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2:00 PM ET, January 18, 2007

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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation  —  Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists' influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let the bill pass without a vote on an unrelated measure that would give President Bush virtual line-item-veto power.
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Robert Bluey / Examiner:
How bloggers took on Harry Reid and won on earmark reform  —  WASHINGTON - In ways both big and small, bloggers are changing how business is done on Capitol Hill.  —  Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., learned firsthand last week the effect bloggers can have on public policy when he was handed …
Zachary Roth / Political Animal:   HOLDING BAD PUNDITS ACCOUNTABLE PART 671...From today's Washington Post:
Stephen Farrell / Times of London:
Give us guns - and troops can go, says Iraqi leader  —  Listen to the interview with Nouri al-Maliki  —  America's refusal to give Baghdad's security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday.
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Maliki Stresses Urgency In Arming Iraqi Forces  —  Need for U.S. Troops Could Drop 'Dramatically'  —  The Iraqi government's need for American troops would "dramatically go down" in three to six months if the United States accelerated the process of equipping and arming Iraq's security forces …
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi PM: 400 Shiite fighters detained
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Newspaper Columnist Art Buchwald Dies at 81  —  Art Buchwald, 81, the newspaper humor columnist for more than a half-century who found new comic material in the issues that come up at the end of life, died of kidney failure last night at his son's home in Washington, his family announced today.
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CNN:
An American in Paris  —  Buchwald launched his career as a columnist in 1949 in Paris, where he wrote about the light side of Paris nightlife in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune.  He returned to the United States around 1962 and moved to Washington, where he began writing columns filled …
Discussion: Bitsblog
Richard Severo / New York Times:
Art Buchwald, 81, Columnist and Humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd
Discussion: The Mahablog
Brett Arends / Boston Herald:
McCain no longer rocks in Granite State  —  As Mitt, Hillary, Barack and a dozen others jump into the presidential stampede, something interesting is happening in New Hampshire.  —  For seven years, conventional wisdom has said that the state's pivotal independent voters would line …
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Zogby:
Zogby New Hampshire: 3 Dems In Tight Race; McCain Leads Republican Field  —  Zogby's latest telephone polling in New Hampshire shows Obama holds slight edge over Clinton and Edwards in tight Dem battle, while Arizona's senior senator leads in what is—at least for now—a two-man GOP race
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
A New Chance for Peace?  —  I am concerned that public discussion of my book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" has been diverted from the book's basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended.
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Cancer Deaths Decline For Second Straight Year  —  The number of Americans who died of cancer has dropped for a second straight year, marking a milestone in the war on the disease, officials said yesterday.  —  More than 3,000 fewer Americans died from cancer in 2004 than in 2003 …
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New York Times:
Court to Oversee U.S. Wiretapping in Terror Cases  —  The Bush administration, in a surprise reversal, said on Wednesday that it had agreed to give a secret court jurisdiction over the National Security Agency's wiretapping program and would end its practice of eavesdropping without warrants on Americans suspected of ties to terrorists.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Congressional Procession of Iraq Proposals Likely to Lead Nowhere  —  "You cannot run a war by committee," Vice President Cheney said over the weekend.  —  Oh?  Just watch them.  —  Lawmakers were introducing Iraq legislation at a mad pace yesterday, at one point in the afternoon scheduling news conferences in half-hour intervals.
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Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Bush Faces Deepening War Opposition, Demand for Congress to Act  —  Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush failed to rally public support with his nationally televised speech announcing plans to send more soldiers to Iraq, as most Americans say they want Congress to find a way to stop the troop increase.
ArmsControlWonk:
Chinese Test ASAT?  —  I noticed this blurb on SEESAT today: … I've been hearing the same murmurings—and my sources tell me that a major defense publication is working on the story.  So, I suppose it is time to mention what is now an open secret inside the US defense community.
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran's discontent with Ahmadinejad grows  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Prices for vegetables have tripled in the past month, housing prices have doubled since last summer — and as costs have gone up, so has Iranians' discontent with hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his focus on confrontation with the West.
Discussion: QandO, Blue Crab Boulevard and Hot Air
Ryan Keith / Associated Press:
Obama's Past Offers Ammo for Critics  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may have a lot of explaining to do.  —  He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive.  He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons …
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Speaking Chic to Power  —  LAUDING someone for their style on Capitol Hill is a lot like celebrating the best surfer on Florida's Gulf Coast — it's all relative, and some would argue irrelevant.  Washington has never embraced fashion (nor, for that matter, has the fashion world embraced Washington), and for understandable reasons.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Time Inc. Lays Off More Than 250  —  Time Inc. began laying off more than 250 people today at its top magazines, including its most profitable title, People, which said it was shutting down its Washington, Miami and Chicago bureaus entirely.  —  Employees in those bureaus said they were …
Discussion: CorrenteWire, FishBowlDC and Romenesko
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Clinton Remains the Front-runner Among Democrats  —  McCain and Giuliani are front-runners among Republicans  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Although the first primaries and caucuses of the 2008 presidential race are still one year away, there has already been a great deal of focus on the election.
 
 
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Dems to AG: How Many Prosecutors Have You Pushed Out?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain does about-face on grassroots reform bill
San Francisco Chronicle:
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Jenny Mandel / GovExec.com:
Defense reluctant to share data on Iraqi troop readiness
Arnold Kling / TCS Daily:
The Big Three  —  "We have been inexorably centralizing control …
Discussion: Cato Unbound
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Shades of Grey  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger and the road to national health care.
Discussion: GOP Bloggers
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Resignation of Lawyers At FEC Raises Concern
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 Earlier Items: 
Kasie Hunt / Associated Press:
5 down, 1 to go on Dems' House agenda
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BBC:
Washington 'snubbed Iran offer'
Will Hutton / Guardian:
Mao was cruel - but also laid the ground for today's China
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Area Readers Get the Joke
Discussion: Attytood and Wonkette
Nora Boustany / Washington Post:
Arab World Outraged Over Hangings in Iraq
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Van Hollen and Dean bury hatchet