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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 …
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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 …
Chicago Tribune:
The not-so-mad mind of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University: Tribune Media Services  —  `The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny.  The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
Discussion: Donklephant and The Strata-Sphere
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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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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: Poynter Online
Associated Press:
Minority Leader Reid Apologizes to GOP  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday apologized to 33 Republican senators singled out for ethics criticism in a report from his office titled "Republican Abuse of Power."  —  "The document released by my office yesterday went …
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Associated Press:
Iraq Shiites Win, but Must Form Coalition  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — An alliance of Shiite religious parties won the most seats in Iraq's new parliament but not enough to rule without coalition partners, the election commission said Friday.  Sunni Arabs gained seats over previous balloting.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Iraq Election Results Show Sunni Gains
Discussion: TAPPED and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 - The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to compel Google, the Internet search giant, to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries as part of the government's effort to uphold an online pornography law.
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Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Google Refuses Demand for Search Information
Discussion: Factesque and Air America Radio
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.
Discussion: MyDD and Power Line
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Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
Subpoenas seek records from defense contractor  —  It was the fall of 2002, and Texans for a Republican Majority was scouring for corporate money when it found an unlikely donor — a California defense technology firm willing to send part of its $40,000 startup money to help U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's political committee.
Discussion: Demagogue
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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Subpoenas seek DeLay links to San Diego firm
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.
Yara Bayoumy / Reuters:
Bin Laden warns of new attacks  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden said al Qaeda was preparing attacks in the United States but the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audio tape attributed to him on Thursday.  —  It was the first purported bin Laden tape since 2004.
Discussion: TBT: The Brutal Truth
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Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Chirac: Nuclear Response to Terrorism Is Possible  —  PARIS, Jan. 19 — President Jacques Chirac said Thursday that France was prepared to launch a nuclear strike against any country that sponsors a terrorist attack against French interests.  He said his country's nuclear arsenal …
Washington Post:
Mike Malloy to CPAC: Get Lost!  —  For next month's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), media director Andrea Saul sent 500 invitations to radio talk shows inviting them to broadcast from the Omni Shoreham Hotel.  This is one of the big lovefests for those who want to hear …
Discussion: The American Thinker
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Into the West Bank Abyss: From Student to Suicide Bomber  —  NABLUS, West Bank, Jan. 19 - A local photographer was the first to tell a shocked Samer Antar that his youngest brother, Sami, was dead.  His mother's wails soon followed, rising in pitch to fill the dark staircase, as relatives …
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 …
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
CODE PINK PHOTOSHOPS IRANIAN FREEDOM BABES AS IRAQ ANTIWAR ACTIVISTS  —  Unbelievable.  Code Pink, an anti-American, anti-Iraqi-freedom, anti-Iranian-democracy full-Sandalista nuisance group, has taken to photoshopping photographs of Iranian freedom babes brave enough to protest …
Discussion: RightWinged.com
Guardian:
New-look Hamas spends £100k on an image makeover  —  Spin doctor admits he has 'work cut out' with group known for suicide attacks  —  Chris McGreal in Ramallah  —  Hamas is paying a spin doctor $180,000 (£100,000) to persuade Europeans and Americans that it is not a group …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Gina Cobb
Reuters:
Expose 'radical' UCLA teacher, get $100  —  LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Boing Boing

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