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9:40 PM ET, February 18, 2007

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Investor's Business Daily:
Unparalleled Perfidy  —  War On Terror: The party of John Murtha shamelessly seeks to defund and defeat U.S. troops on the battlefield and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  The Congress the terrorists wanted is doing their bidding.  —  There's a reason the founders of this country designated …
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Why the Iraq war is turning into America's defeat  —  The week's news from Iraq: According to the state television network, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded in a clash with security forces just north of Baghdad.  A senior deputy was killed.
Think Progress:
Hume: Murtha Is Senile, Doesn't Have 'The Foggiest Awareness' Of What's Going On In The World  —  This morning on Fox News, Brit Hume launched a scathing diatribe against Rep. John Murtha's (D-PA) character.  "It's time a few things be said about him," Hume said.
Discussion: News Hounds and Crooks and Liars
IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Hume smacks down Murtha; doesn't know "what the heck is going on in the world"  —  Brit Hume smacked down John Murtha on this morning's edition of Fox News Sunday.  The Fox News host started his sizzling with "it's time a few things be said about him."  Indeed.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA  —  Investors Business Daily …
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Little Green Footballs:
Iranian Fauxtography Bust  —  At Iran's Fars News Agency, LGF readers tipped me off to a blatant Photoshop fraud in an article claiming to have discovered US weapons in Iran: Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals.  (Beware.  The Fars News site resizes your browser window without asking, and may attempt other more sneaky things.)
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farsnews.com:
Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals  —  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry.
Discussion: Flopping Aces
SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:
Brent Budowsky: Dear Editor, Washington Post  —  From Brent Budowsky  —  Mr. Kaiser, I am forwarding below the note I wrote to Messrs.  Graham and Hiatt about Outlook's Victoria Toensing piece today.  —  With all due respect, I have long admired your work, but that piece today …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
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Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
Sullivan's Rewrite  —  Andrew Sullivan has been slinging the word "Christianist" about with sanctimonious ease for some time now.  He never misses a chance to point out a news story and filter it through the "Christianist" lens.  He's written a book on the subject.
Discussion: Hot Air and Liberal Values
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Faiz / Think Progress:
True 'Fair And Balanced' Coverage: Wallace Calls Out Feith For Lying On Fox News  —  Last week on Fox News Sunday, former Rumsfeld aide Douglas Feith told Chris Wallace, "Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.  It's just not correct.
Discussion: Eschaton
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace shoots down Feith's claims
Discussion: driftglass and The Impolitic
Mahmoud Habboush / NY Daily News:
Killer's daughter admits it was political  —  GAZA CITY - Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Man of Mystery  —  Richard Hohlt is the heavy hitter you've never heard of.  —  Robert Novak, as usual, had a scoop to unload—only this time, it was from the witness stand.  Testifying last week in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) …
Discussion: The Washington Note
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Did Rove Know And When Did He Know It?
Discussion: TalkLeft
John / AMERICAblog:
It's time to fire Major General George W. Weightman, now  —  fark it!  Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman is the guy in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the army facility where our wounded troops are being treated like scum.  Weightman admits that he knew of the mistreatment of our war veterans …
Martin Peretz / Opinion Journal:
House Call  —  Political expediency and the nonbinding resolution.  —  Our political imagination of evil is impoverished, and nowhere is it more impoverished than in Iraq.  Even today, when the blood of innocents flows so richly and regularly, we do not seem to grasp its origins, or its power.
Paul Kennedy / Los Angeles Times:
The good old days of the Cold War  —  Don't wax too nostalgic — the world was once a much more dangerous place.  —  IT WAS FUNNY, in a grim sort of way.  Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates responded to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin's polemical attack on the United States …
Matthew Yglesias:
You Do What You Can  —  It seems to me that as of one day before Election Day 2006, progressives had a solid grasp of what good things would flow from winning congressional majorities.  In brief:  — No more domestic agenda for George W. Bush.  — Oversight hearings.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hillary: Sound Retreat In 90 Days, Or Else  —  Hillary Clinton, stung by attacks from the Left on her vote to authorize the war in Iraq, has heeled around and now demands an immediate end to the effort.  A video on her campaign web site demands that the US begin its retreat in 90 days …
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Bill Maxwell / St. Petersburg Times:
White House delivers surge in lies, hypocrisy
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Reid Lets Senate Go Into Recess
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Will Elizabeth Edwards Resign, Too?
Discussion: Done With Mirrors
Associated Press:
2 Baghdad Car Bombs Kill 56, Injure Scores
Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
FRANK RICH: Oh What a Malleable War
Laith / Inside Iraq:
Benefits of the security plan
Atrios / Eschaton:
Tear It Down  —  It'll be unfair to him and to Mormons …
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Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
In Majority, Democrats Run Hill Much as GOP Did
Discussion: Decision '08 and PrairiePundit
BREITBART.COM:
Iran: US 'will lose in Middle East'
Reuters:
Cuba honors American who made Castro a legend
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Think Progress:
Experts Speak: No Good Military Options in Iran
Discussion: The Left Coaster
New York Times:
They Are America  —  Almost a year ago, hundreds of thousands …
Denis Campbell / Observer:
Women will be paid to donate eggs for science
New Scientist:
Asteroid threat demands response, experts warn