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Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Cheney Accident Triggers Jokes on Late-Night TV — For TV comics, it's a target so big and so attractive that few will resist taking their shot. — Vice President Dick Cheney was already the butt of jokes on the late-night TV circuit for his brooding public persona, ardent support for the war …
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Mark Leibovich / Washington Post:
After Cheney's Shooting Incident, Time to Unload — Episode Triggers a Fusillade of Wisecracks, And a Withering Blast From White House Press — It was one of those "everyone's a wise guy" days in Washington yesterday, thanks to Dick Cheney. Quipping at the vice president's expense …
New York Times:
No End to Questions in Cheney Hunting Accident — WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The White House sought with little success on Monday to quell an uproar over why it took the better part of a day to disclose that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally wounded a fellow hunter in Texas on Saturday …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Update 22: White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap — The White House has decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to joke about it. — President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University …
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Los Angeles Times:
Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential — CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Although he was not cited with breaking any laws, Vice President Dick Cheney did not have proper hunting credentials when he accidentally shot a fellow hunter at a private ranch over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
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Mike Allen / Time:
Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident — Word of the mishap took 20 hours to get out as the Vice President insisted on telling a local newspaper before everyone else, sources say … The Vice President was the press strategist, and Karl Rove was the investigative reporter.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Underlying Question: Will Cheney Complete His Term?
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race, and Perhaps Politics — Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders.
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Daily Kos:
OH-Sen: Hackett out. Of politics. — Hackett is out. … Calling his donors? Seems like a bulls**t thing to do. But the party wasn't afraid of Hackett, they were afraid of an untested candidate in a high-profile Senate race. He'd have all the support in the world had he decided to run for OH-02.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Our Friend Al Gore — The man who came within a hair's breadth of the presidency in 2000 is denouncing his own government on foreign soil, the Associated Press reports: … There is a comical element to this, as Glenn Reynolds notes: "Only Al Gore could come …
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Victor Davis Hanson / realclearpolitics.com:
What Will Europe Really Do? — Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world's fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle East?
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Media Matters for America:
If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005 — Executive Summary — The Sunday-morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC are where the prevailing opinions are aired and tested, policymakers state their cases …
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
U.S. Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies — WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years. — New projections, buried in the Interior Department's …
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Group Starts Anti-Union Campaign — A new business-backed group is mounting a highly visible attack against organized labor, just as unions are trying to pick themselves up after suffering a schism and years of decline. — The group, the Center for Union Facts, ran full-page advertisements …
Josh White / Washington Post:
'Don't Ask' Costs More Than Expected — Military's Gay Ban Seen in Budget Terms — The financial costs to the U.S. military for discharging and replacing gay service members under the nation's "don't ask, don't tell" policy are nearly twice what the government estimated last year …
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Saddam Says He's on a Hunger Strike — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and three former officials in his regime on Tuesday told the court handling their trial that they were on a hunger strike in protest of the judge overseeing the proceedings. — Saddam said he had not eaten in three days …
