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Michelle Malkin:
BIN LADEN AS CHRIST — Guess what's passing for "art" at the National Black Fine Art Show in New York City? This: — Morry Alter reports for WCBS2 News (Hat tip: In the Bullpen): … The difference between Us and Them: No one's proclaiming an International Day of Anger and issuing fatwahs over this odious piece of "art."
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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:
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 …
Michelle Malkin:
IN THEIR OWN WORDS — ***updated*** — Just in from London... No, you go to hell. — (Hat tip: Allah Pundit) — Previous: — Followers of the religion of peace — The "international day of anger"
Qassim Abdel-Zahra / Associated Press:
Muslims Again Protest Muhammad Caricatures — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Thousands of Iraqis protested after Friday prayers against caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad reprinted in European papers and the country's top Shiite cleric denounced the drawings. — A roadside bomb killed …
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Interesting times — It's possible to regard the cartoon crisis as either a strategic disaster or boon for the War on Terror. The argument for being a disaster is assertion that in the war against extremists it is necessary to win over the moderates. And even if winning them over is impossible …
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.
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tomdispatch.com:
Tomgram: De la Vega on Why Rove Will Fall — The President passed through his State of the Union address — ill-digested chunks of so many other speeches he's given ("We're writing a new chapter in the story of self-government — with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan …
Associated Press:
Rumsfeld likens Venezuela's Chavez to Hitler — Defense chief expresses concern at 'populist leadership' in Latin America — WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between …
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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 …
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Dozens of Bodies, Survivors in Red Sea — An Egyptian ferry carrying about 1,300 people sank in the Red Sea early Friday during bad weather, and rescue ships and helicopters pulled dozens of survivors and bodies from the water. Some 180 escaped on lifeboats, an official said.
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Jerusalem Post:
Egyptian cruise ship sinks in Red Sea — CAIRO, Egypt — Some hundred survivors have been rescued from the wreck of the Egyptian cruise ship Salaam 98, and at least 100 more passengers' bodies have been retrieved, CNN reported reported Friday evening. — Egypt has thus far declined …
Los Angeles Times:
Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute — WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that it plans to ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, driving the cost of military operations in the two countries to $120 billion this year, the highest ever.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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Gabriel Schoenfeld / Commentary:
Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act? — "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts." Thus ran the headline of a front-page news story whose repercussions have roiled American politics ever since its publication last December 16 in the New York Times.
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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.
Lisa De Pasquale / Human Events:
BusinessWeek's 'Payola' Reporter Partied With Lobbyists — The activity du jour for Business Week's Capitol Hill correspondent Eamon Javers seems to be systematically "outing" conservative columnists as corporate shills. On January 13, BusinessWeek's web edition ran an article by Javers deceptively titled …
Tony Batt / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Tribes gave to Reid after hiring Abramoff — WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada began receiving campaign contributions from at least four American Indian tribes only after they hired Jack Abramoff, Republicans charged this week in an effort to tie the Senate Democratic leader to the disgraced lobbyist.
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tcsdaily.com:
Nuts with Nukes — There is an important law about power that is too often overlooked by rational and peace-loving people. Any form of power, from the most primitive to the most mind-boggling, is always amplified enormously when it falls into the hands of those whose behavior is wild, erratic, and unpredictable.
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Is the Veterans' Administration a good health care model? — Last week Paul Krugman defended the VHA as a model for national health care policy; Brad DeLong has some critical excerpts. I am skeptical for a few reasons: — 1. It is widely acknowledged that this system did not work well for a long time.
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."
Tony Pugh / Knight Ridder:
Windfall for drug industry raises questions — WASHINGTON - The new Medicare drug benefit will give drug companies up to $2 billion in extra profits this year because they're no longer required to pay rebates on drugs bought by the government for the elderly poor.
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Trial for Ex-Aide to Cheney Is Set for January 2007 — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, in the C.I.A. leak case will start next January, a federal judge said today. — District Judge Reggie B. Walton said jury selection will begin on Jan. 8, 2007.
BREITBART.COM:
N. Zealand filmmaker arrested in drag in US prostitution sting — New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag. — Tamahori, 55, was arrested on January 8 when he allegedly sought sex …
