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8:30 PM ET, February 2, 2007

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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
NIE: The Surge Can't Work  —  Wow, this is grim.  According to the just-released Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, political reconciliation is likely a bridge too far over the next year and a half.  —  The Sunnis remain "unwilling to accept minority status" …
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Washington Post:
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns  —  A new National Intelligence Estimate depicts an Iraq involved in a multi-faceted struggle among religious groups and sects and says that without a sharp reversal in the violence and changes among the Shiite, Sunni and Kurd leadership, the situation could further deteriorate.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Admin Official: "The Best Plan Is To Have This Plan Succeed"  —  During a press conference this afternoon, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley spun the National Intelligence Estimate's key findings to support the president's "surge" plan in Iraq.  —  As we reported earlier …
Discussion: Wake up America
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
NIE: It's worst than a civil war
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning to Curb Gases  —  The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.
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KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
The Edwards-Marcotte Fiasco  —  An astute observer of this case recommends analyzing events through the prism of what he's termed the "courage-meter."  People in positions of authority have displayed little or no courage to do the right thing throughout this affair.
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Jeff Taylor / Reason Magazine:
The Campaign to Sham America
Discussion: Durham-in-Wonderland
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Terrible Ignominy  —  How many Republicans will desert the troops?  —  Perhaps the shade of the great Yeats will forgive me: … John Warner of Virginia, Gordon Smith of Oregon, and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine are the four Republican senators (in addition to Nebraska's Chuck Hagel) …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS MOST COMFORTABLE WITH RUDY GIULIANI AS PRESIDENT  —  NEW YORK — More voters say they would be comfortable with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as president than other top 2008 contenders, though majorities would also be comfortable with other leaders from both parties …
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Craig Gordon / Newsday:
On paper, Rudy's unsure  —  Giuliani's government filings don't lend hints to his presidential run - he hasn't submitted a declaration form or checked the Republican box  —  WASHINGTON - Republicans looking at Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for president always ask two questions - is he really running, and is he a "real Republican?"
Discussion: New York Post, Redstate and The Caucus
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Bush administration seeks $245B for wars  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.
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Michael Yon:
The Hands of God  —  A Village, North of Mosul: Friday 26 January 07  —  He was dressed as a woman as he walked down the alley toward the mosque full of worshippers.  It was Friday, just before Ashura, and the air was chilled.  —  The bomb strapped to his body was studded with ball-bearings …
Discussion: Op For
Abraham Rabinovich / The Australian:
Iranians seized in attack on Hamas enclave  —  JERUSALEM: Seven Iranian weapons experts were seized yesterday in a raid by Fatah-affiliated security forces on the Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold in Gaza City.  —  Amid an escalation in the confrontation between Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions …
Discussion: Redstate and Hot Air
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Ali Waked / Judeoscope:
Iranian general supervised Hamas arms, source says
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
Edwards On Iran  —  TAP talks to John Edwards about America's foreign policy challenges in the Middle East. … EK: So, the Iran speech to Herzliya.  That caused me to think a little bit more about what we had spoken about Iraq [in a previous interview].  And so I wanted to talk to you for a minute about —
Balkinization:
State Laws Aimed at Bloggers?  Not So Fast  —  Several states are considering laws that would hold bloggers responsible for defamatory statements made on their websites, including notice-and-take-down obligations, National Journal's Beltway Blogroll reports.  —  Most of these attempts may be doomed to failure.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Bill Hobbs
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Danny / Beltway Blogroll:
Anti-Blog Hysteria In The State Capitols
Michelle Malkin:
Mohammed Cartoon updates  —  The lying, jihadist Danish imam who helped instigate the Mohammed cartoon riots by touring  —  the Middle East with bogus pictures it attributed the Jyllands-Post has died (hat tip: Sugiero).  —  Abu Laban had cancer: … "Was thrust?"  Actually, he thrust himself.
Discussion: EU Referendum
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Associated Press:
Controversial Danish imam Abu Laban dies
Daily Mail:
Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang  —  Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged.  —  The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for The Killing  —  This week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering — Sunni vs. Shiite, Kurd vs. Arab, jihadist vs. infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom — went bizarre.  In one of the biggest battles of the war …
Tina Kelley / New York Times:
Student's Recording of Teacher's Views Leads to a Ban on Taping  —  After a public school teacher was recorded telling students they belonged in hell if they did not accept Jesus as their savior, the school board has banned taping in class without an instructor's permission …
James Pethokoukis / US News:
Perky Economy Starts to Relieve Worker Angst  —  Maybe the U.S. economy added 111,000 jobs last month, but maybe it didn't.  Given that the Labor Department later revised higher its monthly jobs numbers 75 percent of the time last year, there's a good chance the final number for January will be somewhere north of 111,000.
Associated Press:
Defense Official Resigns Over Detainee Remarks  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Pentagon official resigned Friday over controversial remarks in which he criticized lawyers who represent terrorism suspects, the Defense Department said.  —  Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said Charles ''Cully'' Stimson …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Imam prays to stop 'oppression and occupation' at DNC meeting Update: Imam ID'd Update: More info on Imam  —  The Democratic National Committee is in the midst of its winter meeting.  Here's the convocation for today's festivities, offered by an imam.  —  Transcript:
 
 
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Media Matters for America:
Slacker Friday:  —  "Play it straight, or play it from left field …
Associated Press:
Hillary Clinton calls Iran a threat to U.S., Israel
Don Surber:
Where Arkin screwed up  —  I don't want to write about this again …
Ann Friedman / TAPPED:
LINDA HIRSHMAN RESPONDS TO MARK SCHMITT.  The Internet is full …
Discussion: Althouse
American Thinker:
A Necessary Apocalypse  —  A man who ceases to believe in God does …
Discussion: One Cosmos and Maggie's Farm
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Blogs, alternative political systems, funding
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Wall Street Journal:
Gays Should Be Allowed to Serve Openly in Military, Poll Finds
Kimberly Chow / Yale Daily News:
College sees drop in apps
Discussion: Power Line
Agence France Presse:
Muslim chief slams 'police state' Britain, like Nazi Germany
Discussion: Riehl World View
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Happy Birthday, Mr. Reagan
Thomas Z. Freedman / Washington Post:
How to Really Help Low-Wage Workers