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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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PSoTD, Crooks and Liars, The Political Pit Bull, Liberty Street, The Mahablog and Norwegianity
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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.
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.
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:
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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Michelle Malkin:WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
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Reuters, Peaktalk, Mark in Mexico, Atlas Shrugs, The American Princess, battlepanda.blogspot.com, RedState and Ed Driscoll.com
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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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 …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Budget Plan Assumes Too Much, Demands Too Little — President Bush's budget blueprint would bring the federal government's budget deficit under control by decade's end. But to do that without raising taxes, the White House would need a sweeping tax reform that it has avoided proposing and a swift end to the war in Iraq.
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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 …
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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Oliver Willis, Andrew Sullivan, MyDD, Confederate Yankee, Attytood, The Corner on National … and BrothersJudd Blog
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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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA — George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Is CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt'? — Director Launches Internal Investigation Into Who Gave Sensitive Information to the Media — Feb. 7, 2006 — The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations.
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The Strata-Sphere, Betsy's Page, Macsmind, The Anchoress, California Conservative, State of the Day and Power Line
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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philly.com, New York Times, Classical Values, The American Thinker and TKS on National Review Online
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 …
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
DEMOCRACY ALARM IN VENEZUELA — A one-man Venezuelan court demanded 16 years in prison for Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado. The one-stop-judge/jury/jailer also violated her rights by refusing to allow her to speak in the courtroom as is her right.
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.
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 …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Our Message In 2006: Republicans Control Congress — Update: If you think this is an important idea, please email it to anyone you know in politics. — Last week, I put up a post entitled Voter Knowledge and the House of Representatives. Referencing long-term National Election Survey data …
