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Cain Burdeau / Associated Press:
Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming — NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. — "He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
MEDIA BIAS: HOW IT WORKS — Sometimes media bias is blatant and grotesque; it can extend to flat misrepresentations, use of fake documents, etc. Much more often, it is relatively subtle, as reporters push their version of a story in small ways, day after day. Here is a textbook example, via Power Line News.
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Los Angeles Times:Earth faces a grim future if global warming isn't slowed, U.N. report says
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:HAS AL GORE BEEN TO CINCINNATI LATELY? Because I'm visiting …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain to Stake Bid On Need to Win in Iraq — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will launch a high-profile effort next week to convince Americans that the Iraq war is winnable, embracing the unpopular conflict with renewed vigor as he attempts to reignite his stalling bid for the presidency.
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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Seeks to Regain Footing After a Bad Week — In short order, John McCain has gone from Republican presidential front-runner to political death watch. On Wednesday, the Arizona senator kicks off a month of high-profile events, seeking a resurrection of sorts. — He badly needs it.
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McCain Regrets Remarks to Press on Baghdad Safety, But 'That's Just Life' — NEW YORK Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in a '60 Minutes' segment coming on Sunday says he misspoke in comments he made about security in Baghdad earlier this week and admitted that heavily armed troops …
New York Times:
The Real Fumble in Damascus — There is at least one point on which we and the critics of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Damascus can agree: It is the White House, not the speaker of the House, that should be taking the diplomatic lead. But the Bush administration has far more appetite …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:Pelosi Abroad — The new speaker stumbles in Syria.
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Reuters:
Iraqi, U.S. forces sweep through volatile Iraqi city — DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi and U.S. forces clashed with Shi'ite militia loyal to the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday in a dawn operation aimed at returning the volatile city of Diwaniya to government control.
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Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:EFPs — Gulf Times, via Juan Cole: … What?
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Deputies to a U.S. Attorney Step Down — Rachel K. Paulose's swearing in on March 9 as the United States attorney in Minneapolis stirred debate in local legal circles because of the ceremonial trappings, including a performance by a municipal choir and a Marine Corps color guard …
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Nancy Scola / MyDD:
Felon Enfranchisement: Florida vs. Rhode Island — What Was Charlie Crist Thinking?, asks Farhad Manjoo. Crist is the Republican Governor of Florida who has successfully fought to extend the voting rights to ex-felons in that state. Two of the three members of the clemency board in Florida …
James Hider / Times of London:
Insurgents transform US military jails into 'terror training camps' — America's high-security prisons in Iraq have become "terrorist academies" for the most dangerous militant groups, according to former inmates and Iraqi government officials. — Inmates are left largely to run their blocks, which are segregated on sectarian lines.
Guardian:
Americans offered 'aggressive patrols' in Iranian airspace — The US offered to take military action on behalf of the 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, including buzzing Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions with warplanes, the Guardian has learned.
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Democrats' Rise Has Pluses, Say G.O.P. Centrists — If the Democratic ascendance on Capitol Hill was supposed to usher in dark days for Republicans, it is hard to tell from talking to moderate ones like Mike Ferguson, who represents a suburban district in central New Jersey.
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Mother Of All Blunders — On any given day, one isn't likely to find common cause with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He's a dangerous, lying, Holocaust- denying, Jew-hating cutthroat thug — not to put too fine a point on it. — But he was dead-on when he wondered why a once-great power …
Brian R / Press Association:
Bill Bennett • Mike Gallagher • Dennis Prager • Michael Medved • Hugh Hewitt — On 9/11, the passengers aboard United Flight 93 had an option - they could rely on the good intentions of their captors or they could fight back. When presented with this Hobson's choice …
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) — Released From Purgatory — [FDL is thrilled to welcome Rep. Jerry Nadler to chat with us this morning. As with all Blue America chats, please stay on topic and be polite — any off-topic conversations should be taken to the prior thread.
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons — And here's another Walt Handelsman animation that pokes fun at the Clinton-Obama rivalry for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. (Apologies in advance to any Hillary Clinton supporters who are offended, but my blogger "focus group" thought this was funny.)
Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Edwards Drops From Second Fox News Channel Debate — RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday pulled out of a second debate co-hosted by Fox News Channel, saying the cable network has a conservative slant. — The Edwards campaign said it will not attend …
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