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10:00 AM ET, February 2, 2007

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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study  —  Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.  —  Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute …
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Global warming man-made, will continue  —  PARIS - Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution.
Richard Garner / Independent:   All pupils to be given lessons in climate change
Jerusalem Post:
Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting  —  Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen.  —  Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …
Discussion: Classical Values
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Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Iranian agents nabbed in Gaza, 1 commits suicide  —  Palestinian security forces arrest sat least five Iranians at Hamas-linked university in Strip, say men sent by Iran to train Islamic group.  Hamas commander believed to have orchestrated kidnapping of Israeli soldier Shalit injured in raid, report says
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Gaza erupts in fatal clashes after truce
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Tom Lasseter / Real Cities:
Mahdi Army gains strength through unwitting aid of U.S.  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has been battling to take over much of the capital city …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Must read: U.S. troops say Iraqi army in Baghdad is filthy with JAM
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   THE BATTLE OF BAGHDAD....If Tom Lasseter is to be believed …
coburn.senate.gov:
Dr. Coburn Votes to Protect Salaries of Low-Income Families from Flawed Wage Bill  —  (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding his vote against, H.R. 2, the Minimum Wage Act:  —  "This bill is unfair to workers and …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Associated Press:
FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney  —  WASHINGTON The "CIA leak" trial resumed today, after two critical days of testimony from reporters Judith Miller and Matt Cooper.  As in past days, E&P will provide running updates here.  —  After a long day or legal wrangling …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Failed Cover-Up  —  Why was the White House so nervous …
Discussion: Soccer Dad
David Corn:   Libby Trial:Was Scooter Set Up? Did Cheney Conspire?
Jules Crittenden:
Nobel Piece Prize  —  What global warming has to do with peace is beyond me.  Let me guess.  Us hill dwellers won't have to do battle with the beach dwellers over real estate.  Thanks to Al Gore.  —  But what effect Al Gore has had on the issue, also beyond me.  His faux-science laden movie will not make the Earth cooler.
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U.S. Newswire:
Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Rush Limbaugh for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize  —  Contact: Eric Christensen of Landmark Legal Foundation, +1-703-554-6100, +1-703-554-6119 (fax), eric@landmarklegal.org  —  LEESBURG, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Landmark Legal Foundation today nominated …
Washington Post:
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns  —  A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
An Inarticulate Kickoff  —  What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person "articulate"?  —  I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
So Far, Obama Can't Take Black Vote for Granted
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Senators Challenge Gen. Casey On Iraq War  —  Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Bush administration's nominee to be the Army chief of staff, got an unusually harsh reception yesterday from some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee for his performance as the top U.S. commander in Iraq …
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:   General Parries Senate Attacks on Iraq Record
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support  —  A revised Senate resolution criticizing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq drew new support Thursday as two authors of a sterner resolution of disapproval said they would accept the compromise, fashioned by Senator John W. Warner.
Discussion: Bradford Plumer
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain, Giuliani Skipping Some Conservative Events  —  A speech given by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before a National Review-sponsored conference last week may have been panned as unfocused, but in the eyes of those who attended, he at least had one thing going for him: He showed up.
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More Third Party Talk From Viguerie
Maya Angelou / Washington Post:
Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call  —  The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking.  —  That Jericho voice is stilled now.  —  Molly Ivins has been quieted.  —  The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Pottersville
New York Times:
Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail  —  Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida's counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election.  The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted …
Wikinews:
Cartoon promotion goes awry and causes bomb scare in Boston  —  From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!  —  Two men alleged to have placed the boxes have been charged, and Turner Broadcast Systems apologized.  Boston's mayor will pursue compensation to the city for the cost of the scare.
Discussion: Donklephant
 
 
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Cost balloons when 'surge' support troops are counted
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Websites denounce British Muslim soldiers
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