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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 …
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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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.
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.
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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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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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."
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18 — It's not every day one gets to witness a whitewash in action, but Walter Reed Army Medical Center provided just such an opportunity yesterday. — In Sunday's Washington Post, Dana Priest and Anne Hull described the woeful conditions …
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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 …
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 …
Abbas Milani / New York Times:
What Scares Iran's Mullahs? — IRAN has once again defied the United Nations by proceeding with enrichment activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported yesterday. And yet, simultaneously, Iranian officials have been sending a very different message — one that has gone largely unremarked but merits close attention.
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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 …
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Labor Seeks Boost From Pro-Union Measure — Organized labor is fighting for a pro-union bill as if its life depended on it. — Some labor experts say the union movement's ability to reverse its slide could in fact hinge on its winning passage of the bill, which would make it easier for workers to join unions.
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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