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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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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 …
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.
Michelle Malkin:
THE COWARDLY AMERICAN MEDIA (VIDEO ADDED) — ***scroll for updates*** — Read this CNN report very carefully: … Unbelievable. The news network reports on an international controversy, but refuses to show readers what the news is actually about and let them judge the cartoons for themselves.
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 …
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.
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 …
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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 …
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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Tony Blankley / realclearpolitics.com:
State of the Democratic Party — During an election campaign, political operatives are fond of seeking to induce in their opponent a negative "defining moment." That is to say a highly publicized moment when their opponent portrays everything that is wrong with him.
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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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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" …
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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John / AMERICAblog:
Help me understand this — I just got the following two emails, one from some lady in Florida, and another from a retired Marine. These are pretty good examples of the emails I've been getting from those on the right, and several folks claiming to be military or associated with the military …
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.
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 …
