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You Go, Geffen! — Hillary Clinton's very bad week. — We know from the philosophers that a true statement is true without regard to the reliability or sagacity of the person who utters it. We have it on good authority that the truth shall set us free. David Geffen spoke truth to Maureen Dowd last week.
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Detour From High Road in Clinton-Obama Clash
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A Surmountable Hill — Mrs. Clinton seems less inevitable after this week.

AP: Vilsack to end White House bid — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday. — Vilsack left office in January …
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Vilsack Drops Out — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is announcing today that he's dropping out of the Democratic presidential race. His campaign said Mr. Vilsack will make a major announcement at 11 a.m. in Des Moines. — Tom Vilsack, right, answered a question from George Stephanopoulos during …

New Republic to Cut Back Publication Schedule — The New Republic, the thinning left-leaning weekly magazine whose circulation has plunged in the era of the Web, is overhauling itself with a new configuration of owners, who are investing in a new look for the magazine and cutting back its publication schedule to every two weeks.
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New Republic Sold, to Drop Weekly Publication Schedule — The Canadian media giant CanWest has taken a majority stake in the 92-year-old New Republic, and plans to relaunch the weekly as a thicker, glossier - and half as frequent - magazine with a more robust Web site.

Verbatim Bachmann on Iran: "There's already an agreement made. [Iran is] going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone." — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann claims to know of a plan, already worked out with a line drawn on the map, for the partition of Iraq …
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Okay, so we've prepared a little Joe Lieberman care package for people to email to reporters and/or commentators when they talk about Lieberman switching parties. — Here's what's in it. We've compiled lots and lots and lots of examples of Lieberman swearing up and down to the voters of Connecticut that he'd stay with the Dems.
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TIME: Swampland
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Senate Democrats in Bid to Limit U.S. Role in Iraq — Senior Senate Democrats, stepping up their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq policy, are preparing legislation that would limit the role of United States troops there to counterterrorism efforts and prohibit them from interceding in sectarian violence.
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Democrats move to limit Bush's authority
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EXCLUSIVE: Cheney on Global Warming — Vice President's Views At Odds With Majority Of Climate Scientists — Sydney, Australia, Feb. 23, 2007 — In an exclusive interview today, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Vice President Dick Cheney about the topic of global warming, a subject Mr. Cheney has rarely addressed in the past.
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'NYT' SUNDAY PREVIEW: Suze Orman Reveals She is the '55-year-old Virgin' — NEW YORK In an interview for The New York Times Magazine this coming Sunday, financial guru and TV host Suze Orman gets on Deborah Solomon's case for not looking out for her own money, partly because "you are a woman."
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Emulating the Enemy … That description applies in equal parts to Osama bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as to leading American neoconservatives, including some of the government's most influential figures, and likely the President himself. At least in terms of these impulses …

New set of rape allegations leveled against Iraqi forces — 2nd such accusation this week hurts U.S. effort to transfer security to domestic troops — Still reeling from allegations that Iraqi police officers raped a young Sunni woman in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday confronted a second set …
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Fox News jogs its blogs — 'It's Out There' gets test run — Fox News Channel is testing another pilot on Sunday that will air following its experiment in news satire, "The ½ Hour News Hour." — "It's Out There," a half-hour of stories derived from blogs, will get a half-hour …


Long Iraq Tours Can Make Home a Trying Front — In the nearly two years Cpl. John Callahan of the Army was away from home, his wife, he said, had two extramarital affairs. She failed to pay his credit card bills. And their two children were sent to live with her parents as their home life deteriorated.
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Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18
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Fake Private Parts Are No Joke, Myers Says — Delegate Wants to Ban Vehicle Displays of Plastic Genitals — Maryland Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to truckers: If you've got 'em, you don't need to flaunt 'em. — As the General Assembly debates global warming and the death penalty, Myers …

Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War — Opposition goes beyond Jewish Americans' political affiliations — PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll data collected since the beginning of 2005 finds that among the major religious groups in the United States …


Senator Lott Floods the Zone — A house is lost and now a senator wants revenge. — One big question when Democrats took over Congress was which industry would be first to feel the new majority's populist rage. Oil? Pharma? Banks? Corporate America just got its answer …
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Dems in uproar over Fox plan to cover debate — The first presidential primary is 11 months away, but liberals are arguing among themselves over how to best reach new voters — and whether to cooperate with one of their biggest media nemeses. Their dilemma: — Should we Fox?