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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:
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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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:On Party Lines, Panel Approves Alito for Court
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MSNBC:
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 …
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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.
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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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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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Al-Qaida Is Losing — There's desperation in Osama's voice. — I once hypothesized that Osama Bin Laden might be dead. The induction went like this: Proof of life is easy to furnish, but some of the tapes allegedly showing him could easily have been cobbled from earlier releases.
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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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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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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The New Republic:
WILL ALITO MAKE HILLARY PRESIDENT?: — Chris Cillizza over at "The Fix" has an interesting post today about whether or not Hillary can win a presidential election. His conclusion is a tentative yes—something I agree with despite Marisa Katz's excellent piece laying out some of the obstacles Hillary faces …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:Parsing the Polls: Can Hillary Win the White House?
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Reuters:
L.A. Times writer defends incendiary Iraq column — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Times columnist who infuriated conservatives by writing that he does not support American troops fighting in Iraq — and calling those who do "wusses" — stood by the article on Tuesday.
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The Hotline's Blogometer, The American Thinker, Newslinker, Right Wing News and Daily Pundit
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Sifu Tweety / The Poor Man Institute:
Tapping? I don't hear any tapping — The good thing about this whole "Defending Unchecked Presidential Power" publicity tour is that we're getting a lot more information about what the NSA eavesdropping program did and didn't entail. The bad thing is that this seems to be confusing the hell out of most of the blogosphere.
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?
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 …
John In Dc / Open Letter To Chris Matthews:
Frequently Asked Questions — 1. What is your complaint with Chris Matthews and MSNBC? — Chris Matthews is a major opinion leader who has repeatedly compared Americans concerned about the war in Iraq to Osama bin Laden, a charge that borders on accusing over half the American public with treason.
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 …
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ThreatsWatch.Org, The Counterterrorism Blog, PoliticalSports, Lean Left and Media Blog on National …
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 …
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Bush the Incompetent — Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it's hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president's defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq …
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TAPPED, The Sideshow, Norwegianity, The Mahablog, Bark Bark Woof Woof, The Heretik, Middle Earth Journal, The Peking Duck and The All Spin Zone
