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12:40 PM ET, January 18, 2007

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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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and NewsHog
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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 …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Shiite Fighters Arrested in Crackdown, Iraq Says  —  Facing intense pressure from the Bush administration to show progress in securing Iraq, senior Iraqi officials announced Wednesday that they had moved against the country's most powerful Shiite militia, arresting several dozen senior members in the past few weeks.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi PM: 400 Shiite fighters detained
Discussion: On Deadline
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Mahdi Army Leaders Arrested
Discussion: Hot Air
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: … The guiding force behind this cynical gambit?  New GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell.  —  It's not exactly a surpise that McConnell is turning out to be a bare-knuckled partisan in his new job.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
NEIL SHER: CONSIDER THE SOURCE  —  Last month I noted the accusation by Neil Sher that Jimmy Carter had once lobbied the Justice Department on behalf of a former SS concentration camp guard who had been deported.  Today Lucianne is featuring the Israel National News story by Ezra HaLevi …
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Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
A New Chance for Peace?  —  I am concerned that public discussion …
Discussion: Power Line
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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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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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Retreats on Use of Executive Power
Amanda / Think Progress:
FACT CHECK: Bush Has Cut Funding For Cancer Research  —  Health officials reported yesterday that cancer deaths in the United States dropped for the second year in a row.  President Bush teed off this news with a speech at the National Institutes of Health, touting the increased funding for cancer research since 2001:
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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 …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Reason Magazine
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.
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
Gregg Krupa / Detroit News:
Northwest apologizes, vows to reimburse Muslims barred from flight  —  DEARBORN — Reacting swiftly to allegations of discrimination, Northwest Airlines apologized to a group of 40 Muslims today for barring them from a plane in Germany on their return trip from the Hajj.
Discussion: News Hounds, Hot Air and Roger Ailes
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.
Discussion: Gawker, Wonkette and Matthew Yglesias
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.
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
 
 
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