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9:15 PM ET, January 3, 2007

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Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Healing Process  —  Following up on my post below …
Discussion: Sirotablog
bizjournals:
Protesters disrupt press conference on lobbying reform
Discussion: Ankle Biting Pundits
Washington Post:
But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran!  —  Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran — especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
White House Won't Condemn Saddam Taunts  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration sent conflicting signals Wednesday about the taunting and baiting that accompanied Saddam Hussein's execution, with the White House declining to join criticism of the procedure and the State Department and U.S. military raising questions about it.
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Hussein Guard Is Arrested, Officials Say  —  The Iraqi prime minister's office gave its first public defense today of the way the government carried out the execution of Saddam Hussein, and said that a guard who they believe recorded the moment in a macabre unauthorized video had been arrested.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Official Held in Saddam Hanging Video
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Official Held in Hussein Video Probe
Discussion: Decision '08
New York Times:
In Meetings With Allies, Clinton Hones '08 Strategy  —  The topic was the Democratic sweep in New Hampshire in November, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton couldn't get enough of it.  —  Dining in Washington recently with three allies from New Hampshire, which has the first-in-the-nation primary …
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Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Effect of Obama's Candor Remains to Be Seen
Michelle Malkin:
Going to Iraq  —  My blogging has been lighter than usual the past few weeks due to family time, Fox News duties, holiday chaos, holiday illness—and, yes, planning for a trip to Iraq.  As you know, ex-CNN newsman Eason Jordan extended an invitation to me three weeks ago to go to Iraq …
Judd / Think Progress:
Administration Official: Troop Escalation 'More Of A Political Decision Than A Military One'  —  CNN reports "President Bush is expected to announce his new Iraq strategy in an address to the nation early next week."  According to the BBC, "The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq."
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Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
Officials: Bush mulls Iraq surge, address likely next week
Will / Attytood:
UPDATED: The long strange trip of "Mow Baker": From spokesman for anti-U.S. terrorists to our man in Saddam's death chamber  —  About three years, Newsweek magazine wrote a very insightful profile of Iraq's national security advisor, Mowaffak Al-Rubaie.  They called him "Iraq's Mr. Cellophane …
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Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Meets with Cabinet  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  We just finished our first Cabinet meeting of 2007.  I want to thank my Cabinet officers for joining me here.  We discussed our priorities for the next two years, and how we plan to achieve them.
Discussion: BobGeiger.com and Cato-at-liberty
Foreign Policy:
Why Hawks Win  —  Why are hawks so influential?  The answer may lie deep in the human mind.  People have dozens of decision-making biases, and almost all favor conflict rather than concession.  A look at why the tough guys win more than they should.  —  National leaders get all sorts of advice in times of tension and conflict.
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Iran's Secret Plan For Mayhem  —  WASHINGTON — Iran is supporting both Sunni and Shiite terrorists in the Iraqi civil war, according to secret Iranian documents captured by Americans in Iraq.  —  The news that American forces had captured Iranians in Iraq was widely reported last month …
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
An 'Honest,' 'Open' House, Where Cameras Can't Zoom Out  —  The House of Representatives is often called "the People's House."  So wouldn't it be nifty if the "people" could see what was going on in their own house?  —  But those watching on TV really can't.
Weekly Standard:
Al Qaeda TV  —  A new 24-hour insurgent station reveals al Qaeda's increasing sophistication, and our continuing confusion.  —  AL QAEDA AND its allies now have their own 24-hour television station.  Based at a secret studio in Syria, its signal is broadcast to the entire Arab world from a satellite owned by the Egyptian government.
Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
New video shows 5 kidnapped in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four Americans and an Austrian abducted in November in southern Iraq spoke briefly and appeared uninjured in a video believed to have been recorded nearly two weeks ago and delivered Wednesday to The Associated Press.
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Fox News reporter says Bush admitted using cocaine, then retreats, citing, 'questions'  —  Print page sponsored by Velvet Revolution.  —  As political media buzzed about whether or not Senator Barack Obama's admission eleven years ago that he used cocaine as a teenager would hurt his political prospects …
 
 
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Hanging With Hezbollah  —  "If they (Jews) all gather in Israel …
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Same-Sex Marriage Setback in Massachusetts
Amos Harel / Associated Press:
Think tank: Israel could attack Iran's nuclear program alone
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Yeas and Nays: Wednesday, Jan. 3
New York Post:
JOHN CONYERS  —  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has been licking …
Discussion: Daled Amos and Macsmind
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
A Man Down, a Train Arriving, and a Stranger Makes a Choice