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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.
Discussion: Below The Beltway
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lobbying Changes Divide House GOP  —  Just two weeks after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to pass far-reaching changes to the rules of lobbying on Capitol Hill, House Republican members pushed back hard against those proposals yesterday, charging that their leaders are overreacting to a growing corruption scandal.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Budget Cuts Pass By a Slim Margin  —  Poor, Elderly and Students to Feel Pinch  —  The House yesterday narrowly approved a contentious budget-cutting package that would save nearly $40 billion over five years by imposing substantial changes on programs including Medicaid, welfare, child support and student lending.
CNN:   Boehner elected House majority leader
Opinion Journal:
Republican Referendum
Discussion: The RCP Blog
Stephen Castle / Independent:
Mohamed cartoons provoke bomb threats against Danish newspaper  —  A Danish newspaper suffered bomb scares a day after apologising for cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed which prompted protests from Muslims and a boycott of Danish products in a dozen nations.  —  The offices of Jyllands-Posten …
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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 …
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
More European Papers Print Cartoons of Muhammad, Fueling Dispute With Muslims
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Anger Over Drawings Spreads Among Muslims
Discussion: PoliBlog and PoliPundit.com
Gina Holland / Associated Press:
Alito Splits With Conservatives on Inmate  —  WASHINGTON - New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.  —  Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Court Remade in the Reagan Era's Image  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. being sworn in Wednesday at the White House by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., right.  Watching were President Bush, Martha-Ann Alito and the Alitos' children, Phil and Laura.  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 …
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
The Capitol's Tempest in a T-Shirt  —  Chief Apologizes for Ejections at State of Union  —  Two T-shirts — one black, the other heather gray — spotted in the House gallery the night of the president's State of the Union speech caused a major ruckus on Capitol Hill.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
When does the "self-correcting" blogosphere start to self-correct?  —  (updated below - twice)  —  Before the Capitol Police acknowledged yesterday that there was no legal basis for removing, let alone arresting, Cindy Sheehan — to the contrary, they admitted that they "screwed up" because …
Associated Press:
Police apologize, drop charge against Sheehan
Discussion: The American Street and TPRS
Washington Post:
Republicans Were Masters In the Race to Paint Alito  —  Democrats' Portrayal Failed to Sway the Public  —  On the night of Sunday, Oct. 30, the White House team charged with getting Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination through the Senate got a first look at the nominee.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Netroots, It's Time to Get Serious About Power
Discussion: The Washington Note and Daily Kos
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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Washington Post:
A Reprehensible Cartoon
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and News Blog
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 …
CNN:
Jimmy Carter: Give Hamas a chance  —  Former president says U.S. should not cut off aid to Palestinians  —  (CNN) — Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, and despite the group's militant history, there is a chance the soon-to-be Palestinian leaders could turn away from violence …
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CBS News:
Nuke Tests In Iran?  —  (CBS/AP) Experiments with high explosives, possibly linked to future nuclear weapons tests, were carried out as recently as 2003 in Iran, sources tell CBS News.  —  International Atomic Energy Agency analysts said they suspect the experiments took place at a huge military complex south of Tehran.
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Guardian:
Iran's message to the west: back off or we retaliate
Discussion: SoCalPundit
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
'St. Jack' and the Bullies in the Pulpit  —  John Danforth Says It's Time the GOP Center Took On The Christian Right  —  Jack Danforth wishes the Republican right would step down from its pulpit.  Instead, he sees a constant flow of religion into national politics.
Bob Burnett / The Huffington Post:
The Democrats' Response - Welcome to Weenie World  —  WEENIE: A person, especially a man, who is regarded as being weak and ineffectual.  —  If you've had the misfortune to be a registered Democrat the last few years, to stubbornly cling to the belief that one day the Dems would stand up to the Republicans …
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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