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REWRITING HERSTORY: HUFFPO EXPUNGES, EDITS 100S OF COMMENTS AT THE CHENEY HATE FESTIVAL — Over the last few hours, the more than 400 comments appended to the Huffington Post's news item on the attack in Afghanistan on a base being visited by Vice-President Dick Cheney have been expunged from the site.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
A hallmark of idiocy — (updated below - updated again)
A hallmark of idiocy — (updated below - updated again)
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Impolitic, NO QUARTER, Crooks and Liars, Wonkette and Macsmind
Michelle Malkin:
Assassination chic, Cheney edition
Assassination chic, Cheney edition
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Madlen Read / Associated Press:
Stocks have worst day since 9/11 attacks — NEW YORK - Stocks had their worst day of trading since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 400 points on a worldwide tide of concern that the U.S. and Chinese economies are stumbling and that share prices have become overinflated.
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New York Times:
Wall Street Plummets After Chinese Stocks Take a Big Hit — Stocks retreated sharply Tuesday after a sell-off in China rattled markets worldwide and data on durable goods orders came in well below expectations. — After reaching record highs on Monday, China's stock markets reversed course drastically …
Bonddad / The Bonddad Blog:
What the Hell Happened Today — OK. The markets are closed. Let's take a breath and look at what happened. — A big drop in China started it off: … Here's more from Bloomberg: … I can't speak to the practices these proposed regulations are supposed to curb.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read — Two weeks ago, the Bush administration organized an intelligence briefing for journalists in Iraq to demonstrate that Iran was providing weapons to Iraqi insurgents. According to the anonymous briefers, the weapons — particularly explosively formed penetrators or E.F.P.s …
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The Road to Surfdom, Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo, Discourse.net, Hullabaloo and New York Times
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Redstate:
Carl Levin Calls for Attacks On Syria. Admits Al-Qaeda In Iraq & Troops Need to Stay — UPDATE: The video is here. — Get ready for Carl Levin to get shot by Cindy Sheehan or some other angry lefty. I'm not sure what happened to him, but he's making sense right now.
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A Blog For All, Wizbang, The Blotter, QandO, The Political Pit Bull, Outside The Beltway, Sister Toldjah and PoliPundit.com
Associated Press:
Gen. Pace: Military capability eroding — WASHINGTON (AP) — Strained by the demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a significant risk that the U.S. military won't be able to quickly and fully respond to yet another crisis, according to a new report to Congress.
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Associated Press:
Rice: U.S. joining Iraq in inviting Iran, Syria to 'neighbors meeting' — The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a neighbors meeting on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Document shows Romney's strategies — Plan addresses faith, rivals, shift on issues — Here are some views of Mitt Romney causing concern inside his campaign: His hair looks too perfect, he's not a tough war time leader, and he has earned a reputation as "Slick Dancing Mitt" or "Flip-Flop Mitt."
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Outside The Beltway, TAPPED, Washington Wire, Big Brass Blog, DownWithTyranny!, The Fix, Shakespeare's Sister, TIME: Swampland, rubber hose, PoliBlog (TM), The Caucus, Daily Kos, CNN Political Ticker, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Political Radar, PowersPoint, CBS News, Wonkette, On Deadline, Liberal Values, Power Line, Eunomia, Reason Magazine and Sister Toldjah
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Daniel Gross / Slate:
The CEO Candidate — HOW MITT ROMNEY'S CORPORATE SUCCESS EXPLAINS …
The CEO Candidate — HOW MITT ROMNEY'S CORPORATE SUCCESS EXPLAINS …
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Eunomia
Washington Post:
African American Voters Shift Support to Obama — The opening stages of the campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination have produced a noticeable shift in sentiment among African American voters, who little more than a month ago heavily supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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MyDD, Oliver Willis, The Daily Background, Donklephant, Taegan Goddard's … and Decision '08
Quin Hillyer / American Spectator:
Jeb in 2008? — Don't be surprised if, come November of 2008, voters are choosing between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush for president. — But how can that be? Jeb's not running. — Well, he isn't running now, but the new, front-loaded primary system may, counterintuitively …
Chitra Ragavan / US News:
Ashcroft Pizza Party Raises Ethics Eyebrows — A pizza luncheon to be hosted this Wednesday by former Attorney General turned consultant John Ashcroft for some of his old political appointees has raised eyebrows in the Justice Department's ethics office, U.S. News has learned.
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Citizens Blogging …
Media Matters for America:
Cohen faulted "colleagues" for portraying Gore "as a serial exaggerator" and "pretender" in 2000, ignored his own role — In his February 27 column, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen faulted "some of my colleagues" who "caricatured" former Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign …
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TalkLeft
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Latest Bombshell Motion — The N&O, NBC-17 and WTVD-11 are reporting that the latest in what seems like a never-ending stream of bombshell defense motions was filed today in Durham. The issue? DNA. — After his disastrous performance at the December 15 hearing—when he admitted …
Los Angeles Times:
Gen Y's ego trip takes a nasty turn — A new report suggests that an overdose of self-esteem in college students could mean a rough road ahead. — No wonder YouTube is so popular. — All the effort to boost children's self-esteem may have backfired and produced a generation of college students …