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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Failed Cover-Up — Why was the White House so nervous in the summer of 2003 about the CIA's reporting on alleged Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Niger to build a nuclear bomb? That's the big question that runs through the many little details that have emerged in the perjury trial …
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Agent: Libby may have talked of outing operative with Cheney
Agent: Libby may have talked of outing operative with Cheney
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial: Where Everybody Knows...
Libby Trial: Where Everybody Knows...
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution — A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.
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Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Split on Measure Opposing Bush — Compromise Called Weak; Report Raises Estimate of Troops Needed for 'Surge' — Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
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New York Times:
Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning to Curb Gases — The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.
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Craig Gordon / Newsday:
On paper, Rudy's unsure — Giuliani's government filings don't lend hints to his presidential run - he hasn't submitted a declaration form or checked the Republican box — WASHINGTON - Republicans looking at Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for president always ask two questions - is he really running, and is he a "real Republican?"
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New York Post:
MCCAIN TO CRASH RUDY'S MANHATTAN PARTY — By MAGGIE HABERMAN in N.Y. and FREDRIC U. DICKER in Albany — The New York GOP chairman has lined up Arizona Sen. John McCain to star at a major party fund-raiser alongside presidential-primary rival Rudy Giuliani, a move some see as a diss of the former mayor in his home state.
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Thomas Z. Freedman / Washington Post:
How to Really Help Low-Wage Workers — If the House and Senate are able to agree on a minimum-wage hike and the president signs the bill, some may say we will have done enough to help low-income workers. It's true that low-wage workers urgently need a raise, that millions of Americans work full …
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Jerusalem Post:
Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting — Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen. — Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …
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Daily Mail:
Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang — Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged. — The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Websites denounce British Muslim soldiers
Websites denounce British Muslim soldiers
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for The Killing — This week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering — Sunni vs. Shiite, Kurd vs. Arab, jihadist vs. infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom — went bizarre. In one of the biggest battles of the war …
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Exxon and Shell Report Record Profits for 2006 — Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday. — By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed …
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Tim F. / Balloon Juice:
Congrats, Glenn — Greenwald joins Salon. — In response to some reader complaints Glenn wrote: … I have a hard time understanding this "controversy." The blogosphere isn't one uniform place. There isn't one way to be a blogger, there isn't one way to be a liberal blogger …
Maya Angelou / Washington Post:
Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call — The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking. — That Jericho voice is stilled now. — Molly Ivins has been quieted. — The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
NIE: The Surge Can't Work — Wow, this is grim. According to the just-released Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, political reconciliation is likely a bridge too far over the next year and a half. — The Sunnis remain "unwilling to accept minority status" …
Danny / Beltway Blogroll:
Anti-Blog Hysteria In The State Capitols — First Texas, now Tennessee. There's something strange in the state legisaltive air, as lawmakers keep introducing anti-blog bills and then backing down when bloggers start screaming. — I mentioned the Texas story in passing a couple of months ago in one of my blog bits roundups.
Associated Press:
Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring — PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction. — Phil did not see his shadow on Friday, which, according to German folklore …
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Suburban Guerrilla
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
ISRAEL FANS GROAN OVER HILL SPEECH — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew grumbles at a pro-Israel dinner in Times Square last night when she encouraged "engaging" with Iran before taking stronger action to keep it nuke-free. — Clinton said she wasn't sure "anything positive would come out of it" …