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CBS News:
Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low — (CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high. — Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving …
Insight:
Cheney seen retiring after midterm elections — Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to retire within a year. — Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step …
Associated Press:
Coast Guard Had Concerns About Port Deal — WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing broad gaps in U.S. intelligence, the Coast Guard cautioned the Bush administration weeks ago that it could not determine whether a United Arab Emirates-based company seeking a stake in some U.S. port operations might support terrorist operations.
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New York Times:
How a Deal Became a Big Liability for G.O.P. — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Representative Peter T. King of New York was in a room packed with reporters last week, complaining that the White House had jeopardized national security by contracting with an Arab-owned company to manage terminals …
Marc Humbert / Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton Says Rove Obsesses About Her — ALBANY, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove "spends a lot of time obsessing about me." — The former first lady and potential presidential contender was reacting during …
National Review:
A CIA Leak Trial Without the CIA Leak — CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald argued at a hearing Friday that, as far as the perjury charges against former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby are concerned, it does not matter whether or not Valerie Wilson was a covert CIA agent when she was mentioned …
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time.blogs.com:
Send Clinton — It appears that Iraq's elites may be pulling back from the brink. Zalmay Khalilzad has another mountain to climb - but, this time, the minds of his interlocutors might have been concentrated a little. We may be at the most critical juncture in the future of Iraq.
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Jay Reding.com
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Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
The shrine crisis...words that need to be said. — Life is coming back to normal in Baghdad and marketplaces and offices are open again after being shut for 4 days. Although there were a few security incidents today people are mostly looking at these as part of the usual daily situation and not related to the latest shrine crisis.
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
From Cash to Yachts, Convicted Congressman Set Bribery Rates — Court Documents Show Randall 'Duke' Cunningham Set Bribery Rates — Feb. 27, 2006 — Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress. And it keeps getting worse.
harpers.org:
The Case for Impeachment — Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush … On December 18 of last year, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D., Mich.) introduced into the House of Representatives a resolution inviting it to form "a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Another White House Briefing, Another Day of Mutual Mistrust — Mike McCurry, who was President Bill Clinton's press secretary a decade ago, is kicking himself to this day for ever allowing the White House briefings to be televised live. — "It was a huge error on my part," …
Washington Post:
How to Think Like Bob Owens — Bob Owens is the author of the daily political blog, Confederate Yankee, according to which he has been "a day laborer, college freshman composition instructor, car salesman, sports writer, web designer, and technical writer, just to name a few."
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit — Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies — The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay …
Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Storm The White House — I just have one thing to say: Hahahahahahaha: … If this fails, go to Plan A and then Plan B. Yeah right. As I said before "If you believe in nothing you'll fall for anything" — Haven't had such a good laugh for a long time.....Thanks Michelle.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Jihadi Turns Bulldog — The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? — Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban …
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Roger L. Simon, Outside The Beltway, Tammy Bruce, Blinq, ARMAVIRUMQUE, Varifrank, The Sundries Shack, Power Line, Generation Why? and Daily Pundit
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Feingold clicks with blog fans — Senator tops online polls, but can that win him the presidency? — cgilbert@journalsentinel.com — Washington - When Gallup polled Democratic voters this month on the party's 2008 hopefuls, it didn't even offer Russ Feingold as a choice.
Danny Carlton / alias "Jack Lewis":
Don Knotts: The Death of the real American — From the Associated Press... Don Knotts is one of two actors whose career paths illuminated our changing culture. (The other is Annette Funicello, but that's something I'll have to elaborate on another time).
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