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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences  —  I long ago lost count of the number of times I've switched on the TV and seen crazy guys jumping up and down in the street, torching the Stars and Stripes and yelling ''Death to the Great Satan!''  Or torching the Union Jack and yelling ''Death …
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Violence Spreads Over Muhammad Caricatures  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Thousands of Muslims rampaged Sunday in Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite Catholic church as violent protests spread over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Michelle Malkin:
IT IS NOT A "ROW"  —  Have you noticed how international newspapers and television stations are doing their best to downplay the global conflagration over the Cartoon Jihad?  —  And on and on and on.  —  A "row" is a quarrel.  Married couples have "rows" over laundry and finances.
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
We are all Danes now  —  HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage.  India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi.
Discussion: Don Surber, Barcepundit and Slate
Arthur Macmillan / Scotsman:
Publish and be damned  —  FOCUS  —  IT WAS always intended to generate a debate about freedom of speech but, buried innocuously in the culture section of a newspaper, no-one guessed it would spark global protests, the burning of effigies and the unlikely cry of "Death to Denmark".
CNN:
Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze  —  (CNN) — Islamic anger over newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed continues to spread internationally, with thousands of protesters rallying while some of their number torched the Danish consulate in Beirut.  —  Wielding sticks and stones …
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Protesters Torch Danish Embassy in Beirut  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Muslims protesting caricatures of Islam's prophet set fire Sunday to a building housing the Danish Embassy in Lebanon as security forces fired tear gas in an attempt to stop the protesters.  —  Thousands of protesters took part …
Telegraph:
Unchallenged, a man poses as a suicide bomber.
Discussion: EU Referendum
TKS on National Review Online:   OBJECTIONS TO THOSE DANISH CARTOONS …
Ahmed Fathy / islamonline.net:   Danish Muslims Warn of Burning Qur'an in Planned Rally
Austin Bay Blog:
UPDATED: The Cartoon War: A Collision of Values
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The Cia Leak: Plame Was Still Covert  —  Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case.  Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Fitzgerald Affidavit - Was Libby Novak's Source??  —  With a hat tip to Cecil Turner we find the Aug 2004 Fitzgerald affidavit in the Libby case posted at the Wall Street Journal (a 38 page .pdf file, also available here ).  —  Don't let it ruin your Super Sunday, but this looks like a target-rich document.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:   Back in the Saddle  —  Ah it's so good to be back in Plame again.
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85  —  Betty Friedan, the feminist crusader and author whose searing first book, "The Feminine Mystique," ignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 and as a result permanently transformed the social fabric of the United States …
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Washington Post:
Surveillance Net Yields Few Suspects  —  NSA's Hunt for Terrorists Scrutinizes Thousands of Americans, but Most Are Later Cleared  —  Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly …
Telegraph:
Democracy has a gun held to its head  —  Last week, Muslims marched in the centre of London chanting "Freedom go to Hell!"  There could be no more graphic illustration of the paradox at the heart of the cartoon row.  These protesters were exercising - and in many cases abusing …
Dr. Sanity:
Democracy In A Cartoon  —  To paraphrase William Blake: … Ibn Warraq has an editorial up in Spiegal Online: … Read it all, please, because it raises what I consider one of the fundamental problems of our time: the fact that the West seems to no longer be able to defend and stand up for itself …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
HOW LIKELY IS A MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST IRAN?....I was up in Los Angeles today, and along with a dozen other bloggers I spent about an hour chatting with Wes Clark, who was in town for a political rally.  Clark had some provocative things to say about Iran and its nuclear program …
Observer:
'The new Afghanistan is a myth.  It's time to go and get a job abroad'  —  As British troops prepare to tackle the Taliban's remnants, hundreds of thousands of jobless Afghan refugees who returned home to start a new life are queueing up to leave again  —  Dan McDougall in Kabul
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Evolution Measure Splits State Legislators in Utah  —  SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3 — Faith's domain is evident everywhere at the Utah Legislature, where about 90 percent of the elected officials are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Prayers are commonplace …

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