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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Romney leads McCain in Michigan poll — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who badly needs to win Tuesday's Michgian primary, has an eight-point lead over Sen. John McCain of Arizona in a McClatchy-MSNBC poll of Michigan voters to be released Sunday. — Romney had a narrower lead …
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Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
Romney, McCain duel for lead in Michigan GOP primary race — With just two days left before the primary, Michigan's volatile Republican presidential race is going down to the wire for frontrunners John McCain and Mitt Romney. — And Mike Huckabee is still a factor.
Chris Christoff / Detroit Free Press:
Romney is top choice for GOP in Tuesday primary, poll shows — McCain close second, but much rests on undecided voters — Republican primary voters whose greatest concern is the economy could give Bloomfield Hills native Mitt Romney his first major state victory in Tuesday's Michigan presidential primary …
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Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
The Media Does It Again — Today, the NY Times has the first part of a special series - War Torn:Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles. It appears that the troops are coming home and becoming murderers. … And we're presented with a litany of tragedy.
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Little Green Footballs:
Outrage of the Week: Canadian Publisher Persecuted for Mindcrime — An excellent opening statement by Ezra Levant, at his Canadian Human Rights Commission “hearing” for publishing the Danish cartoons of blasphemy. This hearing is an outrage, and Levant is brilliant here.
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AMERICAN DIGEST, Wizbang, Ezra Levant, Maggie's Farm, Hot Air, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Dhimmi Watch, The Jawa Report, Knowledge is Power and Ed Driscoll.com
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
“The last house of worship torched in Edmonton was my synagogue”
“The last house of worship torched in Edmonton was my synagogue”
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Ezra Levant, Wizbang, Jay Currie, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Transterrestrial Musings and Instapundit.com
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraq Eases Curb on Ex-Officials of Baath Party — BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Parliament passed a bill on Saturday to allow some former officials from Saddam Hussein's party to apply for government positions, in the first of the so-called political benchmark measures to pass after months of American pressure for progress.
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Caitlin Flanagan / New York Times:
Sex and the Teenage Girl — THE movie “Juno” is a fairy tale about a pregnant teenager who decides to have her baby, place it for adoption and then get on with her life. For the most part, the tone of the movie is comedic and jolly, but there is a moment when Juno tells her father about her condition …
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
McCaskill to endorse Obama — WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill will endorse Barack Obama's presidential bid Sunday, a boost that comes as the Democratic presidential showdown intensifies in Missouri and the raft of other states set to vote on Feb. 5th. — McCaskill had intended …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Durbin warns Bill Clinton — Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking party leader in the Senate, says President Bill Clinton's comments about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) are getting “too personal” and called on the former president to refrain from attacking Obama's integrity.
Jonah Goldberg / Washington Post:
Cloudy Fortunes for Conservatism — Well, this wasn't the plan. — As pretty much everyone has noticed, the Republican race hasn't exactly followed any of the scripts laid out for it. Mitt Romney has been hacked apart like the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
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American Power, The Carpetbagger Report, Sadly, No!, The Corner and Shakespeare's Sister
Brendan Montague / Times of London:
Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study — A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros. — Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal.
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
White House Secrecy Starts to Give — As Congress Intensifies Efforts for Openness, Administration Accedes — After years of hammering on the walls of secrecy surrounding the Bush White House, activists and Congress have begun, slowly, to open some cracks.
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Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
So We Thought. But Then Again . . . HARRY S TRUMAN once said he wanted to talk to a one-armed economist, “so that the guy could never make a statement and then say: ‘on the other hand.’ ” Yet economic knowledge continues to progress in unexpected ways. Here are a few of the things we learned in the last 12 months:
Christina Lamb / Times of London:
Scotland Yard believes Al-Qaeda assassinated Benazir Bhutto — BRITISH officials have revealed that evidence amassed by Scotland Yard detectives points towards Al-Qaeda militants being responsible for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. — Five experts in video evidence and forensic science …
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Ross Douthat:
Liberal Fascism And Its Critics — Here is some free advice for liberals who don't care much for Jonah Goldberg or his (bestselling) new volume: Either confine yourself to dismissive snark, of the sort perfected by my colleague Matt, or buckle down and actually read the damn thing.
Todd Beeton / MyDD:
Barack Obama Townhall In Las Vegas — Yesterday I drove from LA to Vegas and due to a car fire on the 15, I arrived at Obama's townhall meeting an hour and a half after doors were scheduled to open. I knew I wasn't late, though, when I saw the enormous lines of people waiting to get in …
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