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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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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.
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 — BAGHDAD — Political and religious leaders in Iraq scrambled today to halt the country's slide toward sectarian civil war, renewing for tomorrow an extraordinary daytime curfew that was temporarily relaxed to allow a small measure of respite for the country.
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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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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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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.
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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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.
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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 …
Sara Agnew / showmenews.com:
'48 Hours' apologizes for altered image — The executive producer of CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" has apologized for airing an altered image of the front page of the Tribune in an episode about the murder trial of Ryan Ferguson that aired Saturday night. — The producer, Susan Zirinsky …
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 …
