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Panel: Interactivity Ethics — Last 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 …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Incivility — Boy that Washington Post chat with bloggers sure was fun, huh kids? It's really cool when guys like Glenn Reynolds cojmpletely misrepresent themselves in a national forum. It shows once again how out of control the left is. — Here's Glenn:
Reuters:L.A. Times writer defends incendiary Iraq column
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Media Blog on National Review Online:As Reynolds Explains Decision not to Host Comments, AP Provides Case In Point
Jonathan S. Landay / Knight Ridder:
In 2002, Justice Department said eavesdropping law working well — WASHINGTON - A July 2002 Justice Department statement to a Senate committee appears to contradict several key arguments that the Bush administration is making to defend its eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants.
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Jim Puzzanghera / Lexington Herald-Leader:
More Americans favor impeaching Bush, poll says — Today's topic: Domestic spying — WASHINGTON - The word "impeachment" is popping up increasingly these days and not just off the lips of liberal activists spouting predictable bumper-sticker slogans. — After the unfounded claims …
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Bush to visit spy agency, defend surveillance — Sen. McCain, uncertain if president exceeded authority, welcomes hearings … WASHINGTON - President Bush heads to the National Security Agency on Wednesday for another speech defending his controversial spying program …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton Blasts Bush on Eavesdropping — WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called President Bush's explanations for eavesdropping on domestic conversations without warrants "strange" and "far-fetched" Wednesday in blistering criticism ahead of the president's State of the Union address.
John R. Lott Jr / New York Times:
Pulling Rank — REPUBLICAN senators have found a new friend during judicial confirmations: the American Bar Association. During the confirmation hearings of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr., the senators invoked A.B.A. evaluations to ward off Democratic attacks …
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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:Alito Confirmation Seems All but Assured
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New York Times:
Al Qaeda's Big Boast — IF Osama bin Laden's aim in releasing an audiotape was to gauge his enemies' reaction, he must have been gratified to find that America's leaders and opinion-makers understand him little better than they did on 9/11. The proof is in how his offer of a "long-term truce" was treated.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Agrees to Censor Results in China — SAN FRANCISCO - Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market.
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Richard Brookhiser / New York Observer:
Status Quo Republicans Gambling With History — Washington smarties will tell you that only 15 House seats are ever truly in play every two years, thanks to gerrymandering. This is the world, comfortable and eternal, that all politicians want (even politicians in the minority …
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Bridget / GOP Vixen:
SO LONG, FAREWELL, AUF WIEDERSEHEN, GOODBYE, GALLOWAY! — George Galloway, who hoped to use reality TV as a platform to further his socialist ideology but instead used it as a platform to act like a cat and dance in a red leotard, has been voted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house!! From the Guardian:
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Kevin Sites / Agence France Presse:
Hamas goes to urns refusing to disarm — GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas, the radical Islamist faction behind a majority of attacks on Israel, vowed not to disarm or negotiate with the Jewish state if it enters the Palestinian parliament after the election. — Unbowed by international pressure …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:Palestinians Set for Vote and Big Shift
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Associated Press:
Army stretched to breaking point, report says — WASHINGTON (AP) — Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon. — Andrew Krepinevich …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
New Tax Breaks for Medical Expenses — President Bush will propose that Americans be allowed to take tax deductions on more of their out-of pocket medical expenses, as part of an initiative the White House believes will rein in soaring health costs by shifting responsibility toward individuals …
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Jerusalem Post:
Iran: We'll put Israel in 'eternal coma' — TEHERAN, IRAN — Were Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran would respond so strongly that it would put the Jewish state into "an eternal coma" like Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's, the Iranian defense minister said Wednesday.
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Sees Resurgence in Pakistani Tribal Areas — Videotape Shows Terror Network Actively Recruiting, Plotting Attacks — Jan. 24, 2006 — Al Qaeda and its former protectors — the Taliban — are in the midst of a powerful resurgence, according to accounts by local officials …
Will / Attytood:
The Ed Rendell Party: Like it's 1999 — There's nothing more frustrating for a blogger than getting tied up on real-life work, etc., when we'd wanted to write last night about the Democratic fiasco right here in Pennsylvania. — That would be the stunning endorsement of right-wing Supreme …
Mark / Decision '08:
Responding To Greenwald - Again — There's been a lot of back and forth between blogs on the right and Glenn Greenwald lately, partly because, much to his credit, he's one of the few leftie bloggers who will engage in substantive debates and link back to the blogs he's criticizing …
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Democrats Are Worrying Over Clinton in 2008 — Senator Clinton's emergence as the early and perhaps prohibitive favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 is fueling anxiety among Democratic strategists and operatives who are worried she would lose to a Republican in the general election.
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Michelle Malkin:
DOWDIFYING BEN FRANKLIN — Take a close look at the protest banner held up by a petulant bunch of Georgetown University kids who disrupted a speech by Attorney General Al Gonzales defending the NSA's terrorist surveillance program yesterday: — Notice anything missing?
