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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Has Ann Coulter Finally Jumped The Shark? — She did for me last year at CPAC, of course, when she derided John Edwards as a “faggot”. At the time, a number of conservative bloggers wrote that she had embarrassed the movement and owed Edwards an apology, which she refused to offer.
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Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama for Democratic nominee — Democrats preparing to vote in Tuesday's California primary can mark their ballots with confidence, knowing that either candidate would make a strong nominee and, if elected, a groundbreaking leader and capable president.
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Oprah's Back — ALBUQUERQUE - Oprah is on the way. — On Sunday, Oprah Winfrey is returning to the presidential campaign trail to headline a California event for Senator Barack Obama. The Obama campaign has yet to announce details, but people familiar with the event say the television talk show magnate …
CNN:
Edwards unlikely to endorse before Super Tuesday — (CNN) — Sources close to John Edwards tell CNN not to expect him to endorse either of his former presidential rivals before Super Tuesday. “That's just not something he's going to do,” said one source. — The former North Carolina senator's endorsement would be a coveted prize.
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John Edwards '08 Blog
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008 — Based on daily polling from Jan. 29-31, 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as close as they have been since the polling program started at the beginning of 2008.
CNN:
Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast — (CNN) — An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days. — Ships have been dispatched to repair …
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BBC:
New cable cut compounds net woes — A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday. — The Falcon cable, owned by a firm which operates another damaged cable, led to a “critical” …
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Mashable!
Jacqueline L. Salmon / Washington Post:
NFL Pulls Plug On Big-Screen Church Parties For Super Bowl — For years, as many as 200 members of Immanuel Bible Church and their friends have gathered in the church's fellowship hall to watch the Super Bowl on its six-foot screen. The party featured hard hitting on the TV, plenty of food — and prayer.
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Matt Lewis / TownHall Blog:
Romney's Convictions — Today's Wall Street Journal features an editorial that hits the nail on the head, regarding the two bad choices conservatives are now being asked to make: … Without a doubt, John McCain is a flawed candidate. But the fact that McCain is winning …
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Mitt Romney For President News:
Andrew C. McCarthy Joins Romney For President — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Boston, MA - Today, Governor Mitt Romney announced that Andrew C. McCarthy will be joining his Advisory Committee on the Constitution and the Courts, which is co-chaired by Professor Douglas W. Kmiec …
Associated Press:
Court: Gay marriage in Canada should be recognized in New York — ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An appeals court has ruled that a gay couple's marriage in Canada should be recognized in New York. — The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court on Friday reversed a judge's ruling in 2006 …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
NATIONAL SECURITY....The emerging consensus about the lovefest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton last night is that Clinton was better in the first half, when they discussed domestic policy, and Obama was better in the second half, when they discussed Iraq. — Maybe so.
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Matthew Yglesias
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Clinton Seen as Ready, Most Likely To ‘Do Anything’ To Win — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain are the national front-runners for their party's presidential nominations, according to a FOX News poll released Friday, and Clinton is seen as the candidate …
Confederate Yankee:
How the Mighty Have Fallen — Two suicide attacks on pet markets in Baghdad today have left approximately 100 killed and twice as many wounded. Both attacks used women “with Down's syndrome” according the the Daily Mail and less specifically, they were described as “mentally disabled” according to CNN.
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Los Angeles Times:
John McCain for GOP nominee — At a different moment in American history, we would hesitate to support a candidate for president whose social views so substantially departed from those we hold. But in this election, nothing less than America's standing in the world turns on the outcome.
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Patterico's Pontifications
New York Times:
A Green Energy Industry Takes Root in California — SAN FRANCISCO — The sun is starting to grow jobs. — While interest in alternative energy is climbing across the United States, solar power especially is rising in California, the product of billions of dollars in investment and mountains of enthusiasm.
Washington Post:
Tortured Testimony — THERE WAS one overarching takeaway from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey's testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee: When it comes to waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques, the ends justify the means.
Ariel Alexovich / The Caucus:
A Call to End Hate Speech — The head of the country's largest Latino civil rights organization called on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News to stop providing a forum for pundits who consistently disparage the documented and undocumented Hispanic immigrant population.