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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, The Impolitic, Cliff Schecter, Reason Magazine and The Right's Field
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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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Cold Fury, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Outside The Beltway, MyDD, News Hounds, Norwegianity, The Virginian and The Jawa Report
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
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Giuliani Has No Real Chance With GOP Voters . . . or Does He? — The 2008 presidential campaign is just weeks old, but already an article of faith within the Republican Party — the belief that no politician who favors abortion rights and gay rights can win the GOP nomination …
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Roger L. Simon, Instapundit.com, Don Surber, The Moderate Voice, Decision '08, INSTAPUTZ, Washington Times, Newsweek and The Heretik
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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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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.
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
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.
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 …
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
Talking Points Memo:
That so? — TPM Reader FF just flagged this article in today's Oregonian. According to the article, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) was at a Republican conference defending his changed position on Iraq and specifically his opposition to the 'surge'. And in the course of defending himself …
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
Stephen Prothero / Washington Post:
Blind Faith — What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn't — HarperSanFrancisco. 296 pp. $24.95 — The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world, if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural — from God and the Virgin Birth to the humbler workings of angels and demons.
Business Wire:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery - AIPAC Policy Forum — Thank you so much for your kind introduction and the invitation to meet with you this morning. — Last week, this event was described to me as a small gathering of friends.