Blogs & Print From Every Time Zone

updated Friday, January 13, 2006 8:53 AM EST

1. Iraqi Sunni warn of Constitution impass (Beirut Daily Star)


2. Israeli military selas off parts of West Bank (Haaretz)


3. Iran threatens to cut links with nuke watchdog (LTimes)


4. 345 dead in Mecca pilgrimage stampede (Arab News, SA)


5. Rice rules out early attack on Iran (AFP/The Age)


6. Bolivia's Morales extends conciliatory hand to US (CBS)


7. Hamza urged militants to kill non-Muslims (BBC)


8. Alito headed for confirmation as Justice (Washington Post)


9. 389,000 acres open to oil drilling in Alaska (Anchorage DN)


10. Pluto, here we come: NASA mission set to go (HoustonC)


11. First sign that bird flu is mutating dangerously (Indepdt)


12. NYC mayor attacking food (Boston Globe)


13. Japan to deploy foreign spy planes in 2007 (Japan Times)


14. Canadian study urges legalization of polygamy (TG&M)


15. Veiled doll more popular than Barbie in Egypt (BBC)


16. Cleavage and midriffs targeted in new dress code (NZH)


17. India renegs on Kyoto greenhouse caps (Reuters)

Bloggerback: The latest blog chatter: From the left, the right, the in-between:

1. Rightank on Alito’s past two days of misery


2. TPM on the Abramoff money trail


3. Brendan Nyhan on how Bush attacked dissent at VFW speech


4. Huffington on Jack Murtha’s answer to Bush war road show


5. Ezra Klein on progressive health care reform in W.Va.


6. Ezra Klein on the cost of a deportation offensive


7. Digby on Republican corruption and Democrat responses


8. James Wolcott on Mrs. Alito’s craven crying game


9. TalkLeft on Federal Crack sentences actually getting shorter


10. Kim Hynes on Lieberman and an Alito filibuster


11. RedState wants John Shadegg for House Majority Leader


12. Bradford Plumer on the NRA’s global lobby


13. M. Yglesias on a new Bush administration colonial office


14. Ruy Teixeira at Donkey Rising on Hispanics bailing from GOP


15. Memento Moron on Parenthood cliches


16. Ruminate This on the wiretapping scandal


17. Andrew Sullivan on James Frey, the “factually challenged” memoirist


18. Booklust wonders why Oprah is defending the memoirist


19. Althouse on the Alito hearing


20. Belgravia Dispatch on Brzezinski


21. Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy on Swiftboating Alito


22. Grumpy Old Bookman finjds something to like in Chabon's The Final Solution


23. Terry Teachout in About Last Night gets snippy about his space