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11:40 PM ET, February 27, 2010

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New York Times:
‘State of Catastrophe’ After Chile Quake  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — A deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, ripping apart buildings, highways and bridges and leaving a path of fiery rubble across a long swath of this earthquake-tested country before sending waves rumbling across the Pacific Basin.
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Washington Post:
Despite advances, science of forecasting a tsunami is inexact  —  Saturday was a tense day in and around the Pacific Ocean.  There was a wave on the loose.  It was reputed to travel at the speed of a jet airplane.  Beyond that, this tsunami was a mystery.  No one knew precisely how big it would be when it came ashore.
ABCNEWS:
Chile Earthquake: Tsunami Watch Heightened After 8.8-Magnitude Quake
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Associated Press:   Huge quake hits Chile; tsunami threatens Pacific
msnbc.com:
Huge quake hits Chile, sparks tsunami
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Fox News:   Massive Magnitude 8.8 Quake Hits Chile, Killing Over 80
Reuters:   Huge earthquake batters Chile, 78 dead
Al Gore / New York Times:
We Can't Wish Away Climate Change  —  It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
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Gene J. Koprowski / Fox News:
You Can Call Him Al ... But Al Won't Call You Back  —  Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth.  But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore — the public face of global warming — has been mum on the topic.
New York Times:
Pelosi Struggles to Corral Votes for Health Care Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The future of President Obama's health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats in the House of Representatives — abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives — whose indecision signals …
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Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
Fly Now, Pay Later
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Coburn warns against majority-vote tactic in weekly Republican address
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Elizabeth Landau / CNN:
Liberalism, atheism linked to IQ  —  (CNN) — Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.  —  Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ …
Jim Galloway / Political Insider:
John Linder announces retirement from Congress  —  U.S. Rep. John Linder was first elected to Congress in 1992/AJC file.  —  U.S. Rep. John Linder, the Republican from Gwinnett County, this morning announced that he would retire from Congress after 18 years.
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Boston Globe:
A Kennedy considers running for House seat  —  With speculation mounting that US Representative William D. Delahunt will not seek reelection, Joseph P. Kennedy III, son of the former congressman and great-grandson of the Kennedy family patriarch, is eyeing a run to succeed …
Karl West / Daily Mail:
Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ‘at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro’  —  A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.  —  Representatives of George Soros's investment business …
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Michael C. Bender / Post on Politics:
Crist says he would not scrap Dem health care reform, can't identify part worth keeping  —  Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, told The Palm Beach Post editorial board on Friday that, unlike many Republicans in Washington, he didn't think President Obama should scrap his health care reform proposal:
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Barack Obama: “We Can't Control Nature” (Video)  —  Barack Obama on the Chilean earthquake, “We can't control nature.”  —  Agreed.  —  So, quit pushing that non-existent global warming junk science crap.  Thank you.  —  Hat Tip Randy Porter
Ashley Southall / The Caucus:
Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I Love You, Brother’  —  Van Jones is back on the scene for a second act, and he's got a peculiar affection for the Fox TV host whose persistent attacks helped bring down the curtains on his post with the Obama administration.  —  On Friday night, Mr. Jones, once a …
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case  —  ATLANTA — For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions.  But, staff members said …
 
 
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