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Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
Clinton Objects to Confederate Flag — ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
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maristpoll.marist.edu:
National Poll: Presidential Campaign 2008 — This WNBC/Marist Poll reports: — · Hillary Clinton still outpaces her Democratic rivals nationwide as the Democrats' choice for their party's presidential nomination: Hillary Clinton outdistances her closest contender …
Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
Clinton defends consulting contract — FLORENCE, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday denied that her campaign traded money for an endorsement from one of South Carolina's most influential black politicians. — In an interview with The Associated Press …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney's Influence Lessens in Second Term — Administration More Pragmatic in Foreign Policy, Dealing With Congress — Mistrustful of North Korea and its willingness to keep promises, Vice President Cheney worked hard in President Bush's first term to prevent talks aimed at halting that country's push to develop a nuclear bomb.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Trial Spotlights Cheney's Power as an Infighter — A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush's first term.
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Prairie Weather
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Iraqi Militants Launch Attack on U.S. Outpost — In a rare coordinated assault on an American combat outpost north of Baghdad, suicide bombers drove one or more cars laden with explosives into the compound on Monday, while other insurgents opened fire in the ensuing chaos, according to witnesses and the American military.
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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) …
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Instapundit.com:
PAUL CAMPOS thinks I'm beyond the pale for suggesting (in this post, which he does not link) that the Bush Administration might have been better off trying to use covert action to kill Iranian nuclear scientists and radical mullahs, instead of having to look at the massive air strikes now reportedly …
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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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Phil Gramm / Opinion Journal:
Why John McCain — He's a leader for our times. — Four years ago I decided to quit while I was ahead and concluded my 24-year political career. When I left the Senate, I also left the public policy debate and talking-head role to those actually in the arena.
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Reason Magazine
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Indicted CIA Official Was in Charge of Ethics — The high-ranking CIA official accused of steering contracts to a childhood friend once oversaw ethics at the agency, according to federal charging papers. — The case against Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, whose indictment is linked to the investigation …
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
The Antiwar Surge — Iraq is unpopular, but embracing defeat may prove politically disastrous for Democrats. — In mid-January an Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that public support for President Bush's troop surge increased to 35%, up from 26% a few weeks earlier.
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court's new tilt could put Scalia on a roll — The outspoken justice is poised to lead a new conservative majority. — WASHINGTON — It has been two decades in the making, but this is the year Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most outspoken dissenter, could emerge as a leader of a new conservative majority.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Neutrality On the Net Gets High '08 Profile — Bloggers and other Internet activists made their marks in the past two presidential elections chiefly by building networks of political enthusiasts and raising money for candidates. Now, they are pushing aggressively into policymaking …
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Live: Zeidenberg's Prosecution Summation One — (Photo by REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst via Yahoo.) — NOTES: (1) This is not a transcript — It's the blogger's approximation, and no one really knows what that is yet! But I do know you shouldn't quote anything not in quotation marks.
Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Defence shield sites threatened by Russia — Russia threatened to train its missiles on Poland and the Czech Republic yesterday after the two countries signaled they would host a controversial US missile defence shield despite vehement objections from the Kremlin.