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10:00 PM ET, February 23, 2007

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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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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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Sirotablog and Liberal Values
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, so we've prepared a little Joe Lieberman care package for people to email to reporters and/or commentators when they talk about Lieberman switching parties.  —  Here's what's in it.  We've compiled lots and lots and lots of examples of Lieberman swearing up and down to the voters of Connecticut that he'd stay with the Dems.
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Pros Get Punk'd, Amateurs Come Through
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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White House:
Press Gaggle by Dana Perino
Discussion: Wake up America
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."
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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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Clinton and Obama's Hollywood Scene
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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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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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CBS News:
GIs Petition Congress To End Iraq War
Reason:
Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People
Kos / Daily Kos:
Why I say "ugh" on Kucinich  —  When talking about Kucinich, I usually leave it at "ugh".
Discussion: Bradford Plumer and MaxSpeak
Associated Press:
U.S. soldier gets 100 years for Iraq rape, killings
Abbas Milani / New York Times:
What Scares Iran's Mullahs?
Discussion: Ezra Klein and toohotfortnr
Pajamas Media:
DISSENT CRUSHED: ABDEL KAREEM, EGYPT'S FREE SPEECH MARTYR
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18
Anna Badkhen / San Francisco Chronicle:
New set of rape allegations leveled against Iraqi forces
Discussion: TAPPED
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
U.S. Soldier Wrestles Suicide Bomber: US -1, Terrorists -0
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Senator Lott Floods the Zone
Discussion: Democracy Project
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Taking cultural editing notes from those who hate America — again
Naomi Klein / Guardian:
The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
Revealed: The true extent of Britain's failure in Basra
CharlesR / Age of Hooper:
A Gathering of Eagles  —  I attended the press conference …
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Fake Private Parts Are No Joke, Myers Says
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Dems in uproar over Fox plan to cover debate
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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