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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:COULTER FATIGUE
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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 …
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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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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:Non-representative "libertarian" …
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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 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Breaking: U.S. forces attack senior AQ leader's hideout in Afghanistan?
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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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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.
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 …
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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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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) …
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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.
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions — The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.
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