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1:15 AM ET, February 20, 2007

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Roger Simon / The Politico:
On the Wings of McCain  —  I never mind flying with John McCain on tiny planes in snowy weather on windswept days.  And that is because I know as long as he is on board, the plane is not going to crash.  —  "I don't die in a plane," McCain said to me with a smile the other day as he shoehorned himself …
Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Mark Steyn's Final Solution to the Euro-Muslim Problem  —  Updates below: Steyn and Reynolds respond, and I reply.  —  Three weeks ago, Christopher Hitchens reviewed Mark Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, for City Journal, the publication of the Manhattan Institute.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MARK STEYN RESPONDS to bogus charges that he favors genocide:
Discussion: INSTAPUTZ and The RBC
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Steyn and Genocide  —  Mark Kleiman wonders what the following …
Discussion: The Corner and The RBC
Murray Waas / National Journal:
The Libby-Cheney Connection  —  Libby Testimony Raises More Questions About Cheney's Role In The CIA Leak Case  —  In the fall of 2003, as a federal criminal probe was just getting underway to determine who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media, I. Lewis "Scooter" …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
The Defendant Isn't the Only Player With a Personal Stake in the Libby Verdict
Discussion: Firedoglake
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Clinton Courts S.C.'s Black Voters  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Hundreds waited in line outside Allen University's Adams Gymnatorium here for the chance to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speak in her first visit to South Carolina as a presidential candidate.  —  After a marching band …
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Little Green Footballs:
LA Times Publishes Iran Propaganda Claim, Ignores Fauxtography  —  The Los Angeles Times gives credence to Iran's bogus claim that the US is behind two recent attacks in Iran: Iran alleges U.S. link to militant attack. … They include this picture, a screen capture from Iranian TV:
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Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Iran alleges U.S. link to militant attack
Gateway Pundit:
Iran Hangs Zahedan Bomber On National Television
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Washington Post:
Army Fixing Patients' Housing  —  Walter Reed Army Medical Center began repairs yesterday on Building 18, a former hotel that is used to house outpatients recuperating from injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan and that has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Unbearably, painfully, depressingly funny
Associated Press:
Lawmaker Tries To Ban Naked Lady Mudflaps  —  State House Refuses To Restrict Splash Guard Images  —  PHOENIX — It's still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.  —  The state House on Thursday rejected …
River / Baghdad Burning:
The Rape of Sabrine...  It takes a lot to get the energy and resolution to blog lately.  I guess it's mainly because just thinking about the state of Iraq leaves me drained and depressed.  But I had to write tonight.  —  As I write this, Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we get on Nilesat) …
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Bush compares Revolutionary, terror wars  —  MOUNT VERNON, Va. - President Bush honored the 275th birthday of the nation's first president on Monday, likening George Washington's long struggle that gave birth to a nation to the war on global terrorism.  —  "Today, we're fighting a new war …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Can a Saudi Dealmaker Rescue Bush?  —  For 22 years Prince Bandar bin Sultan wheeled and dealed his way through Washington as Saudi Arabia's ambassador.  By his account — provided expansively to favored journalists — he had a hand in most of America's major initiatives in the Middle East over a generation.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Lincoln Resumes Position as Americans' Top-Rated President  —  Reagan and Clinton lead among members of their respective parties  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Since noted historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. declared Abraham Lincoln to be the country's best president in his 1948 poll of 55 historians …
Ibrahim Ahmed / Fox News:
MUSLIM CABBIE CHARGED WITH RUNNING OVER STUDENTS AFTER RELIGIOUS DISPUTE  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Muslim cabdriver from Somalia ran over two college students near Vanderbilt University after getting into an argument with them about religion, police said.  —  Ibrahim Ahmed, 37 …
Joe Conason / Salon:
It could happen here  —  Can it happen here?  Is it happening here already?  That depends, as a recent president might have said, on what the meaning of "it" is.  —  To Sinclair Lewis, who sardonically titled his 1935 dystopian novel "It Can't Happen Here," "it" plainly meant an American version …
Washington Post:
Almost Everyone Lies, Often Seeing It as a Kindness  —  The perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby goes to the jury this week.  The case speaks to several issues — how the Bush administration deals with critics of the war in Iraq, and the games that Washington's reporters and politicians play with each other.
Discussion: Unfogged and Decision '08
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
NATIONAL SECURITY WISH....The debasement of our national security …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Angry Bear
Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Accused Terrorist Is Big GOP Donor
Jesse Walker / Reason Magazine:
None Dare Call It George Washington's Birthday
Discussion: uggabugga
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Russia delays Iran atom plant work as tensions rise
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Joe Bodell / Minnesota Monitor:
Interview with Al Franken, U.S. Senate Candidate
Dick Polman / Philly.com:
The American Debate | Welcome to McCain's flip-flop express
Little Green Footballs:
Video: BBC "Truther" Investigation
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
For Gods and Country  —  The Army Chaplain Who Wanted to Switch to Wicca?
Discussion: CorrenteWire and NewsHog
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David Abel / Boston Globe:
Romney joined NRA in August
George F. Will / Newsweek:
A Cheerful Anachronism  —  Rep. Ron Paul says he can find …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and UrbanGrounds
Cliff Schecter:
My Conversation With McCain Recall Organizer Leonard Clark
Guardian:
Rice puts Musharraf under pressure to rein in Taliban militants
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Militants Attack U.S. Base in Iraq
Cahal Milmo / Independent:
Organic farming 'no better for the environment'
New York Times:
Making Martial Law Easier
Discussion: QandO, NewsHog and TigerHawk
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
HEAVENLY DEAL  —  SIRIUS, XM SET TO CONFIRM MERGER PLAN TODAY