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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences — I long ago lost count of the number of times I've switched on the TV and seen crazy guys jumping up and down in the street, torching the Stars and Stripes and yelling ''Death to the Great Satan!'' Or torching the Union Jack and yelling ''Death …
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
We are all Danes now — HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi.
Daniel Schwammenthal / Opinion Journal:Europe's New Dissidents — Middle Eastern repression comes to the Continent.
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Iraqipundit / IraqPundit:
It's the protest principle — So my principled co-religionists have displayed their rage, once again, over something that offends them. To demonstrate their horror at the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in an offensive manner in some newspaper cartoons, they have torched the Danish …
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New York Times:
Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law — WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were "strained and unrealistic."
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Specter Criticizes Rationale for Spying — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not adequately justified why the Bush administration failed to seek court approval for domestic surveillance, said the senator in charge of a hearing Monday on the program.
Jason Reed / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil? — President Bush at a recent White House press briefing — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The Cia Leak: Plame Was Still Covert — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for February 5 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: for nearly three years, this Republican from Texas, Tom "The Hammer" Delay, was the leader of House Republicans. He has now stepped aside. This Republican from Ohio is the new majority leader of the House of Representatives.
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Ahmed Al-Haj / Associated Press:
Cole Attack Planner Escapes Yemen Prison — SAN'A, Yemen - An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.
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TKS on National Review Online:
OBJECTIONS TO THOSE DANISH CARTOONS: THE INTOLERABLE, AND THE HONORABLE [02/05 08:15 AM] — Want some good news on those infamous Danish cartoons? — The reaction in my neck of the woods has been pretty mild - certainly nothing like the attacks on the Danish embassy in Syria.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Fitzgerald Affidavit - Was Libby Novak's Source?? — With a hat tip to Cecil Turner we find the Aug 2004 Fitzgerald affidavit in the Libby case posted at the Wall Street Journal (a 38 page .pdf file, also available here ). — Don't let it ruin your Super Sunday, but this looks like a target-rich document.
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
A Global Reach, but a Local Focus — One of the big surprises for me in becoming ombudsman is that most e-mail focuses on national issues, not local news. — This column is an initial effort to solicit comment from readers about local news. Is The Post covering the kind of local news …
Telegraph:
Democracy has a gun held to its head — Last week, Muslims marched in the centre of London chanting "Freedom go to Hell!" There could be no more graphic illustration of the paradox at the heart of the cartoon row. These protesters were exercising - and in many cases abusing …
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
Walking into the Iran Trap, III: Mythic War, and Endless Enemies — [Part I: A Decision of Policy — and the Intelligence Won't Matter — Part II: The Folly of Intervention] — In the concluding parts of this series, I will offer some thoughts about the nature of the propaganda campaigns engaged …
Reuters:
Catholic priest shot dead in church in Turkey — ANKARA (Reuters) - An Italian Roman Catholic priest was shot dead in his church in the Turkish Black Sea city of Trabzon on Sunday, police said. — They gave no more details, but CNN Turk television said police were looking for a young man aged …
