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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.
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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 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.
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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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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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 …
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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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