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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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John Zogby / The Huffington Post:
On a New Poll Of U.S. Soldiers During Their Service in Iraq — In wars of America's century just past, we have sent our soldiers to far-off fields of battle and were left to wonder about their opinions of the life-and-death conflicts in which they were involved.
NY Daily News:
Pay attention: W right on Dubai — There are times when President Bush sorely disappoints. Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropistic 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 …
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Orly Halpern / Jerusalem Post:
Arab boycott largely reduced to 'lip service' — The Arab boycott, established by the Arab League in 1951 as an economic tool to hurt Israel, is a dying animal. Ask Aramex. — The company, which provides delivery services around the world, is commonly used by Arab and Israeli companies …
Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott
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the talking dog, Tammy Bruce, PunditGuy, IntoxiNation-News …, The Huffington Post, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Debbie Schlussel, The Moderate Voice, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, This Modern World, The American Thinker, globes.co.il, Vital Perspective, Exit Zero, The Left Coaster, Danny Carlton, Atlas Shrugs, Michelle Malkin, Kudlow's Money Politic$, Thoughts from Kansas, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, The Democratic Daily Blog, TAPPED, The Big Pharaoh, Mathew Gross, Jihad Watch, This Blog Is Full Of Crap, Power Line, lgf and Gay Orbit™
David Stout / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Abortion Protesters in Unanimous Ruling — WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — Anti-abortion groups gained a victory in the Supreme Court today as the justices ruled, 8 to 0, that abortion clinics cannot rely on federal laws against racketeering and extortion to prevent demonstrations against abortions.
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ABCNEWS:
Bush: U.S. Won't Get Into Iraq Civil War — President Bush Grants Elizabeth Vargas Exclusive, Wide-Ranging Interview — WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2006 — In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas, President Bush offered his views on a range of topics, including the response …
Michelle Malkin:
A MANIFESTO AGAINST ISLAMISM — Danish reader P.H.N. sends an important document published today in the Jyllands-Posten from 12 brave intellectuals: — MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism — After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
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Slapstick Politics
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Agora:
Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al Slam Islamic Totalitarianism — This just in, stay tuned as the story develops. I think we'll be seeing people die in the coming days. You know, from "reactions".... Update: This will be brought in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo tomorrow, Wednesday.
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
MORE ON THE GAS TAX. These are all very sensible comments by Duncan, but I want to particularly underscore one: For many people, using less car is Just Not An Option. I tend to find gas taxes most appealing to people in dense, urban environments with highly-functioning public transport systems.
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Greg Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:
CBS Slants Bush Poll in Favor of Democrats — In its classic "fair and balanced" tradition, CBS slanted in favor of Democrats its poll that found Bush has a 34 percent approval rating and a 59 percent disapproval rating, an all-time high for a CBS poll. — On the bottom of the PDF version of the poll …
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News Blog, Brendan Nyhan, RightWinged.com, Kudlow's Money Politic$, PoliBlog, In From the Cold and Media Blog on National …
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.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Do Opinion Magazines Still Matter in the Age of Blogs? — Franklin Foer, age 31, has been named the top editor at the legendary The New Republic. Many are wondering whether it matters. … TNR and its many cousins—National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation …
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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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Edward Wong / New York Times:
At Least 75 Dead in String of Attacks in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 28 — At least 75 Iraqis were killed in a maelstrom of violence today as insurgents carried out one of their deadliest offensives in weeks. The vast majority of the victims died in five powerful bombings in Baghdad …
Think Progress:
The Minnesota GOP's Stealth Attack On Privacy — A story by Minnesota Public Radio reveals a disturbing new way that a political party is secretly grabbing sensitive personal information about voters. — This week the Minnesota Republican Party is distributing a new CD about a proposed state marriage amendment.
Knight Ridder:
Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003 — WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war …
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Poor and Muslim? Jewish? Soup Kitchen Is Not for You. — PARIS, Feb. 27 — More than 200 political demonstrators defied a police ban here on Thursday, scurrying across Boulevard St.-Germain and under the sycamore trees of Place Maubert to engage in their forbidden action: eating "pig soup" in public.
Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
U.S. Opposes U.N.'s Planned Rights Panel — UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 27 — The Bush administration will oppose a U.N.-backed resolution calling for the creation of a council to expose the world's worst human rights abusers, John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Monday.
