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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Trial for Ex-Aide to Cheney Is Set for January 2007 — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, in the C.I.A. leak case will start next January, a federal judge said today. — District Judge Reggie B. Walton said jury selection will begin on Jan. 8, 2007.
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tomdispatch.com:
Tomgram: De la Vega on Why Rove Will Fall — The President passed through his State of the Union address — ill-digested chunks of so many other speeches he's given ("We're writing a new chapter in the story of self-government — with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Documents Reveal New Details of Libby Conversations — Court documents released today provide new details about the testimony that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff gave to a grand jury investigating his conversations with reporters and administration officials about a CIA operative.
Hugh Hewitt:
A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind — The furor over the Danish cartoons is sparking an odd reaction among some commentators in the West who see no contradiction in condemning the idiocy of Joel Stein or the repulsiveness of Tom Toles while urging solidarity with the idiot newspapermen …
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Interesting times — It's possible to regard the cartoon crisis as either a strategic disaster or boon for the War on Terror. The argument for being a disaster is assertion that in the war against extremists it is necessary to win over the moderates. And even if winning them over is impossible …
Qassim Abdel-Zahra / Associated Press:
Muslims Again Protest Muhammad Caricatures — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Thousands of Iraqis protested after Friday prayers against caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad reprinted in European papers and the country's top Shiite cleric denounced the drawings. — A roadside bomb killed …
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Dozens of Bodies, Survivors in Red Sea — An Egyptian ferry carrying about 1,300 people sank in the Red Sea early Friday during bad weather, and rescue ships and helicopters pulled dozens of survivors and bodies from the water. Some 180 escaped on lifeboats, an official said.
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Michelle Malkin:
IN THEIR OWN WORDS — ***updated*** — Just in from London... No, you go to hell. — (Hat tip: Allah Pundit) — Previous: — Followers of the religion of peace — The "international day of anger"
Los Angeles Times:
Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute — WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that it plans to ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, driving the cost of military operations in the two countries to $120 billion this year, the highest ever.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Anger over caricatures at boiling point — By David Rennie in Brussels and Tim Butcher in Jerusalem — A LEADING Islamic cleric has called for an "international day of anger" over publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad and a Danish activist predicted that deadly violence could break out in Europe "at any minute".
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Swiss Miss — Moments before Monday's vote on whether to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito, John Kerry was speaking to a near-empty Senate chamber. In his typical stentorian fashion, Kerry was arguing for a filibuster of the Supreme Court nominee, an effort the Massachusetts senator …
Washington Post:
Abizaid Credited With Popularizing the Term 'Long War' — With its formal embrace this week of the term "long war," the Bush administration has turned a simple descriptive phrase into an official name for the war on terrorism, and possibly catapulted it into the ranks of such other era names as "Cold War" and "World War."
Editor and Publisher:
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country on Iraq WMD — A new Gallup Poll, conducted in late January, reveals that just 39% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling Iraq, with 58% disapproving. — Over half (53%) now say the administration …
Saul Hudson / Reuters:
US backs Muslims in cartoon dispute — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States backed Muslims on Friday against European newspapers that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could help America's battered image in the Islamic world. — Inserting itself into a dispute …
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Associated Press:
'Faust' Opera Video Stirs Angry Parents — BENNETT, Colo. - Some parents in this prairie town are angry with an elementary school music teacher for showing pupils a video about the opera "Faust," whose title character sells his soul to the devil in exchange for being young again.
tcsdaily.com:
Nuts with Nukes — There is an important law about power that is too often overlooked by rational and peace-loving people. Any form of power, from the most primitive to the most mind-boggling, is always amplified enormously when it falls into the hands of those whose behavior is wild, erratic, and unpredictable.
Tony Batt / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Tribes gave to Reid after hiring Abramoff — WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada began receiving campaign contributions from at least four American Indian tribes only after they hired Jack Abramoff, Republicans charged this week in an effort to tie the Senate Democratic leader to the disgraced lobbyist.
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John / AMERICAblog:
Time to support a good Democrat who's running against a bad Democrat — Former Democratic congressman Ciro Rodriguez lost his seat when Delay redistricted Texas. He lost to Democrat-in-name-only Henry Cuellar, a man rumored to be getting ready to switch his party affiliation to Republican.
Guy Gugliotta / Washington Post:
NASA's Inspector General Probed — Failure to Investigate Safety Violations Is Among the Charges — An FBI-led watchdog agency has opened an investigation into multiple complaints accusing NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb of failing to investigate safety violations and retaliating against whistle-blowers.
