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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Former FEMA Chief Blames DHS — Michael Brown, the embattled former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testified before a Senate committee today that he told a top White House official on the day Hurricane Katrina struck that "our worst nightmares" had come true in New Orleans.
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Stephen Brook / Guardian:
Political magazine pulls cartoon after police warning — Politics magazine the Liberal has followed the Spectator in publishing then hastily withdrawing from its website one of the controversial Danish cartoons featuring the prophet Muhammad. — The independent title …
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BBC:
Sweden shuts website over cartoon — The Swedish government has moved to shut down the website of a far-right political party's newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. — The site's host, Levonline, pulled the plug on the website of the Swedish Democrats' SD-Kuriren newspaper after consulting with the government.
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter at CPAC on "Ragheads" and Assassinating Bill Clinton (and Dr. Bill Frist's Diagnosis) — On Friday, February 10, the rock star of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was none other than Ann Coulter. Before an overflow crowd of at least 1000 young right-wing activists …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Case Against "Me-Too" Journalism — Neil A. Lewis of the NY Times takes on the story broken yesterday by Murray Waas in The National Journal, with embarrassing results. — The Times is OK with the lead: … It is only the details that go awry: … "The letter was first reported Thursday by the National Journal"?
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Toni Locy / Associated Press:Libby Says Leaks Authorized, Papers Show
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Lynn Sweet / sweet:
Washington Times: Lifts my Obama story quotes — Call the journalism police. It's a quote heist. — Familiar with the phrase, ``imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?'' — A story in Friday's Washington Times about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)—written in the wake of his flap …
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Ryan Sager / Miscellaneous Objections:
Huh... Ann Coulter proposes a new "post-9/11 rule": — "Rag-head talks tough, rag-head faces thunderous consequences." — That will be all on her. — UPDATE: I should say I'm about 95 percent sure on that "thunderous" in the quote above. But I wrote it down quickly.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Oh Those Dirty Bloggers Are At It Again — Really top-drawer effort by the White House pool boy Jim VandeHei this morning in the WaPo: … The Washingtoninan hardly rises to more than a local blather sheet. ThinkProgress is the blog for the Center for American Progress.
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Paul R. Pillar / Foreign Affairs:
Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq — Summary: During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process …
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Deborah Hastings / Associated Press:
Turin Games Kick Off With Surreal Ceremony — This gritty city below the Alps gave a heartfelt "benvenuto" Friday night to the Winter Games, a fiery opening ceremony dedicated to passion and to igniting the competitive spirits of more than 2,500 of the world's best athletes.
Joseph Carroll / Gallup:
Bush Approval Steady at 42% — Approval ratings show essentially no change since late November 2005 — PRINCETON, NJ — President George W. Bush's State of the Union address on Jan. 31 did little to move his overall job approval rating, according to a new Gallup Poll.
tcsdaily.com:
Stop Worrying About the Trade Deficit — America's trade deficit — in December reaching a near-record $64.7 billion — is unfortunate, right? — Wrong. Contrary to popular opinion, this so-called "deficit" is a blessing. — Consider that if Americans export lumber, sheetrock …
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Update 19: Bush Reveals Rationale Behind Surveillance — President Bush defended his warrantless eavesdropping program Friday, saying during what he thought were private remarks that he concluded that spying on Americans was necessary to fill a gap in the United States' security.
Jesus' General:
Anti-Semitism — Commenters at strormfront and Little Green Footballs have a lot in common. For instance, they both believe that you're an anti-Semite if you criticize Israel's apartheid government. — My wife, daughters, and grandson are Jewish. We live near a part of Washington State …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bob Barr, Bane of the Right? — You could find just about everything at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week: the bumper sticker that says "Happiness is Hillary's face on a milk carton," the "Straight Pride" T-shirt, a ride on an F-22 Raptor simulator at the Lockheed exhibit …
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Anthony Loyd / Times of London:
Murder of sheikh provokes Sunnis to turn on al-Qaeda — Ramadi, stronghold of the insurgents, has turned against al-Zarqawi — REGARDED as untouchable by the Sunni populace, Sheikh Naser Abdul Karim al-Miklif believed that he had no need for bodyguards. — Leader of the huge al-Bu Fahad tribe …
Washington Post:
Steele Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks — Compared Stem Cell Research to Nazi Medical Experiments — Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele apologized this morning for telling a Baltimore Jewish group yesterday that he believes stem cell research could be comparable to Nazi medical testing on Jews during World War II.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Moderate Muslim Speak Out Against Intolerance Across Globe — The following is a gallery of news photos taken at hundreds of protests, all of the held TODAY, in dozens of countries around the world. Trust me, you'll want to scroll through the whole thing. Might take a bit to load.
