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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.
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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.
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:
Two Babes and a Brain:
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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.
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service.spiegel.de:
Alienated Danish Muslims Sought Help from Arabs  —  Twelve drawings of Muhammad printed in a major Danish newspaper have turned millions of Muslims against Denmark.  But three images that had nothing to do with the campaign that were shown to Muslim leaders on a trip by a group of Muslims living …
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Stephen Castle / Independent:   Mohamed cartoons provoke bomb threats against Danish newspaper
BBC:
Muhammad cartoon row intensifies
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 …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:   Alito's first significant vote: splits with conservatives
Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Ex-Aide Libby Wants Classified Materials  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a former top White House aide want access to classified intelligence briefings to show that he had more pressing matters on his mind than lying about leaking the identity of a CIA operative to get even with her husband for criticizing President Bush.
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:   Lawyers in Leak Case Outline Libby's Defense
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
More Court Filings From Libby
Bill Adair / St. Petersburg Times:
T-shirt earns exit from House gallery … WASHINGTON - Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young of Indian Shores, said she was ejected from the House gallery during Tuesday night's State of the Union address because she was wearing a T-shirt that said "Support the Troops - Defending Our Freedom."
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Not So Free Speech  —  In the kabuki theatre world of GWB Productions …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Senate Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush's domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance …
MSNBC:
House sends budget cut bill to Bush's desk  —  Body approves Congress's first try in eight years to slow benefit programs  —  WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday narrowly approved Congress' first attempt in eight years to slow the growth of benefit programs like Medicaid and student loan subsidies …
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New York Times:
Congress Narrowly Approves $39 Billion in Budget Cuts
MSNBC:
Scoring SCOTUS  —  Alito and the Democrats  —  Judge Sam Alito was confirmed today, as expected.  The final vote was 58 to 42.  The voting list is here.  —  This past weekend saw a unified effort in the blogosphere to engage readers in a call to action.
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 …
Ctblogger / CONNECTICUTBlog:
See Lieberman jump for joy  —  Okay, I had a chance to go back and take a look at the Lieberman footage from last night and I have to revise my eariler statement.  —  It seems like a very small handful of moderate Democrats stood up along with Lieberman when Bush made his "we're winning the Iraq war" …
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Sideshow

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