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Zogby:
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 — Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay "as long as they are needed" — While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy — Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown
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Drudge Report:
BUSH CHEERS DECLINE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RISE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESS — President Bush, for the first time, is hailing the rise of the alternative media and the decline of the mainstream media, which he now says "conspired" to harm him with forged documents. — "I find it interesting …
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Alexandra Zavis / Associated Press:
Multiple Bombings in Baghdad Kill 41 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt at a crowded gas station Tuesday — one of five attacks that rocked Baghdad in quick succession, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores, police said.
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Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott — The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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New York Times:
Ports Argument and Iraq Hurt Bush in a New Survey — WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Americans are strongly opposed to the Bush administration's agreement to allow a Dubai company to operate terminals at six American ports and are increasingly negative about the situation in Iraq, according to the latest CBS News poll.
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Greg Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:CBS Slants Bush Poll in Favor of Democrats
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News Blog, Brendan Nyhan, Kudlow's Money Politic$, In From the Cold and Media Blog on National …
New York Times:
Americans Are Cautiously Open to Gas Tax Rise, Poll Shows — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to a higher federal gasoline tax, but a significant number would go along with an increase if it reduced global warming or made the United States less dependent on foreign oil, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Latest Iraqi war casualty — conservative belief in "personal responsibility" — To the list of conservative principles which are being tossed aside like yesterday's trash in order to defend George Bush, let us add the ostensible virtue of "personal responsibility."
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Blogs "have nothing to do with scholarship." — The National Law Journal has an article on lawprofs blogs: … Wow! Why feature that quote at the beginning and then have nothing to back it up? I'm sure Litvak must have made a more detailed statement, but here she is just hung out to dry with the absolutism of the word "nothing."
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Will Cheney Retire After Mid Term Elections? — It's trial balloon time: the conservative magazine Insight, published by the company that puts out The Washington Times, has the latest now-it-can-be-told by our-sources report suggesting Vice President Dick Cheney could bow out after the mid-term elections.
New York Times:
Lobbyist Turns Senator but Twists Same Arms — WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — It might be said that Senator John Thune went through the revolving door — backward. — As a lobbyist in 2003 and 2004, Mr. Thune earned $220,000 from the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad, a small but ambitious company in South Dakota.
William Rees-Mogg / Times of London:
Quangos, scumbags and a pompous donkey. What company Ken keeps — WHY KEN LIVINGSTONE? Who is David Laverick? These are the questions to which the press has been giving answers — often wrong ones — in the past week. — There is a mystery about Ken Livingstone.
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
U.S. lacked plan for rebuilding Iraq, report says — The Bush administration never drew up a comprehensive plan for rebuilding Iraq after the March 2003 invasion, which contributed to a severe shortage of skilled federal workers in Baghdad and to the mismanagement of the country's oil money, according to a new government report.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush, Speaking Up Against Bigotry — There are times when George Bush sorely disappoints. Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropian explanation, pander to his base or simply not have a clue about what he is talking about, he does something so right, so honest and, yes …
MSNBC:
Judge OKs press subpoenas in CIA leak case — Libby defense aims to show any false statements were result of confusion — WASHINGTON - The judge in the CIA leak case said Monday that lawyers on both sides in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" …
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Prosecutors: Saddam OK'd Shiite Executions — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prosecutors at Saddam Hussein's trial presented a document Tuesday they said was signed by the former leader approving the executions of more than 140 Shiites in southern Iraq after an assassination attempt in the 1980s.
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Anti-Darwin Bill Fails in Utah — In a defeat for critics of Darwin, the Utah House of Representatives on Monday voted down a bill intended to challenge the theory of evolution in high school science classes. — The bill had been viewed nationally, by people on each side of the science education debate …
treas.gov:
EXON-FLORIO PROVISION — The United States has traditionally welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and provided foreign investors fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory treatment with few limited exceptions designed to protect national security. The Exon-Florio provision is implemented within …
Michael J. Totten:
The Utah of the Middle East — SULEIMANIYA, IRAQ - When I first saw the city of Suleimaniya, in Northern Iraq, during daylight I was startled. Out my hotel room window was a straight street, the first such street I had seen in almost half a year. That probably doesn't sound like a big deal.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Coast Guard Saw 'Intelligence Gaps' on Ports — The U.S. Coast Guard, in charge of reviewing security at ports operated by a Dubai maritime company, warned the Bush administration it could not rule out that the company's assets could be used for terrorist operations, according to a document released yesterday by a Senate committee.
Paul Hackett / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Culture of careerism scuttled a political bid — When I got back from Iraq last year on March 18 after a seven-month combat tour with the First Marine Division in exotic cities like Ramadi and Fallujah, my wife arranged for a small group of friends and family to meet me at the Cincinnati airport.
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Guardian:
Secret papers reveal German spies passed intelligence on Iraq to US before invasion — · Berlin denies claim but faces calls for inquiry — · Documents cast cloud over anti-war stance — Germany's government faced renewed pressure to order an inquiry yesterday …
