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Michelle Malkin:
THE "INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ANGER" — Watch out. The London Telegraph reports: … Qaradawi heartily endorses terrorist suicide bombings. Previous coverage of Red Ken Livingston's terrorist sympathies here. — Just as a visual reminder that this Islamist conflagration is a violent global phenomenon, look and learn:
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Telegraph:
Day of anger threatened over cartoons of Prophet — A leading Islamic cleric called for an "international day of anger" today over publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, and a Danish activist predicted that deadly violence could break out in Europe "at any minute".
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Washington Post:
Tension Rises Over Cartoons of Muhammad — Publication Widens In Europe as Protests Grow in Islamic World — PARIS, Feb. 2 — Protests against European newspapers' publication of cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad gained momentum across the Islamic world Thursday …
CNN:
Storm grows over Mohammad cartoons — (CNN) — The international storm over cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammad published in European media gathered pace across the Islamic world Thursday with angry demonstrations and the shutting down of the EU office in Gaza City.
David Rennie / Telegraph:
Newspapers challenge Muslims over cartoons of Mohammed — 10am update: French editor sacked over cartoons — David Rennie's weblog: the cartoon row goes on — Newspapers across Europe yesterday defended what one editor called the "right to blasphemy" by printing Danish cartoons …
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Financial Times:
Muslim protests over cartoons spread — By Paivi Munter in Stockholm, Martin Arnold in Paris and Bertrand Benoit in Berlin — Angry protestors besieged a building housing the Danish embassy in Indonesia on Friday as more European newspapers reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have caused outrage across the Islamic world.
Michelle Malkin:THE COWARDLY AMERICAN MEDIA (VIDEO ADDED)
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Qassim Abdel-Zahra / Associated Press:Muslims Again Protest Muhammad Caricatures
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Senate Session on Security Erupts in Spying Debate — WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Senate Democrats on Thursday angrily accused the Bush administration of mounting a public relations campaign to defend the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program while withholding details …
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
CIA Says Disclosures Damage Work — WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials told Congress on Thursday that disclosure of once-classified projects like President Bush's no-warrant eavesdropping program have undermined their work. — "The damage has been very severe to our capabilities …
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Surveillance Prompts a Suit: Police v. Police — The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and which ones they razzed.
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Sam Rosenfeld / TAPPED:
IS ABORTION BAD? So far, Will Saletan and Katha Pollitt's exchange about abortion in Slate is interesting and worth a read, though I rather think it typifies a certain frustrating tendency in political commentary that Matt has often noted: the insistence on framing discussions of actual …
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WorldNetDaily:
NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis — Bond delivers blistering partisan speech in North Carolina — Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party …
Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War — The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world …
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Judge Slams Ex-EPA Chief Over Sept. 11 — NEW YORK - A federal judge blasted former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman on Thursday for reassuring New Yorkers soon after the Sept. 11 attacks that it was safe to return to their homes and offices while toxic dust was polluting the neighborhood.
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Dozens of Bodies From Egyptian Ship Found — An Egyptian passenger ship carrying about 1,300 people sank in the Red Sea overnight during bad weather, and rescue ships arriving at the scene Friday pulled dozens of bodies from the water, an official said. About 30 survivors were rescued, some in lifeboats.
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National Review:
Fitzgerald: Was Any Damage Done By the Valerie Wilson Leak? I Don't Know. — Watchers of the CIA leak investigation are buzzing over a series of letters between prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and lawyers for former Cheney chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
A Cry of Concern by Republicans at Voter Unease — WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — The surprise election of Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio as House majority leader was a cry of concern by an entrenched Republican majority, acutely worried that voter unease about corruption and partisan excesses …
Lawrence Solum / lsolum.blogspot.com:
Barnett's Taft Lecture — Randy Barnett is delivering the Taft Lecture today at the University of Cincinnati. His title is Scalia's Infidelity: A Critique of Faint-Hearted Originalism—follow the link to download from SSRN and/or follow this link to view the webcast.
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
Out of jail, into the Army — Facing an enlistment crisis, the Army is granting "waivers" to an increasingly high percentage of recruits with criminal records — and trying to hide it. — Pages 1 2 — Print EmailFont: S / S+ / S++ … It was about 10 p.m. on Sept. 1, 2002 …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
New Orleans Facing Election and New Order — NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2 — In great confusion and peculiar circumstances, this city has suddenly found itself in the midst of an unexpected mayoral election campaign. The result may once again upend this city's old order: a white man might …
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Times of London:
The President is a dolt - so how can America be such a success story? — TWO CEREMONIAL events occurred in Washington on Tuesday evening that shone a spotlight on one of the most important but paradoxical features of a modern democratic society. — The more widely reported was President Bush's State …
David Harris / NJDC's Blog:
New GOP Leader Chosen: What Every American Jew Should Know About John Boehner — This afternoon, the House GOP voted to elect Rep. John Boehner (OH) as the new House GOP Leader. The facts are clear: Rep. Boehner has for years advocated positions that run counter to the issue agenda of the vast majority of American Jews.
