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1:20 AM ET, January 23, 2007

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CBS News:
Poll: Bush Approval Rating At New Low  —  On Eve Of State Of Union, President's Approval Rating Falls To 28%, A New Low  —  (CBS) President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a nation that's strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq …
CNN:
CNN debunks false report about Obama  —  JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.  —  Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times …
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Nico / Think Progress:
CNN Debunks False Obama 'Madrassa' Smear  —  Last week, Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch outlets amplified a right-wing report alleging that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic "madrassa" school as a 6-year-old child.  One Fox News caller questioned whether Obama's schooling means that …
Discussion: digg
David Stout / New York Times:
Three More Senators Say They Oppose More Troops in Iraq  —  Three senators offered a new resolution today against President Bush's Iraq policy, in which they declared their opposition to Mr. Bush's plans to increase the American troop force there by 21,500.  —  The resolution …
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Think Progress:
BREAKING: Sen. John Warner To Introduce Resolution Opposing Iraq Escalation  —  Sen. John Warner (R-VA) will introduce a resolution today "making clear that he does not support the President on increasing the troop levels in Iraq" and calling escalation "a mistake," CNN's Dana Bash reports.
Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Warner leads effort on second resolution criticizing Bush's Iraq plan  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush's call …
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Details Emerge About Possible Terror Threat  —  Suspects, Reportedly Tied to Al Qaeda in Iraq, Sought Student Visas  —  Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
New al Qaeda Video: Zawahiri Taunts Bush  —  UPDATE: Laura Mansfield, who first discovered the video, has graciously agreed to let us upload the video to Google Video.  Thanks to Howie for uploading it.  You can watch the entire video by scrolling down, or go to Laura's website and download it.
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
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SITE Institute:   Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Addresses U.S. President Bush's Baghdad …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Disembodied head opposes surge; Update: Video link added
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Baby Killing as a Civil Right  —  "As to abortion.  I can speak as to what is wrong with it because I had one.  If some asks now if I have children, I say none living.  If they dare ask what happened, I tell them I murdered my children.  I say children but I only had one abortion.
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ABCNEWS:
Bush Hails Abortion Foes at Annual Rally
Discussion: Political Animal
White House:
President Calls March for Life Participants
Discussion: TAPPED and JURIST
James Burkee / Los Angeles Times:
Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton  —  The U.S. needs a leader in 2008 who doesn't inherit the office because of a last name.  —  HAVING REFUSED a third term as president, George Washington offered the nation a farewell address in 1796, urging Americans to cherish the Union and to avoid the "baneful effects" of political partisanship.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Playing the Electability Card
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton aide fires first
Steve Silberman / Wired News:
The Invisible Enemy in Iraq  —  A homemade bomb exploded under a Humvee in Anbar province, Iraq, on August 21, 2004.  The blast flipped the vehicle into the air, killing two US marines and wounding another - a soft-spoken 20-year-old named Jonathan Gadsden who was near the end of his second tour of duty.
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Hillary Care, Bush Care, Wyden Care  —  I'm going to have a lot more to say in a few weeks about the importance of proposing a universal health insurance plan if you're running for President.  But if you are going to make a health care proposal, certain minimal parameters seem obvious, especially The Two Mandatorys:
Discussion: TAPPED and CorrenteWire
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Atrios / Eschaton:   Or  —  You could just sign everyone up and pay for it out of taxes one way or another.
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
New Coalition Aims to Keep Dems in Check  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers who stray too far from the party line could find themselves facing primary opponents financed by unions, trial lawyers and political activists eager to put the new congressional majority to the test.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Swampland and Sirotablog
Cillizzac / The Fix:
Giuliani Hires E-Campaign Expert  —  As Dan Balz and I wrote in today's Post, presidential candidates on both sides are focused heavily on bolstering their Internet presence through a variety of new tools, including video, podcasts and even online video chats.
USA Today:
Pondering legacy is left to others  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush talked to USA TODAY's White House reporter David Jackson in advance of Tuesday's State of the Union address.  Here are excerpts from the interview.  —  State of the Union  —  Bush began the conversation …
Discussion: First Draft
Reuters:
Man kicked off flight for Bush-bashing T-shirt  —  CANBERRA, Jan 22 (Reuters Life!)  - An airline passenger barred from a flight for wearing a T-shirt labeling President Bush a terrorist has threatened legal action against Australia's flag carrier Qantas.  —  Allen Jasson, 55 …
 
 
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