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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.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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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.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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 …
Discussion: NewsHog
rawstory.com:
Court filings shed more light on CIA leak investigation
Discussion: mediabistro
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
BREITBART.COM:
US blasts cartoons of Prophet Mohammed  —  The United States blasted the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as unacceptable incitement to religious or ethnic hatred.  —  "These cartoons are indeed offensive to the beliefs of Muslims," …
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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 …
Mariam Fam / Associated Press:
Crews Search for Survivors in Red Sea  —  SAFAGA, Egypt - An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying nearly 1,500 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.  Egypt's transport minister said 203 survivors have been rescued.
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Jerusalem Post:
Egyptian cruise ship sinks in Red Sea
Discussion: TigerHawk and Hit and Run
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.
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."
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 …
Eric Alterman / The Nation:
Lies About Blowjobs, Bad.  Wars?  Not So Much.  —  At a recent conference on the Clinton Administration at Hofstra University, ex-press secretary Jake Siewart made a point that had previously eluded me: It was during the early days of Clinton's presidency that the democratization …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 …
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.
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister and Pandagon
Michelle Malkin:
THE MUHAMMAD CARTOONS BLOGBURST  —  Blogger E.L. Core e-mailed me with an excellent idea for a Muhammad Cartoons "Blogburst": … Ok.  Let's do it.  If you've posted some or all of the forbidden Muhammad cartoons on your blog in support of Denmark and the Jyllands-Posten, send a track back or e-mail me your link.
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.
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.

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Sydney Morning Herald:
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