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Los Angeles Times: Senate Republicans Seek to Delay Holder Hearings

President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., is now coming under fire from Senate Republicans, who have asked to delay what was expected to be a swift and easy confirmation over concerns about his role in some controversial Clinton-era pardons and other matters.

Daily Beast: Six Reasons to Thank Blago

The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley on how the governor's foul-mouth phone calls have helped the nation rediscover its priorities--and taken our minds off the frivolous stuff, like the massive economic crisis.

New York Times: Economic Crisis Offers Hints of Executive Style

From Chicago at what an aide called his "mini-White House," Mr. Obama has been pulling on the levers of power far more than any president-elect in memory, using his new stature to influence events in Congress and the real White House of President Bush and yet limited in his ability -- as the collapse of the auto bailout legislation in the Senate showed -- to control them.

Washington Post: An Old Rage to Quell

Before Obama assumes the burdens of commander in chief, maybe he should dust off that copy of Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" he read while at college and give the radical theorist another look. In doing so, he would remind himself of the special opportunity he will have as president to speak to a world that still suffers from the anti-Western fury that Fanon described in 1961.