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4:04 AM ET, January 17, 2007

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Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial Jury Selection: Day One Recap of Libby's Dilemma  —  "I am completely without objectivity.  There is nothing you can say that would make me feel positively about President Bush."  Thus spake the eighth of nine prospective jurors reviewed by Judge Reggie Walton …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Don Surber
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David Corn:   Libby Trial, Day One: Can You Trust Cheney?
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
We've Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Three Time [Loser] Winner  —  There just didn't seem to be any other way to explain why I'm not going to be present for the first two weeks of the Libby trial so I decided to resort to the truth.  —  As someone who has devoted years to building this blog around coverage of the CIA leak investigation …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Eschaton and The Mahablog
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE LEFT AND THE WAR....If anti-war liberals were right about the war from the start, how come they don't get more respect?  Here's the nickel version of the answer from liberal hawks: It's because they don't deserve it.  Sure, the war has gone badly, but not for the reasons the doves warned of.
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MSNBC:
Saudis consider sending troops to Iraq  —  Government 'deeply skeptical' al-Maliki can make Bush surge plan work  —  Saudi Arabia believes the Iraqi government is not up to the challenge and has told the United States that it is prepared to move its own forces into Iraq should the violence …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Bombings Kill 60 at University In Baghdad
Discussion: The Reaction and The Heretik
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee  —  Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D), one of the Democratic Party's brightest young stars, jumped into the 2008 race for the White House today, establishing a presidential exploratory committee that is expected to lead immediately into a full-blown campaign for president.
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David Corn:
Obama Explores  —  There is no doubt: Barack Obama is intelligent, dynamic, charismatic, articulate, and progressive.  The junior senator from Illinois is authentic.  He is values-driven.  And he resonates.  The Great Black Hope for all of America (or, at least, 50.1 percent)?  Perhaps.
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
What's the White House Doing to Prosecutors?  —  During a floor speech on the topic moments ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the White House has told her it was replacing from five to 10 Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys with its own interim appointees.  —  We know of seven who have left during …
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Online NewsHour:
President Bush Defends Decision to Send Additional Troops to Iraq  —  JIM LEHRER: Mr. President, welcome.  —  PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Thank you, sir.  —  MR. LEHRER: How do you feel about the way the Iraqi government handled the hangings of Saddam Hussein, and now more recently, two of his top aides?
Laura Rozen / Washington Monthly:
Rumsfeld is gone, but the veep's other loyalists remain.  —  With the departure of his longtime friend Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton's resignation as U.N. ambassador, and Democrats taking over Congress, times seem grim for the Dick Cheney wing of the Bush administration.
Discussion: Classical Values
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
When Blogospheres Collide  —  Remember this pic?  —  This is a picture of the linking patterns among highly trafficked progressive and conservative blogs during the final months of the 2004 election.  It was the first, and to date best, academic study on linking patterns within the political blogosphere.
Discussion: tpmcafe.com and Eschaton
Telegraph:
The threat from Iran  —  It has been clear for many months that Iran has been actively involved in the Iraqi insurgency: by supplying arms and manpower to the militias who target American and British forces, and inciting sectarian violence, it has helped to maintain the state of chaotic instability …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy  —  The human mind isn't very well equipped to make sense of a figure like $1.2 trillion.  We don't deal with a trillion of anything in our daily lives, and so when we come across such a big number, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big number.
Discussion: Economist's View
Anne Applebaum / Slate:
Legalize It  —  HOW TO SOLVE AFGHANISTAN'S DRUG PROBLEM.  —  The British Empire once fought a war for the right to sell opium in China.  —  In retrospect, history has judged that war destructive and wasteful, a shameless battle of colonizers against colonized that in the end helped neither side.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
washingtonpost.com > Live Discussions  —  Howard Kurtz has been The Washington Post's media reporter since 1990.  He is also the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and the author of "Media Circus," "Hot Air," "Spin Cycle" and "The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media and Manipulation."
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Romenesko
Paul Crespo / NewsMax.com:
Author Blames 9/11 On 'Cultural Left'  —  "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11" By Dinesh D'Souza, Random House, Inc., 352 pages, $26.95  —  When it comes to laying blame for Sept. 11 - the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Tancredo's Dubious Allies  —  Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is expected to announce the formation of an exploratory committee to seek the candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.  "He's going to paint himself as a mainstream conservative," says the staffer for one of Tancredo's colleagues in the House of Representatives.
Discussion: Orcinus, Lonewacko and Redstate
 
 
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
One Year After Colbert Flap: Are WH Correspondents Playing It Safe?
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John Tierney / New York Times:
The Voices in My Head Say 'Buy It!' Why Argue?
WKMG-TV:
Police: Woman Hung From Tree, Tortured For Bondage-Porn Video
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Little Green Footballs:
Jimmy Carter on Al Jazeera: Palestinian Missiles Are Not Terrorism
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
INSURGENCIES REVISITED....I've observed in the past that the …
Sfarber / the talking dog:
TD Blog Interview with H. Candace Gorman
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An op-ed by Professor Charles Fried discusses legal representation in America
Charles Murray / Opinion Journal:
Intelligence in the Classroom
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Today  —  Today is book deadline day, which is what explains …
Discussion: The Impolitic and Norwegianity
The Blotter:
Pakistan Strikes Al Qaeda's Winter Hideout
Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
McCain to make amends with Dobson
Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Opinion Journal:
The Poor Get Richer  —  Incomes in the developing world start to catch up.
Faiz / Think Progress:
ABC's The Note: Bush Gave His 'Best TV Performance In Years' On 60 Minutes
Cliff Schecter:
McCain Was Against War In Iraq Before He Was For It
progressivestates.org:
Stop the Escalation in Iraq
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Choice of Martinez sparks GOP rebellion