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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Enabling Jihadism — Fouad Ajami is on form today: … Fouad is right, as he often is. And that's why the cartoon controversy, pace Hugh Hewitt, is good for the war on terror. One massive supporting pillar of Jihadism has been the West's refusal to treat the Islamic world as it would any other part of the world.
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
THE 'CARTOON RIOTS': BIGOTS ON BOTH SIDES — February 7, 2006 — RIOTS scorch the Islamic world as maddened believers protest Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Embassies burn, demonstrators die, crazed threats resound. Far more Muslims fill the streets than protested the invasion of Iraq.
Michelle Malkin:
ORIGINS OF A FAKE MUHAMMED CARTOON — Dennis Nixon at NeanderNews thinks he has traced the origins of one of the bogus Muhammad cartoons disseminated by radical Danish imams in December: — The top photo was reportedly included in the Danish imams' propaganda and attributed falsely to the Jyllands-Posten.
Antonia Zerbisias / Toronto Star:
Hate behind right-wing blogburst — No need to publish offensive cartoons — Feb. 7, 2006. — Well that didn't take long. — While Muslim religious extremists are rioting in the streets of Beirut, Gaza City and Kabul, Scandinavian embassies are being torched and Jordanians are deprived …
Michelle Malkin:WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
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Reuters, Cato Unbound, Mark in Mexico, Peaktalk, Atlas Shrugs, The American Princess, battlepanda.blogspot.com, RedState and Ed Driscoll.com
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Stop Making Sense — That dessicated waste of space Kate O'Beirne is on Hardball right now screeching for the laudenenum because "liberals don't know how to act at funerals!" Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!
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PSoTD, The Political Pit Bull, Liberty Street, Pam's House Blend, The Mahablog, Pandagon and Norwegianity
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Praises King for Changing the Country — President Bush, leading the nation in celebrating the life of Coretta Scott King, praised the civil rights leader for enduring extraordinary pain and loss to give generations of people "a better, more welcoming country."
The Anchoress:
Wellstoning the King Funeral — Oh, come on, you're not really surprised, are you, that Coretta Scott King's funeral got political? — I'm not. I remember this: — Sen Paul Wellstone Memorial — After President Bush praised Dr. King, things went downhill, apparently. Video is available here.
John / AMERICAblog:
Get ready for the white men of the Republican party to lecture black leaders about not knowing their place — UPDATE: Well that didn't take long. But rather than old white men, it's an old white woman of the far-right wing of the Republican party telling black leaders to mind their place.
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Michelle Malkin:
UNHINGED AT CORETTA SCOTT KING'S FUNERAL — The Democrats just can't restrain themselves. Absolutely ungodly. — Expose the Left has video of Jimmy Carter and Joseph Lowery gone wild with Bush-bashing sermons at Coretta Scott King's funeral. — Drudge reports. — AP reports on the atmosphere:
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PoliPundit.com, Stop The ACLU, Expose the Left, Gina Cobb, The Strata-Sphere, Seeing the Forest, A Blog For All, Blogs for Bush, Macsmind, GOP Bloggers, BizzyBlog.com, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, The American Princess, Gateway Pundit, Left in the West, Cold Fury and Catholic and Enjoying It!
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry — WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.
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Insight:
Rove counting heads on the Senate Judiciary Committee — The White House has been twisting arms to ensure that no Republican member votes against President Bush in the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation of the administration's unauthorized wiretapping.
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Washington Post, firedoglake, New York Times, Shakespeare's Sister, TAPPED, The Moderate Voice, The Mahablog, The Carpetbagger Report, WTF Is It Now??, IntoxiNation-News …, The Heretik, TalkLeft, Pam's House Blend, The American Street, AMERICAblog, War and Piece, Tennessee Guerilla Women, Don Surber, State of the Day and Prairie Weather
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Congress's Secret Saddam Tapes — The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. — The committee has already confirmed through …
Media Matters for America:
How many Time reporters knew they were deceiving readers about Rove's role in Plamegate? … On October 13, 2003, Time magazine ran an article that included a quote from White House press secretary Scott McClellan insisting that White House senior adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with outing undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame.
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John Dickerson / Slate:Where's My Subpoena? — Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, and me.
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firedoglake, JustOneMinute, The Next Hurrah, Hullabaloo, Wampum, Decision '08 and The Plame Page
John Dickerson / Slate:Where's My Subpoena? — Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, and me.
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The American Street
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Dionne Amnesia (Update and Bump) — E. J. Dionne, one of the best liberal columnists in America, suffers from a strange attack of amnesia in today's Washington Post. He argues that the tax cuts have crippled the American budgeting process, which I'll get to momentarily …
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Tax Cut Lunacy — The roots of our fiscal madness, on display once again yesterday with the unveiling of President Bush's new budget and its deficit in excess of $350 billion, were planted on Oct. 27, 1990. — Ironically, that's the day when the first President Bush embraced …
John / AMERICAblog:
Please donate to help repay an injured soldier for his lost body armor — UPDATE: We've collected well over $5,000. So, I'm pulling the plug on the links to donate. Thanks so much guys. I'm contacting the service member now, have his phone number, to let him know.
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Michael / Petrelis Files:
NYT's Lame Excuses for Not Running Danish Cartoons — Because Barney Calame, the public editor for the New York Times, posts so infrequently to his blog, I don't check it on a regular basis, but independent gay columnist Paul Varnell of Chicago alerted me this morning that Calame …
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New York Times, philly.com, Classical Values, The American Thinker and TKS on National Review Online
New York Times:
Some Democrats Are Sensing Missed Opportunities — WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — Democrats are heading into this year's elections in a position weaker than they had hoped for, party leaders say, stirring concern that they are letting pass an opportunity to exploit what they see as widespread Republican vulnerabilities.
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Gareth Jones / Reuters:
Turkey detains student over killing of priest — ANKARA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Turkish security forces arrested a high school student on Tuesday over the killing of an Italian Catholic priest and Turkish television said the teenager had confessed to a crime which has shocked this Muslim nation.
Newsweek:
Reform, Washington Style — How an eight-term congressman with extensive ties to K Street became the new face of the House Republican Party. — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Like any good politician, John Boehner knew how to read his audience. Early last week the Republican Study Committee …
Paul Craig Roberts / counterpunch.org:
My Epiphany — A number of readers have asked me when did I undergo my epiphany, abandon right-wing Reaganism and become an apostle of truth and justice. — I appreciate the friendly sentiment, but there is a great deal of misconception in the question. — When I saw that the neoconservative …
The New York Observer Politicker:
NY Press Kills Cartoons; Staff Walks Out — The editorial staff of the alternative weekly New York Press walked out today, en masse, after the paper's publishers backed down from printing the Danish cartoons that have become the center of a global free-speech fight.
