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Ben Domenech / Red America:
Pachyderms in the Mist: Red America and the MSM — This is a blog for the majority of Americans. — Since the election of 1992, the extreme political left has fought a losing battle. Their views on the economy, marriage, abortion, guns, the death penalty, health care, welfare, taxes …
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Editor and Publisher:
'Wash Post' Launches Conservative Blog, Provokes a 'Firestorm' — NEW YORK During the recent controversy surrounding Dan Froomkin's blog at The Washington Post, editors not only decided to clearly label his column "opinion" but also to make an effort to hire a conservative blogger to balance his alleged liberal slant.
James M. Brady / Washington Post:
Letter to Wash. Post executive editor re: blogger Ben Domenech — Dear Mr. Brady: — I noted with interest the Post's decision to add Republican operative Ben Domenech to its roster of bloggers. — Presumably, this decision grew out of reported complaints both inside and outside …
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White House:
Press Conference of the President — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Yesterday I delivered a — the second in a series of speeches on the situation in Iraq. I spoke about the violence that the Iraqi people had faced since last month's bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra.
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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Defends Decisions on Iraq War — WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday the decision about when to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq will fall to future presidents and Iraqi leaders, suggesting that U.S. involvement will continue at least through 2008.
Charles J. Hanley / Associated Press:
Documents Show Saddam's WMD Frustrations — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to the world they'd given up banned weapons. — "We don't have anything hidden!" the frustrated Iraqi president interjected at one meeting, transcripts show.
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Washington Post:
Freedom, Yes, Iraqis Say, But at Great, Grave Cost — Contrasts to Hussein Era Leave Some Hopeful, Others Bitter — BAGHDAD, March 20 — By almost any standard, Bashar Muhammed, the owner of a thriving Internet cafe, is a Baghdad success story. Three years after the United States invaded Iraq …
Michelle Malkin:
THE UNITED NATIONS SMEARS LEGO — ***scroll for updates*** — Today is The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is celebrating the day with this vile poster portraying Denmark's most famous company as racist:
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National Review:
How It's Looking — EDITOR'S NOTE: In a energetic lunchtime address and Q&A Monday in Cleveland, President Bush spoke about progress in Iraq and a "strategy for victory" there. — To mark the three-year anniversary this week of the Coalition going into Iraq, National Review Online gathered …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
SMALL GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVES REVISITED....Andrew Sullivan has responded to my question about exactly what he'd cut in order to balance the budget without repealing Bush's tax cuts or cutting defense spending. Here's his list: … Let's unpack this. Remember the ground rules …
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Justices Signal Court Testimony's Primacy — All but Ginsburg lean toward defendants having the right to 'be confronted' by accusers, even in cases of domestic violence and abuse. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices, with the exception of Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
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David W. Chen / New York Times:
Cheney at Fund-Raiser, but Not With the Candidate — NEWARK, March 20 — In the biggest campaign fund-raiser yet on behalf of State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to New Jersey on Monday and praised Mr. Kean as someone with "the experience …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Man Overboard — I have a new theory about what's behind everything that's wrong with the Bush administration: manliness. — "Manliness" is the unapologetic title of a new book by Harvey C. Mansfield, a conservative professor of government at Harvard University, which makes him a species …
Agora:
UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diéne calls Danes Racists, Xenophobes — Saturday, March 18th Jyllands-Posten broke the story about an attack by UN special rapporteur Doudou Diéne on Denmark. The report has yet to be released to the public in full, but it was leaked by the UN to press sources in Denmark.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The Planet of Unreality — This is not good. The people running this country sound convinced that reality is whatever they say it is. And if they've actually strayed into the realm of genuine self-delusion — if they actually believe the fantasies they're spinning about the bloody mess they've …
Michelle Malkin:
HANGIN' WITH THE MOONBATS — Lunchtime viewing: Bryan Preston has posted "The Dud," a short video of our encounters with the fizzling anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C., yesterday. A few stills... Cindy Sheehan: "The enemy is our government." Background. — How's that sandwich?
Stephen Bates / Guardian:
Archbishop: stop teaching creationism — Williams backs science over Bible — The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying that he does not believe that creationism - the Bible-based account …
Kim Barker / Chicago Tribune:
Prosecutors, judge, family insist convert should die — KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdul Rahman told his family he was a Christian. He told the neighbors, bringing shame upon his home. But then he told the police, and he could no longer be ignored. — Now, in a major test …
Crooks and Liars:
Pat Robertsonon College Professors: you know some of them are killers — Pat Robertson on College Professors: "you know some of them are killers!" — Pat Robertson had another one of his moments today on the 700 Club, while interviewing David Horowitz. I didn't realize the amount of terror these termites are causing...
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Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The Stone Face of Zarqawi — Iraq is no "distraction" from al Qaeda. — In February 2004, our Kurdish comrades in northern Iraq intercepted a courier who was bearing a long message from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to his religious guru Osama bin Laden. The letter contained a deranged analysis …
prisonplanet.com:
Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story — Calls for truly independent investigation, joins growing ranks of prominent credible whistleblowers — Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a growing army of other highly credible public figures in questioning the official story of 9/11 …