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Newsday:
Hillary's hardball  —  In MLK day speech, Sen. Clinton slams the Bush team, saying GOP Congress is 'run like a plantation'  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sparked a Martin Luther King Day political firestorm yesterday by describing the GOP-controlled Congress as a "plantation" …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
A Sneak Peek at "Al vs. Hillary"  —  Have you seen the coming attraction trailer for "Democratic Presidential Nomination '08: Al vs. Hillary" yet?  It just opened yesterday, in the dueling speeches by Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.  —  And you can already see the two different approaches.
Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Clinton Says House Run Like 'Plantation'
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House GOP Leaders Unveil New Ethics Plan  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Dennis Hastert urged new restrictions on gifts from lobbyists Tuesday, responding to a scandal that already has claimed two Republican leaders and raised GOP fears about this year's elections.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
2 Parties Rush to Offer Curbs for Lobbying  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - House Republican leaders laid out a proposal on Tuesday to rewrite House rules governing lobbying as they moved to contain the political damage from an election-year scandal over undue influence and access afforded to lobbyists.
John Shadegg / Opinion Journal:   The Spirit of 1994  —  Republicans need to look again …
Larry Margasak / bonnercountydailybee.com:
House Republicans Unveil New Ethics Plan
Discussion: Sirotablog
MSNBC:
Abductors threaten to kill American journalist  —  Kidnappers say U.S. must release Iraqi women prisoners within 72 hours … MSNBC TV  —  CAIRO, Egypt - An Arab television channel aired a silent 20-second videotape Tuesday night of an abducted American journalist and said an accompanying message gave …
Discussion: Mia Culpa and Iraqi In America
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Update 10: Iraqi Captors Threaten Death of Hostage
Discussion: firedoglake and The Heretik
Aljazeera:
Iraq captors threaten to kill journalist
Discussion: azerbic and Boing Boing
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
New Orleans Mayor Apologizes for Remarks About God's Wrath  —  NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17 — An avalanche of criticism, stoked by heated talk-radio rants, forced Mayor C. Ray Nagin to apologize Tuesday for declaring that God wants New Orleans to be a "chocolate city."
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Rantingprofs
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Removes Obstacle to Assisted-Suicide Laws  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - The Supreme Court removed an obstacle today to state efforts to authorize physician-assisted suicide, ruling 6 to 3 that John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, acted without legal authority in 2001 when he threw …
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New York Times:
Fraught Issue, but Narrow Ruling in Oregon Suicide Case
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Associated Press:   Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Assisted Suicide Law
Christopher Hitchens / The Huffington Post:
What Reason Do We Have to Trust the State to Know Best?  —  Although I am named in this suit in my own behalf, I am motivated to join it by concerns well beyond my own.  I have been frankly appalled by the discrepant and contradictory positions taken by the Administration in this matter.
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ACLU:
Prominent Journalists, Nonprofit Groups, Terrorism Experts and Community Advocates Join First Lawsuit to Challenge New NSA Spying Program  —  NEW YORK - Saying that the Bush administration's illegal spying on Americans must end, the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
2002 Memo Doubted Uranium Sale Claim  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - A high-level intelligence assessment by the Bush administration concluded in early 2002 that the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq was "unlikely" because of a host of economic, diplomatic and logistical obstacles …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and Needlenose
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Larisa Alexandrovna / rawstory.com:
American who advised Pentagon says he wrote …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Connecting The Dots - Booooring...  The NY Times delivers the latest on the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program - it generated far too many dead-end leads to be useful to the FBI. … "Virtually all" were useless?  Uh Huh.  And since, to pick an odd example, most New York City cops …
Rebecca Traister / Salon:
My lunch with an antifeminist pundit  —  My lunch interview with Kate O'Beirne, Washington editor of National Review and author of the new antifeminist book "Women Who Make the World Worse," was on a Friday.  I had stayed up Thursday night reading the 200-page galley copy of the book and taken copious notes.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Iran Charade, Part II  —  "It was what made this E.U. Three approach so successful.  They [Britain, France and Germany] stood together and they had one uniform position."  — German Chancellor  —  Angela Merkel, Jan. 13  —  Makes you want to weep.

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