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Flemming Rose / Washington Post:
Why I Published Those Cartoons — Childish. Irresponsible. Hate speech. A provocation just for the sake of provocation. A PR stunt. Critics of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad I decided to publish in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten have not minced their words.
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
Crossing the Line on a Cable Show? — Dana Milbank can be controversial with readers. The Post reporter has his fans — and I can be one of them — but I think his appearance on MSNBC last week was a mistake in judgment. — Milbank wore hunting gear — an orange stocking cap and striped vest …
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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Alasdair Palmer / Telegraph:
'The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state' — For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.
Newsweek:
The Shot Heard Round the World — He peppered a man in the face, but didn't tell his boss. Inside Dick Cheney's dark, secretive mind-set-and the forces that made it that way. — Feb. 27, 2006 issue - Dick Cheney has never been your normal politician. He has never seemed as eager to please …
Michelle Malkin:
MUSLIMS KILL CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA — Committed "in the name of the prophet Mohammed:" … The bloodshed comes a little more than week after Nigerian MPs burned Danish and Norwegian flags in a ceremony in the parliament premises—and despite the conciliatory Christian Association of Nigeria's condemnation of the cartoons.
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Michael Janofsky / New York Times:
Bush's Chat With Novelist Alarms Environmentalists — WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — One of the perquisites of being president is the ability to have the author of a book you enjoyed pop into the White House for a chat. — Over the years, a number of writers have visited President Bush …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
New Clerk for Alito Has a Long Paper Trail — JUSTICE SAMUEL A. ALITO JR., who was so bland and self-effacing at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings last month, made a bold decision on arriving at the court. He hired Adam G. Ciongoli, a former top aide to Attorney General John Ashcroft …
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Philip P. Pan / Washington Post:
The Click That Broke a Government's Grip — BEIJING — The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Drug Plan's Start May Imperil G.O.P.'s Grip on Older Voters — WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Older voters, a critical component of Republican Congressional victories for more than a decade, could end up being a major vulnerability for the party in this year's midterm elections, according to strategists in both parties.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Trillion-Dollar Gimmick — Extending Bush's Tax Cuts Through Sleight of Hand — Back when the late John Mitchell was attorney general in the Nixon administration, he advised reporters, "Watch what we do, not what we say." — That advice certainly applies to the Bush administration as well.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Cheering tidbits lighten otherwise grim week — In an otherwise grim week — at least on unimportant peripheral matters like Iranian nukes — three things cheered me up. The first was the decision of Iran's bakers to rename Danish pastries "Roses of the Prophet Muhammed pastries.'' Has a ring to it, don't you think?
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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?
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William Safire / New York Times:
Blargon — Every walk of life and field of endeavor generates its own insiders' lingo. Those of us in the MSM — that's the superannuated, archaic mainstream media — have our own jargon, of which the first sentence of an article is the lede, the early edition is the bulldog and the guys working …
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Drudge Report:
MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE — If the nation's top magazines have the pulse of the country — get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage! — This just in... Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning high impact covers of Cheney …
