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Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Majority of Americans Favor Alito Nomination  —  Most Expect Nominee Wouldn't Vote to Strike Down Roe v. Wade  —  A majority of Americans favor the confirmation of federal appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court and an even larger proportion believe Alito would not vote …
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Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Christian Right Mobilizes For Judge  —  PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 — Republicans and leaders of the religious right gathered in a black church here Sunday night to build support for Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. as part of their effort to block gay marriage, end abortion and restore religious expression in the public square.
Ken I. Kersch / Opinion Journal:
'Mainstream' Bias  —  What Sam Alito and Louis Brandeis have in common.
Discussion: sisu
National Review:
Alito and the Ted Kennedy "Study"
Robert Gordon / Balkinization:
The Basic Case Against Alito
Discussion: Crescat Sententia
Associated Press:
NOTEBOOK: Alito Is a Springsteen Fan
Discussion: JunkYardBlog
Slate:
Your Witness, Senators  —  Expert suggestions on cross-examining Sam Alito.
Discussion: Althouse
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Issues and (Possible) Answers: A Primer on the Alito Hearings
Liz Austin / Associated Press:
Texas Court Won't Dismiss DeLay Charges  —  AUSTIN, Texas - The state's highest criminal court on Monday denied Rep. Tom DeLay's request that the money laundering charges against him be dismissed or sent back to a lower court for an immediate trial.  —  The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied …
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Time:
Never a Texas Two-Step  —  When legal and ethical questions began spinning around House majority leader Tom DeLay last year, President George W. Bush was publicly supportive.  Privately, though, he questioned his fellow Texan's mojo.  Bush had scored 10 points higher than DeLay …
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Juan / Informed Comment:   The Guerrillas who Came in from the Cold
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail  —  Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.  —  It's no joke.  Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
National Review:
One Moment in Time  —  There's an old Chinese theory according to which the best way to understand historical events is not to reconstruct the sequence of "causes" by which the events were "produced," but rather to look at the unique characteristics of the moment in which the events occurred.
Associated Press:
Sen. Kennedy to Publish Children's Book  —  Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."  —  Scholastic Inc. will release the book in May.
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Marks for Sharks  —  The Abramoff scandal may sink congressional Republicans if they don't get serious about spending reforms.  —  It's fitting that Rep. Tom DeLay is returning to his seat on the Appropriations Committee now that he is gone for good as House majority leader.
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Opinion Journal:
Incumbency Over Ideas  —  The House GOP's real problems.
Discussion: BizzyBlog.com
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
DEMOCRATS AND THE NSA....Joe Klein thinks Democrats are heading off a cliff by making too big a deal out of the NSA's domestic spying program.  Conservative James Joyner has a reasonable reaction: … This is a legitimately tough issue for Democrats, because I think James is right on both counts.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Joe Klein To Liberal Dems: Come Home (To Planet Earth)
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Decision '08
Mark Schmitt / tpmcafe.com:
Please, Don't Say "Lobbying Reform"  —  Democrats and Republicans are falling over each other to introduce "lobbying reform" bills — requiring lobbyists to disclose contacts with legislators, banning trips, etc.  By the end of next week, we will have between two and four lobbying reform packages …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Abduction of American Reporter in Iraq Blacked Out By U.S. News Outlets  —  NEW YORK The abduction of a Christian Science Monitor reporter in Iraq on Saturday was not disclosed by major U.S. media outlets for nearly two days after the Monitor requested that the incident, and the reporter's name and affiliation, be withheld.
Discussion: Abu Aardvark
BBC:
US draws up space tourism rules  —  Space tourists must be screened to ensure they are not terrorists, according to proposed regulations from the US Federal Aviation Administration.  —  The draft report's suggestions aim to prevent a terrorist from destroying a spacecraft or using it as a weapon.
Discussion: Wonkette
Herald Sun:
Camilla's protector paid out  —  A BLACK police bodyguard who protected the Duchess of Cornwall has won $70,000 compensation after suing Scotland Yard for "over-promoting" him because of political correctness.  —  Sgt Leslie Turner — the first black personal protection officer to guard the royal family …
Spengler / Asia Times:
When even the pope has to whisper  —  Islam is the unexploded bomb of global politics.  US foreign policy - the only foreign policy there is, for the United States is the only superpower - proceeds from the hope that a modern and democratic Islam will emerge from the ruins of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

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