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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hit Refresh?  —  Why Bush may be thinking about replacing Cheney.  —  The Dick Cheney shooting incident will, in a way, go away.  And, in a way, not—ever.  Some things stick.  Gerry Ford had physically stumbled only once or twice in public when he became, officially, The Stumbler.
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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Choice of Messenger Is an Issue in Its Own Right  — An exclusive interview on Fox News is criticized as spin control, while the network says it's simply the result of persistence and stature.  —  NEW YORK — For days, the White House press corps has pounded the Bush administration …
Discussion: Random Thoughts … and Daily Kos
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Brit Hume, Cheney's Choice For a Straight Shooter  —  Brit Hume was in his morning staff meeting at Fox News yesterday when his cell phone rang.  It was Dick Cheney.  —  The network's Washington managing editor had been pressing for the interview that every news organization was hotly pursuing …
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Spoiled brat media  —  The first revolt of the American colonists against their British rulers was immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the shot heard round the world."  Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident has now become the shot heard round the Beltway.
Discussion: Tammy Bruce
AOL News:
Rove Pushed Cheney to Talk  —  (Feb. 16) — President Bush's top political aide, Karl Rove, pushed Vice President Dick Cheney to speak publicly about shooting a fellow hunter, sources tell CBS News.  —  Rove worried the vice president's silence on the issue was becoming a political problem …
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
VP accepts blame in shooting accident  —  Cheney calls hunting incident one of his worst days, defends delay of announcement  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accepted fault for his hunting accident Wednesday and called it one of the worst days of his life.
John McIntyre / The RCP Blog:
Dumping Dick Cheney?
Discussion: Right Wing News and Blogs for Bush
Los Angeles Times:
Critics See a White House Failure to Communicate
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and The Mahablog
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
Salon exclusive: The Abu Ghraib files  —  Never-published photos, and an internal Army report, show more Iraqi prisoner abuse — evidence the government is fighting to hide.  —  Print EmailFont: S / S+ / S++  —  An unknown detainee with women's underwear on his head, strapped to a bed frame.
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:
U.N. Report Calls for End to Guantánamo Detentions  —  UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 16 — United Nations human rights investigators called on the United States today to shut down the Guantánamo Bay camp and give detainees prompt trials or release them.
Discussion: TAPPED and TalkLeft
Radio Blogger:
Helen Thomas hangs up on Hugh Hewitt.  —  The dean of the White House press corps, known lovingly around the Hugh Hewitt Show as Aunt Bethany...  appeared on the program a little while ago, and it didn't end well, with Ms. Thomas hanging up on Hugh.  Here's how it went:  —  02-15thomas.mp3
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
No Checks, Many Imbalances  —  The next time a president asks Congress to pass something akin to what Congress passed on Sept. 14, 2001 — the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) — the resulting legislation might be longer than Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."
BBC:
France steps up rhetoric on Iran  —  France has for the first time explicitly accused Iran of using its nuclear programme as a cover for clandestine military nuclear activity.  —  Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told French TV no civilian programme could explain Iran's activity.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
The Lessons of Counterinsurgency  —  U.S. Unit Praised for Tactics Against Iraqi Fighters, Treatment of Detainees  —  TALL AFAR, Iraq — The last time the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment served in Iraq, in 2003-04, its performance was judged mediocre, with a series of abuse cases growing out of its tour of duty in Anbar province.
ABCNEWS:
Secret Tapes Show Saddam's Son-in-Law Admitted WMD Deception  —  In Recording, Iraqi Dictator Is Briefed on Efforts to Hide Weapons Programs  —  Feb. 15, 2006 — The following is a translation of portions of one pivotal tape-recorded meeting that took place in late April or May of 1995.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court Veteran Remembers a Scary Start  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — No one will blame Justice Stephen G. Breyer if he flashes back more than 11 years to his own challenging start on the Supreme Court when Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is ceremonially sworn in there on Thursday.
Discussion: Althouse and PrawfsBlawg
tcsdaily.com:
Blogging: for Love or Money?  —  People are making a living, or a decent chunk of one, by blogging.  Some are warbloggers in the Middle East, like Michael Totten, who blogs from Beirut, with occasional sidetrips to Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq, or Michael Yon, who served as a war correspondent via blog …
Dave Pierre / Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Convention'  —  Kudos to radio talk-show host Larry Elder for publicizing some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.  The comments have received scant coverage …

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