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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
With Tribute To King, Bush Reaches Out  —  NAACP Chief Praises President for Appearance  —  President Bush paid honor to the life of Coretta Scott King from the pulpit of a Baptist church in suburban Atlanta yesterday, recalling that "as a great movement of history took shape …
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New York Times:
At Mrs. King's Funeral, a Mix of Elegy and Politics  —  LITHONIA, Ga., Feb. 7 — Coretta Scott King was laid to rest Tuesday, after a funeral where white-gloved ushers welcomed 15,000 people, including four presidents, three governors, three planeloads of Congress members, celebrities …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Althouse
Reuters:
King eulogists jab Bush at funeral  —  LITHONIA, Georgia (Reuters) - Speakers took a rare opportunity to criticize U.S. President George W. Bush's policies to his face at the funeral on Tuesday of Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Stop Making Sense
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease  —  The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet keeps women from getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet had no effect.  —  The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women aged 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years.
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds  —  The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect.  —  The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women ages 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years.
Rob Stein / Washington Post:   Low-Fat Diet's Benefits Rejected
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.
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.
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.
Washington Post:
Boehner Rents Apartment Owned by Lobbyist in D.C.  —  Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen …
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.
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Strong Leads and Dead Ends in Nuclear Case Against Iran  —  Iranian engineers have completed sophisticated drawings of a deep subterranean shaft, according to officials who have examined classified documents in the hands of U.S. intelligence for more than 20 months.
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Andrew Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
How Muslim Clerics Stirred Arab World Against Denmark  —  Newspaper Cartoons Unite  —  Religious, Secular Forces;  —  Dossier Fans the Flames  —  COPENHAGEN - When Flemming Rose, the cultural editor at Denmark's leading newspaper, published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad late last September …
Forkum / Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons:
Western Dhimmitude  —  NOTE: The Danish cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed can be seen at MohammedCartoons.com.  Our other related cartoon are: Image Problem and A Right to Blasphemy.  —  CNN continues to add a caveat to its coverage of the Cartoon Jihad …
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Amir Taheri / Opinion Journal:
Bonfire of the Pieties  —  Islam prohibits neither images …
lauraingraham.com:
Laura's Iraq Journal  —  This 24-period began with my hitching a late night Blackhawk ride up to Camp Taji, north of Baghdad.  After a few hours sleep in former barracks of the Republican Guard, Laura and her team woke up, hit the mess hall to get a briefing by Col. James Pasquarette …
Discussion: TBogg
Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO: BREAKING THE TABOO  —  I appeared tonight on Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes for an all-too-brief segment on the Mohammed Cartoons.  Before I drove to the Washington, D.C., studio, I stopped by a Kinko's store, printed out the cartoons, and pasted them onto a piece of poster board.
Tyler Whitley / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Ex-naval head seeks to be Democratic nominee for Senate  —  Former Navy Secretary James H. Webb Jr. said yesterday that he will file papers this week to seek the Democratic nomination to run for the U.S. Senate this year.  —  Webb, who lives in Arlington County, would join Harris N. Miller …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Swing State Project

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