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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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Michelle Malkin:
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EMBASSY TORCHED — Via Reuters, here's the latest on what's happening in the Muslim world: … Associated Press adds this: … WaPo: … Video at BBC News. — Jeff Jacoby: "We are all Danes now" — Mark Steyn: "'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences" — Excerpt:
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Violence Spreads Over Muhammad Caricatures — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Thousands of Muslims rampaged Sunday in Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite Catholic church as violent protests spread over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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.
Michelle Malkin:
IT IS NOT A "ROW" — Have you noticed how international newspapers and television stations are doing their best to downplay the global conflagration over the Cartoon Jihad? — And on and on and on. — A "row" is a quarrel. Married couples have "rows" over laundry and finances.
CNN:Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:Protesters Torch Danish Embassy in Beirut
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Telegraph:Unchallenged, a man poses as a suicide bomber.
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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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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.
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85 — Betty Friedan, the feminist crusader and author whose searing first book, "The Feminine Mystique," ignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 and as a result permanently transformed the social fabric of the United States …
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Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:Voice of Feminism's 'Second Wave'
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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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The Stakeholder
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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 …
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.
New York Times:
Defending a Program and His Reputation — WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — A year ago, Alberto R. Gonzales sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Bush administration's nominee for attorney general and a potential candidate for the Supreme Court. He will return on Monday …
Observer:
'The new Afghanistan is a myth. It's time to go and get a job abroad' — As British troops prepare to tackle the Taliban's remnants, hundreds of thousands of jobless Afghan refugees who returned home to start a new life are queueing up to leave again — Dan McDougall in Kabul
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Dr. Sanity:
Democracy In A Cartoon — To paraphrase William Blake: … Ibn Warraq has an editorial up in Spiegal Online: … Read it all, please, because it raises what I consider one of the fundamental problems of our time: the fact that the West seems to no longer be able to defend and stand up for itself …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
HOW LIKELY IS A MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST IRAN?....I was up in Los Angeles today, and along with a dozen other bloggers I spent about an hour chatting with Wes Clark, who was in town for a political rally. Clark had some provocative things to say about Iran and its nuclear 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 …
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Evolution Measure Splits State Legislators in Utah — SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3 — Faith's domain is evident everywhere at the Utah Legislature, where about 90 percent of the elected officials are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prayers are commonplace …
