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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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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Vilsack Drops Out — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is announcing today that he's dropping out of the Democratic presidential race. His campaign said Mr. Vilsack will make a major announcement at 11 a.m. in Des Moines. — Tom Vilsack, right, answered a question from George Stephanopoulos during …
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
AP: Ex-Iowa Gov. Vilsack ending '08 bid — DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor who built a centrist image, is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, two officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Detour From High Road in Clinton-Obama Clash
Detour From High Road in Clinton-Obama Clash
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
A Surmountable Hill — Mrs. Clinton seems less inevitable after this week.
A Surmountable Hill — Mrs. Clinton seems less inevitable after this week.
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 …
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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Cheney on Global Warming — Vice President's Views At Odds With Majority Of Climate Scientists — Sydney, Australia, Feb. 23, 2007 — In an exclusive interview today, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Vice President Dick Cheney about the topic of global warming, a subject Mr. Cheney has rarely addressed in the past.
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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.
Salon:
Emulating the Enemy … That description applies in equal parts to Osama bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as to leading American neoconservatives, including some of the government's most influential figures, and likely the President himself. At least in terms of these impulses …
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Anna Badkhen / San Francisco Chronicle:
New set of rape allegations leveled against Iraqi forces — 2nd such accusation this week hurts U.S. effort to transfer security to domestic troops — Still reeling from allegations that Iraqi police officers raped a young Sunni woman in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday confronted a second set …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Stepping to the Plate, Giuliani Is Seeing Only Softballs — In a swing through South Carolina this week, Rudolph W. Giuliani chose to campaign at a fire house, which is a little like Derek Jeter meeting with Yankees fans — a most unlikely forum for hostility, or even much skepticism.
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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 …
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Fake Private Parts Are No Joke, Myers Says — Delegate Wants to Ban Vehicle Displays of Plastic Genitals — Maryland Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to truckers: If you've got 'em, you don't need to flaunt 'em. — As the General Assembly debates global warming and the death penalty, Myers …
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Long Iraq Tours Can Make Home a Trying Front — In the nearly two years Cpl. John Callahan of the Army was away from home, his wife, he said, had two extramarital affairs. She failed to pay his credit card bills. And their two children were sent to live with her parents as their home life deteriorated.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18
Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18
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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 …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Senator Lott Floods the Zone — A house is lost and now a senator wants revenge. — One big question when Democrats took over Congress was which industry would be first to feel the new majority's populist rage. Oil? Pharma? Banks? Corporate America just got its answer …
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Dems in uproar over Fox plan to cover debate — The first presidential primary is 11 months away, but liberals are arguing among themselves over how to best reach new voters — and whether to cooperate with one of their biggest media nemeses. Their dilemma: — Should we Fox?
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."
CharlesR / Age of Hooper:
A Gathering of Eagles — I attended the press conference for Gathering of Eagles, which is an event scheduled for March 17 ... concurrent with ANSWER's anti-war rally ... and is intended to protect the Vietnam Memorial from desecration by those thugs. The ANSWER rally starts at the Vietnam Memorial and ends at the Pentagon.
David Espo / Associated Press:
Democrats move to limit Bush's authority — WASHINGTON - Four years ago, Congress passed legislation authorizing President Bush to go to war in Iraq. Now Senate Democrats want to take it back. — Key lawmakers, backed by party leaders, are drafting legislation that would effectively revoke …
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