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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
STEPHEN GREEN HAS POSTED more pictures from the Danish Embassy rally, which has also gotten coverage, and photos, at Wonkette. — And reader Patrick Rockefeller sends the photo at bottom below, which I liked, along with this report: "It was a decent sized crowd full of good people …
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Vodkapundit, Power Line, Dean's World, Sister Toldjah and tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ONE MORE PHOTO from the Danish Embassy rally. Reader Jonathan G. Williams, who sent it, writes: "Yes, those things they've got are danishes. (Cherry, I think.)" — Mmm. Cherry. — And Mark Tapscott notes an email from Linda Seebach of the Rocky Mountain News: … It's that whole Army of Davids thing.
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Outside The Beltway
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
White House 'Discovers' 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak — The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney's office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Libby Loses a Round in Court — Ex-Cheney Aide Is Denied in Bid to Learn Leaker's Identity — Vice President Cheney's former top aide is not entitled to know the identity of an anonymous administration official who revealed information about CIA operative Valerie Plame to two journalists …
National Review:
It Didn't Work — "I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes — it is America." The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq. "Everything that is going on between Sunni and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America."
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The Huffington Post, Decision '08, Sister Toldjah, Middle Earth Journal and Rising Hegemon
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:Anger Tinged Calls for Peace in Iraq
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MSNBC:
Slacker Friday — Think Again is here. It's called "Second, Third and Fourth Thoughts about the President." — Not a joke: Later today, the Pentagon expects to release its quarterly Iraq Progress Report entitled "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq."
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The Big Picture
CNN:
Pentagon: Iraqi troops downgraded — No Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The only Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support has been downgraded to a level requiring them to fight with American troops backing them up, the Pentagon said Friday.
MSNBC:
Senators move to intervene in ports deal — Bipartisan group wants final decision in hands of Congress … WASHINGTON - The United Arab Emirates company at the center of the U.S. ports controversy volunteered to postpone its management of operations at six major seaports …
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Hasan Jamali / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida Claims Attack on Saudi Refinery — ABQAIQ, Saudi Arabia - Suicide bombers carried out a bold attack on the world's largest oil processing facility Friday but were stopped from breaking in by guards who fired on their cars, exploding both vehicles and killing the attackers.
Goel Pinto / Haaretz:
Chirac, de Villepin attend memorial ceremony for slain Jewish youth — PARIS - Cries of "vive la France" and "la justice" accompanied President Jacques Chirac, his wife Bernadette and Premier Dominique de Villepin last night as they left the memorial evening held here yesterday for Ilan Halimi.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
Early Warning System — Technology is empowering ordinary people in all sorts of ways. The blogosphere has demonstrated the ability to process information more quickly and thoroughly than other media in the past. The debate over the acquisition of American port operations contracts …
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Tim Worstall:
Ken Livingstone Suspended — So Ken Livingstone is suspended from office for a month for his (subjectively) racist remarks to a reporter. Harry's, Brighton Regency, A Councillor, The Torygraph, well, use the search engines yourselves to find more views. Myself, if I actually thought …
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Bush, Blair, But Not Muhammad — At London Museum, Cartoonists Agree: Target the Powerful — LONDON, Feb. 23 — When the political cartoonist Martin Rowson draws President Bush with blood on his hands, he gets hundreds of angry and obscene e-mails. But he doesn't mind, he said, because …
Molly / Molly Saves the Day:
For the women of South Dakota: an abortion manual — I understand that you're probably really angry right now. Maybe you're reading a blog expressing that anger — the anger that your state thinks it knows better than you what to do with your body. Maybe you're anxiously wondering …
Mona Charen / Townhall.com:
Lethal injection blues — They found her body in a vineyard. Her purple sweater was pulled up revealing the knife protruding from her chest. Terri Lynn Winchell had been 17. It was 1981. — Michael Morales, whose execution was indefinitely delayed last week, was convicted of her murder.
Lance Mannion:
Life begins at conception...or within six months of it...more or less...maybe... Not that it will do me any good to say it, but... I am pro-choice. — Now... No argument for unrestricted abortion holds water unless it includes the argument that at no point is a fetus anything …
news24.com:
Cartoon-newspaper wins prize — Copenhagen - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad last year, has won a Danish critical journalism award for its initiative, the jury said. — Denmark's largest daily was honoured …
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