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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Specter Proposes NSA Surveillance Rules — Measure Would Make Administration Seek FISA Court's Permission to Eavesdrop — The federal government would have to obtain permission from a secret court to continue a controversial form of surveillance, which the National Security Agency …
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Mother of Mercy, Is This the End of FISA?! * — *Hat tip: Edward G. Robinson. — The Washington Post reports today about legislation drafted by Senator Specter to respond to the NSA/FISA imbroglio. The Post makes it sound as if Senator Specter would be clamping down on the Administration:
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:Specter proposes a new law — something called "FISA"
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Bush Policies Weakening Guard, Governors Say — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Governors of both parties said Sunday that Bush administration policies were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other emergencies.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqi Sunni Bloc to Rejoin Talks on Government — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 26 — Leaders of the main Sunni Arab political bloc have decided to return to suspended talks over the formation of a new government, the top Sunni negotiator said Sunday. The step could help defuse the sectarian tensions …
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes — In five years' time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel.
Drudge Report:
BUSH, ROVE SAY HILLARY WILL WIN DEM PRIMARY — BUT LOSE GENERAL ELECTION — President Bush and his top strategist, Karl Rove, say Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be tough to beat in the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008 — but not in the general election!
Times of London:
Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun — THE modern gentleman may prefer blondes. But new research has found that it was cavemen who were the first to be lured by flaxen locks. — According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age …
Washington Post:
Bush's Response To the Ports Deal Faulted as Tardy — By the Time President's Political Team Took Notice, Controversy Was an Uproar — Sen. Charles E. Schumer, an outspoken liberal Democrat from New York, two weeks ago began publicly denouncing a deal to let a Middle Eastern firm take over terminal operations at six U.S. seaports.
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Elisabeth J. Beardsley / Courier-Journal:Frist says he's OK with ports deal
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unitedforpeace.org:
Storm the White House — Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave. Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now. — Washington, DC USA — TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Creating A Better Circumstance — This William Kristol quote from this morning is another step in the eventual disavowal of Bushism. You see, just as it was in Vietnam, the know-nothings in Washington won't let the military leaders take the gloves off which is why we are having so many problems.
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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Iran Says It Will Agree to Russian Enrichment Project — MOSCOW. Feb 26 — The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said Sunday that his country had agreed in principle to set up a joint uranium enrichment project with Russia, a potentially significant breakthrough in efforts to prevent …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Don Knotts Dies: Was TV Hit For Three Decades — Another comedy great — so successful that he was a smash hit on three series, in three decades and a batch of popular low-budget films — has passed from the scene: Don Knotts, best known as the nerdish-deputy Barney Fife. The AP:
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Tony Paterson / Telegraph:
Outcry in Germany as anti-Semitic film sells out — A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country's 2.5 million-strong Turkish community. — Valley of the Wolves, by the Turkish director Serdan Akar …
TBogg:
Of this unrest I myself saw nothing Western shame?... Never heard of it... "The governors appointed by the Crown were powerless for good. The practical exercise of power was in the hands of the servants of a soulless corporation on the opposite side of the globe, whose predominant feeling …
Gateway Pundit:
Unity Protests Break Out in Basra, Mosul, Hillah, Al Kut, Karbala... Amarah... And, London. — Shia Muslim women demonstrate from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square in London. (AFP) — The following is a translation by Iraqi-American Haider Ajina of a headline and news published …
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
As Canada's Slow-Motion Public Health System Falters, Private Medical Care Is Surging — VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 23 — The Cambie Surgery Center, Canada's most prominent private hospital, may be considered a rogue enterprise. — Accepting money from patients for operations …
Scotsman:
US leader crashed by trying to 'pedal, wave and speak at same time' — MURDO MACLEOD — HE MAY be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time. — Scotland on Sunday has obtained remarkable details …
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Chip Brown / New York Times:
The Freshman — Talib in Luce Hall — Sometimes walking up College Street, when the bells were ringing in Harkness Tower and the light on the gabled dorms and leafy quads made the whole campus seem part of some Platonic dream, he could almost forget that there were people back home who would be happy to kill him.
