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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
VP vs. VP: Cheney calls Biden ‘dead wrong’ — Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Dick Cheney hurtled barbs across the airwaves Sunday in a split-screen debate over terrorism, charging each other with being dangerously “misinformed” or just “dead wrong.”
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Cheney: Obama Team Should Say, ‘Thank You, George Bush’ — Former Vice President Says Bush-Era Policies Deserve Credit for Successes — Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in an exclusive appearance on ABC News' “This Week,” offered a sharp critique of the Obama administration's handling …
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‘This Week’ Transcript: Former Vice President Dick Cheney
‘This Week’ Transcript: Former Vice President Dick Cheney
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Cheney Struggles To Explain Terror Contradictions; Endorses DADT Repeal
Cheney Struggles To Explain Terror Contradictions; Endorses DADT Repeal
Rep. Aaron Schock / New York Times:
Meet the Press guest list for February 14, 2010
Meet the Press guest list for February 14, 2010
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Jonathan Petre / Daily Mail:
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 — The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
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Michael Tobis / Only In It For The Gold:
Journalism at its most irresponsible. There really ought to be a law. At least there ought to be consequences. — The BBC interviews Phil Jones: … The Daily Mail headline: … Right. — but the text is more reasonable, if also, well, wrong:
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Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
World may not be warming, say scientists — The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution. — In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
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Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Personification of Patriotic, Pro-America Areas No Longer Supporting Sarah Palin — Yesterday, “Joe” the “Plumber” endorsed the Teabagger candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, and made a startling announcement. … But what about all that campaigning you did for him, Joe?
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Joe the Plumber goes off on McCain, says he ‘screwed up my life’ — Joe the Plumber is no longer a fan of either Sarah Palin or John McCain, it seems. — Joe, also known as Sam Wurzelbacher, told an audience in Pennsylvania this week that McCain “is no public servant.”
Charles C. Johnson / Big Government:
Rise of the Massachusetts Right: Scott Brown Was Only the Beginning — The Chowdah Revolution is far from over, if recent reports are read critically. — And its scent has been picked up as far afield as Rhode Island and down on the Cape. — Delahunt with his “excellent friend”
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Farah Stockman / Boston Globe:
Delahunt says he might be the next to go
Delahunt says he might be the next to go
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Our human rights v. The Others — Ten American Baptists were arrested two weeks ago in Haiti on charges that they exploited the chaos in that country by attempting to smuggle 33 young Haitian children across the border without permission — either to bring them to a life of Christianity or …
Boston Globe:
Alleged Ala. killer was suspect in attempted bombing of Harvard professor — The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in 1993, a law enforcement official said today.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CONFUSION-BASED RAGE.... National Review published a couple of items recently about President Obama having cut taxes for 95% of working families. This is, in reality, what happened, but the conservative magazine was incredulous. “If the taxes of 95 percent of Americans actully [sic] …
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Some Democrats keep distance from Obama — Aligning themselves too closely with the White House could be a strategic mistake ahead of the midterm election, they fear. It's an approach that has the administration's tacit blessing. — Reporting from Washington - As President Obama's approval ratings sag …