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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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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 …
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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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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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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Britain to Trim Iraq Force by 1,600 in Coming Months
Britain to Trim Iraq Force by 1,600 in Coming Months
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New York Times:
Report Finds Iran in Breach of U.N. Order — In open defiance of the United Nations, Iran is steadily expanding — rather than freezing — its efforts to enrich uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported today. The findings have prompted the Bush Administration to press …
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Associated Press:
U.S. troops find chemicals in Iraq raid — BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops raided a car bomb factory west of Baghdad with five buildings full of propane tanks and ordinary chemicals the military believes were to be used in bombs, a spokesman said Thursday, a day after insurgents blew up a truck carrying chlorine gas canisters.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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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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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Michelle Malkin:
Facebook nightmare: College Republican targeted by stalker speaks out — ***bumped to the top...updated with police report summary*** — 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 …
James Murray / Green Business News:
Emission trading suffers as carbon prices plummet — A leading economist this week warned that the world's two leading carbon trading schemes are failing to deliver the expected benefits due to a collapse in the price of carbon credits - and the situation is likely to get far worse before it gets better.
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
The Romney Rope-a-Dope — The consensus out there in Blogistan is that it's been a bad week for Mitt Romney. Some more YouTubes have surfaced, people are talking about his history on abortion and his most prominent pro-life backer offered a couple of infelicities during his first go-round with the press.
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 …
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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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Role Reversal: The White House Press Corps Faces Answers Questions from Tony Snow — In what CBS's Bob Schieffer called a "man-bites-dog story," White House press secretary Tony Snow put A-list reporters on the spot Tuesday night, in front of C-SPAN cameras.