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David Espo / Associated Press:
Rep. Boehner Elected House Majority Leader — WASHINGTON - Rep. John Boehner (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio was elected House majority leader Thursday to replace indicted Rep. Tom DeLay. — Boehner defeated fellow Republican Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri …
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Associated Press:
Rep. Boehner Elected GOP Majority Leader — WASHINGTON — Republican officials say Rep. John Boehner of Ohio has been chosen House majority leader. — Boehner defeated Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, 122-109, after lagging behind his rival in a first, inconclusive ballot.
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CNN:
Boehner elected House majority leader — Republicans choose Ohio lawmaker to succeed DeLay — (CNN) — House Republicans on Thursday elected U.S. Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as majority leader. — He upset Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri in a 122-109 vote on the second ballot.
New York Times:
Ohio Congressman Wins Majority Leader Race, Replacing DeLay — WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Representative John Boehner, an eight-term Congressman from far west Ohio, defeated Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri today to become House majority leader as Republicans showed their eagerness …
New York Times:House Approves Budget Cutbacks of $39.5 Billion
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:Budget Cuts Pass By a Slim Margin
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Michelle Malkin:
IN SEARCH OF A BRAVE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER (UPDATED) — ***11:20am update...I've just learned that the NYSun published two of the cartoons in today's print edition...will post scans if I can get them...bravo!...scan posted below...*** — I have contacted several newspaper op-ed editors urging …
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Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:An Awakening Europe Reacts - Spineless UK Press Doesn't
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Lorenzo Vidino / The Counterterrorism Blog:Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:Cartoon Rage vs. Freedom of Speech
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
When does the "self-correcting" blogosphere start to self-correct? — (updated below - twice) — Before the Capitol Police acknowledged yesterday that there was no legal basis for removing, let alone arresting, Cindy Sheehan — to the contrary, they admitted that they "screwed up" because …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Joint Chiefs Fire At Toles Cartoon On Strained Army — In a protest with an unusual number of high-level signatures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each of its five members have fired off a letter assailing a Washington Post cartoon as "beyond tasteless."
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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals — · PM backed invasion despite illegality warnings — · Plan to disguise US jets as UN planes — · Bush: postwar violence unlikely — Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" …
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Washington Post:
Republicans Were Masters In the Race to Paint Alito — Democrats' Portrayal Failed to Sway the Public — On the night of Sunday, Oct. 30, the White House team charged with getting Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination through the Senate got a first look at the nominee.
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Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Iraq, Niger, And The CIA — Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger …
Mark Kleiman / The Reality-Based Community:
Graymail and missing emails — Tom Maguire pretends not to understand, but Scooter Libby's demand for information about Valerie Plame's work for the CIA is of a piece with his demand for copies of the Presidential Daily Briefs: graymail, pure and simple. The idea is to ask …
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Benjamin Harvey / aolsvc.news.aol.com:
In Turkish Movie, Americans Kill Innocents — Gary Busey, Billy Zane Co-Star in Anti-American Film — ISTANBUL, Turkey (Feb. 2) - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Evangelical Filmmakers Criticized for Hiring Gay Actor — WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of "End of the Spear," made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company. But days before the film's premiere …
Los Angeles Times:
What isolationism? — In his speech, the president presented a fiction to avoid a debate on tough policy questions. — IN HIS STATE of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush worked himself into a lather about the dangers of "retreating within our borders."
Times of London:
The President is a dolt - so how can America be such a success story? — TWO CEREMONIAL events occurred in Washington on Tuesday evening that shone a spotlight on one of the most important but paradoxical features of a modern democratic society. — The more widely reported was President Bush's State …
Gabriel Schoenfeld / Commentary:
Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act? — "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts." Thus ran the headline of a front-page news story whose repercussions have roiled American politics ever since its publication last December 16 in the New York Times.
New York Times:
The March of the Straw Soldiers — President Bush is not giving up the battle over domestic spying. He's fighting it with an army of straw men and a fleet of red herrings. — In his State of the Union address and in a follow-up speech in Nashville yesterday, Mr. Bush threw out a dizzying array …
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Rogers / Kung Fu Monkey:
Just. Stay. Down. — I don't often get involved in blog-spats. My first show-runner, Norman Steinberg, once killed a television in-joke with a grimace and a head-shake. "Television referencing television ... a bit too much like a dog eating its own vomit." Always what blogger -to-blogger sniping struck me as.
