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New York Times:
Accord in House to Hold Inquiry on Surveillance  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that they had agreed to open a Congressional inquiry prompted by the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program.  But a dispute immediately broke …
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New York Times:
Doing the President's Dirty Work  —  Is there any aspect of President Bush's miserable record on intelligence that Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not willing to excuse and help to cover up?  —  For more than a year, Mr. Roberts has been dragging …
Washington Post:
Senate Rejects Wiretapping Probe  —  But Judge Orders Justice Department to Turn Over Documents  —  The Bush administration helped derail a Senate bid to investigate a warrantless eavesdropping program yesterday after signaling it would reject Congress's request to have former attorney …
David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Panel Decides Against Eavesdropping Inquiry, for Now  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — The Senate Intelligence Committee decided today not to investigate President Bush's domestic surveillance program, at least for the time being.  —  "I believe that such an investigation is currently unwarranted …
John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Cheney Shooting Case Is Closed in Texas  —  Report on Accident Backs Explanations by Vice President and Ranch Owner  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Feb. 16 — The sheriff's department responsible for investigating Vice President Cheney's shooting of a Texas lawyer has closed its investigation …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
What Is the Value of Algebra?  —  I am haunted by Gabriela Ocampo.  —  Last year, she dropped out of the 12th grade at Birmingham High School in Los Angeles after failing algebra six times in six semesters, trying it a seventh time and finally just despairing over ever getting it.
Discussion: Mark in Mexico and ArchPundit
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PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
Richard Cohen, advocate for ignorance  —  Here is a serious problem: … That's Richard Cohen, who is supposedly the 'liberal' columnist for the Washington Post, giving advice to a young girl.  —  It's outrageous.  —  Because Richard Cohen is ignorant of elementary mathematics …
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Glacier Melt Could Signal Faster Rise in Ocean Levels  —  Greenland's glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete predictions of how quickly Earth's oceans will rise over the next century, scientists said yesterday.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Quell Quailgate  —  Cheney's Call Was Wrong but Understandable  —  I'm just glad he didn't shoot Scalia.  —  Well, everyone's entitled to one Quailgate joke, so that's mine.  Although the best one, occurring at the White House news briefing Monday, was only inadvertently funny.
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John / AMERICAblog:
What did Cheney drink and when did he drink it?
Discussion: Think Progress and Eschaton
Mark Brunswick / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
KSTP takes issue with Iraq war ad  —  It refused to air 60-second spot that defends U.S. policy, saying it is untruthful in how it represents the media.  —  In an unusual break from its competitors, KSTP-TV refused to air a controversial ad defending U.S. policy in Iraq that the station …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED  —  We've obtained a copy of a striking …
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
William Lobdell / Los Angeles Times:
Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted  — DNA tests contradict Mormon scripture.  The church says the studies are being twisted to attack its beliefs.  —  From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
SADDAM TAPES: WHY IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP  —  When I first heard of the existence of the Saddam Tapes, I was mildly interested.  After all, from a purely academic point of view, it would be fascinating to listen to the dictator and try and discover how his mind worked.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Exclusive: Prisoner Abuse Photos from Iraq that MSM Won't Show You  —  **Jawa Report Exclusive**  —  The Jawa Report has obtained new photos from a new prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.  The photos show Iraqi prisoners being murdered by troops.  The photos have not been published by a single mainstream news outlet.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Seeking Auto Industry, Piece by Piece  —  Workers at a Lifan Group factory in Chongqing assemble 520 sedans.  The car's $9,700 price includes leather seats, dual air bags and a DVD system.  —  CHONGQING, China, Feb. 16 — China is pursuing a novel way to catapult its automaking into a global force …
Discussion: The Peking Duck
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Proposed law targets tech-China cooperation  —  Nearly every U.S. company with a Web site located in China will have to move it elsewhere or its executives would face prison terms of up to a year, according to proposed legislation expected to be introduced this week in the U.S. Congress.
Cameron W. Barr / Washington Post:
Policing Porn Is Not Part of Job Description  —  Montgomery Homeland Security Officers Reassigned After Library Incident  —  Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers.

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