memeorandum: The Gall To Speak Her Mind (Anne Applebaum/Washington Post)

6:25 AM ET, February 27, 2007

Top Items:

Al Gore's Personal Energy Use Is His Own "Inconvenient Truth" — Al Gore's Personal Energy Use Is His Own "Inconvenient Truth" — Gore's home uses more than 20 times the national average — Last night, Al Gore's global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar …

Think Progress:

Gore Responds To Drudge's Latest Hysterics — The right-wing is angry that Al Gore has won so much public attention and goodwill for his work on global warming. Determined to smear his efforts, Drudge writes in a screaming headline: — Responding to Drudge's attack, Vice President Gore's office told ThinkProgress:

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Riehl World View, The Sundries Shack and Tennessee Guerilla Women

Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:

A Far Too Convenient $mear: Part One — Did you honestly think that the Right Wing $mear machine was going to let Al Gore stand up with the terrific team who created and direct the movie and receive an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth?" — Did you really believe they would stand by and watch …

Discussion: The Peking Duck and Oliver Willis

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Mote And The Beam Of Global Warming (Updated: Gore Responds)

Discussion: tennesseepolicy.org

John Hinderaker / News Bloggers Blog:
Get Out A Cross and a Clove of Garlic

Discussion: Power Line

Dirty Harry / LIBERTAS: Astonishing Hypocrisy

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:

Democrats back away from Iraq plan — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders backed away from aggressive plans to limit President Bush's war authority, the latest sign of divisions within their ranks over how to proceed. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday he wanted …

Discussion: Sirotablog, Blue Crab Boulevard, Jules Crittenden and Think Progress

Carrie Budoff / The Politico:

A Democrat on Everything but Iraq — The not-so-nice words for Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman keep coming. — Evil incarnate, according to the liberal blogosphere. — Barely a Democrat, concludes conservative columnist Robert Novak. — Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction," a taunting lunatic who will …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

Nico / Think Progress:
Lieberman Seeks To Block Iraq Provisions From 9/11 Bill

Discussion: Hullabaloo, QandO, The Strata-Sphere, Pundit Review, State of the Day, My Left Nutmeg, Daily Kos, The Carpetbagger Report, neo-neocon, Sirotablog and CorrenteWire

Alisa Tang / Associated Press:

Cheney OK After Afghan Blast; 19 Killed — BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 11 outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target.

Fox News:
ONE JUROR DISMISSED IN CIA LEAK TRIAL, 11-MEMBER JURY CONTINUES DELIBERATION

Discussion: The Gun Toting Liberal ™ and Pajamas Media

E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Smearing Like It's 2003 — Even as jurors pondered whether …

Discussion: Firedoglake and Norwegianity

Mark Silva / Chicago Tribune:
While abroad, Cheney makes waves defending U.S. policies

Discussion: dnaindia.com and The Washington Note

Guardian:

Ahmadinejad under fire in Iran for hardline nuclear stance — Robert Tait in Tehran and Ian Black — Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came under fire from domestic critics yesterday for his uncompromising stance on the nuclear issue as the US and Britain launched a new diplomatic effort …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and The Moderate Voice

Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog:

Laura Bush: Iraq is mostly stable, it's just that "one bombing a day that discourages everyone" — Laura Bush, Iraq expert, just now on Larry King Live: … Yeah, it's such a great place that Iraq. So stable, well, except for that pesky "one bombing a day."

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Crooked Timber and Think Progress

John Fund / Opinion Journal:

God Save the Queen? — Mrs. Clinton's biggest problem may be voters' unease with dynastic politics. — Hollywood mogul David Geffen, a supporter of Barack Obama, knew he was setting the Democratic nomination contest ablaze when, in an interview with Maureen Dowd of the New York Times …

Discussion: Daily Pundit

Greg Sargent / electioncentral.tpmcafe.com:
Source: Bill Hosting Elite Fundraising Dinners For Clinton Campaign — Sans Hillary

Discussion: The Huffington Post

SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Special Comment: Secretary Rice, Get Your Facts Straight! — In tonight's Special Comment, Keith took Condi to task for making the following ridiculous and historically inaccurate analogy on FOX News Sunday yesterday: … Download (3530) | Play (2607) Download (1814) | Play (1785)

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!

Countdown / TheNewsHole: Special Comment: Condi Goes Too Far

Sheila Burke / Tennessean.com:

Man hit by cab after driver made anti-Semitic comments, witnesses say — Driver said he hitler was trying to "cleanse" world of the Jews — A Nashville cabbie made anti-Semitic statements and praised Adolph Hitler's campaign against Jews during a religious argument that culminated when he ran …

Discussion: theneweditor.com

Edward Wong / New York Times:

Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft of Oil Law — The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft of a law today that would set guidelines for countrywide distribution of oil revenues and foreign investment in the immense oil industry. — The endorsement marked a major agreement among the country's ethnic …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, On Deadline and Blue Crab Boulevard

This Is London:

SCORN POURED ON JAMES CAMERON'S 'COFFIN OF CHRIST' THEORY — Archaeologists and biblical scholars have poured scorn on a Hollywood film director's sensational claim that he has discovered the coffin of Jesus Christ. — Oscar-winning 'Titanic' director James Cameron's assertion that the bones …

Discussion: Macsmind, One Hand Clapping, Neocon Express, The Strata-Sphere, The Moderate Voice, Polimom Says, Blue Crab Boulevard, Winds of Change.NET, Wizbang, Associated Press and Discovery News

Natalie Obiko Pearson / Associated Press:

Venezuela to Seize Foreign Oil Projects — CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez ordered by decree on Monday the takeover of oil projects run by foreign oil companies in Venezuela's Orinoco River region. — Chavez had previously announced the government's intention …

Associated Press:

West 'humiliating' Iran, says Hans Blix — Former UN weapons inspector slams US and Europe over 'humiliating neo-colonial' attitude to Iran. 'People have their own pride whether you like them or don't,' he adds, urging use of economic incentives for better diplomacy

Discussion: Jules Crittenden

Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:

The Gall To Speak Her Mind — Clearly, there is something about Ayaan Hirsi Ali that annoys, rankles, irritates. I am speaking as one who does not know Hirsi Ali — the outspoken Dutch-Somali critic of Islam — but as one who, while living in Europe, cannot seem to avoid meeting her detractors.

Discussion: contentions