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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
More Questions Raised About Delay in Reporting Cheney Misfire — NEW YORK The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday.
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Mishap on a Texas Ranch — WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a prominent Austin, Tex., lawyer on Saturday while the two men were quail hunting in South Texas, firing a shotgun at the man while trying to aim for a bird, a member of the hunting party said.
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Not a Laughing Matter — I'm going to out something from my childhood this morning: I grew up in West Virginia, and I used to go hunting with my dad as a kid. I never actually shot any animals — I was too much of a softie, and spent my time in the woods with my dad feeding peanuts …
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Houston Chronicle:
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter in South Texas — The 78-year-old Austin attorney is 'doing very well' — CORPUS CHRISTI - A prominent Austin lawyer is expected to be released from a hospital here today after being accidentally shot and slightly injured by Vice President Dick Cheney during …
Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics …:Armstrong is Full of It — UPDATE: Christy has a great post recalling …
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John Gideon / THE BRAD BLOG:BREAKING: Cheney Shoots Man While Hunting, News Held for 24 Hours...
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TigerHawk:
The Gorebot: attacking America from the fountainhead of jihad — Al Gore has travelled to the heart of the Wahabbi Muslim world and attacked the United States. One is almost forced to wonder whether he has completely lost his mind. … This is asinine both substantively and procedurally.
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Jim Krane / Associated Press:
Gore Laments U.S. 'Abuses' Against Arabs — JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AL OF ARABIA — The adage that "politics stops at the water's edge" has apparently long since been laid to rest. At the least, we need a new adage counseling American politicians not to defame their country or grovel before the potentates of the homeland of many of America's enemies.
Michelle Malkin:
AL GORE SLANDERS AMERICA — Speaking from a country that sent us the majority of the 9/11 hijackers and from a conference that banned Denmark for daring to speak up against Islamist bullies, Al Gore this weekend blasted the United States for its "abuses" against Arabs:
Maggie Farley / Los Angeles Times:
Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives — A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law. — NEW YORK — A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates …
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
UN inquiry demands immediate closure of Guantanamo — A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Follow-up to the Bush post yesterday — (updated below) — There are numerous replies around the blogosphere to my post yesterday regarding the various dynamics characterizing the behavior of Bush followers. I'm replying here to as many of the serious and/or commonly voiced responses as I can.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:An Outspoken Conservative Loses His Place at the Table
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MSNBC:
Transcript for February 12 — TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: President Bush insists Congress was briefed about his plan for wiretapping without a court order. What information was shared? When, and in what form? With us, four of the very few congressional leaders who had notice …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Republicans' Report on Katrina Assails Response — WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — House Republicans plan to issue a blistering report on Wednesday that says the Bush administration delayed the evacuation of thousands of New Orleans residents by failing to act quickly on early reports that the levees had broken during Hurricane Katrina.
Nick Coleman / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Troops back from Iraq being deployed on front lines of spin war — Evidence of a menacing increase in insurgent attacks on American troops in Iraq was declassified and presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., last week. The news was grim …
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Ownership Society Redux — The president likes to be consistent. Loves Laura; sticks to Laura. Kicks drink; keeps kicking it. First inaugural address: blue tie, white shirt. Second inaugural address: blue tie, white shirt. Weight in 2001: 190 pounds. Weight in 2005: 192 pounds.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
U.S. Muslims Try to Ease Europe's Discord — As the crisis over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad flared over the last two weeks, leaders of several American Muslim groups began working quietly to try to mediate between European Muslims and the West.
Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:
Shameful abuse of 9/11 footage — He's paid $300,000, but keeps 30,000 pix — A budding filmmaker that FEMA found in the yellow pages used his taxpayer-funded video of the smoldering World Trade Center ruins in a documentary featuring topless women chatting about their breasts, a Daily News investigation has found.
