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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Preview of G.O.P. Campaign, Rove Tears Into Democrats — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, gave nervous Republicans here a preview of the party's strategy to maintain its dominance in the fall elections today, assailing Democrats for their positions on terrorism …
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Oliver Willis, THE BRAD BLOG, The Washington Monthly, Angry Bear, The Heretik and The Sideshow
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Rove Offers Republicans A Battle Plan For Elections — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove offered a biting preview of the 2006 midterm elections yesterday, drawing sharp distinctions with the Democrats over the campaign against terrorism, tax cuts and judicial philosophy …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue — WASHINGTON - Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November. — He also said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" in questioning Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
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 …
John Kerry / dailykos.com:
Real Hardball — There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden. — That's reason to be outraged …
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Jim Romenesko / poynter.org:
Brady, Kinsley and comments — From GLENN FLEISHMAN: I hate to be one of those folks who points fingers at the "old media," especially since I both blog and write frequently for print, but Jim Brady at The Washington Post just doesn't get it in the same way Michael Kinsley didn't get it with the Wikitorial idea at the L.A. Times.
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Derrick Nunnally / JSOnline:
Sudden plea deals in tire-slashing case — In an unexpected twist in the Election Day tire-slashing trial, four former Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, have agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanors.
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Sean Hackbarth / The American Mind:Plea Agreement in Tire Slashing Case
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radioblogger.com:
Washington Post Blog's Jim Brady on the profane meltdown of the left this week. — HH: Moving from an interview with the Vice President to an interview with Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, the phenomenally successful online edition of the Washington Post. Mr. Brady, welcome.
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
A Web Witness to Iranian Brutality — Atefeh Rajabi , a 16-year-old schoolgirl: Executed by hanging in Neka, Aug. 15, 2004, for "acts incompatible with chastity." — Azizullah Gulshani : Executed by the state in Mashad , April 29, 1982, for "promoting the dirty, non-Islamic sect of Bahaism."
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Television Cul-de-Sac Mystery: Why Was Reality Show Killed? — AUSTIN, Tex. - A year ago, Stephen Wright and his partner, John Wright, embarked on a sociology experiment that only a reality show producer could concoct: theirs was one of seven families competing to persuade the residents …
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The Washington Monthly
David Stout / New York Times:
U.S. Indicts 11 for Acts of Domestic Terrorism — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Eleven people have been indicted on charges of carrying out a years-long spree of arson, bombings and other acts of domestic terrorism throughout five Western states, the Justice Department said today.
Associated Press:
Gay families plan to attend White House egg roll — NEW YORK (AP) — Three months before the annual Easter egg roll at the White House, the usually festive event is already taking on a divisive edge because of plans by gay- and lesbian-led families to turn out en masse in hopes of raising their public profile.
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Pam's House Blend
David Johnston / New York Times:
Pentagon Analyst Gets 12 Years for Disclosing Data — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - A federal judge sentenced a former Defense Department analyst, Lawrence A. Franklin, to more than 12 years in prison today after Mr. Franklin admitted passing classified military information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and an Israeli diplomat.
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Steve / The Emerging Democratic Majority WebLog:
Dems Should Project Clarity, Unity On Government Spying — Dem candidates up for election in November already have plenty of knotty issues to chew on. Not to add to that burden, but a new Salon.com post "Fear of Spying" by Walter Shapiro merits their attention.
San Francisco Chronicle:
CNN is still sick with Fox envy — and it's only getting worse — These must be great days to work at Fox News. Not only does the 24-hour cable channel beat rival CNN like a sick, sad mule, but Roger Ailes is so deep in the heads of CNN's managers that every time they stumble over themselves in chaos …
Malia Rulon / news.cincinnati.com:
GOP boss urges Ney to resign if indicted — No charges filed against lawmaker yet in lobby case — WASHINGTON - Ohio Republican Chairman Bob Bennett said Thursday that he'd ask Rep. Bob Ney to resign from Congress if he were indicted on felony charges. — Bennett stressed that Ney …
David Johnston / New York Times:
Lawyers in C.I.A. Leak Case Seek to Subpoena Journalists — WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told a federal judge on Friday that they would seek to subpoena reporters and news organizations to obtain additional documents that could assist in his defense in the C.I.A. leak case.
