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4:13 AM ET, January 23, 2007

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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Nearly two-thirds in U.S. have given up on Iraq  —  NBC/WSJ poll: Bush 'really in the cellar of public opinion'  —  WASHINGTON - When President Bush delivers his next-to-last State of the Union address Tuesday night, he will confront this reality, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Oliver Willis
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 and Unfogged
Insight:
Insight responds to a Washington Post attack  —  The liberal media establishment is at it again.  For years, they have been carrying water for liberal Democrats.  Today's hit piece on Insight in The Washington Post is another case in point.  —  Howard Kurtz's "Media Notes" …
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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Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Warner leads effort on second resolution criticizing Bush's Iraq plan
SITE Institute:
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Addresses U.S. President Bush's Baghdad Security Plan in Video Speech from as-Sahab, "The Correct Equation" - 1/2007  —  Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two, presents a speech titled: "The Correct Equation," in a 14:11 minute video produced by the group's multimedia arm, as-Sahab.
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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.
Andrew Cochran / Counterterrorism Blog:   New Video of Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri: Warning & "Deal" (with video link)
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 …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Death Knell May Be Near for Public Election Funds  —  The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post-Watergate initiative hailed for decades as the best way to rid politics of the corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died over the weekend.
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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.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Playing the Electability Card
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton aide fires first
ABCNEWS:
Bush Hails Abortion Foes at Annual Rally  —  Bush Gives Pep Talk to Opponents of Abortion Rights, Targets Embryonic Stem-Cell Advances  —  President Bush marked the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision Monday, telling thousands of abortion foes he shares their goal of seeing …
Discussion: White House and Political Animal
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Or  —  You could just sign everyone up and pay for it out of taxes one way or another.  I'm flexible about how exactly it's implemented after that, but the biggest absurdity in all of these plans it that you have to add additional complexity to the tax code, and a ridiculous additional layer of adminstration/bureaucracy.
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
General May See Early Success in Iraq  —  But Sharp Rise in Insurgent Violence Could Soon Follow, Officials Say  —  The battle for Baghdad will start in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods chosen by military strategists as being the least likely to offer stiff resistance, raising the odds of early success …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
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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.
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
Lizardbreath / Unfogged:
Blog For Choice Day — Some Politically Counterproductive Personal History  —  Given that it's Blog for Choice Day, I figure it's a good reason to explain why I'm glad that the current legal regime protects abortion rights with very few restrictions.  —  I've mentioned here before that I've …
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
Ezra Klein:
Bush's Health Plan  —  Let me do the unpopular thing today and tentatively suggest that George Bush's rumored health legislation will be a good thing.  If early reports are to be believed, tomorrow night's State of the Union will see Bush set a limit on the deductibility of employer-based health care …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Luntz tells Dems to be nice  —  GOP pollster Frank Luntz has been advising conservative Republicans for years on how to exploit language to smear Dems and win elections.  It was Luntz, for example, who teamed up with Newt Gingrich to shape the Contract with America in 1994.
 
 
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Mark Schmitt / TAPPED:
I AGREE WITH J.!  I'd like to see liberal bloggers everywhere …
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A calling card for death and destruction on recruiting day
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Man kicked off flight for Bush-bashing T-shirt
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