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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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RAGGED THOTS, the talking dog, Think Progress, Sister Toldjah, The RCP Blog, Big Lizards, The Left Coaster and The Stakeholder
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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)
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.
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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:
Update 22: In New Video, Blanco Says Levees Are Safe — 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 new video obtained …
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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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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.
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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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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Slapstick Politics, Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt, Classical Values, Gina Cobb, The American Thinker, Don Surber and Wizbang
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Jason / Generation Why?:
Schools Gone Wild — If you can't win in the marketplace of ideas, the next best strategy is to try and indocrinate the future voters before they learn to think critically. That seems to be the strategy for the liberals and socialists who continue to see their philosophies rejected by a majority of Americans.
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 Novak / Townhall.com:
The Clintons of Dubai — WASHINGTON — While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was ripping President Bush's handling of American ports management, Bill Clinton was pushing for one of his favorite White House aides to be hired to defend the deal. The former president proposed to the United Arab Emirates …
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.
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 …
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 …
BBC:
Soviets 'ordered Pope shooting' — An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded that the former Soviet Union was behind the 1981 assassination attempt on the late Pope John Paul II. — The head of the commission, Paolo Guzzanti, said it was sure beyond "reasonable doubt" that Soviet leaders ordered the shooting.