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Jim Brady / Washington Post:
Ask Post.com  —  On Thursday, washingtonpost.com turned off the reader comments feature on post.blog , a blog dedicated to sharing news by and about The Post and washingtonpost.com.  The move came after several comments containing personal attacks, profanity and hate speech were posted …
Discussion: News Blog, mediabistro and Hugh Hewitt
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Blame the Barbarians  —  The push is on to take the heat off the Post and their kneepads journalism in the Jack Abramoff matter by placing the blame on their unruly readers.  —  Jim VandeHei, this morning: … Get it?  No distinction between legitimate criticism over the Post's refusal …
Mike McConnell / Kokonut Pundits:
Deborah Howell Failed to Get Rid of Comments in WaPo Blog  —  It's really funny and somehow not so surprising about readers' response when WaPo did an article recently this Sunday about the Abramoff's money trail prompting angry cries from unhinged Liberals toward a left-leaning WaPo news media of all thing.
Associated Press:
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post  —  The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.  —  At the center of a congressional …
Michelle Malkin:
AP: TERRORIST=DISSIDENT  —  Via the always eagle-eyed Little Green Footballs, check out the caption on the Associated Press photo of Osama bin Laden running today at Yahoo.com:  —  Got that?  Osama isn't a mass-murdering terrorist mastermind.  He's just a poor, exiled dissident who disagrees with civilization.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Osama Tape (With Matthews And Moore)  —  Osama bin Laden has apparently released a new tape, estimated to have been made in December: … A truce?  Because he is winning and wants to let us catch our breath?  [Gregory Djerejian reflects at length].  —  In related news …
Yara Bayoumy / Reuters:
Bin Laden warns of new attacks
Discussion: TBT: The Brutal Truth
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Jawa Report Helps Nab Would-be Terrorist (Blogoversary Surprise)  —  Two years ago today I started blogging by warning in my very first post, If you think this is offensive, just wait til I really get going!  What a way to celebrate my blogoversary!!!  —  The long awaited moment has arrived …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Gay Patriot
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ahmadinejad?  —  Reader, do you have a solution to the Iranian nukes dilemma?  —  What to do about Iran?  The mullahs seem intent on acquiring a nuclear arsenal.  Everything they've been doing lately—enriching uranium, spinning centrifuges …
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Opinion Journal:
Still Morning in America  —  Reaganomics, 25 years later.  —  Twenty-five years ago today, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States promising less intrusive government, lower tax rates and victory over communism.  On that same day, the American hostages in Iran were freed after 444 days of captivity.
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Durbin to vote against Alito, says filibuster possible  —  U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Thursday he will vote against Judge Sam Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court.  And he said so many other senators intensely oppose Alito that they may have enough votes to sustain a filibuster against the conservative jurist.
Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
The Rise Of Blogs  —  When President Bush campaigned for re-election in 2004, he vowed to "save Social Security."  Bush touted the notion of voluntary personal retirement accounts in his 2005 State of the Union address, promoted the idea just after the speech, and then …
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Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
Interview: Henry Copeland, BlogAds
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Poynter Online
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Restive GOP Activists May Stage Revolt  —  Conservatives threaten to withhold support of Schwarzenegger's reelection bid if he doesn't fire a key aide who is a Democrat.  —  SACRAMENTO — Republican activists disenchanted with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that they will try …
Cathy Young / The Y Files:
How not to fight PC on campus  —  A group of Republican UCLA alumni, determined to expose left-wing extremism at the university, is offering students up to $100 per class for documented evidence of bias in the classroom (such as notes or taped recordings).  In response to this tactic …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Reid Apologizes for News Release on GOP  —  Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) apologized to 33 Republican senators yesterday for a hard-hitting news release that accused them of ethical and legislative lapses, in an awkward about-face that tripped up Democrats' effort to keep …
The Standard:
Mystery firm linked to US lobbyist scandal  —  US government investigators probing Washington's explosive Congressional bribery scandal centered on disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff recently visited Hong Kong, according to a witness interviewed by the authorities.  —  ZachColeman
Brian Witte / Associated Press:
Md. court rules against same-sex marriage ban … A Baltimore Circuit Court judge today struck down Maryland's 33-year-old law against same-sex marriage, ruling in favor of 19 gay men and women who contended the prohibition violated the state's equal rights amendments.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Joe Katzman / Winds of Change.NET:
OUR DARKENING SKY: IRAN AND THE WAR … In the wake of Tom Holsinger's article "The Case For Invading Iran," I was going to enter a comment, but it became long enough to deserve a full post.  To begin with, it's time to lay my own cards on the table.  —  I personally believe that we're …
freepress.org:
Molly Ivins  —  I will not support Hillary Clinton for president  —  I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.  —  Enough.  Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation.

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