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3:45 PM ET, February 22, 2007

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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 …
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Geffen-Clinton snit tests Obama
Discussion: Redstate and Matthew Yglesias
Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Why the British are scaling back in Iraq  —  The military can't fight there and in Afghanistan without approaching 'operational failure,' one critic says.  Something had to give.  —  LONDON — Britain's decision to pull 1,600 troops out of Iraq by spring, touted by U.S. and British leaders …
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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:
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
Report says nuclear work ongoing in Iran
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Paul Campos' response to Glenn Reynolds  —  Last Tuesday, right-wing Law Professor Glenn Reynolds wrote a post calling for the murder of Iranian atomic scientists and "radical mullahs," and I wrote about Reynolds' "idea" here.  On Monday of this week, University of Colorado Law School Professor …
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.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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 …
Discussion: Danger Room
 
 
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Lou Dobbs / CNN:
Will the Democrats save their souls?
Discussion: The Agonist
Andrea Estes / Boston Globe:
Patrick: 'We screwed up' on spending
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Editor and Publisher:
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Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
In China, Stern Treatment For Young Internet 'Addicts'
Discussion: CBS News
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
The Romney Rope-a-Dope
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Feel the surge of the Victory Caucus
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Cynthia Leonor Garza / Houston Chronicle:
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Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Guardian:
Global capitalism now has no serious rivals.  But it could destroy itself
Discussion: normblog and Tim Worstall
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Role Reversal: The White House Press Corps Faces Answers Questions from Tony Snow
James Murray / Green Business News:
Emission trading suffers as carbon prices plummet
Bill Harlan / Rapid City Journal:
Committee kills abortion ban
Bryan / Hot Air:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Let's help Hugo butch up his military
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Worn-Out Economic Ideas
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Decision '08
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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