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Anthony Browne / Times of London:
Danish cartoonists fear for their lives  —  TWELVE Danish cartoonists whose pictures sparked such outcry have gone into hiding under round-the-clock protection, fearing for their lives.  —  The cartoonists, many of whom had reservations about the pictures, have been shocked by how the affair …
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BBC:
More protests due in cartoon row  —  Further protests over the publication of cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad are due to be held in London outside the Danish embassy on Saturday.  —  On Friday, hundreds of British Muslims protested, with some calling for more atrocities like the July 7 bombings.
Guardian:
Cartoons and their context  —  Leader  —  Like other principles, freedom of speech is only absolute until it is shaped by its context.  The fierce and serious debate that is coursing through and beyond western Europe about the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad is no exception to that rule.
Discussion: The Heretik and Donklephant
New York Times:
U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Muslim world erupted in anger on Friday over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Europe while the Bush administration offered the protesters support, saying of the cartoons, "We find them offensive …
Discussion: TigerHawk, Althouse and Tim Blair
Sydney Morning Herald:
Anger over caricatures at boiling point
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.
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John In Dc / Open Letter To Chris Matthews:
Matthews says maybe liberals and gays burned down churches in the south  —  On his TV show tonight Chris Matthews suggested, without any proof at all, that maybe liberals or gays were responsible for a series of terrible church burnings last night in central Alabama.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
From the Dept. of Ass-Smooching (Chris Matthews Division)  —  For further evidence of why all TV journalists covering politics should be forced to live as far away from the Beltway as possible, have a look at Chris Matthews' chummy, clubby, buddy-buddy on-air chat with former Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Unemployment Rate Drops to 4 1/2-Year Low  —  WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate dropped to a 4 1/2-year low as businesses cranked up hiring in January, an encouraging sign that the economy started the year on the right foot.  —  The latest jobs picture, provided by the Labor Department on Friday …
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Jobless Rate Falls to Lowest Level in More Than 4 Years  —  The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in four and a half years in January, the government reported today, as the economy added construction, education, health and other jobs.  —  Employment was up in virtually every sector …
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: MyDD and Middle Earth Journal
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Pundit Putz  —  Atrios linked today to a very insightful post …
Discussion: The Sideshow
Confederate Yankee:
Guardian Fetches A Bucket of Prop Wash  —  The latest of the so-called "Downing Street Memos" is the most laughable one yet.  According to a key passage in this latest theory: … One problem with that theory: U2 high altitude surveillance aircraft typically operate near their operational ceiling …
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
IS THE PRESIDENT "ABOVE THE LAW"?  I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHO THE PRESIDENT IS  —  Several former Clinton administration officials are among the group of "scholars of constitutional law and former government officials" who last week submitted a letter to Congress - posted on the New York Review …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and King of Zembla
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Bush to Propose Curbing Growth in Medicare Cost  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — In his budget next week, President Bush will propose substantial savings in Medicare, stepping up his efforts to rein in the growing costs of social insurance programs, administration officials and health care lobbyists said Friday.
Kevin / Pundit Review:
BREAKING NEWS: ARMY REVERSES COURSE; DOES RIGHT BY MICHAEL YON  —  What we have here is the ability to communicate!  Picking up on a couple of MSM stories, bloggers rallied behind Michael Yon in his copyright battle with the US Army in a major way over the past 24 hours.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court  —  Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager?  Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board?  Who is communicating online with a suspected drug dealer?  —  These questions, and many more like them …
Scott Sexton / journalnow.com:
Dean's Bush bash plays mainly to the true believers  —  DURHAM - Wearing a white Bush-Cheney '04 T-shirt, Jeff Hubbard was distinctly in the minority Tuesday night when Howard Dean popped into a pizza restaurant to roast President Bush before the State of the Union speech.
Tom Paine / Silent Running:
Podcast offends Muslims  —  Shire Network News is the podcast of Silent Running , an Anglospheric group blog.  You can contact the presenter, "Tom Paine", here.  —  The feature interview this week is with Danish blogger Mikkels, who writes the blog Enough.
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
Three Pillars of Wisdom  —  Finding our footing where lunacy looms large.  —  National Review Online  —  Public relations between the so-called West and the Islamic Middle East have reached a level of abject absurdity.  Hamas, whose charter pledges the very destruction of Israel …
Times of London:
Call for holy war at London demo  —  MUSLIM protesters threatened more terrorist attacks as they converged in their hundreds outside the Danish Embassy in London yesterday for what organisers said was the start of a new holy war in Britain.  —  Parading banners that called for the killing …

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