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10:30 PM ET, February 16, 2007

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victorycaucus.com:
Troop Support  —  Spirit of America is helping deploy The Snake Eater, a fingerprinting and information system to be used by the Iraqi Army to identify and track insurgents and terrorists.  They need your help to fund the project .  —  Soldier's Angels wants your help to send Valentines to the troops !
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David Stout / New York Times:
House Passes Iraq Resolution With 17 Votes From G.O.P.  —  After four days of emotional debate over the extent of presidential powers in wartime and the proper role of Congress, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution today denouncing President Bush's plan to send more American troops to Iraq.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Democrats Pass Resolution While Surge Goes Into Effect  —  The Democrats passed the House resolution objecting to the new surge strategy in Iraq even as American soldiers began to apply it in earnest.  House leadership had predicted a wave of Republican support for the non-binding proposal …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Passes Measure Opposing Troop Surge  —  Capping four days of passionate, often angry debate, the House delivered President Bush its first rebuke since the Iraq war was launched nearly four years ago, voting 246 to 182 to oppose the administration's planned deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops to Iraq.
Discussion: newsweek and Political Animal
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Civilian deaths in Iraq drop overnight  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The number of Iraqi civilians killed in Baghdad's sectarian violence fell drastically overnight, an Iraqi military official said Friday, crediting the joint U.S.-Iraqi security operation that began in force just days ago.
Hindrocket / Power Line:   HOUSE VOTE SPLITS ON PARTY LINES
Dan Gerstein / The Politico:
Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says  —  If the liberal blogs want to understand why so few people outside their narrow echo chamber take them seriously, and what it will take to gain the broader credibility they crave, they should look no further than their handling …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
The Passion Of The Marcotte  —  Content warning: This post is very long, and it sucks.  It's about the nonentity Marcotte, and, even given this target, the post just sucks.  But I spent an hour on this awful post, so it's not going to waste.  You may want to read Marcotte's self-pitying conspiracy theories …
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Glenn Greenwald Exposes Frank Gaffney  —  (graphic via Zach Trenholm) On Alan Colmes' radio show last night, Glenn Greenwald debated Frank Gaffney on his disgraceful article in The Washington Times wherein he argues — after opening with with a widely-discredited & fabricated quote — that dissent during war time is treasonous.
Discussion: Nitpicker, The Sideshow and INSTAPUTZ
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:   Debate with Frank Gaffney
James Kirchick / Examiner:
Who is really stifling honest debate about the Middle East?  —  WASHINGTON - Aside from the Iraq war — which has only consumed our attention for the past four years — is there an international issue that inspires more debate than the Arab-Israeli conflict?
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The Emory Wheel:
What's Jimmy Carter Afraid Of?
Discussion: Power Line and Decision '08
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Bomb explodes in southeastern Iran  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Police and insurgents clashed after a bombing in southeastern Iran late Friday near the site where an explosion killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards this week, Iranian news agencies reported.
CNN:
Abbi Tatton  —  Abbi Tatton is a political producer and Internet reporter for CNN.  Based in Washington, D.C., Tatton researches and reports on Web logs and general Internet content for The Situation Room.  —  As a political producer for the network, Tatton worked the 2004 campaign trail …
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Political Radar:
Romney explains '92 vote for Tsongas  —  ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger Reports: Republican presidential candididate Mitt Romney offered a new explanation today for why he supported a Democrat in 1992.  —  That year, Romney, then a registered independent, voted for former Sen. Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary.
Discussion: Redstate
Jeremy Redmon / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Anti-evolution memo stirs controversy  —  The Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect.
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Deepak Chopra / The Huffington Post:
Why Evolutionary Biology Embraces the Bogus (Part 1)  —  Recently quite a few stories have appeared in the media touting new explanations for such diverse things as altruism, generosity, and music.  These complex matters, we are told, can be traced to the brain, which is dependent upon genes …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Democrats Push New Strategy to Block Troop Increase  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats are pushing a new strategy to block an escalation of the Iraq war by restricting President Bush's military options in a new wartime spending bill.  The new approach — backed by leading antiwar groups …
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The Blotter:
Al Qaeda Attack Video Appears to Be Staged  —  Brian Ross and Hoda Osman Report:  —  An al Qaeda-produced video claiming to show how U.S. and Afghan forces were driven out of a heavily defended base in the last few weeks appears to be a phony.  —  U.S. and NATO military officials have studied …
Diana West / Washington Times:
What didn't happen at the Super Bowl  —  All civilizations fall.  That's what "they" say, and who can argue?  Even from the vantage point of the American superpower, the historic record — from Greece to Rome, from Mongols to Moguls, from the Age of Spain to Pax Britannica …
Discussion: Power Line
Andrew Cockburn / Los Angeles Times:
In Iraq, anyone can make a bomb  —  Improvised explosive devices don't require international conspiracies.  —  PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed penetrators — EFPs, which have proved especially deadly for U.S. troops in Iraq — are made in Iran and exported to Iraq.
New York Times:
Viewers Fast-Forwarding Past Ads?  Not Always  —  People with digital video recorders like TiVo never watch commercials, right?  —  Add that to the list of urban — and suburban — myths.  —  It turns out that a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding and time-shifting as much as advertisers feared.
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM), CBS News and SayUncle
 
 
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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
McCain Mutiny  —  Just as the presidential nomination process begins …
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Condemned to Repetition  —  The Group of 88's Monday event …
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John Bumgardner / WZZM-TV:
NBA bans Hardaway from weekend All Star game after anti-gay comment
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Terrorism not ruled out in Salt Lake case
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
The White Flag Republicans
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University of Illinois drops its mascot, I'm a bit perturbed
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Dispute Over Iraqi Cleric, Said to Have Gone to Iran
Discussion: The Corner and Needlenose
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Global Hot Air From the Media
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Nader says he may run in 2008, especially if Hillary gets the nomination
DefenseLINK:
Defense Department Media Roundtable With Secretary Of Defense …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:
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