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Associated Press:
VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said he didn't immediately disclose his hunting accident because he wanted the confusing details to come out right. Instead, authorized accounts came out slowly — and often still wrong.
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Rick Lyman / New York Times:Compassion for Cheney as Victim Heads Home
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Njadvara Musa / Associated Press:
Cartoon Protests Leave 15 Dead in Nigeria — MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.
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Washington Post:
Dems Need A Newt Of Their Own — The Party Can't Have a Revolution Without the Revolutionaries — Back in 1992, seven upstart Republican freshmen forced real change in the House of Representatives. — Egged on by a more senior revolutionary, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
This Week in Cheney — Live By the Polls, Die By the Polls — Now that we've had a bit of a lull in the Cheney cycle (not that I believe for a minute that it is anything more than a lull — this story is not over) it is perhaps appropriate to take stock of what exactly happened this week.
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Of Greymail, CIPA, Scooter and Fitz — Crooks and Liars has graciously offered to host the hearing transcript (PDF) from the February 3, 2006, Libby scheduling conference and hearing. (For some contemporaneous notes on the Feb. 3rd hearing, see this post and several others on this page.)
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Washington Post:
Bush Calls For More Muscle In Darfur — ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 17 — President Bush on Friday called for doubling the number of international troops in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan and a bigger role for NATO in the peacekeeping effort. — Bush has concluded that peace talks …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Bad Girls Deserve Abuse? Italian Court Says 'Si!' — The Italian supreme court handed down an inexplicable decision in a sexual assault case, saying that the jury should have been told about the sexual history of a 14-year-old girl when considering the guilt of her stepfather for forcing her to submit to oral copulation.
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Rocky Mountain News:
Temple: Readers thank News for cartoons — The images of rampaging mobs are almost unbelievable. — How can it be, we ask ourselves, that people think it's justified to burn and destroy over what they perceive as an offense to their religion? — In the face of such madness …
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Urges Using Media to Fight Terror — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday called for the military and other government agencies to mount a far more aggressive, swift and nontraditional information campaign to counter the messages of extremist and terrorist groups in the world media.
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
Why No Nukes for Iran? — The rules of the game. — National Review Online — How many times have we heard the following whining and yet received no specific answers from our leaders? — "Israel has nuclear weapons, so why single out Iran?" — "Pakistan got nukes and we lived with it."
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David Bernstein / volokh.com:
The Volokh Conspiracy — About UsSubscribeFeaturesStuffBlogrollArchive sSearch — LOTS OF GOOD STUFF over at PrawfsBlawg recently. — MORE ON THE ABA'S ILLEGAL RACIAL PREFERENCE REQUIREMENT: Below is the text of the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar\s new …
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The Global Muslim Position on Everything in One Image — ANY QUESTIONS? — More photos from FROM the Muslim No-Cartoons-Ever Demonstration in New York .
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
When Hacks Attack — Carl Hulse of the NY Times engages in a half-hearted Hack Attack on the Times very own St. John the McCain: … As Carl Hulse knows, and any careful reader will figure out, the Times is blurring two related issues - "pork", which we will describe as "wasteful" …
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WorldNetDaily:
Clinton in Pakistan: Convict cartoon publishers — Says press should not be allowed to criticize other faiths — Former President Bill Clinton today called for the conviction of European papers that published satirical cartoons of Muhammad, according to reports in the Islamic press and elsewhere.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Political Religion — Following up on my earlier post, I just realized that Andrew Sullivan entitled his piece "Religious Left" which is very interesting. This latest dialog began with Glenn Greenwald's great post earlier this week in which he proclaimed modern Republicanism a Bush cult.
washingtonian.com:
Lobbyist Abramoff Describes Pictures of a "Bearded, Fatter Me" With President Bush — [Editor's note: A version of this story was posted briefly on Monday of this week. Within an hour, Jack Abramoff contacted the author, Washingtonian national editor Kim Eisler, and asked that the report …
