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David Espo / Associated Press:
Rep. Boehner Elected House Majority Leader — WASHINGTON - Rep. John Boehner (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio was elected House majority leader Thursday to replace indicted Rep. Tom DeLay. — Boehner defeated fellow Republican Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri …
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Associated Press:
Rep. Boehner Elected GOP Majority Leader — WASHINGTON — Republican officials say Rep. John Boehner of Ohio has been chosen House majority leader. — Boehner defeated Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, 122-109, after lagging behind his rival in a first, inconclusive ballot.
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CNN:
Boehner elected House majority leader — Republicans choose Ohio lawmaker to succeed DeLay — (CNN) — House Republicans on Thursday elected U.S. Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as majority leader. — He upset Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri in a 122-109 vote on the second ballot.
New York Times:
Ohio Congressman Wins Majority Leader Race, Replacing DeLay — WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Representative John Boehner, an eight-term Congressman from far west Ohio, defeated Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri today to become House majority leader as Republicans showed their eagerness …
Michelle Malkin:
IN SEARCH OF A BRAVE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER (UPDATED) — ***11:20am update...I've just learned that the NYSun published two of the cartoons in today's print edition...will post scans if I can get them...bravo!...scan posted below...*** — I have contacted several newspaper op-ed editors urging …
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Lorenzo Vidino / The Counterterrorism Blog:
Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy — The controversy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is expanding, as more Muslims join the boycott and protests against Denmark and various European newspapers decide to publish the cartoons, mostly out of solidarity …
Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:An Awakening Europe Reacts - Spineless UK Press Doesn't
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:Cartoon Rage vs. Freedom of Speech
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Bring On The Screeching Harpies — These missing Cheney e-mails are very intriguing. This is particularly so because we went though a similar event during the Clinton administration and the Republicans went completely apes**t over it. In 2000, it was revealed (through the machinations of Judicial Watch) …
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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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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals — · PM backed invasion despite illegality warnings — · Plan to disguise US jets as UN planes — · Bush: postwar violence unlikely — Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
When does the "self-correcting" blogosphere start to self-correct? — (updated below - twice - and then once again) — Before the Capitol Police acknowledged yesterday that there was no legal basis for removing, let alone arresting, Cindy Sheehan — to the contrary, they admitted that they …
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:The Capitol's Tempest in a T-Shirt
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Benjamin Harvey / aolsvc.news.aol.com:
In Turkish Movie, Americans Kill Innocents — Gary Busey, Billy Zane Co-Star in Anti-American Film — ISTANBUL, Turkey (Feb. 2) - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Iraq, Niger, And The CIA — Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger …
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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.
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
'I Hope She Drowns' — The implosion of the Democratic Party. Plus Tom Shales's snobbery and a tribute to Wendy Wasserstein. — The president's State of the Union Address will be little noted and not long remembered. There was a sense that he was talking at, not to, the country.
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Tony Blankley / realclearpolitics.com:State of the Democratic Party
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The Anonymous Liberal:
The Reason the Administration Won't Turn Over Its Legal Opinions — Setting up a potential confrontation prior to next week's Senate hearings on the legality of the President's warrantless surveillance program, the Administration is refusing to comply with the Judiciary Committee's request …
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
What isolationism? — In his speech, the president presented a fiction to avoid a debate on tough policy questions. — IN HIS STATE of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush worked himself into a lather about the dangers of "retreating within our borders."
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 …
