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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Fallen Soldier MSNBC Used for 'Gotcha' Game With Rep. Blackburn Did Not Live in Her District — UPDATE — SHUSTER APOLOGIZES: At 6:44 PM EDT, MSNBC broke into the Tucker Carlson show to air a terse apology from Shuster. See "My Take" below. — View video of Shuster apology here.
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Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
Gotcha! Err, maybe not... So remember when David Shuster excoriated Rep. Marsha Blackburn on MSNBC for not knowing the name of the most recent soldier from her district to have died in Iraq? It went something like this: … Well, it turns out that Pvt. Jeremy Bohannon isn't from Blackburn's district.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Verizon Rejects Abortion Rights Group's Messages — Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon's mobile network available for a text-message program.
William McCall / Associated Press:
2 Patriot Act Provisions Ruled Unlawful — PORTLAND, Ore. — Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. — U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled …
WMUR:
Poll Shows Republican Race Tightening — MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Republican race for president has tightened up with three candidates now toward the top in New Hampshire, according to a new poll. — The latest WMUR/CNN New Hampshire Primary Poll shows that among likely Republican voters …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Kyl-Lieberman Iran Amendment Passes By Huge Margin — The Kyl-Lieberman Iran amendment — which ratchets up the confrontation with Iran by calling for the designation of its Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization responsible for killing U.S. troops — just passed overwhelmingly, 76-22.
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Reuters:
"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens do learn." — Bush made his latest grammatical slip …
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Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather — Her take on the news — Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric pulled back the curtain on her personal views of both the war in Iraq and former "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Democrats allow: Unable to promise full withdrawal — The enormity of the military conflict in Iraq was spelled out in the simplest of all admissions tonight: — Among all of the leading Democratic candidates for president, none was willing to commit to a promise in a campaign debate …
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Editor and Publisher:
Scoop for Spanish Daily: Transcript of Private 2003 Bush Talk Promising Iraq Invasion — NEW YORK El Pais, the highest-circulation daily in Spain, today published what it said was the transcript of a private talk between President George W. Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on February 22 …
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David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani fires chief fundraiser — In a sign of potential money woes, Rudy Giuliani has fired his presidential campaign's chief fundraiser and brought in a top rainmaker for President Bush, The Daily News has learned. — Anne Dunsmore, who took control of Giuliani's …
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
Plan Uses Taxes to Fight Climate Change — WASHINGTON — Dealing with global warming will be painful, says one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. To back up his claim he is proposing a recipe many people won't like _ a 50-cent gasoline tax, a carbon tax and scaling back tax breaks for some home owners.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: Biden's Iraq resolution passes — From NBC's Ken Strickland — In a strong rebuff to the Bush Administration on Iraq, the Senate overwhelming approved a plan by Biden that essentially calls for breaking Iraq into three sections: Kurd, Sunni, and Shia.
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The Swamp, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, The American Street, Comments From Left Field, Gateway Pundit and The Democratic Daily
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ohio, Florida laws could dampen Democratic voting — WASHINGTON — Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush's two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Bush cherry picks Juan Williams for an interview and NPR refuses — Very nice...There's a big reason why Bush chose Williams for an interview instead of who NPR wanted. Cheney used this technique for Meet the Press and made Russert look like a fool. It's called " Controlling the Message!"
Avni Patel Reports / The Blotter:
House Republicans in the Red, Numbers Show — Avni Patel Reports: — A crucial GOP fundraising committee is nearly broke, according to its latest monthly filing with the Federal Election Committee last week. — The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) …
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