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Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before approving its takeover of operations at six American ports, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Big Problem, Dubai Deal or Not — WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 — In the political collision between the White House and Congress over the $6.8 billion deal that would give a Dubai company management of six American ports, most experts seem to agree on only one major point: The gaping holes in security …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
(MUCH) MORE ON THE DUBAI PORT DEAL....I'm still open to argument on the Dubai port deal, but this is looking more and more like a mindless feeding frenzy to me. So far, I've only heard a couple of arguments against the deal that are even colorable. — First, Atrios points out that Dubai Ports World …
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tcsdaily.com:
Good for America — Just last week, the shareholders of P&O, that venerable relic of the British Empire, agreed to sell their company to a group called Dubai Ports World, for $6.8 billion. DP World won a bidding war with another company from a developing country, Temasek Holdings of Singapore.
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CBS News:
Political Backlash Over Port Deal — (CBS/AP) If there is one thing Congressional leaders and the White House can agree on, it is that neither knew the port deal with a United Arab Emirates company was even in the works, reports CBS News political analyst Gloria Borger.
TKS on National Review Online:SO THE UAE DOESN'T HAVE ANY SAY IN PORT SECURITY? WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL THEN?
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:YET MORE ON THE DUBAI PORT FIASCO....Jim Geraghty, who now believes …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Iran Blames Bush — Sunni Shiite Clashes — Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor has an excellent piece interpreting the significance of the turmoil over the bombing of the Askariyah shrine in Samarra. — Shiites came out in the thousands all over the Shiite south on Wednesday to protest.
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Sam Knight / Times of London:
Al-Askariya shrine: 'Not just a major cathedral' — Today's attack on al-Askariya shrine marks the first time that Iraqi sectarian violence has targeted one of the country's central religious symbols. — The Shia Muslim shrine has existed in the middle of the ancient city of Samarra …
Patrick Cockburn / Independent:Destruction of holiest Shia shrine brings Iraq to the brink of civil war
Evelyn Nieves / Washington Post:
S.D. Abortion Bill Takes Aim at 'Roe' — Senate Ban Does Not Except Rape, Incest — South Dakota lawmakers yesterday approved the nation's most far-reaching ban on abortion, setting the stage for new legal challenges that its supporters say they hope lead to an overturning of Roe v. Wade .
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State of the Day
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota — PIERRE, S.D., Feb. 22 — Setting up South Dakota to become the first state in 14 years to start a direct legal attack on Roe v. Wade, lawmakers voted on Wednesday to outlaw nearly all abortions. — Across the country, abortion rights advocates reacted with outrage and dismay.
Washington Post:
A Failure of the Press — There was a time when the press was the strongest guardian of free expression in this democracy. Stories and celebrations of intrepid and courageous reporters are many within the press corps. Cases such as New York Times v. Sullivan in the 1960s were litigated …
MSNBC:
Documents support Cheney's shooting account — Affidavits obtained by NBC News corroborate vice president's recollection — WASHINGTON - — NBC News has obtained new documents regarding the shooting accident involving Vice President Dick Cheney. — NBC News filed an Open Records Act request …
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Doug Thompson / Capitol Hill Blue:Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer
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Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
More Crazy Talk From Hillary — I agree with Iowa Voice that Hillary Clinton has to be crazy to make statements like this: … More fear. Fear, fear, fear. — I wonder why the Republicans have not capitalized on the issue of school vouchers, which are very popular with non-Jesse Jackson-following blacks in America.
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Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: U.S. should leave Iraq "as fast as humanly possible" because "there are so many nuts in the country" … During the February 20 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly suggested that the United States "hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Smile if (and Only if) You're Conservative — To bemused conservatives, it looks like yet another example of analytic overkill by the intelligentsia — a jobs program for the (mostly liberal) academic boys (and girls) in the social sciences, whose quantitative tools have been brought to bear to prove the obvious.
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
If Cattle Flew — Look at the airports. Why would terrorists bother with seaports? — We are debating port security. While we're at it, how about airport security? Does anyone really believe that has gotten much better since 19 terrorists hijacked four planes five years ago?
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The Dread Pundit Bluto
David Neiwert / Orcinus:
Say No to Nazis — Following the recent outbreak of neo-Nazism in my own neighborhood, I've become even more acutely aware of the silent tide of white supremacism that's creeping back into our lives, if that's possible. — It's one thing when it happens elsewhere, as I usually find myself documenting.
