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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
More European Papers Print Cartoons of Muhammad, Fueling Dispute With Muslims  —  COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 — Broadening a debate that has set Europe against the Islamic world, several European newspapers on Wednesday reprinted cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an unflattering light …
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Anger Over Drawings Spreads Among Muslims
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
BBC:
French editor fired over cartoons
Discussion: PoliBlog
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lobbying Changes Divide House GOP  —  Just two weeks after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to pass far-reaching changes to the rules of lobbying on Capitol Hill, House Republican members pushed back hard against those proposals yesterday, charging that their leaders are overreacting to a growing corruption scandal.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Budget Cuts Pass By a Slim Margin  —  Poor, Elderly and Students to Feel Pinch  —  The House yesterday narrowly approved a contentious budget-cutting package that would save nearly $40 billion over five years by imposing substantial changes on programs including Medicaid, welfare, child support and student lending.
New York Times:
House Approves Budget Cutbacks of $39.5 Billion  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — House Republicans eked out a victory on a $39.5 billion budget-cutting package on Wednesday, with a handful of skittish Republicans switching their votes at the last minute in opposition to reductions in spending on health and education programs.
Opinion Journal:
Republican Referendum
Discussion: Gay Patriot and The RCP Blog
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
The Capitol's Tempest in a T-Shirt  —  Chief Apologizes for Ejections at State of Union  —  Two T-shirts — one black, the other heather gray — spotted in the House gallery the night of the president's State of the Union speech caused a major ruckus on Capitol Hill.
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Associated Press:
Police apologize, drop charge against Sheehan
Discussion: The American Street and TPRS
Gina Holland / Associated Press:
Alito Splits With Conservatives on Inmate  —  WASHINGTON - New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.  —  Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Court Remade in the Reagan Era's Image  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. being sworn in Wednesday at the White House by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., right.  Watching were President Bush, Martha-Ann Alito and the Alitos' children, Phil and Laura.  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Joint Chiefs Fire At Toles Cartoon On Strained Army  —  In a protest with an unusual number of high-level signatures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each of its five members have fired off a letter assailing a Washington Post cartoon as "beyond tasteless."
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Washington Post:
A Reprehensible Cartoon
Discussion: News Blog and Michelle Malkin
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Bush's Goals on Energy Quickly Find Obstacles  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The energy proposals set out on Tuesday by President Bush quickly ran into obstacles on Wednesday, showing how difficult it will be to take even the limited steps he supports to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Discussion: PoliticalSports
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Kevin G. Hall / Knight Ridder:
Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports
Washington Post:
Republicans Were Masters In the Race to Paint Alito  —  Democrats' Portrayal Failed to Sway the Public  —  On the night of Sunday, Oct. 30, the White House team charged with getting Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination through the Senate got a first look at the nominee.
John Tabin / American Spectator:
Pretty, Pretty Good  —  As State of the Union addresses go, last night's was pretty good.  Anchored by the ever-important restatement of the President's bold foreign policy vision, the speech made the apparently inevitable devolution into a domestic policy laundry list with relative grace …
Discussion: PoliBlog and irishpennants.com
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Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Evangelical Filmmakers Criticized for Hiring Gay Actor  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of "End of the Spear," made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company.  But days before the film's premiere …
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
'St. Jack' and the Bullies in the Pulpit  —  John Danforth Says It's Time the GOP Center Took On The Christian Right  —  Jack Danforth wishes the Republican right would step down from its pulpit.  Instead, he sees a constant flow of religion into national politics.
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Lawyers in Leak Case Outline Libby's Defense  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, offered a detailed outline on Tuesday of Mr. Libby's likely defense to charges that he lied about his role in exposing the identity of a C.I.A. operative.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and firedoglake
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MSNBC:
Scoring SCOTUS  —  Alito and the Democrats  —  Judge Sam Alito was confirmed today, as expected.  The final vote was 58 to 42.  The voting list is here.  —  This past weekend saw a unified effort in the blogosphere to engage readers in a call to action.

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