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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 …
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
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.
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 …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
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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James Wolcott:
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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Crooks and Liars:
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.)
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
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.
Leon Wieseltier / New York Times:
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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Brian Leiter / Leiter Reports:Why review a book of philosophy when you can sneer at it? (Leiter)
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Michelle Malkin:
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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Bloomberg:
Bush Didn't Need to Get Court Approval for Wiretaps, Frist Says — Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said President George W. Bush didn't need court approval when he authorized a National Security Agency surveillance program, and that the U.S. law establishing …
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New York Times:
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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Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
After Neoconservatism — As we approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war, it seems very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention itself or the ideas animating it kindly. By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy …
Sonja Barisic / Associated Press:
Pat Robertson Accused of Damaging Movement — NORFOLK, Va. - Fellow conservative religious leaders have expressed concern and even open criticism over Pat Robertson's habit of shooting from the hip on his daily religious news-and-talk television program, "The 700 Club."
Michelle Malkin:
TRACKING THE CARTOON JIHAD — Click for interactive Google map of Cartoon Jihad demonstrations, riots and deaths: — Via Lasting News (hat tip: John Little). — Previous: — Cartoon Jihad: The map
