memeorandum: Remember: for Cambodia, read Iraq (William Shawcrosson/Times of London)

11:15 PM ET, March 3, 2007

Top Items:

G.O.P. Candidates Criticize Slur by Conservative Author — Three of the leading Republican presidential candidates on Saturday denounced one of their party's best-known conservative commentators for using an antigay epithet when discussing a Democratic presidential contender at a gathering of conservatives here.

Discussion: Blog P.I., Liberty Street, The Reaction, TPMCafe blogs, PowersPoint, The American Mind, MyDD, Hot Air, CorrenteWire, Reasoned Audacity, Confederate Yankee and The Strata-Sphere

Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:

Romney tops conservative straw poll — WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference. — Despite his record of inconsistency on some social issues, the former Massachusetts governor got 21 percent …

Discussion: PoliPundit.com, Iowa Voice, Ace of Spades HQ and Gateway Pundit

John Edwards '08 Blog:

Hate words and you — When Miss Coulter spoke about John at the conservative convention in Washington yesterday, she used a word that she intended as a nasty and derogatory suggestion. John and I have long ago shrugged off the vile words of this person. When she made a joke about the exact moment …

Discussion: Pam's House Blend, Riehl World View and Ezra Klein

Washington Times:

Romancing the conservatives — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday delivered a faultlessly tailored appeal to more than 1,000 grass-roots conservative activists hungry for a renewed commitment to limited government. — Addressing the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference …

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, Hot Air and Daily Kos

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

But Did Ginger Rogers Wear Flip-Flops? — "It's an honor to be here in high heels, walking backwards," Mitt Romney said yesterday as he began his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference. — Don't panic, Phyllis Schlafly: He was merely referring to a previous speaker's invocation of an old joke.

Discussion: The American Street and Rising Hegemon

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Romney Loses The Straw Poll — No, Really

Discussion: Redstate and The American Mind

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters: Three Leading GOP Campaigns Condemn Coulter's Remarks

Lydia Cornell / The Official Website of Lydia Cornell:

ANN COULTER'S CRIMINAL INTENT — Just a few hours ago, my friend Dan Borchers — a conservative Christian who is writing a book about Ann Coulter's "extermination speak" — was bodily wrestled out of CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) by four of Ann Coulter's bodyguards.

Discussion: The Mahablog, Macsmind and The American Mind

Media Matters for America:
NY Times' Nagourney compares hatemonger Coulter to Sen. Clinton

Discussion: Editor and Publisher and Democrats.com

Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Fallout Over Coulter's Anti-Gay Remark

Discussion: AMERICAblog, MyDD and skippy the bush kangaroo

Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
COULTER FATIGUE

Candace Rondeaux / Washington Post:

Expert on Soviet Intelligence Shot in Adelphi — Federal and local law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting in Prince George's County that critically injured a prominent intelligence expert who specializes in the former Soviet Union. — Paul Joyal, 53, was shot Thursday …

Discussion: Samizdata.net, At-Largely and Secular Blasphemy

wtopnews.com:

Expert on Russian Intelligence Shot Outside Home — ADELPHI, Md. - Police are investigating a shooting that wounded a prominent intelligence expert. — Fifty-three-year-old Paul Joyal was shot Thursday night outside his house in the 2300 block of Lackawanna Street in Adelphi.

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.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Reason Magazine, MsUnderestimated, Hot Air, Classical Values, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Neocon Express, The Impolitic and Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Non-representative "libertarian" …

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House

The Blotter:

Afghanistan: US forces attack suspected al Qaeda hideout — Christopher Isham and Gretchen Peters Report: — For the past two days, U.S. and NATO forces have been conducting a major attack against a compound in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden or another senior al Qaeda leader …

Discussion: Riehl World View and QandO

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: U.S. forces attack senior AQ leader's hideout in Afghanistan?

Discussion: The Political Pit Bull

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.

Discussion: Horses Mouth, Booman Tribune, Whiskey Fire, Liberal Values, TPMCafe blogs, driftglass, Matthew Yglesias, Decision '08 and CorrenteWire

Ezra Klein:
Joe Klein and the Extremists

Discussion: Oliver Willis

Robert D. Novak / New Hampshire Union Leader:

Another Hillary defector — WASHINGTON - Greg Craig, a Washington super-lawyer with close ties to the Clintons, is supporting Sen. Barack Obama for President. — Craig was a White House special counsel defending President Bill Clinton in the Senate impeachment trial.

Discussion: The Agonist, Liberal Values and Wizbang

William Shawcrosson / Times of London:

Remember: for Cambodia, read Iraq — The Killing Fields illustrates brilliantly part of the long disaster that has been Cambodia over recent decades. It is a compelling film that follows the story of a young Cambodian, Dith Pran, who worked for the New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg …

The Big Trunk / Power Line:
KILLING FIELDS THEN AND NOW — The Times (London) …

Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and The Virginian

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 …

Discussion: The News Buckit, Captain's Quarters, Bob Krumm, DownWithTyranny! and Decision '08

Bing West / SWJ Blog:

Iraq Trip Report — Based upon a February 2007 trip revisiting locales in Anbar and Baghdad that I had tracked for years, permit me to offer the following observations. — Overview. What is shaping up in Iraq? There are four ongoing wars. 1) Shiite mafias in the south, 2) …

Discussion: QandO

Michael Gisick / abqtrib.com:

GOP VIPs ponder David Iglesias fallout — Some state Republicans fear former U.S. attorney's claims may hurt party — Everyone with half a stake in New Mexico politics had been waiting months for U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to put his cards on the table.

Discussion: MyDD and Talking Points Memo