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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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MSNBC:
Slacker Friday — I gotta fly to Texas this morning, which is just as well, because there's a lot of evil in the papers today, much of it perpetrated by you know who, it would just depress all of us to pay attention to it. In the meantime, I wrote a column about which I feel pretty strongly this morning.
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.) …
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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The All Spin Zone
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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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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The Left Coaster, Booman Tribune, CorrenteWire, Unclaimed Territory and Democrat Taylor Marsh …
Telegraph:
Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK — Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today. — The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the "feelings and motives" of the suicide bombers …
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Clarity & Resolve
Simon Jenkins / Times of London:
Bush and Blair have brilliantly done Bin Laden's work for him — Is Osama Bin Laden winning after all? Until recently I would have derided such a thought. How could a tinpot fanatic who is either dead or shut in some mountain hideout hold the world to ransom for five years?
Claudia Rosett / Weekly Standard:
Cash-for-Kofi — DESPITE FREQUENT DECLARATIONS OF REFORM, it seems that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has learned nothing from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food scandal, in which Saddam Hussein's billions corrupted the U.N.'s entire Iraq embargo bureaucracy.
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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The Huffington Post
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 …
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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Decision '08
Thayer Evans / New York Times:
Testimony on 2 Air Marshals Hints at Wider Drug Inquiry — HOUSTON, Feb. 17 — Testimony on Thursday at the arraignment of two federal air marshals charged with using their credentials to engage in a cocaine smuggling conspiracy suggested that the case might involve other marshals as well.
Los Angeles Times:
Iran Was on Edge; Now It's on Top — The war in Iraq has bolstered the regime's influence in the region and made it bolder. — BAGHDAD — The Islamic government in neighboring Iran watched with trepidation in March 2003 when U.S.-led troops stormed Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime …
