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Associated Press:
Cartoon row: Danish embassy ablaze — DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus Saturday and set fire to the building, witnesses said. — The demonstrators were protesting offensive caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed …
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Secular Blasphemy
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New York Times:
U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Muslim world erupted in anger on Friday over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Europe while the Bush administration offered the protesters support, saying of the cartoons, "We find them offensive …
Guardian:Cartoons and their context
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Associated Press, The Mahablog, The Heretik, Donklephant, BREITBART.COM, All Things Beautiful, Oblogatory Anecdotes and Gina Cobb
David Johnston / New York Times:
New Details Revealed on C.I.A. Leak Case — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak case …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:Documents Reveal New Details of Libby Conversations
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firedoglake, TalkLeft, The Strata-Sphere, The Heretik, AMERICAblog, IntoxiNation-News … and Prairie Weather
George Jahn / Associated Press:
IAEA Reports Iran to U.N. Security Council — VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear watchdog Saturday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council in a resolution expressing concern that Tehran's nuclear program may not be "exclusively for peaceful purposes." Iran retaliated immediately …
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Anthony Browne / Times of London:
Danish cartoonists fear for their lives — TWELVE Danish cartoonists whose pictures sparked such outcry have gone into hiding under round-the-clock protection, fearing for their lives. — The cartoonists, many of whom had reservations about the pictures, have been shocked by how the affair …
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 …
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Captain's Quarters
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:Unemployment Rate Drops to 4 1/2-Year Low
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Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Boehner Suggests New Tack on Lobbying — House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has begun shifting his party toward an alternative lobbying reform package that stresses disclosure of lobbying contacts rather than the virtual ban on gifts and privately funded trips proposed last month by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).
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Centerfield
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 …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Bush to Propose Curbing Growth in Medicare Cost — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — In his budget next week, President Bush will propose substantial savings in Medicare, stepping up his efforts to rein in the growing costs of social insurance programs, administration officials and health care lobbyists said Friday.
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 …
Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
IS THE PRESIDENT "ABOVE THE LAW"? I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHO THE PRESIDENT IS — Several former Clinton administration officials are among the group of "scholars of constitutional law and former government officials" who last week submitted a letter to Congress - posted on the New York Review …
Ibn Warraq / Associated Press:
Democracy in a Cartoon — Best-selling author and Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq argues that freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it against attacks from totalitarian societies. If the west does not stand in solidarity with the Danish, he argues, then the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest.
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Danske øjne …
data.org:
REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST — Thank you. — Mr. President, First Lady, King Abdullah, Other heads of State, Members of Congress, distinguished guests... Please join me in praying that I don't say something we'll all regret. — That was for the FCC.
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
On Capitol Hill, Playing WikiPolitics — This is what passes for an extreme makeover in Washington: A summer intern for seven-term Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) altered the congressman's profile on the Wikipedia Web site to remove an old promise that he would limit his service to four terms.
