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New York Times:
Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists.
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Reliapundit / THE ASTUTE BLOGGER:
FISKING GORE; EXPOSING GORE'S LIES AND DISTORTIONS  —  FROM THE GORE TEXT: … GORE LIES.  Here is the truth: Similar claims have been been made before by previous presidents and upheld by the courts; therefore they are NOT unprecedented, or breathtaking. … GORES LIES.
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Gay Patriot:
Law School Dropout Accuses President of Breaking the Law
Discussion: Cold Fury
Deacon / Power Line:
WHAT YOU'D EXPECT FROM A DEMAGOGUE
Discussion: New York Times and ScrappleFace
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Senate Panel's Vote on Alito Delayed Until Next Week  —  The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee reached an agreement yesterday evening to wait until next Tuesday to vote on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court.
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Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:   Democrats force delay on high court nominee vote
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Chinese Detainees' Lawyers Will Take Case to High Court
Discussion: TalkLeft and Fantasy Life
David Espo / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Press Releases
Marcia Kramer / wcbstv.com:
Controversial Words At Sharpton's MLK Event  —  Clinton's Use Of Word 'Plantation' Raises Eyebrows  —  (CBS) NEW YORK The Martin Luther King Day celebration at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network is a rite of passage in an election year.  And with so many big races this year …
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Jerusalem Post:
Saudi FM opposes Iranian attempts to build nukes  —  LONDON  —  Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said he opposed any attempt by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, but alleged the West was partly to blame for Tehran's nuclear program.  —  In an interview broadcast Monday by the British Broadcasting Corp. …
Discussion: QandO, Link Mecca and lgf
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Carol Giacomo / Reuters:
US senators say military strike on Iran must be option
Frank Gardner / BBC:
Iran nuclear bid 'fault of West'
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Africa's First Elected Female Head of State Takes Office  —  MONROVIA, Liberia, Jan. 16 - Standing before the bullet-scarred capitol of this war-torn nation, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Harvard-trained banker and stalwart survivor of Liberia's brutal politics, took the oath today …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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BBC:
Bachelet vow on gender equality
Discussion: The Reaction
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Spotlight on Lobbying Swings to Little-Known Congressman  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - Until recently, Representative Bob Ney was little more than an obscure, sometimes eccentric, lawmaker from Ohio.  —  He had made his biggest public splash in 2003, when he ordered the House cafeteria …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Norwegianity and Prometheus 6
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CNN:
Nagin calls for rebuilding 'chocolate' New Orleans  —  Black majority city 'the way God wants it to be'  —  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday called for the rebuilding of a "chocolate New Orleans" that maintains the city's black majority, saying, "You can't have New Orleans no other way."
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The RCP Blog
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
It's Curtains for al-Qaida  —  What happens when Iraqi "insurgents" take on Zarqawi's thugs?  —  The best news from Iraq this year would certainly be the long New York Times report of Jan. 12 on the murderous strife between local "insurgents" and al-Qaida infiltrators.  This was also among the best news from last year.
tcsdaily.com:
Liberals Should Know Better  —  This is the first of a series of essays written for liberals by a libertarian/conservative.  That is, I would like liberals to read it, knowing that you will be inclined to disagree.  —  Most of my friends are liberals.  This series is the conversation I wish that I could have with them.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog and Shot In The Dark
John Boehner / Opinion Journal:
Keep Politics Kosher  —  House Republicans need a low-pork diet.  —  WASHINGTON—The Republican agenda is at risk because of a growing perception that Congress is for sale.  The guilty plea of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham for bribery, the guilty pleas of scam artists Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon …
Discussion: QandO
Washington Post:
Teens' Bold Blogs Alarm Area Schools  —  Uninhibited Online Remarks Full of Risks, Officials Warn  —  No one under 18 would be surprised to hear that teenagers like to post their intimate thoughts and photographs online — they've done it for years.  But school administrators have begun to take notice …
Discussion: The Education Wonks
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Speaker Largely Silent Amid Scandal  —  With his affable demeanor and his open-door policy, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert remains unchallenged in the most powerful post in Congress, even as a growing corruption scandal roils the Republican leadership and more Congress-watchers say the speaker bears …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Underneath Their Robes  —  Winnie the Pooh, or so he tells us, is a Bear of Very Little Brain.  As he struggles to think his way out of a predicament, you can see him trying to knock the solution out of his fluff-filled head.  By contrast, Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice …
Discussion: Althouse and Daily Kos

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Bill Sjostrom / TRUTH ON THE MARKET:
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Judd / Think Progress:
In Desperation, Gonzales Smears Gore
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
"Legal gobbledygook."
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
USAID Paper Details Security Crisis in Iraq
Discussion: Informed Comment
Associated Press:
Huge brawl terrifies beachgoers at Brazil's famous Ipanema beach
Independent:
Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
Discussion: normblog and Secular Blasphemy
Defense Industry Daily:
Pentagon Thinks US Soldiers Need Adult Super-Vision
Discussion: One Hand Clapping
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Murtha and the Mudslingers  —  I underestimated the viciousness of the right wing.

Earlier Picks:

Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
GOP vote won't be in time for State of the Union
National Review:
Doing Business with Iran
John Markoff / New York Times:
Michael Dell Should Eat His Words, Apple Chief Suggests
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Amour Courtois  —  A trembling Sir Galahad comes to the defense …
Discussion: Wampum, TBogg and Crooks and Liars
ThreatsWatch.Org:
Security Incidents in Iraq
Discussion: Today in Iraq
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
This Is the Legal Mainstream?  —  Law school clinics are stuck in the sixties.
USA Today:
U.S. tally of wounded drops 26%
 
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