Obama Signs Stimulus & More

WSJ: President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping economic package in decades, a rescue plan designed to create millions of jobs, spur consumer spending and revive the nation's outlook.  More...

Politico: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Tuesday unveiled a new bank rescue plan that includes a "new consumer business lending initiative to leverage up to $1 trillion dollars to kick start the secondary lending markets."  More...

Politico: Sen. Judd Gregg abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, telling Politico that he “couldn’t be Judd Gregg” and serve in Barack Obama’s Cabinet.  More...

WSJ: Less than a month after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was removed from office, in part for allegedly trying to auction off a U.S. Senate seat, the man he finally appointed to that seat was forced to defend himself against calls for his own resignation.  More...

WSJ: There are 343 colleges playing Division I basketball. They're spread all over the map -- 24 in California, 13 in Louisiana, at least one in every state save Alaska. And yet, three of the very best hail from the same narrow strip of North Carolina tobacco country.  More...

Politico: Senate passes $787 billion stimulus bill.  More...

McClatchy: Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no.  More...

WP: Wall Street slams plan with sell-off.  More...

Bloomberg: U.S. taxpayers risk $9.7 trillion on bailout programs.  More...

AP: Fact check: Obama has it both ways on pork.  More...

N&O: Shuler hits Democratic leaders on bipartisanship.  More...

US News: Republicans trail Obama Dems by only one point in poll - anti-stimulus push is working.  More...

Reuters: Iraqis open arms to romance as violence fades.  More...

Times: Cloud of debris girdling earth after satellites crash.  More...

The Sun: Nuclear submarines collide under Atlantic.  More...

AP: Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela.  More...

NY Post: Chimp victim hanging onto life.  More...

IHT: Wi-Fi takes to the skies.  More...

Telegraph: Televisions to be fitted in contact lenses.  More...

Daily Telegraph: Bushfire inferno toll rises in Australia.  More...

AP: McDonald's January sales up 7.1 percent.  More...

AP: China monthly auto sales overtake US for 1st time.  More...

Telegraph: Obama throws Joe Biden under the bus.  More...

N&O: Obama not taking sides in UNC-Duke.  More...

OPINION:

WSJ: The real stimulus burden- We'll be paying for then for many years.  More...

Rove: Obama's legislative victory comes at high cost.  More...

Brooks: The worst-case scenario.  More...

Krauthammer: Iraq- Good news is no news.  More...

WSJ: Obama's antiterror progress- he embraces bush policies.  More...

Friedman: The open-door bailout.  More...

Brooks: Showing some discipline.  More...

Ferrara: Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics.  More...

Schiller: Obama's rhetoric is the real catastrophe.  More...

Noonan: Is 'Octomom' America's future?  More...

Morris: Our deadly debt- How stimulus prolongs pain.  More...

Morris: Benedict Arnolds of the GOP.  More...

Limbaugh: No concensus on stimulus bill.  More...

Frum: The wrong war at the wrong time.  More...

Kibbe: Obama should channel Harding, not FDR.  More...

WataugaWatch: Shuler speaks out against his party's leadership.  More...

GOP Elects First Black Chairman & More

AP: The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new party," declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.  More...

AFP: Angry Republican senators vowed Thursday to put up a fight against President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill after the package passed the House of Representatives with no opposition support.  More...

Politico: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he sees support for the stimulus package “eroding” in the Senate.  “I think the more people around the country see it, the angrier they get because it’s very wasteful,” Kyl said on “Fox News Sunday,” calling for the package to be completely revamped.  More...

AP: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cut.  More...

AP: Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Daschle apologized Monday for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes and appealed to former Senate colleagues to approve him all the same. President Barack Obama said he was "absolutely" sticking with his nominee for health secretary.  More...

AP: The world's most famous groundhog saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting this already long winter will last for six more weeks.  More...

ESPN: Holmes' grab secures Steelers' record sixth Super Bowl title.  More...

ESPN: Nadal tops Federer for first Aussie title.  More...

News of the World: Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe.  More...

AP: Obama gives first TV interview to Arabic network.  More...

WSJ: After jabs at Cheney, Biden pursues an activist role.  More...

AP: Feds allege plot to destroy Fannie Mae data.  More...

USA Today: Burgeoning gangs behind 80% of U.S. crime.  More...

NYT: A penny for your thoughts, and 1.4 cents for the penny.  More...

Vanity Fair: Is Obama the most famous living person ever?  More...

NYT: Mirror, mirror on the wall (pictures of the Bush presidency).  More...

OPINION

WSJ: A 40-year wish list- you won't believe what's in that stimulus bill.  More...

Brooks: Cleaner and faster.  More...

Limbaugh: My bipartisan stimulus.  More...

Morris: GOP, push free enterprise.  More...

WSJ: The Jack Bauer exception.  More...

Congressman Inglis: An emissions plan concervatives could warm to.  More...

Friedman: Win, win, win, win, win...  More...

Krauthammer: Outreach, yes. Apology, no.- We've never been Islam's enemy.  More...

Friedman: Abdullah II: The 5-state solution.  More...

Noonan: Look at the time- failure to recognize a new era.  More...

Adams: My new spread the wealth grading policy.  More...

Buchanan: A neo-Reaganite inaugural.  More...

Barone: The GOP should go upscale.  More...

Transition from W to O

NYT: The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party and her younger male rival began at the party's convention this summer.  By this past Thursday, when Obama reassured Clinton that she would have direct access to him and could select her own staff as secretary of state, the wooing was complete.  More... 

NYT: With the financial crisis looming as a priority of his term, President-elect Barack Obama sought to put his imprint on efforts to stem the turmoil as he introduced his economic team on Monday.  More...

Politico: President-elect Barack Obama has yet to attend church services since winning the White House earlier this month, a departure from the example of his two immediate predecessors.  More...

Fix: The great thing about elections is that as soon as the last one ends, the next one begins.  We are going to start ranking the 10 Republicans to keep an eye on over the coming months and years.  More...

WSJ: With sports fans still getting used to their high-definition television sets, the National Football League is already thinking ahead to the next potential upgrade: 3-D.  More...

OPINION

Romney: If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.  More...

Friedman: This is the real “Code Red.” As one banker remarked to me: “We finally found the W.M.D.” They were buried in our own backyard — subprime mortgages and all the derivatives attached to them.  More...

Rove: A Way Out of the Wilderness- We've been walloped in consecutive elections, but we can't just dwell on the past. The future is already here.  More...

Rove: History Favors Republicans in 2010- The 2008 election numbers are not as stark as the results.  More...

Brady reportedly out for season with ACL tear

Yahoo: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expected to miss the rest of the 2008 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, according to a source familiar with the injury.

While New England coach Bill Belichick said in his postgame press conference that he had no update on the status of Brady’s injury, two sources indicated it involved serious damage to the knee.

"It's bad," a team source said. "We're going to have to play without him."

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Panthers Stun San Diego!!!

Pearce: "Daylight come and I wanna Delhomme!"

Panthers stun a packed house in San Diego.  The Chargers, with real Super Bowl aspirations, fall victim to patented Jake Delhomme 4th quarter heroics.  He connected with Dante Rosario for a 14 yard game winner with 2 seconds on the clock!  Great start to the season for the Cats!

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