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BBC:
Blair defiant over Iraq security — Tony Blair has refused to apologise for the security situation in Iraq, saying he bears no responsibility for it. — The prime minister told BBC Radio 4 that extremists trying to thwart Iraq's democracy were to blame for attacks.
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New York Times:
In Both Parties, 2008 Politeness Falls to Infighting — The sun was not yet up yesterday, and members of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign team were confronted with the kind of attack that most infuriates them: one questioning the character of Mrs. Clinton and her husband.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Cheney Chastises McCain — President Bush and Vice President Cheney both say they have sworn off commenting on the '08 race, so their words are being parsed for glimmers of their view of the race to succeed them. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was at odds with this president for years …
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Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Camps' Feud Is Out in the Open — An increasingly acrimonious competition between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to enlist the Democratic Party's leading fundraisers and operatives burst into the open yesterday, overshadowing what was billed as the presidential campaign's …
New York Times:
Iraq Insurgents Employ Chlorine in Bomb Attacks — A truck bomb that combined explosives with chlorine gas blew up in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, and officials said it might represent a new and deadly tactic by insurgents against Iraqi civilians. — It was at least the third truck bomb …
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Nadia Abou El-Magd / Associated Press:
Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to Prison — ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger. — Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student …
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
National Guard May Undertake Iraq Duty Early — The Pentagon is planning to send more than 14,000 National Guard troops back to Iraq next year, shortening their time between deployments to meet the demands of President Bush's buildup, Defense Department officials said Wednesday.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
A Lack of Courage In Their Convictions — Indiscriminate criticism of President George W. Bush is an infectious disease. Some conservatives seem to have caught it, but congressional Democrats might be crippled by it. — Consider some conservatives' reflexive rejection …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Tom Vilsack's Very, Very Bad Idea — I didn't watch the Democratic debate (debates? This early??), but then I noticed (h/t Atrios and Matt Yglesias) that Jonathan Singer at MyDD wrote this: … Price indexing? Yikes. Like Matt, I didn't want to leap to conclusions …
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Michelle Malkin:
Facebook nightmare: College Republican targeted by stalker speaks out — This is Richard Reed Pannell. He's a student at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. On Saturday, he was minding his own business, taking a shower in this house he shares with classmates...
Plain Dealer:
Two accused of plotting terror while in Cleveland — Prosecutors: They met man here to train them to aid insurgents in Iraq — Thousands of people came to Cleveland in July 2004 for a conference on Muslim families and the challenges they face, but two cousins had other motives in making …
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Senate illegals bill near complete — Senators and lobbyists are putting the final touches on a comprehensive immigration-reform bill that includes an easier citizenship path for illegal aliens and weaker enforcement provisions than were in the highly criticized legislation that the Senate approved last year.
New York Times:
American Liberty at the Precipice — In another low moment for American justice, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that detainees held at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, do not have the right to be heard in court. The ruling relied on a shameful law …
Xinhua News Agency:
9th U.S. helicopter crashes in Iraq — www.chinaview.cn 2007-02-22 16:48:23 — Special report:Tension escalates in Iraq — ¡¡ ¡¡BAGHDAD, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — A U.S. helicopter crashed in an area north of Baquba City, 65 km northeast of Baghdad, on Thursday …
Smash / The Indepundit:
The One Man Counter-Protest — ERIC ODESSIT takes on 300 defeatist protesters in San Diego. … What Eric does next is so simple and elegant, it drives the "artist" nuts. … Ah, so now defeatist protests are considered "art," and passing out flags is "vandalism." Got it.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REMEMBERING THE INDISPENSABLE MAN — Today is the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Of all the great men of the revolutionary era to whom we owe our freedom, Washington's greatness was the rarest, the most necessary, and, at this remove in time, the hardest to understand.
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