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6:30 AM ET, February 24, 2007

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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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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Giuliani Wins The Election!  —  There's nothing more predictive than a hot, breaking poll less than 90 weeks before an election, so let's be sure we give this Rasmussen poll the attention it deserves.  Okay, we'll give it more attention than it deserves, but we'll just say we're doing it for the practice.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Exclusive: Arnold Defends Hillary, Mulls Senate Run
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Time
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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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 …
Discussion: Redstate and Crooks and Liars
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Cheney debunks himself
Discussion: The Raw Story
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: TBogg and Political Animal
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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.
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.
Discussion: Hot Air, Lonewacko and Ace of Spades HQ
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 …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Pros Get Punk'd, Amateurs Come Through
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Power Line
Sarah McDonald / nbr.co.nz:
Complaint against Bush billboard upheld  —  A complaint made against a Hell Pizza billboard featuring US President George Bush has been partially upheld by the Advertising Standards Complaints Board (ASCB).  —  The advertisement featured Mr Bush and the words "Hell.  Too good for some evil bastards".
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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Reason:
Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People  —  Uganda terrorizes its own citizens under the auspices of UN gun control mandate.  —  The country of Uganda plans to send about 1,500 troops to Somalia as part of an African Union peace-keeping force.  The goal is to stabilize the weak government …
Larry Miller / Weekly Standard:
Hineni  —  The noblest Congress of them all.  —  THERE ARE TWO WAYS to say "I'm here" in Hebrew.  Like any language, there are probably lots more, but here are the top two.  —  "Po ani" means I'm here, or I'm present, or just present, the correct form when someone is, say, taking the roll.
Discussion: GINA COBB
 
 
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Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
Obama ridicules Cheney's Iraq comments
Alek Boyd / Venezuela Crisis:
Study Shows How Hugo Chavez Rigged Elections In Venezuela
Discussion: neo-neocon
Michael / Petrelis Files:
Read the Speech by Straight GOP WY Lawmaker Favoring Equality for Gays
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Media Matters for America:
Claiming his child-abduction comments were taken "out of context …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
CBS News:
GIs Petition Congress To End Iraq War
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
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Prosecutor Purge: Number Eight?
 Earlier Items: 
Abbas Milani / New York Times:
What Scares Iran's Mullahs?
Discussion: Ezra Klein and toohotfortnr
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
"LOSS OF PRESS FREEDOMS IN POST-SEPTEMBER 11 AMERICA" …
Pajamas Media:
DISSENT CRUSHED: ABDEL KAREEM, EGYPT'S FREE SPEECH MARTYR
Discussion: Guardian and Secular Blasphemy
Anna Badkhen / San Francisco Chronicle:
New set of rape allegations leveled against Iraqi forces
Discussion: TAPPED
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: QandO and Democracy Project
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War
Alan Wirzbicki / Boston Globe:
Political bloggers fear publicists will infiltrate sites
 

 
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