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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WaPo quasi-retracts page-one story about Feith Iraq/AQ intel — Spruiell e-mails with the subject header, "Good Lord." Indeed. — They're calling it a "correction," but is it really a correction if you're quoting from an entirely different document than the one you thought you were?
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Washington Post:
Senators Debate Significance of Pentagon Report On Intelligence — Senate Democrats and Republicans disagreed yesterday over the meaning and importance of a Defense Department inspector general's conclusion that a Pentagon policy office produced and gave senior policymakers …
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Booman Tribune
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says — The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran. — The assertion of an Iranian role in supplying the device …
Washington Post:
Troops Shared Firm Belief in Iraq Service — Navy Medic, Marine Pleaded to Return; Other Marine Followed Brother's Path — One was a Navy medic, the other a Marine sergeant. Both begged to go back to Iraq for another tour of duty. A third followed her brother into the Marine Corps and, eventually, into the war.
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Dan Collins / protein wisdom:
Balloon Juice — Wuzzadem John sends me this email:
Balloon Juice — Wuzzadem John sends me this email:
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Balloon Juice
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Young Woman Meets Tragic End — No, It's Not Anna Nicole
Young Woman Meets Tragic End — No, It's Not Anna Nicole
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The Impolitic, The Carpetbagger Report, Middle Earth Journal, The Democratic Daily, Attytood and Think Progress
Drudge Report:
OBAMA: IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE ONE — Acknowledging that his presidential campaign has opened a racial debate, Sen. Barack Obama, who has a white mother and an African father, says if you look African-American, you are treated like one.
Carol Giacomo / Reuters:
Poll shows Arabs dislike Bush — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement. — The survey of 3,850 people …
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Special Super Journamalism Barack-Atah-Adonai-Elohenu-Melech-Ha- Olam Shabbat Candle-Lighting Blogging!! — Friday at sundown is a fitting moment to take note of a particularly pathetic piece of Journamalism from Mike Allen at the Politico. — You see, Mike Allen begins his trashing of Barack Obama.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Best of the Tube This Weekend: Watch James Taranto on "Lou Dobbs Tonight." CNN, 6-7 p.m. EST tonight, with a repeat showing at 4 a.m. EST Saturday. — Denying the Future — The Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman starts off a column about global warming on a loopy note:
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Target Iran: US able to strike in the spring — Despite denials, Pentagon plans for possible attack on nuclear sites are well advanced — US preparations for an air strike against Iran are at an advanced stage, in spite of repeated public denials by the Bush administration, according to informed sources in Washington.
Ray Rivera / New York Times:
Giuliani Shifts Abortion Speech Gently to Right — As he prepares for a possible run for president — a road that goes deep into the heart of conservative America — Rudolph W. Giuliani takes with him a belief in abortion rights that many think could derail his bid to capture the Republican nomination.
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
For Lawyers, No Clear Favorite — Litigators Backed Edwards in 2004, but He Has New Competition — In the last presidential election, John Edwards had the powerful support and deep pockets of the nation's trial lawyers behind him. But when the lawyers gather for their winter conference today …
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda Suspects Color White House Debate Over Iran — Last week, the CIA sent an urgent report to President Bush's National Security Council: Iranian authorities had arrested two al-Qaeda operatives traveling through Iran on their way from Pakistan to Iraq.
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This Modern World
Real Cities:
Democratic voters growing impatient with Congress — CHICAGO - In Washington, Democrats are blaming Republicans for the Senate's failure so far to vote on a resolution opposing a troop increase in Iraq. — But in the heartland, some voters say such excuses no longer are good enough.
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Oliver Willis
David Burge / iowahawk:
MY FAIR BLOGGER — Book by Iowahawk — Music by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner — Based on "Fascist Pigmalian" by the Reality-Based Community Dinner Theater — I tell you why there are two Americas, my dear Dr. Dean. Man is a product of his environment. — HOWARD DEAN — Balderdash!
Little Green Footballs:
Qana Media Swarm Revealed — Here's a photograph taken during the ghoulish dead baby display after Israel's bombing of the town of Qana, at the height of the Hizballah media blitz, but from a different angle than the dozens and dozens of similar photos that were splashed all over the front pages of the newspapers of the world.
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Billionaire Offers $25M Prize to Fight 'Warming' — British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons …
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A Second Hand Conjecture, The Reaction, Don Surber, Gun Toting Liberal ™, QandO, Marginal Revolution and CorrenteWire
Political Radar:
White House Red-Faced Over Rove Immigration Remark — ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove explained the Bush Administration's guest worker program and immigration policy at a luncheon Thursday by saying, "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."
Agence France Presse:
Soviet monument to make way for Reagan: report — Opponents of Poland's former communist regime reportedly want to pay a posthumous homage to US President Ronald Reagan by erecting his statue in the place of a Soviet-era monument. — In an open letter to the mayor of the southwestern city of Katowice …
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Redstate