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7:45 PM ET, January 21, 2009

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New York Post:
CAROLINE KENNEDY ENDS SENATE SEAT BID  —  By FREDRIC U. DICKER IN ALBANY and MAGGIE HABERMAN IN N.Y.  —  Caroline Kennedy has told Gov. David Paterson that she is withdrawing her name from consideration to replace outgoing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate, The Post has learned.
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New York Times:
Kennedy Is Said to Withdraw Senate Bid  —  Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn from consideration for the vacant Senate seat in New York, according to a person told of her decision.  —  On Wednesday she called the governor, David Paterson, who is making the selection of who should succeed Senator Hillary Clinton.
Washington Wire:
McCain Lends Hillary Clinton a Helping Hand  —  Patrick Yoest reports on Congress.  —  Sen. John McCain unexpectedly lent a hand to Sen. Hillary Clinton on the Senate floor today, calling for her quick confirmation as secretary of State without a lengthy roll-call vote.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Clinton Is Approved, but Vote on Holder Is Delayed  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate as President Obama's secretary of state on Wednesday, but the new president will have to wait at least a week for a vote on his choice to lead the Justice Department.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   Clinton Confirmed  —  The U.S. Senate confirmed Hillary Clinton …
Washington Wire:
Clinton Confirmed for Secretary of State
CNN:
A major Bush rule gets scrapped by Obama  —  (CNN) — It's the same Oval Office.  The same desk.  Even the same curtains.  But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won't find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.
James D. Besser / The Jewish Week:
Mitchell As Envoy Could Split Center … The expected appointment of a special envoy to breathe new life into Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could split the pro-Israel center while pleasing the Jewish left and outraging the right.  The schism could be particularly deep if …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
GOING, GOING, GONE  —  The mood at the Inauguration was so joyful, so filled with unalloyed expectation and—there's that word again—hope, that it seems almost peevish (and historically repetitive) to sound a sour note, but here it unavoidably is: the hostility among some in the vast crowd toward …
Discussion: New York Times and The Fix
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Jonn Lilyea / This ain't Hell …:
Obama blows off Medal of Honor recipients  —  According to TSO who was at the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, this newly sworn-in President for the first time in 56 years blew off the ball (that's 14 Inaugurations).  —  Some background on the ball;
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novinite.com:   Ten Balls Top Obama Inauguration Day
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Holder confirmation delayed  —  Eric Holder's confirmation vote before the Judiciary Committee will be delayed for up to a week as Republican senators continue to press him on his views about interrogation and other Bush administration intelligence methods.  —  The Judiciary Committee …
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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Experts say Obama should retake the oath  —  (01-21) 04:00 PST Washington - — Several constitutional lawyers said President Obama should, just to be safe, retake the oath of office that was flubbed by Chief Justice John Roberts.  —  The 35-word oath is explicitly prescribed in the Constitution …
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama Will Get His Blackberry  —  President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.  —  On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package. …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Touring the new Whitehouse.gov.  —  When I logged on to the White House Web site about an hour before the inauguration, George W. Bush was already gone.  He'd been replaced by an error message that popped up while, I imagine, the Young Turks on Obama's Web team flipped over the site.
Discussion: TalkLeft, ReadWriteWeb, BuzzMachine and CBS4
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USA Today:
On the new whitehouse.gov: ‘Pool’ reports to be public?
Discussion: The Opinionator
CNN:
Change In the Air(waves)  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Welcome to the YouTube White House.
Discussion: The Politico
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Mohammed Jawad and Obama's efforts to suspend military commissions  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  This is a very good and important step — not only because of its substance, but also because it was something Obama did almost immediately, even before his first full day in office:
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Lymari Morales / Gallup:
Americans Send No Clear Mandate on Guantanamo Bay
Discussion: The Foundry
BBC:
Dutch MP faces anti-Islam charges  —  A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.  —  Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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CNN:
Dutch politician faces charges over anti-Islam film
MsUnderestimated:
DAILY SHOW - WHAT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BUSH & OBAMA?  (VIDEO)  —  Tonight Jon Stewart rightly pointed out that there really are no differences when it comes to philosophy about national security, and he demonstrates it with sequential video clips, comparing Barack's speech with past Bush speeches.
Discussion: Lean Left
Sean Meade / Thomas P.M. Barnett:
Deleted scenes: Chapter 1  —  A grand strategy grading sheet  —  On articulation, President Bush gets a “T” for “trying”—as in, too hard.  As Jacob Weisberg argues in his 2008 book, The Bush Tragedy, George W. Bush was determined to succeed where his father had failed in articulating …
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Nathan Gardels / The Huffington Post:   Obama Should Quit War on Terror, Talk to Hamas and Taliban
New York Times:
Hearing Over, Geithner's Confirmation Is Expected  —  WASHINGTON — Senators of both parties interrogated Timothy F. Geithner, President Obama's nominee to be Treasury secretary, on Wednesday about his personal tax delinquencies and his role in the run-up and response to the financial crisis …
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Washington Post:   Treasury Secretary Nominee Urges Changes to Current Bailout Plan
Andy Levy / Big Hollywood:
My “To Don't” List for the Right  —  The only thing worse than bad winners are sore losers, and we've had enough of them for the past eight years.  So with that in mind, in the wake of today's historic inauguration, here's my Handbook For The Loyal Opposition, 2009 edition - a “To Don't List,” if you will.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Anti-porn online law dies quietly in Supreme Court  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - A federal law intended to restrict children's access to Internet pornography died quietly Wednesday at the Supreme Court, more than 10 years after Congress overwhelmingly approved it.
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Juan Williams / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Obama on Performance Alone  —  Let's not celebrate more ordinary speeches.  —  With the noon sun high over the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become president of the United States.  On one level, it was a simple matter of political process — the symbolic transfer of power.
Julian Borger / Guardian:
President Barack Obama willing to negotiate with Iran ‘without preconditions’  —  The new Obama administration is willing to talk to Iran “without preconditions” and will work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, the White House said today.  —  The Obama foreign policy agenda that appeared …
Tom Gralish / Scene on the Road:
Found - AGAIN - the Poster Source Photo  —  The photographer is MANNIE GARCIA, a Washington DC freelancer for the Associated Press.  —  Driving home from Washington after the inauguration, cruising on adrenalin from covering the historic event and then stopping two or three times for coffee …
Discussion: Swampland
Reihan Salam / The American Scene:
Worshipping Obama  —  Churlish right-wingers will likely keep complaining about the “cult of Obama.”  I won't indulge in that easy cynicism.  I will note, however, that as I stumbled home, tired and scotch-afflicted for the first time in my life, I talked to one of my best friends …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Senate Progressive Media Summit Liveblog  —  digg it  —  Marcy and I are at the Hart Senate Office Building with Atrios, Jerome, Bowers, David Corn, Mike Rodgers, Natasha Chart, Chris Hayes, Brownsox and others listening to various Senators come in and talk about their issues.
Discussion: Riehl World View
David A Nakamura / Inauguration Watch:
Inaugural Committee Apologizes for Ticket Fiasco  —  The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which was responsible for planning and executing Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony yesterday, apologized today for keeping thousands of ticket-holders outside the security gates, causing them to miss the ceremony.
Haaretz:
Supreme Court revokes ban on Arab parties from national elections  —  Israel's Supreme court overruled on Wednesday a parliamentary panel which had decided to bar Israeli Arab parties from running in next month's parliamentary election.  —  The court issued its decision in response …
 
 
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Newspapers In Demand Again! Inauguration Sparks Press Run Boost
Dennis Sanders / The Moderate Voice:
Who's Afraid of the Big Tent?
Nancy Gibbs / Time:
Is There a Second Act for George W. Bush?
Discussion: The Daily Dish
George Packer In / New Yorker:
LET US NOW SET ASIDE CHILDISH THINGS
President Barack Hussein Obama / The White House:
President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Another SOFA?  —  At the new White House website, Obama lays out his agenda for Iraq.
Nielsen Wire:
Obama Inaugural Events Viewed By 29.2% In Top Markets
Brad Plumer / The New Republic:
Europe's Carbon Market Collapses—Should We Worry?
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Schumer's $3-4 Trillion Horror Story
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KRQE-TV:
Iglesias to prosecute terror cases
Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:
WHouse stops pending Bush regulations for review
Scott Collins / Show Tracker:
Alone among networks, Fox News gives Bush homecoming cheer
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Is dissent still patriotic?
 

 
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