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12:25 PM ET, March 3, 2007

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Members of the audience seemed startled, then many clapped, and she proceeded to open the floor to questions, reported EditorandPublisher.com — After her comments, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a press release expressing his outrage. Dean called Coulter's remarks 'hate-filled and bigoted.'

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Coulter Said What? (Bumped) — Ann Coulter is speaking at the moment, and drawing a huge crowd — with longer lines than those for the Rudy Giuliani. She's definitely one of the stars here at CPAC, and I listened to the audio stream for a bit while she opened her speech.

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Matt Browner Hamlin / The Huffington Post:

CPAC: Romney Wants Extremist Love — Updated below — I've been highly critical of Romney's campaign for the last four months. I find it tremendously hard to believe that a candidate who was fundraising and voting for Democrats fifteen years ago and arguing that he was to the left …

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Bryan / Hot Air:
Thanks, Ann; Update: Audio added; Update: Video added

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Redstate:
The Shunning of Ann Coulter

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UPI:
Ann Coulter calls John Edwards 'faggot'

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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
COULTER FATIGUE

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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
On Ann Coulter

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Washington Post:

White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say — The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies on immigration …

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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:

THE PURGE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS (PARTIALLY) EXPLAINED. — The more we learn about the purge of at least eight U.S. attorneys around the country, the bigger the mystery becomes. Not so much the "how" of it all: It's clear that GOP staffers slipped unnoticed language into the about-to-be-reauthorized Patriot Act …

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Bruce Finley / Denver Post:

Activists' expulsion cited as Bush rule — 2005 FORUM IN DENVER — A former White House official who ordered three activists expelled from a 2005 Denver public forum with President Bush says it was White House policy to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush's appearances nationwide.

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David S. Cloud / New York Times:

Army Secretary Is Ousted in Furor Over Hospital Care — Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey was forced to resign Friday over the handling of revelations that wounded soldiers were receiving shabby and slow treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. — Even as the grim-faced defense secretary …

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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites

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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

Romney and Giuliani Make Pitch to Conservatives — Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York are both Republican presidential candidates who have been voted into office by largely Democratic electorates. They both have a history of taking liberal positions on social issues.

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Editor and Publisher:

UPDATE: Ann Coulter Suggests John Edwards Is a 'Faggot' — Now The Backlash Begins — NEW YORK In recent years she has suggested that Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore have or may have homosexual tendencies. Now columnist/author Ann Coulter has targeted former senator (and current candidate for president) John Edwards.

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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Associated Press & Reuters AWOL on Coulter calling John Edwards …

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Redstate:
Giuliani Had Leadership. Romney Had Conservative Principles.

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Washington Post:

Defense Secretary Sends Stern Message About Accountability — Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey was traveling outside Washington yesterday when he was notified that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, his boss, wanted to see him as soon as possible. — By the end of the day …

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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman To Deliver Democratic Address

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CNN:
Army secretary quits in wake of hospital scandal

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New York Times:

Noticeably Absent From the Giuliani Campaign: His Children — Rudolph W. Giuliani at his inaugural as mayor of New York in 1994, where his son, Andrew, 7, captured the show. But Andrew was not at events like the one in Spartanburg, S.C., last month, right, part of Mr. Giuliani's bid for the presidency …

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Guardian:

Liechtenstein: no retaliation for Swiss 'invasion' — Mark Oliver and agencies — The Swiss army is not renowned for its aggressive expeditionary adventures - but it does appear to have accidentally invaded Liechtenstein. — According to the Swiss daily Blick, around 170 infantry soldiers …

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Jamie Hyneman / Popular Mechanics:

MythBusters Workshop: Extreme Plumbing — A mythbusters primer on turning plumbing and high-psi tanks into things that go boom. As always, don't try this at home. — Jamie Hyneman (left) and Adam Savage turn high-pressure tanks into multipurpose powerplants. — Let's talk about plumbing

Ian Bishop / New York Post:

RUDY DRAGGED DOWN — RIGHTIES CROSS ABOUT HIS DRESS — Rudy Giuliani's liberal stance on abortion, guns and gays wasn't his biggest problem yesterday as he addressed a conference of conservative activists - it was his having dressed in drag. — A whisper campaign targeting …

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Joe Klein / time-blog.com:

Since you asked — A left-wing extremist exhibits many, but not necessarily all, of the following attributes: —believes that the decision to go to war in Iraq was not an individual case of monumental stupidity, but a consequence of America's fundamental imperialistic nature.

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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:

Bill Maher is Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed — In 2002, ABC made the decision to not renew Bill Maher's contract after he made some disgraceful comments on his program "Politically Incorrect" concerning America's military response to 9/11.

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