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David Stout / New York Times:
Defense of Eavesdropping Is Met With Skepticism in Senate  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told skeptical senators today that the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program is legal, constitutional and vital to national security in a time of terrorism.
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Alberto R. Gonzales / Opinion Journal:
America Expects Surveillance  —  Monitoring the enemy is necessary and appropriate.  —  In the days following Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush charted a course of action to respond to the worst attack on our homeland in history.  He promised to use every tool available to defeat al Qaeda …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Live blogging the NSA hearings  —  The logistics of live-blogging from the Committee room were too complicated, so I am live-blogging the hearings off-site.  I may be able to do it from the Committee room itself for the afternoon session, but I'd rather have full blogging abilities outside of the room than be in the room.
USA Today:
Telecoms let NSA spy on calls  —  The National Security Agency has secured the cooperation of large telecommunications companies, including AT&T, MCI and Sprint, in its efforts to eavesdrop without warrants on international calls by suspected terrorists, according to seven telecommunications executives.
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Gonzales Defends Legality of Surveillance
Washington Post:
There Ought to Be a Law  —  THE SENATE Judiciary Committee …
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
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Rory McCarthy / Guardian:
Rioting with well-planned spontaneity
CNN:
Cartoon protests turn deadly
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Juan / Informed Comment:
Fact File on Reaction to Danish Caricatures
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Amir Shah / Associated Press:
Anti-Cartoon Clashes Spread, Turn Deadly
Washington Post:
Handful of Races May Tip Control of Congress  —  In Pennsylvania, Sen. Rick Santorum (R) has been running behind his challenger for months.  In Montana, Sen. Conrad Burns (R), linked to the Jack Abramoff scandal, is on the defensive.  In Ohio, Sen. Mike DeWine (R) is struggling to overcome …
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Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Republican senators urge Reed to quit race  —  Twenty-one Republican state senators on Friday called for Ralph Reed to withdraw from the contest for lieutenant governor, declaring that his ties to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff could jeopardize the re-election of Gov. Sonny Perdue and the rest of the GOP ticket.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Bush's $2.8 Trillion Budget Proposal Cuts Domestic Programs  —  President Bush today proposed a $2.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2007 that would cut billions of dollars from domestic programs ranging from Medicare and food stamps to local law enforcement and disease control …
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John O'Neil / New York Times:   Bush's $2.77 Trillion Budget Plan Calls for Medicare Cuts
Hillel Italie / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Feminism pioneer Betty Friedan dies at 85  —  NEW YORK — Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" helped shatter the cozy suburban ideal of the post-World War II era and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday.  She was 85.
somethingawful.com:
Leave a Message in the Anonymous Muslim Man Complaint Box  —  I saw on the TV that there is a show now with a woman host.  This is not very bad by itself because the woman was dressed in accordance with the laws of Islam and did not expose herself and inflame the lust of any male guests.
Andrew Sabl / The Reality-Based Community:
Attacking Iran—the analogies  —  While I normally have the highest intellectual respect for Mark Kleiman, his tentative support for military action in Iran is (as he knows) one position that makes me doubt whether his contact with reality is as solid as he believes.
Discussion: TAPPED and The Huffington Post
Hugh Hewitt:
The Worst Superbowl Moment?  —  Had to be Ed Rendell's when he saw Lynn Swann run on to Ford Field with other past Superbowl MVPs.  Swann got a thundering reception from the pro-Steelers crowd.  Let's see —tired, old party hack versus fresh face superstar with charisma.
Judd / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Senate Conservatives Refuse To Put Gonzales Under Oath  —  Watch the right-wing members of the committee take a principled stand against accountability: … Specter wins the vote but concludes "this is really not a very good way to begin this hearing."  —  Full Transcript:
Francoalemán / Barcepundit:
NOW, ZAPATERO HAS DEFINITELY put Spain in the wrong side.  With all Western countries publicly defending free speech and condemning the barbaric acts of violence after the publication of the Danish cartoons, Zapatero and Erdogan write an open letter that has been published in today's International Herald Tribune:
Times of London:
Self-harmers to be given clean blades  —  NURSES want patients who are intent on harming themselves to be provided with clean blades so that they can cut themselves more safely.  —  They say people determined to harm themselves should be helped to minimise the risk of infection from dirty blades …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Outside The Beltway
Michelle Malkin:
SO, WILL OUR SUPREME COURT BE NEXT?  —  It seems that every major TV news report on the Muhammad Cartoons that I've seen ends with a tiptoeing disclaimer that Islam considers any depiction of Muhammad sacreligious (and, therefore, vulnerable to arson, vandalism, and mass riots).
Clay Waters / Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
Double Standard: NYT Sides with Muslims, but "Piss Christ" Foes Were Compared to Nazis  —  One would hope and expect a liberal newspaper like the New York Times to have the meager virtue of consistency on matters of freedom of expression, particularly in defense of another newspaper.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Jack Kelly: A Syrian sidestep?  —  About those Iraqi WMDs: More signs are pointing to a neighborly transfer  —  Last week a man who had been deputy chief of Saddam Hussein's air force claimed Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war began.

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