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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
CPAC: The Unauthorized Documentary — See seven minutes of raw, unexpurgated right-wing action courtesy of VideoNation: — Michelle Malkin goes unhinged and launches a hysterical tirade into the lens of my camera. I ask Ann "John Edwards is a Faggot" Coulter why she isn't the same person on Sunday morning as on Saturday night.
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Calling All Wingnuts, Orcinus, Jesus' General, Cliff Schecter, The Impolitic, The Right's Field and Reason Magazine
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Michelle Malkin:
The CPAC I saw — One of my favorite CPAC moments: Meeting Col. Bud Day, the nation's most highly decorated soldier since General Douglas MacArthur, and Vietnam veteran Bob McMahon of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation — The Hot Air team spent the past three, jam-packed days …
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Redstate, Cold Fury, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, MyDD, News Hounds, Outside The Beltway, Norwegianity and The Jawa Report
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Normalizing Crazy — Glenn Greenwald does a nice job today dealing with yet another example of journalistic double standards, dealing with the predictable excretory spew of Ann Coulter at this year's CPAC vs Howie Kurtz's recent spell on the fainting couch over few anonymous comments that were removed from the Huffington Post.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Romney Wins Conservatives' Straw Poll — Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney yesterday won a straw poll of conservative political activists gathered in Washington, a very early indication of how an important Republican constituency might vote.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Giuliani Has No Real Chance With GOP Voters . . . or Does He?
Giuliani Has No Real Chance With GOP Voters . . . or Does He?
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Roger L. Simon, Instapundit.com, Don Surber, The Moderate Voice, Decision '08, INSTAPUTZ, Newsweek and The Heretik
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Senator Admits Calling U.S. Attorney — Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) acknowledged today that he contacted the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque last fall to inquire about the status of an ongoing corruption probe of Democrats, saying he regretted the call but "never pressured him nor threatened him in any way."
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Mass Firing Puts Justice on the Hot Seat
A Mass Firing Puts Justice on the Hot Seat
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Talking Points Memo
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug — Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk — The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers …
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Police and Protesters Clash in St. Petersburg — An unusually large and unruly protest against the government of President Vladimir V. Putin ended here Saturday in clashes with the police and the arrest of opposition leaders. Rally organizers and the police said more than 100 people …
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Associated Press
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world — Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that "climate change" was "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.'' Ever.
Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama: Iran threatens all of us — Won't rule out force in speech in Chicago to pro-Israel group — Sen. Barack Obama said Friday the use of military force should not be taken off the table when dealing with Iran, which he called "a threat to all of us."
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The Political Pit Bull
Michael Linn Jones / The Gun Toting Liberal ™:
Bill Maher Proves Bad Taste Is Universal — It is regretable that I was not aware of this story before I wrote the piece on Ann Coulter. With a H/T to THE DRUDGE REPORT I came across this article on NEWS BUSTERS. — Now The Drudge Report and News Busters are on the opposite side of the political fence from me.
Agence France Presse:
Iran touts nuclear prowess with new banknote — TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran is to issue a new high-denomination banknote marking the country's achievements in nuclear technology at a time of mounting tension with the West over its atomic programme, the IRNA agency reported Saturday.
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Israel Matzav
Washington Post:
Extend Legal Rights to Guantanamo — For more than 200 years, the courts have served as the ultimate safeguard for our civil liberties. A critical part of this role has been the judicial branch's ability to consider writs of habeas corpus, through which people who have been imprisoned …
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Power Line
Gateway Pundit:
Secular Islam Summit: Reason, Not Revelation — Author Ibn Warraq led off the summit today. — Senior Research Fellow — Ibn Warraq being interviewed by Andrew Marcus an independent filmmaker at the Secular Islam Summit. — Look for the video at Pajamas!
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The Jawa Report
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Numbers Drop for the Married With Children — Institution Becoming The Choice of the Educated, Affluent — PORTLAND, Ore. — Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households — a share that has been slashed …
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Ex-GOP candidates turn attacks back on national panel — WASHINGTON — One advertisement accused the rival candidate of billing taxpayers for a call to a phone-sex line. One alleged that a candidate "fixed" his daughter's speeding tickets. Still others stated that a candidate endorsed a …
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Mar. 4, 2007 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The Democrats say U.S. troops should leave Iraq within six months if the Iraqi government does not reduce the violence. With us, Congressman John Murtha, Democrat from Pennsylvania.