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11:20 PM ET, January 15, 2007

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Jim Krane / Associated Press:
UAE beats Americans' environmental harm  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When it comes to squandering the earth's natural resources, residents of this desert land of chilled swimming pools, monster 4x4s and air-conditioned malls are on a par with even the ravenous consumption of Americans, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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Kiyori Ueno / Bloomberg:
Al Gore Says U.S. States May Force Change in Climate Policy  —  Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said many businesses and state governments ``embrace'' the aims of the Kyoto Protocol, which may force President George W. Bush to alter his opposition to the effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Discussion: MyDD and The American Street
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Updated: Reuters Says Gore Says He Is Not Running
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG and Daily Kos
CBS News:
WHAT DO YOU THINK?  —  (CBS) On Jan. 12, 2007, two days after President George W. Bush told the country that he would send 21,000 more troops into Iraq, the president sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for a candid conversation.  The two met in Camp David's Laurel Cabin …
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Michael Oren / Los Angeles Times:
Apple pie and the Middle East  —  The U.S. has long tried to steer the Mideast toward Western values.  —  THE STALLED U.S. mission in Iraq has prompted calls for a return to "realism" in American foreign policy.  Instead of striving for freedom and national cohesion in the Middle East …
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
President Bush on 60 Minutes: UPDATED
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Caucus
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Allard: No third term  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Wayne Allard said today he will honor his term-limits pledge and leave at the end of 2008, creating a replacement fight that should turn Colorado into one of the country's biggest electoral battlegrounds.  —  "I just didn't think I could back away from the (term limits) commitment.
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo backing off Senate bid
Discussion: TalkLeft
Guardian:
Iran target of US Gulf military moves, Gates says  —  Mark Tran and agencies  —  Increased US military activity in the Gulf is aimed at Iran's "very negative" behaviour, the Bush administration said today.  —  The defence secretary, Robert Gates, told reporters that the decision to deploy …
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CNN:
Hussein's half-brother decapitated during hanging … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein's aides early Monday, and one of the men was decapitated in the process.  —  The official video of the hangings showed Hussein's half-brother lying headless below the gallows …
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Washington Post:
Iraqi Hangings Bring More Condemnation
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream  —  In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.  —  That's the good news.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Why the right doesn't get Martin Luther King
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
IRAQ: WHY THE MEDIA MISSTEP  —  JUST outside Um al-Qasar, a port in south east Iraq, a crowd had gathered around a British armored car with a crew of four.  An argument seemed to be heating up through an interpreter.  —  The interpreter told the Brits that the crowd was angry and wanted U.K. forces out of Iraq.
Brian Dickerson / Detroit Free Press:
Adultery could mean life, court finds  —  That's what the law says in sex-drug case Cox appealed  —  In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Adam's Blog
Akiva Eldar / Haaretz:
Secret understandings reached between representatives of Israel, Syria  —  In a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, Syrians and Israelis formulated understandings for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria.  —  The main points of the understandings are as follows:
Discussion: Hot Air
Eric Pfeiffer / Washington Times:
Murtha proposes bill to choke funding for surge  —  Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, yesterday announced plans to introduce legislation that would cut off funding for President Bush's proposed surge of American troops into Baghdad.  —  "I think our hearings will show that even Republicans …
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Differ on Iraq Bill's Bite
Guardian:
France and UK considered 1950s 'merger'  —  Staff and agencies  —  Britain and France talked about a "union" in the 1950s, even discussing the possibility of the Queen becoming the French head of state, it was reported today.  —  On September 10 1956, Guy Mollet, the then French prime minister …
Discussion: OxBlog and Political Animal
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: "Dispatches: Undercover Mosque"; Update: Part 2 added; Update: Part 3 added  —  Here it is, fresh from Channel 4 (UK) by way of our pal kasper kasper's Tivo: what happens when "moderate" Muslims stop being polite and start getting real.  —  Parts 2 and 3 to follow, promises kk.
See-Dubya / Michelle Malkin:
KSFO: not helping matters one bit  —  KSFO, San Francisco's conservative talk-radio station, is being hounded by left-wing bloggers.  Now, most of what KSFO does is just your regular conservative talk radio, with Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh.  A lot of my friends in earshot of their station consider …
Mark Memmott / On Deadline:
USAT Poll: Americans 'more pessimistic' after Bush's Iraq speech  —  "President Bush's address to the nation last week outlining a 'new way forward' in Iraq failed to move public opinion in support of his plan to increase U.S. troop levels and left Americans more pessimistic about the likely outcome …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Bill / INDCJournal:
"Because the language they use is killing:" An Interview with a Fallujan Police Officer  —  The difficulty of obtaining this interview underscores the political and cultural complexities of the American effort in Fallujah.  In order to get a few minutes of alone candor with an Iraqi patrolman …
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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CBS News:
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CNN:
Bush: Congress can't stop troop increase
Discussion: Sirotablog
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
American Samoa, Pelosi's 17 Million In Del Monte Stock, And The Minimum Wage
Discussion: QandO and Riehl World View
Thers / Whiskey Fire:
Marinating in the Swamp  —  I read the new Time online magazine blog …
Discussion: Eschaton
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Great and Glorious First Gulf War
Discussion: TalkLeft and Dover Bitch
Matt Stearns / Wichita Eagle:
Brownback adds flat tax to platform
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jim Yardley / New York Times:
In City Ban, a Sign of Wealth and Its Discontents
USA Today:
Police in Iraq see jump in recruits
Discussion: Hot Air and Olbermann Watch
 Earlier Items: 
Cillizzac / The Fix:
Romney, McCain Tout New Backers
Newsdesk / The Swamp:
Bush: It's all 'unacceptable'
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Attytood
Joseph Neff / Charlotte Observer:
State Bar has letter from lawyer warning prosecutor of ethical violations
Discussion: Hot Air, TIME and A Blog For All
Gerard Henderson / Times of London:
How Australia confronts militant Islam
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Francis McCabe / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada U.S. attorney given walking papers
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
from the protein wisdom archives: "There's no such thing as race …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
The Other Team's Playbook  —  George W. Bush has managed …
New York Post:
HILL JABS AT JOHN