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Kevin G. Hall / Knight Ridder:
Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports — WASHINGTON - One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Bush's Goals on Energy Quickly Find Obstacles — WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The energy proposals set out on Tuesday by President Bush quickly ran into obstacles on Wednesday, showing how difficult it will be to take even the limited steps he supports to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Michelle Malkin:
THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF SPEAK — In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. — You write a letter to the editor. — Here's a Tom Toles cartoon that our military leaders did not appreciate:
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Mark in Mexico, The Strata-Sphere, The Officers' Club, The Galvin Opinion and NewsBusters.org
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John / AMERICAblog:
Pentagon trying to censor top US political cartoonist — The Joint Chiefs of Staff just sent a menacing letter to the Washington Post over a cartoon. AMERICAblog received a copy of the letter at 10AM this morning, but as its veracity was not yet confirmed, we waited until E&P was able to confirm that is is for real.
Editor and Publisher:
Joint Chiefs Send Rare Protest Letter to 'Wash Post' Over 'Reprehensible' Toles Cartoon — NEW YORK A Tom Toles editorial cartoon published in The Washington Post on Monday and on its Web site has drawn a very rare and very strong protest letter to the editors from all six members of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, E&P has learned.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Learning from Dear Leader — (updated below - updated again, several times — (updated one last time to reflect that Capitol Police admit they made a mistake because Sheehan broke no laws or rules) — I disagree with lots of things which Cindy Sheehan says but if the circumstances …
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dailykos.com, firedoglake, The Mahablog, The Carpetbagger Report, Hullabaloo, Guardian, Balloon Juice, The Heretik, Attytood, QandO, TalkLeft, The American Street, Say Anything, The Corner on National …, AMERICAblog, SpeakSpeak News, Gateway Pundit, Rook's Rant, Bad Attitudes, The Glittering Eye, THE BRAD BLOG, Clarity & Resolve, Don Surber and Brilliant at Breakfast
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John Nichols / Yahoo! News:The War on T-Shirts — The Nation — Minutes before the President …
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Oblogatory Anecdotes, The Heretik, Pen-Elayne on the Web, Dean's World and SpeakSpeak News
Sister Toldjah:About Cindy's arrest and the law she broke (UPDATE 6)
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Michelle Malkin, Mark in Mexico, On Tap, San Francisco Chronicle, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Generation Why?, Patterico's Pontifications, A Blog For All, Gateway Pundit, The Hotline's Blogometer, protein wisdom, GOP and College, PoliBlog, News Hounds, AMERICAblog, Pardon My English, Wizbang, Balloon Juice and Oblogatory Anecdotes
BBC:
Muhammad cartoon row intensifies — Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage. — France Soir, Germany's Die Welt, La Stampa in Italy and El Periodico in Spain all carried some of the drawings.
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Gina Holland / Associated Press:
Alito Splits With Conservatives on Inmate — WASHINGTON - New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. — Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor …
Newsweek:
The Case for Joe Biden — A long time political consultant argues that the senior senator from Delaware is the Democrat's best shot — Jan. 31, 2006 - There are several ways we choose our presidents. During the primaries, we may vote for the person who looks as if he or she will perform best …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
NARAL and Coathanger Chafee — I've always been a big NARAL supporter, and I recognize that they do their job under tremendous and constant pressure from the right. Many Democrats are abandoning pro-choice values in order to seem less "liberal" despite the fact that most Americans want abortion …
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Eschaton, Hullabaloo, The Huffington Post, Seeing the Forest, Vichy Democrats and AMERICAblog
Michelle Malkin:
KERRY'S "53 PERCENT" LIE (VIDEO) — Via Drudge comes word of Sen. John Kerry's false claim on The Today Show that "53 percent of our children don't graduate from high school." Census data show that 84 percent of Americans over the age of 25 are high school grads. — Download the video (.wmv file).
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann smacks back at O'Reilly — Olbermann: He can dish it out, but clearly he can not take it. — Video-WMP Video-QT — Keith does a blow by blow analysis of O'Reilly's "Talking Point Memo." — O'Reilly doesn't even know Bob Woodruff's name. — (I'm not sure if the video is uploading yet.
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PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage! — I didn't listen to the State of the Union Address last night, preferring to maintain my equanimity by attending a talk on quantum physics, but I knew I could trust my readers to email me with choice weird science bits.
William Branigin / Washington Post:
GAO Faults Federal Government for Katrina Response — DHS Rejects Report While New Orleans Mayor Backs Claims — Despite plenty of advance disaster warning and decade-old recommendations on preparedness, the federal government failed to exercise adequate leadership in response …
