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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Profiles In Political Courage? — It's not often I disagree with my friend John Podhoretz at The Corner, but today's post on John McCain and CPAC struck me as rather odd. In response to a post by Kathryn Jean Lopez that scolded McCain for skipping both NRI and CPAC, John said that McCain was right to stay away:
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Michelle Malkin:
CPAC-apalooza — ***update 1156am*** — Giuliani's scheduled to speak at noon. Meantime, a popular sticker... ***update 942am*** — Newt Gingrich landed at Blogger Row. He chatted with Hot Air TV for 10 minutes. We'll have the interview up later.
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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
At conservatives' conference, little love is expressed for GOP
At conservatives' conference, little love is expressed for GOP
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The Carpetbagger Report
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
McCain and Obama in Deal on Public Financing
McCain and Obama in Deal on Public Financing
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The Politico
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Plame film in works at Warner Bros. — Studio sets movie about CIA leak scandal — Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm. — Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed …
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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis — Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to close off access — Hillary Rodham, in a 1965 freshman photo when she was president of Wellesley College's Young Republicans, with the cover page of her senior thesis from 1969 on radical organizer Saul D. Alinsky.
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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis — 'A stupid political decision,' says her former Wellesley poli-sci professor — WELLESLEY, Mass. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's political science professor said he'd give the tactic an "F." — It was early 1993, in the first days of the Clinton administration …
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Baltimore Sun:
A new twist to an intriguing family history … WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. — But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now …
Marisa Taylor / Real Cities:
Sources: GOP lawmakers tried to influence federal investigation — WASHINGTON - Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico pressured the U.S. attorney in their state to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator …
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CBS News:
Poll: The Politics Of Health Care — Most Americans Favor Universal Health Care, Give Democrats Edge On Improving System — (CBS) Americans think the U.S. health care system is in need of major repairs, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. — Nine out of 10 say the system needs …
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When Dick Cheney Talks, Pakistan Listens — Brian Ross and Habibullah Khan Report: — Pakistan intelligence sources say a second high-ranking Taliban leader has been taken into custody, as the country appeared to be responding to Vice President Dick Cheney's showdown meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
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Joe Klein / time-blog.com:
Self-Referential Feedback Loop — Let me respond to Ezra Klein's response to Justin Fox's delightful bit about us mainstream sorts trying to be bloggers. — Now, I like Ezra. He's a smart guy. We have the same last name and all...But he's wrong about this: … To which I can only say, what security?
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY. Now, now, Other Klein, just because …
THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY. Now, now, Other Klein, just because …
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TIME: Swampland
Hotline On Call:
YouTube Oppo Of The Day — 1. Sen. Barack Obama, speaking in a fairly impoverished Cleveland, saying he wants "everybody here to pony up five dollars, ten dollars for this campaign. I don't care how poor you are, you've got five dollars." — 2. An anti-Giuliani video, just in time for CPAC.
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Oh George, what will we do when you're gone? — Our columnist on an easy target for America-bashers — Somewhere, deep down, tucked away underneath their loathing for George Bush, in a secret place where the lights of smart dinner-party conversation and clever debating-society repartee never shine …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Names Critic Of Iraq Policy to Counselor's Post — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has tapped Eliot A. Cohen, a prominent writer on national security strategy and an outspoken critic of the administration's postwar occupation of Iraq, as her counselor, State Department officials said yesterday.
Matthew Yglesias:
Second Shift — The BBC reports: … "Gee," remarks Jessica Valenti, "wonder why that is." Well, I like to wonder. Later, the piece gives us the specific numbers: "an employed woman does 15 hours a week of housework when she lives with her employed partner, up from 10 hours when single."
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Music Of the Spheres — You might not have noticed, but we broke another U.S. space record last month when astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria logged his 67th hour of spacewalking. If you consider that the equivalent of the Guinness record for pogo-stick bouncing (23.11 miles in 12 hours and 27 minutes) …
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Bob Barr / Washington Times:
Immigration indigestion — It is often said that "politics makes strange bedfellows," but it is the immigration debate that is making even stranger bedfellows — causing otherwise conservative Republican members of Congress to clamor for draconian restrictions on businesses and for greater mandatory use of Social Security numbers.
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Iraqi Troops, Tribesmen Kill 50 Suspected Insurgents — Fierce Battle in West Lasts Several Hours — Iraqi security forces backed by Sunni tribesmen killed dozens of suspected Sunni insurgents over several hours of fighting Wednesday in a village in western Iraq, Iraqi police officials said Thursday.