Quick Fix 6 — 1/18/06

1. APhoto Fix: Hostage American reporter Jill Carroll appears in a silent 20-second video aired Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television, which said her abductors gave the United States 72 hours to free female prisoners in Iraq or she would be killed. Al-Jazeera would not tell The Associated Press how it received the tape, but the station issued its own statement calling for Carroll’s release.

2. Cartoon Fix: J.D. Crowe ( Nagin & Robertson ), Jerry Holbert ( King Kennedy & Alito ), and Mike Lester ( Blaming everyone else ).

3. Humor Fix: Jay D. Dyson brings you Mayor Nagin’s “Mouthful” here .

4. My Way Fix: This Day In History here , Today’s Birthdays here , Positive Quote here , and Word of the Day here .

5. Top of the News Fix: Supreme Court affirms NH abortion law here , Mine blast survivor breathing on his own here , Republicans vow to curb lobbyists here , Kennedy quits all-male Harvard club amid criticism here , and Tom Daschle mulls White House run here .

6. Opinion Fix: Max Boot /LA Times ( Wiretaps shouldn’t bug us ), Kathryn Jean Lopez /National Review ( Mining the media ), Dick Morris /The Hill ( Scandals are bleeding GOP ), John Derbyshire /National Review ( Why suicide? ), and Tunku Varadarajan /Wall Street Journal ( Uncle Sam-I-Am ).