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Michael O'Hare / The Reality-Based Community:
A piece missing  —  I have been dipping into the Alito hearings, not following them completely, but enough to form a distinct and I think a fair impression.  I read the nominee as a competent, careful, capable legal craftsman, unprejudiced as regards religion or race, and a decent guy.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Few Glimmers of How Conservative Judge Alito Is  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - In over 18 hours responding to some 700 questions at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. mostly described a methodical and incremental approach to the law rooted in no particular theory.
Economist:   The brainbox and the blowhards  —  Samuel Alito, George Bush's …
New York Times:
Pro-Choice Senators and Judge Alito
Washington Post:
Alito Likely To Become A Justice
Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks to Avoid Detainee Ruling
Discussion: First Draft
Jaketapper / DownAndDirty:
CAP smear?  —  WASHINGTON DC — For Alito, it's all over but the votin'....It does not appear that the Democrats inflicted any real damage on the Supreme Court nominee, excepting of course his wife's mascara.  —  AP photo  —  Probing the debate over Alito's having said he was a member …
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
The Battle of Princeton  —  Borking has lost its bite.  —  The grand hulk of Ted Kennedy ranted that he wanted to subpoena the papers of former National Review publisher William Rusher to get to the bottom of Samuel Alito's membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Hearing About Nothing  —  A listless intellectual fog had fallen over the Senate hearing room on Tuesday, the first full day of questioning for Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. before the Judiciary Committee.  As one Democratic senator strode out to the hallway during an afternoon break, he leaned toward me and said: "We have to hit him
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The Alitos: Well Suited, And Dressed For Duress
The Anchoress:
NY Times tipped terrorists?  (UPDATED)  —  Reliapundit links to a report which he says can be considered circumstantial proof that the NY Times, in leaking the NSA wiretapping program, has tipped off terrorists and thus made our job more difficult.  Seems disposable phones are selling like hotcakes in certain quarters.
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Reliapundit / THE ASTUTE BLOGGER:   HAS THE NYTIMES NSA LEAK LED TO A SURGE IN DISPOSABLE CELLPHONE PURCHASES?
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Hotline On Call:
Shadegg's In  —  From a release just crossing our transom:  —  Phoenix - House Policy Chairman John Shadegg today announced that he will seek the post of House Majority Leader in the elections on February 2.  —  "For the past several days, I have spoken with members all across our Conference," Shadegg said.
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Aspiring House Leaders Cite Support
Discussion: UNCoRRELATED and Wonkette
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
GOP Contest Guided by Lessons of Battles Past
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
daoureport.salon.com:
UNCLAIMED TERRITORY  —  A Nation of Jonah Goldbergs  —  There is a widespread, tacit assumption that no matter how apathetic and inattentive Americans become, there is still some line which they will not allow the Government to cross when it comes to exceeding or abusing the limits of government power.
National Review:
The Multilateral Moment?  —  "Multilateralism good; preemption and unilateralism bad."  —  For four years we have heard these Orwellian commandments as if they were inscribed above the door of Farmer Jones's big barn.  Now we will learn their real currency, since the Americans …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and soxblog
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New York Times:
Iran's Foreign Minister Threatens to Limit Atomic Inspectors
Discussion: UN Dispatch and AMERICAN FUTURE
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
In New Orleans, Bush Speaks With Optimism but Sees Little of Ruin  —  NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12 - President Bush made his first trip here in three months on Thursday and declared that New Orleans was "a heck of a place to bring your family" and that it had "some of the greatest food in the world and some wonderful fun."
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Bush Visits Gulf Coast
Discussion: First Draft, Needlenose and The Heretik
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Deficit Will Climb in 2006, White House Says  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - The White House acknowledged on Thursday that the budget deficit would climb back above $400 billion this year, erasing the brief improvement last year and complicating President Bush's vow to cut the deficit in half by 2009.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
A Nation of Jonah Goldbergs  —  There is a widespread, tacit assumption that no matter how apathetic and inattentive Americans become, there is still some line which they will not allow the Government to cross when it comes to exceeding or abusing the limits of government power.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:   DOES GLENN GREENWALD KNOW HOW TO READ?
NY Daily News:
Steamed about Rice, Russian pol unleashes rant  —  Condoleezza Rice might want to see if there's room in one of those "black site" terror-suspect prisons for Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.  —  The wacko leader of Russia's Liberal and Democratic Party has surpassed his earlier screeds …
Opinion Journal:
Saddam's Documents  —  What they tell us could save American lives today.  —  It is almost an article of religious faith among opponents of the Iraq War that Iraq became a terrorist destination only after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein.  But what if that's false, and documents …
The Truth Laid Bear:
An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers  —  I'm pleased to present the following statement on behalf of the undersigned bloggers.  —N.Z.  —  An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers  —  We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us all of the time.
Discussion: QandO

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