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5:25 PM ET, January 13, 2007

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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Rod Dreher: "Hadn't the hippies tried to tell my generation this"?  —  (updated below)  —  Rod Dreher is as conservative as it gets — a contributor to National Review and the Corner, a current columnist for The Dallas Morning News, a self-described "practicing Christian and political conservative."
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Maha / The Mahablog:
Betrayal  —  Per Glenn Greenwald, don't miss this audio essay by rightie Rod Dreher. … Like so many loyal soldiers of movement conservatism, Dreher's earliest political memories are of the Carter Administration and the Iranian hostage crisis, followed by the triumphant ascension of Ronald Reagan.
Jonathan Zasloff / The RBC:   Vietnam, the Democrats and foreign policy
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Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Rice says U.S. won't pull plug on Iraq  —  JERUSALEM - Americans' skepticism about Iraq will not change until they see progress, but the U.S. will not "pull the plug" on the war, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.  —  Rice, at the start of a Mideast trip, would not detail any backup strategy …
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Boxer comments to Rice draw fire from the right  —  Senator says she won't apologize for 'strong message'  —  Was Sen. Barbara Boxer's heated confrontation this week with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a case of "vicious" feminine politics — as some critics have suggested — or merely the politics of frank talk in tough times?
Discussion: Hot Air
Haaretz:
Rice: I am not coming to Middle East with a plan
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Official Attacks Top Law Firms Over Detainees  —  The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation's top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba …
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Jeralyn Merritt / The Huffington Post:
Keeping an Eye on Cully Stimson
Discussion: PBD
New York Times:
Military Expands Domestic Surveillance  —  The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Calls Situation in Iraq 'Heartbreaking'  —  Senator Spoke Out Against the President's Policy in Iraq  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News in Baghdad, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., called the situation in Iraq "heartbreaking" and said she doubts Congress …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Final Islamist Collapse In Somalia (Updated)  —  The final organized base of the Union of Islamic Courts fell to Ethiopian and Somali forces last night, completing the lightning rout of what had been an ascendant radical Islamist force.  Ras Kamboni had been the last organized redoubt for the UIC …
Discussion: Jay Reding.com
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BBC:
Last Somali Islamist base 'falls'
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Lashes Out at Opponents on Iraq Plan  —  President Bush fought back at lawmakers opposing his new plan for Iraq today, charging that simply being against the strategy without suggesting alternatives was "irresponsible."  He challenged them to come up with a better plan.
Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi leader goes own way to fill top post  —  He picks an unknown to lead forces in Baghdad, which raises questions about his motives.  —  BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has filled the top military job in Baghdad with a virtually unknown officer chosen over the objections …
Opinion Journal:
The Berger Files  —  The case of the purloined archives gets stranger all the time.  —  The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn.  On Tuesday, the House Government Reform …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
A coup in Baghad?  —  Yesterday, trying to figure out why Mr. Bush and his crew think the escalation in Iraq might have a chance to work, I speculated that replacing Nouri al-Maliki might be part of the plan.  Today, that doesn't seem so speculative.  —  Here's John Burns on CNN (emphases added):
Robert B. Reich / American Prospect:
Bad-Faith Negotiation  —  What's missing from the Democrats' new bill on bargaining prescription drug prices.  —  House Democrats are pushing a bill to require Medicare to negotiate drug prices.  So far, so good.  But in what appears to be a bow to the political clout of Big Pharma …
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'  —  Royal Green Jackets provide 'top cover' from their Bulldog armoured vehicle outside Basra Palace  —  Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.
Discussion: Defense Tech and digg
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Amateur Sleuthing Lands Grisham in Real-Life Court  —  He's a lawyer.  He's a best-selling author.  Now he's The Client.  —  The Virginia Supreme Court ruled yesterday that John Grisham must face a jury for his actions in a real-life whodunit.  —  Grisham, author of "The Pelican Brief …
 
 
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