Top Items:
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
What it's like at the border, delivering Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine — NEAR THE UKRAINE BORDER — Javelin antitank missiles, the American-made weapons that can destroy Russian tanks, are stacked in steel racks awaiting quick shipment into Ukraine. A giant C-17 transport is parked on a nearby runway.
Discussion:
New York Times
RELATED:
Washington Post:
As war loomed, U.S. armed Ukraine to hit Russian aircraft, tanks and prep for urban combat, declassified shipment list shows — The United States drastically enhanced its shipments of lethal military aid and protective equipment to Ukraine as the prospect of a Russian invasion became …
Discussion:
CNN, Thomist Jeffersonian Journal and The Hill
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Pence hits Trump: No room in GOP ‘for apologists for Putin’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will urge Republicans to move on from the 2020 election and will declare that “there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin” as he further cements his break from former President Donald Trump.
Discussion:
UPI, Townhall, USA Today, National Review, Fox News, Bloomberg, POLITICUSUSA and Insider
RELATED:
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence to GOP: Stop 'fighting yesterday's battles'
Stuart Ramsay / Sky News:
Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week — On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale …
Discussion:
New York Post, HotAir, New York Times, Mediaite, Insider, The Guardian, Raw Story, Deadline, The Gateway Pundit, WAVY-TV and Washington Examiner, more at Techmeme »
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
An Anti-Vax Judge Is Preventing the Navy From Deploying a Warship — Admirals are desperate to remove an insubordinate anti-vaxxer from command of a guided-missile destroyer. A judge won't let them. — At this moment, the United States Navy is preparing to deploy a 10,000-ton warship …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden gets a bounce after the State of the Union, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows — After what's been a bleak several months politically for President Biden, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds he is seeing a significant boost in his approval ratings across the board following …
RELATED:
Marist Poll:
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Bounce for Biden Following State of the Union, March 2022
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Bounce for Biden Following State of the Union, March 2022
Discussion:
Townhall, The Hill, Twitchy, CW39 Houston, Mediaite, Washington Post, The Liberal Patriot, Conservative Daily News, PBS NewsHour, HotAir and Forbes
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Is this the beginning of a Joe Biden comeback?
Is this the beginning of a Joe Biden comeback?
Discussion:
RedState, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve — Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Jason Lange / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Americans broadly support Ukraine no-fly zone, Russia oil ban -poll … A broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the United States should stop buying Russian oil and gas and work with NATO to set up “no-fly zones” to protect Ukraine from Russian air strikes, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Friday.
RELATED:
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Bolton says Trump might have pulled the U.S. out of NATO if he had been reelected … Former national security adviser John Bolton told The Washington Post Friday that he thinks former president Donald Trump would have pulled the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had he been reelected in 2020.
Discussion:
Raw Story and Fearful Symmetry
Associated Press:
Pulitzer winner Walter Mears, AP's ‘Boy on the Bus,’ dies — WASHINGTON (AP) — Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87.
Washington Post:
The Roger Stone tapes — Previously unseen documentary footage shows the longtime Trump adviser working to overturn the 2020 election and, after the Jan. 6 riot, secure pardons for the former president's supporters — As a mob ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Roger Stone …
RELATED:
Lindsay Beyerstein / The Editorial Board:
The J6 committee says Trump did some criming. A new video suggests Roger Stone knew it
The J6 committee says Trump did some criming. A new video suggests Roger Stone knew it
Discussion:
Raw Story
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Interview with President Biden — Every day, people write to me and say they feel helpless to change the direction of our future. — I always answer that we change the future by changing the way people think, and that we change the way people think by changing the way we talk about things.
Discussion:
Daily Mail and Insider
RELATED:
Heather Cox Richardson / YouTube:
Historian Heather Cox Richardson interviews President Joe Biden February 25, 2022
Historian Heather Cox Richardson interviews President Joe Biden February 25, 2022
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit and Balloon Juice
Reto Gregori / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg to Temporarily Halt Work of Its Journalists in Russia — Bloomberg News will temporarily suspend the work of its journalists inside Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed legislation that criminalizes independent reporting in the country. — “We have with great regret decided …
Discussion:
New York Post, Common Dreams, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Financial Times and Мед …, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Rick Scott / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Defying Beltway Cowardice — Republicans don't deserve to govern unless we're willing to take on the real problems America faces. — I have committed heresy in Washington. I've been in the Senate for only three years, and I have released an 11-point plan with 128 ideas …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, ไพโ …, New York Magazine, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, National Review, CNN, Breitbart, Florida Politics and NBC News
Chris Spargo / Law & Crime:
Judge Allows Former Deputy Accused of Raping 14-Year-Old Girl to Avoid Prison and Sex Offender Status — After striking a plea deal with prosecutors, a onetime Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was accused of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl over a period of 20 months will serve no time in prison …
Bloomberg:
White House Weighs Ban on Russian Oil Imports as Congress Fumes — The Biden administration is weighing a ban on U.S. imports of Russian crude oil as Congress races toward passing such a restriction to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine. — Conversations are taking place within …
Discussion:
The Hill, Fox News, HotAir, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Florida Phoenix and Twitchy
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Putin wants ‘normalization’ of global relations, saying there is ‘no need’ for sanctions on Russia — MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin called Friday for the “normalization” of relations with other states, saying Moscow has “absolutely no ill intentions with regard to our neighbors.”
Discussion:
Politico, HotAir, RedState, Al Jazeera, Metro.co.uk, Gazette and POLITICUSUSA
RELATED:
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin misjudged his adversary and squandered his military advantages
Putin misjudged his adversary and squandered his military advantages
Discussion:
Fox News, Euro Weekly News and The Atlantic
Jack Watling / The Guardian:
Russia's callousness towards its own soldiers is undermining its combat power — In past conflicts Russia could hide small scale casualties, but not any more — hen senior British officers visited Moscow in the days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the Russian general staff …
Discussion:
Telegraph and New York Times
Washington Post:
Russia not cooperating on proposed humanitarian corridor in Kherson, Ukrainian officials say — MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Local officials in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson said Friday that Russia is not living up to its side of the bargain on proposed “humanitarian corridors,” …
Discussion:
Insider and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The War That Russians Do Not See — A majority of people in Russia get their news from state television, which depicts their country not as the aggressor in Ukraine but as a victim of the West. — Pushkin Square, in the center of Moscow, is a traditional site of protest.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Enraged Sleuth Outs D.C. Public Transit Worker as Alleged Capitol Rioter — THERE GOES ANOTHER — An employee of Washington, D.C.'s public transit system has been arrested and charged with four misdemeanors for allegedly participating in last year's Capitol riot.
Discussion:
Raw Story
YouTube:
Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton on U.S.-Russian relations (Full Stream 3/4) — Russia has invaded Ukraine, and the West is exploring military and economic options to punish that aggression. On Friday, March 4 at 11:00 a.m. ET, former na...
Discussion:
Insider
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Special Forces Hold Off Russian Offensive on Kyiv's Front Lines — Weapons from the West make a big difference—as do the Russians' poor tactics, Ukrainian officers say — IRPIN, Ukraine—Every day for the past week, Russian forces have tried to fight their way through this suburb of Kyiv to reach the Ukrainian capital.
Discussion:
New York Post, The Federalist, CBS News and Bloomberg
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Moscow Blocks Facebook and Clamps Down on Free Speech — Russia accelerated its push to cut Ukrainians off from the sea, and blocked access to Facebook as part of a clampdown on domestic dissent. Anxiety over a captured nuclear plant eased when a fire was extinguished. — Catch up on the latest news on Ukraine.
Discussion:
Vox, Overtime, Common Dreams, Reuters, Mediaite, Forbes, Task & Purpose, Insider, CNN, The Economist, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, NBC News, BBC and Talking Points Memo
RELATED:
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russia Steps Up Censorship With Law Against ‘False Information’
Russia Steps Up Censorship With Law Against ‘False Information’
Discussion:
Commentary Magazine, Axios, Committee to Protect … and Fox News