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Russert Watch: The Mary Matalin Horror Show — Meet the Press has been jumping all over the schedule. Sure, they're using the excuse of some sporting event in Italy, but we know the real reason is they're trying to elude Russert Watch. But there we were — if a little foggy — at 6 a.m. …
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MARY QUITE CONTRARY — I only caught the bitter end of Meet the Press so I'm not sure what provoked Mary Matalin's pout-fest (I'm sure Arianna will issue a full forensics report later), but she made quite a petulant spectacle of herself, shaking her head from side to side in silent …
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Lady MaCheney squares of with Gregory — Lady MacCheney squares of with Gregory and Dowd — Mary got into it with David Gregory and Maureen Dowd over Cheney's bungled handling of the Harry Whittington shooting on MTP. (It's always odd to see two guests go after one conservative on the bobble head shows.)
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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 …
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The Imperial (Vice) Presidency — Since Cheney doesn't have a real chance of moving up, he felt he could change the rules. — Feb. 27, 2006 issue - Fox News's exclusive interview with Vice President Dick Cheney was, as CNN's Jack Cafferty sniped, "like Bonnie interviewing Clyde," but Brit Hume posed some good questions.
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MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE
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When fear cows the media — THE PHOENIX is Boston's leading ''alternative" newspaper, the kind of brash, pull-no-punches weekly that might have been expected to print without hesitation the Mohammed cartoons that Islamists have been using to incite rage and riots across the Muslim world.
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The Misguided And Cowardly Outrage Of The Press — We have watched two separate news stories overwhelm the national press over the past fortnight. The first is the deadly protests that have come from imams stoking Muslim ire over four-month-old editorial cartoons satirizing Islam and Mohammed.
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White House Working to Avoid Wiretap Probe — But Some Republicans Say Bush Must Be More Open About Eavesdropping Program — At two key moments in recent days, White House officials contacted congressional leaders just ahead of intelligence committee meetings that could have stirred demands …
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Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive — CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same "barbaric" tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site.
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The God Genome — THE question of the place of science in human life is not a scientific question. It is a philosophical question. Scientism, the view that science can explain all human conditions and expressions, mental as well as physical, is a superstition, one of the dominant superstitions …
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Why review a book of philosophy when you can sneer at it? (Leiter)
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WORLD ON FIRE: ISLAMISTS GONE WILD — Your weekend Cartoon Jihad photo album (click on thumbnails for full-size images; via Yahoo! News): — Pakistan... India... Indonesia... Philippines... Malaysia... Libya... Nigeria... Next?
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Senior Lawyer at Pentagon Broke Ranks on Detainees — One of the Pentagon's top civilian lawyers repeatedly challenged the Bush administration's policy on the coercive interrogation of terror suspects, arguing that such practices violated the law, verged on torture and could ultimately expose senior officials …
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Lawmakers Increase Criticism of Dubai Deal for Ports — WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Legislators from both parties continued today to sharply criticize the Bush administration's approval of a recent sale that would give a Dubai company control over shipping facilities at six leading American ports …
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Hugo Chavez to Condi Rice: 'Don't mess with me, girl' — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched a new verbal attack against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, bluntly warning her "don't mess with me, girl." — Responding to remarks before the US Congress last week in which Rice called Chavez a …
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