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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Giuliani 52% Clinton 43% — In a match-up between the early 2008 frontrunners, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) leads New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) 52% to 43%. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Giuliani's lead growing in recent months.
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Howard Schneider / Washington Post:
Cheney Reiterates Criticism of House Speaker Pelosi — Vice President Cheney today repeated his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's approach toward the Iraq war would benefit al-Qaeda, saying that he was not trying to impugn the speaker's patriotism but instead hold her accountable for the consequences of her policies.
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Talking Points Memo, Booman Tribune, Angry Bear, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Democrats.com and IntoxiNation
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ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Cheney Holds Firm on Iraq Achievements — The Vice President Highlights Iraq Success Stories, North Korea Nuke Agreement — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney refused to acknowledge failure of any U.S. policy in Iraq, touting the fall of Saddam Hussein …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
New Republic to Cut Back Publication Schedule — The New Republic, the thinning left-leaning weekly magazine whose circulation has plunged in the era of the Web, is overhauling itself with a new configuration of owners, who are investing in a new look for the magazine and cutting back its publication schedule to every two weeks.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Republic Sold, to Drop Weekly Publication Schedule — The Canadian media giant CanWest has taken a majority stake in the 92-year-old New Republic, and plans to relaunch the weekly as a thicker, glossier - and half as frequent - magazine with a more robust Web site.
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Political Animal
Christine Stuart / ctnewsjunkie.com:
Lieberman Calls for Political Cease-fire — U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman called for a "political cease-fire" for the next six-months to give the new military leadership a chance to show the public the new strategy is working. — Lieberman who met with state officials in Hartford Friday said …
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, so we've prepared a little Joe Lieberman care package …
Okay, so we've prepared a little Joe Lieberman care package …
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TIME: Swampland
Associated Press:
AP: Vilsack to end White House bid — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday. — Vilsack left office in January …
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The Fix, The Carpetbagger Report, The Reaction, Patrick Ruffini, Liberal Values, Blue Crab Boulevard and Volunteer Voters
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Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' SUNDAY PREVIEW: Suze Orman Reveals She is the '55-year-old Virgin' — NEW YORK In an interview for The New York Times Magazine this coming Sunday, financial guru and TV host Suze Orman gets on Deborah Solomon's case for not looking out for her own money, partly because "you are a woman."
Eric Black / The Big Question:
Verbatim Bachmann on Iran: "There's already an agreement made. [Iran is] going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone." — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann claims to know of a plan, already worked out with a line drawn on the map, for the partition of Iraq …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Prosecutor Purge: Number Eight? — It seems that U.S. Attorney Margaret Chiara of Michigan's Western District is the eighth prosecutor to have been fired by the administration in recent months. — In a press release today, Chiara, who was nominated by President Bush in September, 2001 …
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The Carpetbagger Report
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
You Go, Geffen! — Hillary Clinton's very bad week. — We know from the philosophers that a true statement is true without regard to the reliability or sagacity of the person who utters it. We have it on good authority that the truth shall set us free. David Geffen spoke truth to Maureen Dowd last week.
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Opinion Journal, Taylor Marsh, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Power Line and News Bloggers Blog
Jack Date / ABCNEWS:
Former ACLU Chapter President Arrested for Child Pornography — Complaint Alleges Virginia Man Accessed, Downloaded Graphic Child Pornography — Federal agents arrested Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU, Friday in Arlington for allegedly possessing child pornography.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War — Opposition goes beyond Jewish Americans' political affiliations — PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll data collected since the beginning of 2005 finds that among the major religious groups in the United States …
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MyDD, DownWithTyranny!, The Swamp, Outside The Beltway, The American Street and Matthew Yglesias
Alan Wirzbicki / Boston Globe:
Political bloggers fear publicists will infiltrate sites — WASHINGTON — Erick Erickson has been running the popular blog Redstate.com long enough to know what his readers' postings sound like: red-meat conservative rhetoric served up with a little dash of populist anger.
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the campaign trail — The Hugh Hewitt Show — HH: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show, Mayor. Good to have you. — RG: How are you, Hugh? — HH: I'm great. — RG: Good to talk to you. — HH: I'm great. Mayor, the campaign's off to a pretty early start.
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Power Line
Michael Learmonth / Variety:
Fox News jogs its blogs — 'It's Out There' gets test run — Fox News Channel is testing another pilot on Sunday that will air following its experiment in news satire, "The ½ Hour News Hour." — "It's Out There," a half-hour of stories derived from blogs, will get a half-hour …
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Shakespeare's Sister, Taylor Marsh, The Galloping Beaver, The Impolitic and Riehl World View