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9:40 PM ET, January 19, 2007

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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Dems Seek to Bar U.S. Attacks on Iran  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders in Congress lobbed a warning shot Friday at the White House not to launch an attack against Iran without first seeking approval from lawmakers.  —  "The president does not have the authority to launch military action …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Lawmakers Wary of Talks With Iran and Syria  —  The head of the bipartisan advisory group that urged a change in the American approach to Iraq insisted today, in the face of skepticism from Congressional leaders, that the United States should engage Iran and Syria diplomatically as it moves to reduce its role in Iraq.
Guardian:
Sadr fears for life in security crackdown  —  Mark Oliver and agencies  —  Moqtada al-Sadr has moved his family to a secure location because of fears he will become the target of a security sweep of Baghdad, it was reported today.  —  News of the radical cleric's decision came as the US military …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
The Glenn and Helen Show: Gordon Crovitz on the WSJ, Old and New Media, and Blogging as an Art Form  —  People in the newspaper business seem awfully gloomy about the future right now, and with reason.  But there's one bright spot: The Wall Street Journal's publisher Gordon Crovitz …
Discussion: Media Blog and Don Surber
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Politics Central:
THE GLENN AND HELEN SHOW: GORDON CROVITZ ON THE WSJ, OLD AND NEW MEDIA …
Discussion: Dr. Helen
US News:
First Twin Jenna Shops a Book  —  You can soon add the title of author to first daughter Jenna Bush's résumé.  —  Whispers learns that the 25-year-old blond twin of Barbara Bush is shopping a book proposal to major publishers in New York City.
Nico / Think Progress:
Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'  —  Yesterday, during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed there is no express right to habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution.  Gonzales was debating Sen. Arlen Specter …
Ezra Klein:
A Charles Murray Reader  —  Charles Murray has another execrable article in the Wall Street Journal arguing that most children aren't genetically capable of reading well (it's possible these inferiors can, with great persistence and dedication, learn to sound words out), and so we should stop trying to teach them.
George Russell / Fox News:
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REVEALS NORTH KOREA'S MISUSE OF U.N. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUNDS AND OPERATIONS  —  NEW YORK — Has North Korean leader Kim Jong Il subverted the United Nations Development Program, the $4 billion agency that is the U.N.'s main development arm, and possibly stolen tens …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Plausible Plan B  —  If we were allied with an Iraqi government that, however weak, was truly national — cross-confessional and dedicated to fighting a two-front war against Baathist insurgents and Shiite militias — a surge of American troops, together with a change of counterinsurgency strategy …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
House Votes to Rescind Oil Drillers' Tax Breaks  —  House Democrats easily passed legislation on Thursday that would rescind $14 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for oil drillers and reserve the money to develop alternative energy projects and conservation technologies.
Teri Karush Rogers / New York Times:
Ordeal by Appliance: Weekend Home Tales  —  FOR some people, the most elusive aspect of owning a vacation home that sits beyond big-city borders isn't finding the time to enjoy it.  It's finding someone to service the deluxe appliances inside.  —  "We called Viking over the holidays every year …
Discussion: Crooked Timber and nancynall.com
Tim B. / Tim Blair:
"PROBLEM OF CHRONOLOGY"  —  Melbourne's Herald Sun reports: … Read on for Lane's defiant response: … Earlier pieces on Lane's park problem here, here, and here.  Meanwhile, US commutoonist Garry Trudeau seems to have dodged mainstream criticism despite falling for the same "chronology problem" as Lane.
 
 
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Cliff Schecter / Firedoglake:
The Manipulative Mr. McConnell  —  [CHS notes: The fabu Cliff Schecter …
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Agence France Presse:
China anti-satellite test sparks space junk outcry
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Democrat Speak  —  I sense the dark hand of George Lakoff in all of this.
Discussion: Redstate and Ed Driscoll.com
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
House Overhauls Page Program Board
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
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