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BBC:
UK ‘outrage’ over passports in Dubai hit  —  Britain is determined to “get to the bottom of” how fake UK passports were used by the alleged killers of a Hamas commander, the foreign secretary says.  —  David Miliband described the use of six British passports as an “outrage”.
Discussion: Commentary, Fafblog and Guardian
Telegraph:
British threat to Israel over Dubai Hamas assassination
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Guardian
Wafa Issa / thenational.ae:
Dubai Police confirm Mossad involvement in murder
Discussion: New York Times and Guardian
Hisham Wyne / The Huffington Post:
A Mossad Killing in Dubai
Say Anything:
Photo Evidence: Michelle Obama Keeps Socialist Books In The White House Library  —  I arrived in Washington DC today to cover CPAC and since I was in town, and since CPAC doesn't really get rolling until tomorrow, I tagged along with some Scott Hennen Show listeners on an extensive tour …
Discussion: TBogg
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:   Obama, Dalai Lama: Mapping peace
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Figures.  Michelle Obama Stocked White House Library with Books on Socialism
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
So I went to the White House today...
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
What's holding the Democratic Party down  —  If you want to be honest, face these facts: At this moment, President Obama is losing, Democrats are losing and liberals are losing.  —  Who's winning?  Republicans, conservatives, the practitioners of obstruction and the Tea Party.
WRAL-TV:
Duke lacrosse accuser charged with attempted murder, arson  —  DURHAM, N.C. — Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society  —  The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm.  He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem.  Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be incompatible with presidential responsibilities.
Discussion: Mediaite
The Huffington Post:
Tea Party Speaker: Hang Patty Murray  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  A tea party gathering in Asotin County, Washington turned more than a bit ugly on Saturday when a featured speaker actually called for the hanging of Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash), the fourth ranking Democrat in the Senate and a vulnerable re-election candidate.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The straw that broke Evan Bayh's tenure  —  The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Majority Leader Harry Reid that they would oppose any increase in the statutory debt ceiling unless …
Discussion: Commentary
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Mark Guarino / Christian Science Monitor:
John Mellencamp: Replacement for Evan Bayh in Senate?
Discussion: News Dissector Blog and TalkLeft
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Meet the Flintstones  —  Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Discussion: Joe. My. God. and Prairie Weather
Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
In Blow to Taliban, 2 More Senior Leaders Are Arrested  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Two senior Taliban leaders have been arrested in recent days inside Pakistan, officials said Thursday, as American and Pakistani intelligence agents continued to press their offensive against the group's leadership …
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Newsweek Blogs:
Exclusive: Another Taliban Leader Captured in Pakistan
Art Beast / The Daily Beast:
The Left's Top 25 Journalists  — Home - Cheat sheet - Buzz board - Big Fat Story - Blogs & stories - Videos - Galleries - Crossword  —  Blogs and Stories  —  From Jane Hamsher and Ezra Klein to Kos and Krugman, Tunku Varadarajan counts down the most influential left-wing journalists in the country.
The Corner on National Review Online:
Obama's Faith-Based Economics — By: NRO Staff  —  On the stimulus's first anniversary, keep in mind one number: 6.3 million.  —  That is the Obama jobs gap — the difference between the 3.3 million net jobs President Obama said would be created (not just saved) and the 3 million additional net jobs that have since been lost.
Discussion: Commentary
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
No dip in earmark spending despite White House push for transparency
Discussion: The Politico
The Onion:
U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
At CPAC, a new conservative order  —  Since Richard Nixon was president, the Conservative Political Action Conference has provided the American Right with an annual occasion for self-evaluation.  On Thursday, when some 10,000 activists gather in Washington for this year's conference …
Colin Asher / American Prospect:
Fighting the War — and Irrelevance  —  With the war in Afghanistan now in its eighth year, the movement for peace looks to revamp itself.  —  In September 2009, when Barack Obama announced he was debating the merits of increasing the United States' human commitment to an unpopular war, there were no riots.
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Steve Doughty / Daily Mail:
Ministers lavished £9m on climate change stunts... but public opinion is left cold by global warming ‘propaganda’  —  A disastrous series of failed climate change publicity stunts cost taxpayers £9million, it emerged yesterday.  —  The projects paid for by the Government's Climate Challenge Fund …
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
Democrat Caddell rips White House for obeisance to organized labor  —  Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell on Wednesday blasted the Obama White House for creating “a world in which there is no dissent,” following his banishment from Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff's campaign for Senate.
Reuters:
U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer to quit in July  —  LONDON (Reuters) - U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding climate pact.
Lisa Lambert / Reuters:
U.S. state pension funds have $1 trillion shortfall: Pew  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. states face a total shortfall of at least $1 trillion in their funds for employees' pensions and retirement benefits, and their financial problems are quickly mounting, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States on Thursday.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Clusterstock
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things  —  From time to time, everyone is forced to experience the ritual of the apartment tour.  As your friend or relative leads you through their home for the first time, politeness dictates that you pretend to be impressed by the things you're being shown …
Ezra Klein:
Selling insurance across state lines: A terrible, no good, very bad health-care idea  —  The big Republican idea to bring down health-care costs is to “let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.”  Jon Chait has some commentary here, but I want to simplify a little bit.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama's federal government can weatherize your home for only $57,362 each  —  Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many thousands of homes …
Discussion: Say Anything
Lawrence Lessig / The Huffington Post:
“A dose of realism”?  How about this for “realism”: We Need Leadership  —  Larry Tribe criticizes my February 15 post, which itself had criticized the Democratic Leadership's planned response to Citizens United as not good enough.  He agrees that the Leadership's response is “incomplete,” …
Discussion: MyDD and TalkLeft
Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Rolls Back Non-Discrimination Protections For Gay State Workers  —  Gay and lesbian state workers in Virginia are no longer specifically protected against discrimination, thanks to a little-noticed change made by new Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Boston Globe:
DA rips gap in Bishop report  —  He says omission of standoff ‘glaring’  —  The Norfolk district attorney ramped up his criticism of the 1986 investigation of Seth Bishop's death yesterday, saying that it was “glaring” and “striking” that local police accounts of Amy Bishop's armed standoff …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
 
 
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