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Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
Bush Is Warned on Katrina in Video — Footage of a briefing full of dire predictions renews criticism of the government's response. — WASHINGTON — Newly released video footage taken just hours before Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast shows that federal officials delivered stark warnings …
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
L.A. Times Dishonestly Portrays Contents of Video in Which Bush Is Warned About Katrina — The L.A. Times web site is trumpeting a story titled Bush Is Warned on Katrina in Video. I suspect that this will be Page One in the print edition this morning. The story dishonestly reports the facts …
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Washington Post:
U.S., India Seal Nuclear Deal — Accord Sets Up Sharing of Data, Fuel to Satisfy Rising Energy Needs — NEW DELHI, March 2 — President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh struck what both leaders called an historic agreement Thursday to provide U.S. nuclear power assistance …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The President's Indian Fantasy — The rash nukes pledge is typical of Bush's strategic shortsightedness. — It takes a great strategic mind, something like a chess master's, to think three or four moves ahead in plotting international diplomacy. It would be nice if the Bush administration, now and then, could think one move ahead.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
03/02/06 FOX Poll: Most Oppose Port Deal; Republicans Lose Ground — NEW YORK — Most Americans oppose allowing a Dubai company to run some U.S. ports, even as a majority understands the U.S. would continue to control port security, according to a new FOX News poll.
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Murray Waas / hotstory.nationaljournal.com:
What Bush Was Told About Iraq — Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq …
Steven G. Vegh / Virginian-Pilot:
Religious broadcasters fear lost viewership under pay-by-channel idea — The idea of paying for only the cable channels they want might have strong appeal for consumers, but to religious programmers, the prospect seems just short of apocalyptic. — Pay-per-channel pricing …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Alito's Note to Evangelist Is Called Just Thanks — WASHINGTON, March 1 — In his first weeks on the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. sent a note to Dr. James C. Dobson, the influential Christian conservative, thanking him for his support and vowing that "as long as I serve on the Supreme Court …
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Associated Press:
Rice shows off her fitness regime — WASHINGTON (AP) — Condoleezza Rice, the nation's top diplomat, is appearing in a three-part TV interview in which she rides a bike, works on her abs, pumps iron and talks about her weight. — Public figures usually do not go public when they work on their figures …
Kevin Vaughan / Rocky Mountain News:
Students protest teacher's suspension — Hundreds of students walked out of Overland High School this morning in protest after a controversy involving a geography teacher and his statements about President Bush. — Many of the students supported the teacher, Jay Bennish …
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Karen Rouse / Denver Post:Teacher caught in Bush "rant"
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Rhetoric of Unreality — When late in the spring of 1940 people of southeastern England flocked across the Channel in their pleasure craft and fishing boats to evacuate soldiers trapped on Dunkirk beaches, euphoria swept Britain. So Prime Minister Winston Churchill sternly told the nation …
Agora:
Cartoonist's Daughter Hunted by 12 Jihadists — Update: I have now posted the transcript of the interview with Jens Rohde at the bottom of this post. — Update: See below for comments from the Police Intelligence Service — Hmmm.. It seems that all I had to do to get back to blogging was getting my indignation recharged.
villagevoice.com:
Editor's Note: What Happened to That Cover Story? — Early Wednesday morning, the Voice learned that the concluding section of this week's cover story, "Do You Wanna Kiss Me?" by senior associate editor Nick Sylvester, contained fabricated material. In that section, Sylvester says he met …
Associated Press:
Miss. House Advances Bill to Ban Abortion — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday he would probably sign a bill under consideration in the state House that would ban most abortions in Mississippi. — The measure, which passed the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday …
John Derbyshire / The Corner on National Review Online:
WFB AND OTHERS ON IRAQ — I have just been reading Bill Buckley's most recent column: … This is exactly right. However, Bill does not offer an estimate of the likelihood of that success. I am more reckless than Bill (translate: have far, far less of a reputation at stake), so here I go with my estimate: low to zero.
Gabriel Sherman / The New York Observer Media Mob:
Times Diversity Report: "A Newspaper at Risk" — After a 10-month study, the New York Times Diversity Council issued its confidential internal report yesterday. The 39-page document, made available to staffers, describes The Times as "a newspaper at risk" on diversity matters and says the paper is …
Robert D. Kaplan / Washington Post:
We Can't Force Democracy — Creating Normality Is the Real Mideast Challenge — The whiff of incipient anarchy in Iraq in recent days has provided a prospect so terrifying as to concentrate the minds of Republicans and Democrats, Iraq's sectarian political factions, and even the media.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The NSA scandal now clearly includes interception of domestic communications, perjury and presidential lying — Alberto Gonzales sent a letter (.pdf) to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday which contained what Gonzales called numerous "clarifications" of the testimony he gave on February 6 regarding the NSA program.
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Embarrassing the Angels — Or, that's no way to treat a lady. — I want to revise and extend my remarks, as they say, from last week's column on airport security. The reaction was great, but I have two reasons to amend. The first is that I didn't really get to the heart …
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The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.* — "Who seems to really know what they're doing...?" — That was the starter question for the Blue Plate Special team: fifteen undergraduates in journalism at NYU, two graduate students, one professor. (A.k.a. "the Specials" or "Blue Plates.")
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