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Associated Press:
Tests Show Snow's Cancer Has Returned — WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential spokesman Tony Snow's surgery to remove a small growth showed that his cancer has returned, the White House said Tuesday. — Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Tests Show Snow's Cancer Has Returned — White House press secretary Tony Snow, who has become the face of the Bush presidency over the last year, has cancer again. — Snow's deputy, Dana M. Perino, broke into tears at an off-camera briefing this morning as she announced that the cancer has spread to his liver.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
John McCain's MySpace Page "Enhanced" — Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).
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Hacking John McCain — politics, humor, myspace, gay-marriage, mccain, john-mccain, hacks — If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Republicans to Rely on President Bush's Veto to Block Troop Withdrawal Plan — As the Senate opened debate Monday on a $122 billion Iraq spending bill, Republicans vowed not to allow Congress to impose a withdrawal date for American troops, but said they would rely on President Bush's veto pen rather …
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Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:Democrat Proposes Making Withdrawal Date Secret
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Washington Post:Republicans Soften Stance on Pullout Language
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Drudge and The Politico — poisonously joined at the hip — The new online political magazine, The Politico, is a pernicious new presence in our media landscape. As I noted the other day, it really is nothing more than the Drudge Report dressed up with the trappings of mainstream media credibility.
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Gonzales visits Chicago — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dashed out of a Chicago news conference this afternoon in just two and a half minutes, ducking questions about how his office gave U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald a subpar rating. — Gonzales, who increasingly faces calls for his resignation …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
US captures car-bombing ring in Iraq — The US military has captured the leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of Iraqis. — The news came as the departing US ambassador said Americans are in ongoing talks with insurgent representatives to try to persuade them to turn against al-Qaeda.
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Jules Crittenden:
By The Way, It's Official ... ... we can win in Iraq, we are winning in Iraq, and George Bush's surge strategy is responsible for it. Not even the AP can ignore it* anymore: … * The AP here grudgingly leaves out the kind of helpful interpretive graphs that usually are added to explain …
Fox News:
WEBB DENIES HE GAVE AIDE GUN THAT LED TO ARREST — Sen. Jim Webb, whose aide was arrested Monday for carrying a handgun into a Senate office building, gave the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address in January. — WASHINGTON — Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday …
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Ross Douthat / The American Scene:
The Problem With Fred Thompson: Wait - I'm gone a week and Fred Thompson makes some noises about running for President and immediately jumps to third in the GOP primary polls? Now the easy thing would be to crack wise about this development, but Matt Yglesias, Daniel Larison and (especially) …
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Frank Newport / Gallup Guru:The Thompson factor — Our latest weekend USA Today/Gallup poll …
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Kelly McCormack / The Hill:
Fifty percent of adults would not vote for Clinton — Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.
Ron Hutcheson / Real Cities:
Who is Monica Goodling? — WASHINGTON - Monica Goodling, the Department of Justice official who said Monday that she'll invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than talk to lawmakers, is a frequent figure in department e-mails released so far as part of the congressional investigation into the firings and hirings of U.S. attorneys.
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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Exclusive: Report Charges Broad White House Efforts to Stifle Climate Research — Justin Rood Reports: — Bush administration officials throughout the government have engaged in White House-directed efforts to stifle, delay or dampen the release of climate change research that casts …
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily:
Embattled AG now accused in teen sex scandal 'cover-up' — Attorney General Gonzales among officials who allegedly ignored abuse of minor boys — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing …
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Charles Hurt / Examiner:
Senate war bill features $20B in pork — WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Like their counterparts in the House, the Senate has larded its version of an "emergency" war spending bill with nearly $20 billion in pork-barrel outlays, including $100 million for the two major political parties' 2008 presidential conventions.
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