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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 …
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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 …
CNN:
Rove: Security will be focus of 2006 campaigns  —  GOP strategist say Democrats have a 'pre-9/11' worldview  —  Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November and said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" …
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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Jim Romenesko / poynter.org:   Brady, Kinsley and comments
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
FDL Late Nite: What Say You About Greater Blogistan's Newest Celebrity?
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Wanker of the Day  —  WashingtonPost.Com's Jim Brady.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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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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John / AMERICAblog:
ABC/Disney may have killed new TV show because gay couple won and they didn't want to anger religious right  —  This is bad.  The NYT article below provides a lot of evidence that the religious right got "Welcome to the Neighborhoo," a reality TV show, killed before it even aired a single episode …
Discussion: Prometheus 6
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
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Heeding Pakistani Protest, U.N. Blocks Talk by Rape Victim  —  UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 - Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman whose defiant response to being gang-raped by order of a tribal court brought her worldwide attention, was denied a chance to speak at the United Nations on Friday …
Brad Plumer / Bradford Plumer:
SLOWER, PLEASE  —  Anytime I hear someone suggest that the only proper way to deal with Iran is to steer the country on the path towards democracy, I think of Michael Ledeen and his calls to topple regimes across the Middle East in some unspecified way—"Faster, please"—and cringe a bit.
CNN:
Bin Laden's No. 2 releases poetry tape  —  Al-Zawahiri recording doesn't mention CIA attempt to kill him  —  (CNN) — With no mention of last week's attempt on his life, Ayman al-Zawahiri recited poetry to jihadists on a 17-minute audiotape that appeared on the Internet on Friday.
David Rennie / Telegraph:
Red tape 'turning best firms away from Europe'  —  Europe's most successful companies are turning their backs on EU markets because of red tape, a high-level report said yesterday.  —  The companies that Europe needed to survive were instead investing more money than ever in the United States and Asia …
Lauren / Feministe:
Aloha Means Goodbye  —  So, those big things ahead.  Promise not to hate me too much.  —  After almost exactly six years as a blogger, about three of them at this domain, I believe it's time for me to bow out.  My dedication to my writing here has waned and I am tired of the oddly daunting responsibility …
Discussion: Pandagon
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.
Discussion: Roger Ailes

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