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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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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Poll Finds Americans Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Port Deal — WASHINGTON — Americans, by a greater than 3 to 1 margin, oppose the proposed deal that would allow a state-owned Arab firm to assume control of operations at several U.S. ports, a Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
USA Today:
Americans oppose port deal — WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly oppose the proposed sale of cargo operations at six major U.S. seaports to a Dubai firm, calling it a threat to the nation's security, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Tuesday and Wednesday. (Related:Ports poll results)
TKS on National Review Online:
AFTER THE PORT DEAL, HOW ELSE DOES THE TIPPING POINT AFFECT OUR POLITICS? [03/02 06:53 PM] — I'll be traveling for a couple of days, so here's some food for thought until we get back. — More polls showing strong, strong opposition to the DPW ports deal - 66 percent opposed in the USA Today poll …
Associated Press:
New Video Shows Blanco Saying Levees Safe — WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hectic, confused hours after Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast, Louisiana's governor hesitantly but mistakenly assured the Bush administration that New Orleans' protective levees were intact, according to a new video obtained …
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Captain's Quarters, Confederate Yankee, The Anchoress, I Am, Therefore I Think, A Blog For All and PoliPundit.com
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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 …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Senate Approves Patriot Act Renewal — WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday gave its blessing to the renewal of the USA Patriot Act after adding new privacy protections designed to strike a better balance between civil liberties and the government's power to root out terrorists.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Approves Renewal of Antiterrorism Bill — WASHINGTON, March 2 — The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to extend the Patriot Act, clearing the way for the House to wrap up its work on the anti-terrorism bill and send it to President Bush before it expires on March 10.
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.
Carol / THE MEDIAN SIB:
Jay Bennish - Communist Agent for Colorado Schools — Thursday Thirteen - Thirteen Books for Read Across America Week — Read Across America and Dr. Seuss's Birthday — Worst Meal I've Ever Prepared! Plus It Stunk Up The House — Why Education is Important — Carnivals!
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Victor L. Simpson / Associated Press:
Italian Panel: Soviets Behind Pope Attack — An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John Paul II _ a theory long alleged but never proved, according to a draft report made available Thursday.
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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.
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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 …
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.
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved — Frontpage Interview's guest today is Ryan Mauro, who spoke at the recent 2006 International Intelligence Summit on Iraq. He is the 19-year old author of Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq and founder of WorldThreats.com.
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WorldNetDaily:
Top terrorist sighting raises no FBI interest — Al-Qaida operative known as 'next Mohamed Atta' spotted in California, law enforcement goes AWOL — WASHINGTON - Two Americans believe they have spotted Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the al-Qaida operative identified as "the next Mohamed Atta" …
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.
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 …