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4:10 PM ET, January 7, 2007

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Nico / Think Progress:
Pelosi: Congress Will Not Fund Escalation If Bush Does Not Justify It  —  This morning on CBS's Face the Nation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that Congress may refuse to authorize funding for an escalation of U.S. forces to Iraq if President Bush cannot justify the strategy.
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Taylor Marsh:
Speaker Pelosi Lays Bush Out on Iraq  —  updated below—  In her first Sunday morning interview, Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid it out plainly on Iraq. … It's nice to be home and have all my tech toys so that I could catch the Speaker's performance.  Let's make sure this YouTube gets around.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and BobGeiger.com
Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:   Speaker Pelosi Lays Bush Out on Iraq
Miami Herald:
Suspicious truck stopped at the Port of Miami-Dade  —  Federal and county authorities have arrested as many as three Middle Eastern men at the Port of Miami-Dade after they tried to enter the facility Sunday morning without proper paperwork, officials said.  —  An FBI spokeswoman in Miami …
Discussion: Power Line
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Something up at the Port of Miami?  —  Florida Cracker has details.  Fox's correspondent at the scene says the bomb squad is on the way.  According to the Miami Herald, the driver is Iraqi and one of the men found hiding in the truck is Lebanese.  —  The Herald also says the Center …
Fox News:
PORT OF MIAMI ON HEIGHTENED ALERT  —  MIAMI — The Port of Miami on Sunday was in a heightened state of security after police discovered two men hiding in a cargo truck and a bomb squad was summoned to the scene, FOX News has learned.  —  The container truck was stopped near the cargo-area entrance …
Discussion: SevenStripes.com
Associated Press:
Israel Denies Planning Iran Nuke Attack  —  LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israel has drafted plans to strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran's uranium enrichment program.  The Israeli Foreign Ministry denied the report.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Israel Nuke Iranian Nukes?
Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
Israel and the Iranian nukes
Discussion: Daimnation! and Times of London
Washington Post:
Critics Say 'Surge' Is More of The Same  —  Past Troop Buildups Have Not Quelled Iraq  —  President Bush is putting the final touches on his new Iraq policy amid growing skepticism inside and outside the administration that the emerging package of extra troops, economic assistance …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Iraqi Leader Plans Security Push
Ben Shouse / Argus Leader:
Gore bars press from talk  —  Former VP will meet with students but not media  —  Reporters and TV news cameras will be banned from almost all of former Vice President Al Gore's appearance Jan. 23 in Sioux Falls.  —  Gore is the Boe Forum speaker at Augustana College and plans a talk called …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Al Gore Takes A Page From George Bush's Book
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Columbia Journalism Lecturer Al Gore Bans The Press At Event
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Sen. Lieberman Goes His Independent Way  —  He Calls for 'Substantial' Troop Increase in Iraq  —  Standing under the grand dome of the Library of Congress on Friday, the three top Senate Democrats bitterly condemned sending more U.S. troops to Iraq, as President Bush is now considering.
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New York Times:
The Imperial Presidency 2.0  —  Observing President Bush in action lately, we have to wonder if he actually watched the election returns in November, or if he was just rerunning the 2002 vote on his TiVo.  —  That year, the White House used the fear of terrorism to scare American voters …
Discussion: The Impolitic
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:   Dems prepare slew of oversight hearings
Ryan Lizza / New York Times:
The Invasion of the Alpha Male Democrat  —  NANCY PELOSI'S carefully crafted introduction to the American people last week seemed to reinforce some stereotypes of the so-called mommy party.  On the day she made history as the first woman to be elected speaker, she appeared on the House floor …
Independent:
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war  —  How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches  —  Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.
Rick Atkinson / Washington Post:
Iraq Will Be Petraeus's Knot to Untie  —  General Known to See Peace as Still Possible  —  Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, who is President Bush's choice to become the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, posed a riddle during the initial march to Baghdad four years ago that now becomes his own conundrum to solve: "Tell me how this ends."
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Bolton unbound  —  In "Déjà Vu, All Over Again" this past July I compared the mistreatment of John Bolton last year by the New York Times with the Times's mistreatment of Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1975.  In both instances the occasion for their mistreatment by the Times …
Matthew D. LaPlante / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utahns break from Bush on Iraq  —  Reddest state no longer behind war's handling, split on 'surge'  —  President Bush has lost majority support on Iraq from residents of the reddest state in the nation.  —  A Salt Lake Tribune poll conducted last week shows Utah's support for Bush's handling …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justices Continue Trend of Hearing Fewer Cases  —  Only a handful of decisions each year define the Supreme Court for the American public, and that might be especially appropriate this year.  —  After decades of decline in its caseload, the court is once again on track to take its fewest number of cases in modern history.
Discussion: Law Librarian Blog
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
DEP'T OF WILD SPECULATION:  —  Because standards are lower on weekends... here's a new rumor straight from an insidious "Washington cocktail party": John Negroponte is becoming deputy secretary of state as preparation to replace Condi Rice when she leaves her job.  Why would she do that?
Discussion: State of the Day and All Spin Zone
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Spurious Rumor Alert
 
 
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? …
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MICHELLE MALKIN, POWERLINE AND LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS ALL ADMIT …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Fred Hiatt hails McCain's courage and seriousness
Discussion: The Impolitic
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Catholic Collaborator Resigns As Archbishop At Installation Mass
Discussion: Reuters and The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
U.S. Selecting Hybrid Design for Warheads
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Deacon / Power Line:
NOT JUST ANY IDIOT  —  Last night, John reported that …
Discussion: Roger Ailes and PrairiePundit
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Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons  —  We have an added treat today …
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Goal Is to Look Good, Writer of Democratic Memoir Admits
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Hot Air
Tobias Jones / Guardian:
Secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians
Discussion: protein wisdom and The Corner
New York Times:
U.S. Inquiry Backs Charges of Killing by Marines in Iraq
Marc Santora / New York Times:
30 Dead in Baghdad Clash; Bodies Hanged on Lampposts
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Try a New Balance on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Daily Kos and Prairie Weather