick Quinn / Associated Press:
American Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped a female American journalist and killed her Iraqi translator Saturday in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. — Maj. Falah Mohamadawi said the translator told police before he died that the abduction took place …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
States Intervene After Drug Plan Hits Early Snags — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Low-income Medicare beneficiaries around the country were often overcharged, and some were turned away from pharmacies without getting their medications, in the first week of Medicare's new drug benefit.
Times of London:
Turkish deaths put Europe on bird flu alert — THE number of Turkish people thought to be infected with avian flu rose to more than 50 this weekend, prompting concern that the disease may be about to spread into Europe. — Yesterday a British laboratory confirmed that a Turkish brother …
Noah Feldman / New York Times:
Our Presidential Era: Who Can Check the President? — I. OUR PRESIDENTIAL ERA — Not since Watergate has the question of presidential power been as salient as it is today. The recent revelation that President George W. Bush ordered secret wiretaps in the United States without judicial approval …
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Poll: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop — WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.
Anne Hull / Washington Post:
When Mom Is Over There — A Family Learns to Stay the Course and Prays for a Safe Return From Iraq — I am driving a hulking Expedition with a yellow ribbon on the bumper that says "Support Our Troops." In the grocery store parking lot, a man nods at me. I'm walking to the shopping carts when it hits me.
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Hamas Talks of Possibly Forming Government — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The militant Islamic Hamas group spoke openly for the first time Saturday about the possibility of forming the next Palestinian government after this month's parliamentary elections. — Hamas is expected to deliver …
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Gary Rivlin / New York Times:
All Parts of New Orleans Included in Rebuilding Plan — NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7 - The city's official blueprint for redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina, to be released on Wednesday, will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like, no matter how damaged …
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child' — ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
MORE TOWN HALL — Via Michelle Malkin, another revealing moment from the "Town Hall Meeting" featuring congressmen Moran and Murtha. Just before the end of the meeting, Vietnam veteran General Louis C. Wagner spoke on behalf of a friend who had been ignored by the congressman.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
We love the troops; but it's a tough love (#144) - UPDATED … Left Coaster also discusses the NYT body armor story, addressed here by Conferederate Yankee, as well as the relative dearth in new jobs created in December (an interesting spin for an unemployment rate that fell below 5%).
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