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Washington Post:
Alito Likely To Become A Justice  —  Liberals See Slim Chance Of Blocking Confirmation  —  Samuel A. Alito Jr., an appellate judge who could shift the Supreme Court significantly to the right, appeared headed for the high court yesterday after completing three days of interrogation without a serious misstep.
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Michelle Malkin:
A WOMAN THE DEMS DON'T WANT TO HEAR  —  This is U.S. Appeals Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee who gave a glowing endorsement of her colleague, Sam Alito, earlier today, along with six other judges from the appeals court who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Alito.
Associated Press:
Sen. Biden Suggests Scrapping Hearings  —  WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominees are so mum about the major legal issues at their Senate confirmation hearings that the hearings serve little purpose and should probably be abandoned, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden said Thursday.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Kos Kidz Go After Alito's Wife  —  It can't be pleasant for family members of a judge who sit through confirmation hearings.  Just imagine being in their position.  Here's this person you have great love and respect for, on TV, in front of the whole world, being attacked by a bunch of ill-tempered …
Deacon / Power Line:
JUDGE ALITO'S COLLEAGUES SPEAK  —  Judge Alito's colleagues on the Third Circuit have been testifying this afternoon.  You can get a sense of the high esteem in which they hold him by checking out NRO's Bench Memos.  —  One of the witnesses is Judge Timothy Lewis, an African-American …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Reuters:
Alito appears headed for confirmation
Discussion: Daily Pundit
USA Today:
The Alito spectacle: Senators
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
Michelle Malkin:
ALITO WATCH: THE DEAD HORSE DEMOCRATS
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Kennedy belongs to exclusive university club of his own  —  Sen. Edward M. Kennedy belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was evicted from campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members.  —  According to the online membership directory of the Owl Club …
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee Concludes Questioning of Alito
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:   Controversy over Princeton group flares …
James Wolcott:
NOXIOUS FUMES  —  In a feeble attempt to draw attention to itself before it sinks into the briny deep under the dead weight of its founders Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon and its undistinguished blogroll, Pajamas Media showcases an attack on me by Michael Fumento, and seldom has a writer been more aptly named.
Discussion: Rook's Rant
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Michael Fumento / American Spectator:
The James Wolcott Treatment
Discussion: soxblog
John / AMERICAblog:
AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.95  —  I reported the other day that your cell phone records are on sale online for anyone to buy, without your permission.  Well, this morning AMERICAblog bought former presidential candidate, and former Supreme Allied Commander …
Brian C. Anderson / City Journal:
The Plot to Shush Rush and O'Reilly  —  Talk radio, cable news, and the blogosphere freed U.S. political discourse.  The Left wants to rein it in again.  —  The rise of alternative media—political talk radio in the eighties, cable news in the nineties, and the blogosphere in the new millennium …
William Tate / The American Thinker:
The controversy following revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored suspected terrorist related communications since 9/11 reflects a severe case of selective amnesia by the New York Times and other media opponents of President Bush.  They certainly didn't show the same outrage …
ABCNEWS:
Surge in Sale of Disposable Cell Phones May Have Terror Link  —  Phones Can Be Difficult or Impossible to Track; Large Quantities Purchased in California, Texas  —  Jan. 12, 2006 — Federal agents have launched an investigation into a surge in the purchase of large quantities of disposable cell phones …
Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
THE (Broken) TRIANGLE: Progressive Bloggers in the Wilderness  —  "This, then, is the reality: progressive bloggers and online activists — positioned on the front lines of a cold civil war — face a thankless and daunting task: battle the Bush administration and its legions of online and offline apologists …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Beltway Blogroll
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
This Is How It's Done  —  It is remarkably frustrating to blog the Alito hearings, feel the righteous indignation of people in the comments sections all over the blogosphere that the supreme court is in danger of making a major lurch to the extreme right with the potential appointment of a bigoted …
Chris Hogg / BBC:
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs  —  Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark.  —  They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.
Maria Glod / Washington Post:
DNA Tests Confirm Guilt of Executed Man  —  DNA tests released this afternoon confirmed the guilt of a Virginia man who had proclaimed his innocence in a slaying and rape even as he was strapped into the state's electric chair in 1992.  —  Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) …

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