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11:30 AM ET, January 16, 2009

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Forgive and Forget?  —  Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration.  “I don't believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”
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John Conyers Jr / Washington Post:
Why We Have to Look Back  —  This week, I released …
Discussion: Democracy in America
Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Hudson River hero is ex-Air Force fighter pilot  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River — saving all 155 people aboard — became an instant hero Thursday, with accolades from the mayor and governor and a fan club online.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES.... Presidents don't have to give televised farewell addresses at the end of their term.  Indeed, George H. W. Bush didn't bother, preferring to let his record speak for itself.  The son would have been wise to follow his father's example.
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David Corn:
What Bush Left Out of His Flat Farewell
Discussion: The Peking Duck and Firedoglake
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Obama Pledges Reform of Social Security, Medicare Programs  —  President-Elect Says He'll Reshape Social Security, Medicare Programs  —  President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare “bargain” with the American people, saying …
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Ernie Singer / Arutz Sheva:
“Iranian Unit” Destroyed, Hamas was Suprised  —  (IsraelNN.com) The so-called “Iranian Unit” of Hamas has been destroyed, according to Gaza sources cited Thursday by the Haaretz daily.  The sources said most of the unit's 100 members were killed in fighting in the Zeytun neighborhood of Gaza City.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Weasel Zippers
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
4 days to Inauguration — The president-elect's secret foreign-policy dinner —The Neighborhood Inaugural Ball goes interactive — President Bush: ‘May God bless this house and our next president’  —  Memorable “new contact info” e-mails - Jim Wilkinson meets Hilary Rosen - Mike DuHaime to Mercury Public Affairs
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Joe Conason / Salon:
The real reason Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich  —  Eric Holder is sworn in at his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.  —  From beginning to end, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Eric Holder's nomination as attorney general observed …
Washington Post:
Pragmatist-in-Chief  —  PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama came to The Post editorial board yesterday with two messages sketchy on details yet reassuring in approach: a commitment to fiscal discipline, and a determination not to be bound by liberal, or indeed any, orthodoxy.
Discussion: The Corner and Shopfloor
Wall Street Journal:
Suspend Your Disbelief  —  How to enjoy an inauguration fully.  —  Washington  —  Flying in, we take the route over the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson, the Tidal Basin: the signs and symbols of the great republic.  And you've seen it all a thousand times but you can't stop looking, and you can't help it, your eyes well.
Discussion: marbury and LewRockwell.com Blog
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
A peek at Obama's Inaugural plan
Michelle Malkin:
AP's final dig at President Bush  —  President Bush delivered his farewell address this evening.  He leaves a mixed legacy.  I give him credit where it is due and blame where it is due.  But one thing is unadulterated: The pure contempt of the man from the MSM.
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Associated Press:
Bush address includes laundry list of back patting
Discussion: PoliBlog and BizzyBlog
Daniel Libit / The Politico:
King: Obama ‘bizarre’ to use ‘Hussein’  —  Apologize?  Not so much.  —  But Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who last March predicted Al Qaida would be “dancing in the streets” if Barack Obama were elected president, now concedes that the dynamic has merely “shifted” on the terrorist front.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Prashant Gopal / Business Week:
America's Best High Schools  —  A state-by-state look at the best-performing high schools in the U.S. Does your child already go to one?  —  Watch the Video...  Kimberly Lynch, a redhead with freckles, had a keen interest in sunblock.  So much so that she spent the past year developing …
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs and Eduwonk
Joseph F. Connor / Los Angeles Times:
Terrorists killed my dad  —  Atty. Gen.-nominee Eric Holder helped pardon terrorists linked to my father's murder in 1975.  —  In 1975, when I had just turned 9, my father was killed by terrorists.  —  He was supposed to be home early on that Jan. 24 for a family celebration of my birthday …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Political Punch
Mary Frances Berry / New York Times:
Gay but Equal?  —  AS the country prepares to enter the Obama era, anxiety over the legal status and rights of gays and lesbians is growing.  Barack Obama's invitation to the Rev. Rick Warren, an evangelical pastor who opposes same-sex marriage, to give the invocation at his inauguration comes …
Discussion: ACSBlog, Towleroad and TPMMuckraker
Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
The End of Citi's Financial Supermarket  —  The Internet did in Sandy Weill's business model.  —  The great unwind of Citigroup's financial supermarket has begun.  In the face of $10 billion in losses in the latest quarter, and with its stock at a 16-year low, Citi struck a deal on Tuesday …
Discussion: The Big Picture
Robert Herguth / Chicago Business:
Hastert ‘Individual C’ in Blago complaint: sources  —  (Crain's) — Former U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is the ex-congressman anonymously referenced in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, sources tell Crain's.  —  Mr. Hastert, R-Plano, who is not accused of wrongdoing …
Discussion: Scorecard's Blogs
Bill Frist / CNN:
Commentary: Bush saved 10 million lives  —  Editor's note: Bill Frist, a physician, is former Republican majority leader of the U.S. Senate and a professor of medicine and business at Vanderbilt University.  —  (CNN) — A legacy of President George W. Bush will be that he saved 10 million lives around the world.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Some Ask if Bailout Is Unconstitutional  —  While much of the debate over the $700 billion federal bailout plan has focused on whether the money is being spent wisely or well, concerns are growing among many conservatives about its constitutionality.  —  Some conservatives have argued …
 
 
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Megan McArdle:
Stimulate us!  —  A few days ago, Obama was promising that 95% …
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Patrick Walters / Associated Press:
American painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
A real discussion on TV regarding U.S. policy towards Israel
Discussion: Jerusalem Post
Wall Street Journal:
The Wiretap Vindication  —  FISA sets the record straight.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Friday Senate Line: Retirements Roil GOP Prospects
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
HEY BABY. I'VE BEEN THINKING THAT WE SHOULD BE EXCLUSIVE.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Gristmill
Anne Hull / MSNBC:
Wary of Obama's America
Discussion: Redhot
Michelle Levi / CBS News:
Did Obama Skip Bush's Speech?
Discussion: The Raw Story and Pat Dollard
 

 
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