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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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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."
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Expose the Left
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.
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:
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. — In Washington, the only thing worse than having to testify before a grand jury is not being asked to. I never wanted to go to prison or make hard choices about protecting my sources, but I thought I'd get more out of my bit part …
John Dickerson / Slate:Where's My Subpoena? — Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, and me.
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The American Street
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 …
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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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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Protesters at Philadelphia Paper Ask It to Apologize for Cartoon — The Philadelphia Inquirer became the first major American newspaper to publish any of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Saturday, prompting a small protest outside the newspaper's offices yesterday morning.
Reuters:
Exxon: America will always rely on foreign oil — HOUSTON (Reuters) - The United States will always rely on foreign imports of oil to feed its energy needs and should stop trying to become energy independent, a top Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) executive said on Tuesday.
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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.
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Washington Post, USS Neverdock, Washington Times, EU Referendum, A Blog For All and Secular Blasphemy
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 …
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.
Mark Pazniokas / courant.com:
Lamont Takes Steps Toward Running — Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont moved closer Monday toward a challenge of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman as he created a candidate committee, named a campaign manager and began searching for a headquarters. — "It is a significant step forward," …
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.
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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, New York Times, firedoglake, Shakespeare's Sister, TAPPED, NewsHog, The Moderate Voice, The Mahablog, The Carpetbagger Report, WTF Is It Now??, IntoxiNation-News …, The Heretik, TalkLeft, Pam's House Blend, Norwegianity, The American Street, AMERICAblog, War and Piece, Tennessee Guerilla Women, State of the Day, Don Surber and Prairie Weather
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 …
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 …
Media Matters for America:
Robertson: Europe committing "racial suicide" … During the February 6 edition of Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) The 700 Club, host Pat Robertson said that "Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate." Robertson blamed the declining birth rate …
Associated Press:
Duo hogs top prize in pig-squealing contest — Father-son team oinks way to victory in French cult competition — TRIE-SUR-BAISE, France - Yohann and Olivier Roussel's performance climaxed in a cacophony of oinks and grunts, unleashing an explosion of applause.
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neandernews.com, Harry's Place, PoliPundit.com, Andrew Sullivan, Taking Aim and On The Third Hand
Michelle Malkin:
WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER — ***scroll for updates...Danish ping-pong team cancels trip...Iranian demonstrators stone Norwegian embassy...2nd try to storm Danish mission in 2 days...*** — President Bush phoned the Danish Prime Minister today to express support:
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Reuters, Cato Unbound, Mark in Mexico, Peaktalk, Atlas Shrugs, The American Princess, battlepanda.blogspot.com, RedState and Ed Driscoll.com
Dan Savage / The Stranger - Slog:
Danish Cartoon On Display in Seattle—Finally! — Okay, it's on Seattle's light poles, and not in any of Seattle's newspapers—yet—but I was pleased to find this flyer tacked up on Capitol Hill this morning. — I'm not sure where the quote is from, or if the person or persons behind the poster wrote it.
Jeff Dufour / The Hill:
Bliley: Dump the new rules, stat — Former Rep. Tom Bliley (R-Va.), a powerful gavel-swinger at the Commerce Committee in the late 1990s, is no fan of new House rules that prevent lobbyists who were lawmakers from stalking the floor during votes or using the chamber's gym.
