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BBC:
More protests due in cartoon row — Further protests over the publication of cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad are due to be held in London outside the Danish embassy on Saturday. — On Friday, hundreds of British Muslims protested, with some calling for more atrocities like the July 7 bombings.
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Saul Hudson / Reuters:
US backs Muslims in cartoon dispute — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States backed Muslims on Friday against European newspapers that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could help America's battered image in the Islamic world. — Inserting itself into a dispute …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Anger over caricatures at boiling point — By David Rennie in Brussels and Tim Butcher in Jerusalem — A LEADING Islamic cleric has called for an "international day of anger" over publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad and a Danish activist predicted that deadly violence could break out in Europe "at any minute".
Associated Press:
Thousands Protest 'Offensive' Cartoons in Gaza — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Tens of thousands of angry Muslims marched through Palestinian cities, burning the Danish flag and calling for vengeance Friday against European countries where caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were published.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Documents Reveal New Details of Libby Conversations — Court documents released today provide new details about the testimony that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff gave to a grand jury investigating his conversations with reporters and administration officials about a CIA operative.
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Confederate Yankee:
Guardian Fetches A Bucket of Prop Wash — The latest of the so-called "Downing Street Memos" is the most laughable one yet. According to a key passage in this latest theory: … One problem with that theory: U2 high altitude surveillance aircraft typically operate near their operational ceiling …
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TAPPED, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, David Corn, State of the Day, Blanton's and Ashton's, TBogg and The Political Pit Bull
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Juan / Informed Comment:
George "Gen. Jack Ripper" Bush — Another leaked British memo ("everywhere you dig you find a body") reveals that Bush and Blair sat around on January 31, 2003, thinking up crazy schemes to provoke a war with Saddam since they didn't have any real casus belli.
Eric Alterman / The Nation:
Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much. — At a recent conference on the Clinton Administration at Hofstra University, ex-press secretary Jake Siewart made a point that had previously eluded me: It was during the early days of Clinton's presidency that the democratization …
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MyDD
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Digby / Hullabaloo:Pundit Putz — Atrios linked today to a very insightful post …
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The Sideshow
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Unemployment Rate Drops to 4 1/2-Year Low — WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate dropped to a 4 1/2-year low as businesses cranked up hiring in January, an encouraging sign that the economy started the year on the right foot. — The latest jobs picture, provided by the Labor Department on Friday …
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Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Jobless Rate Falls to Lowest Level in More Than 4 Years — The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in four and a half years in January, the government reported today, as the economy added construction, education, health and other jobs. — Employment was up in virtually every sector …
John In Dc / Open Letter To Chris Matthews:
Matthews says maybe liberals and gays burned down churches in the south — On his TV show tonight Chris Matthews suggested, without any proof at all, that maybe liberals or gays were responsible for a series of terrible church burnings last night in central Alabama.
Hank Schouten / stuff.co.nz:
What the cartoons were about — The cartoon series appearing on this page that sparked a global controversy was commissioned and published by a Danish newspaper as a deliberate challenge to Muslim insistence that their religious feelings must be given special consideration.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court — Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? Who is communicating online with a suspected drug dealer? — These questions, and many more like them …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
Three Pillars of Wisdom — Finding our footing where lunacy looms large. — National Review Online — Public relations between the so-called West and the Islamic Middle East have reached a level of abject absurdity. Hamas, whose charter pledges the very destruction of Israel …
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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The Glittering Eye, The Reaction, The Democratic Daily Blog, The Moderate Voice and ACSBlog
David Klepper / kansascity.com:
Court: Abortion clinic patients' privacy must be protected — TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court today ordered a district judge to reconsider subpoenas issued at Attorney General Phill Kline's request for abortion clinic medical records. — The unanimous ruling orders Shawnee County …
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Lawyers, Guns and Money
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Senate Intelligence Chairman: Bush Can Spy — WASHINGTON - Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it.
