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David Espo / Associated Press:
Rep. Boehner Elected House Majority Leader  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. John Boehner (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio was elected House majority leader Thursday to replace indicted Rep. Tom DeLay.  —  Boehner defeated fellow Republican Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri …
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Associated Press:
Rep. Boehner Elected GOP Majority Leader  —  WASHINGTON — Republican officials say Rep. John Boehner of Ohio has been chosen House majority leader.  —  Boehner defeated Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, 122-109, after lagging behind his rival in a first, inconclusive ballot.
CNN:
Boehner elected House majority leader  —  Republicans choose Ohio lawmaker to succeed DeLay  —  (CNN) — House Republicans on Thursday elected U.S. Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as majority leader.  —  He upset Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri in a 122-109 vote on the second ballot.
New York Times:
Ohio Congressman Wins Majority Leader Race, Replacing DeLay  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Representative John Boehner, an eight-term Congressman from far west Ohio, defeated Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri today to become House majority leader as Republicans showed their eagerness …
Krempasky / RedState:
Congratulations, Mr. Leader  —  Congressman John Boehner …
Discussion: Wizbang and On Tap
Krempasky / RedState:   House Majority Leader Race
Michelle Malkin:
IN SEARCH OF A BRAVE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER (UPDATED)  —  ***11:20am update...I've just learned that the NYSun published two of the cartoons in today's print edition...will post scans if I can get them...bravo!...scan posted below...***  —  I have contacted several newspaper op-ed editors urging …
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Lorenzo Vidino / The Counterterrorism Blog:
Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy  —  The controversy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is expanding, as more Muslims join the boycott and protests against Denmark and various European newspapers decide to publish the cartoons, mostly out of solidarity …
Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:
An Awakening Europe Reacts - Spineless UK Press Doesn't
Discussion: BBC
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Bring On The Screeching Harpies  —  These missing Cheney e-mails are very intriguing.  This is particularly so because we went though a similar event during the Clinton administration and the Republicans went completely apes**t over it.  In 2000, it was revealed (through the machinations of Judicial Watch) …
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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals  —  · PM backed invasion despite illegality warnings  —  · Plan to disguise US jets as UN planes  —  · Bush: postwar violence unlikely  —  Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" …
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Gary Gibbon / channel4.com:   The White House memo
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Joint Chiefs Fire At Toles Cartoon On Strained Army  —  In a protest with an unusual number of high-level signatures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each of its five members have fired off a letter assailing a Washington Post cartoon as "beyond tasteless."
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Benjamin Harvey / aolsvc.news.aol.com:
In Turkish Movie, Americans Kill Innocents  —  Gary Busey, Billy Zane Co-Star in Anti-American Film  —  ISTANBUL, Turkey (Feb. 2) - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Iraq, Niger, And The CIA  —  Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger …
Discussion: Think Progress
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
'I Hope She Drowns'  —  The implosion of the Democratic Party.  Plus Tom Shales's snobbery and a tribute to Wendy Wasserstein.  —  The president's State of the Union Address will be little noted and not long remembered.  There was a sense that he was talking at, not to, the country.
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Tony Blankley / realclearpolitics.com:
State of the Democratic Party
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Netroots, It's Time to Get Serious About Power  —  One of the arguments I've tried to make is that the Democratic Party and the blogosphere itself lacks a functional apparatus for projecting power.  The Washington Post has a terrific article that we should all read and work through on the recent Alito fight.
Discussion: The Washington Note and Daily Kos
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Daily Kos:
TX-28: Is this really a *Democratic* primary?  —  Atrios digs this up from the Google cache: … And this from the Club for Growth endorsement, delivered by Pat Toomey of all people: … This may be billed as a Democratic primary, but in this solidly Democratic Latino-majority district …
Gabriel Schoenfeld / Commentary:
Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?  —  "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts."  Thus ran the headline of a front-page news story whose repercussions have roiled American politics ever since its publication last December 16 in the New York Times.
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Evangelical Filmmakers Criticized for Hiring Gay Actor  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of "End of the Spear," made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company.  But days before the film's premiere …
Times of London:
The President is a dolt - so how can America be such a success story?  —  TWO CEREMONIAL events occurred in Washington on Tuesday evening that shone a spotlight on one of the most important but paradoxical features of a modern democratic society.  —  The more widely reported was President Bush's State …

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Alito Splits With Conservatives on Inmate
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MURTHA'S LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT …
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Guardian:
Iran's message to the west: back off or we retaliate
Rogers / Kung Fu Monkey:
Just.  Stay.  Down.  —  I don't often get involved in blog-spats.
Discussion: TBogg and UNCoRRELATED
New York Times:
The March of the Straw Soldiers
Discussion: The Heretik
Los Angeles Times:
What isolationism?  — In his speech, the president presented …
Discussion: TAPPED and The Mahablog
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Court Remade in the Reagan Era's Image
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
'St. Jack' and the Bullies in the Pulpit
 
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