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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 …
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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 …
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Paper: Coast Guard Has Port Co. Intel Gaps — WASHINGTON - 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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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 …
Opinion Journal:
Democracy Angst — What's the alternative to promoting freedom in the Middle East? — In the matter of Middle East elections, the results of which we don't always like: Anyone out there have a better idea? — We ask amid some recent wringing of hands following elections for the Palestinian legislature …
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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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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
LISTING TO PORT — Pushback from an ignored but potentially injured third-party in the port deal-the UK: … The rest is subscription only, but here's a central point: … And here's the conclusion: … The Financial Times has a hard time acknowledging that Bush is the voice of reason in this one.
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River / riverbendblog.blogspot.com:
Volatile Days... The last few days have been unsettlingly violent in spite of the curfew. We've been at home simply waiting it out and hoping for the best. The phone wasn't working and the electrical situation hasn't improved. We are at a point, however, where things like electricity, telephones and fuel seem like minor worries.
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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.
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."
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Beware The Ides Of Marching — Freedom of speech and assembly are the closest we come to unfettered rights in the United States; we do not tolerate limits on either unless necessary for keeping the peace. However, one of the limitations accepted by almost everyone is a ban on overthrowing …
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 …
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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 …
India / White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan — MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. Let me begin with a couple of issues, one, a world leader call, and then, two, a meeting the President had earlier today. — First of all, President Uribe of Colombia called the President this morning to express …
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.
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," …
