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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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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.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
COPING IN COPENHAGEN  —  Copenhagen: … Most major news media are crediting the cartoons of Mohamed as the cause for the rage.  Although true, that's a slight over-simplification.  The story has since been expanded to include the more significant allegations of planned Koran burnings.
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 and Barcepundit
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.
Ahmed Fathy / islamonline.net:
Danish Muslims Warn of Burning Qur'an in Planned Rally
Discussion: BBC
Arthur Macmillan / Scotsman:
Publish and be damned
Telegraph:
Unchallenged, a man poses as a suicide bomber.
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.
MSNBC:
Transcript for February 5  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: for nearly three years, this Republican from Texas, Tom "The Hammer" Delay, was the leader of House Republicans.  He has now stepped aside.  This Republican from Ohio is the new majority leader of the House of Representatives.
Discussion: The Stakeholder
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Judd / Think Progress:
Boehner: I'd Consider Stepping Aside As Majority Leader For Tom DeLay
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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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Jason Reed / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?  —  President Bush at a recent White House press briefing  —  Feb. 13, 2006 issue - In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances …
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 …
TKS on National Review Online:
OBJECTIONS TO THOSE DANISH CARTOONS: THE INTOLERABLE, AND THE HONORABLE [02/05 08:15 AM]  —  Want some good news on those infamous Danish cartoons?  —  The reaction in my neck of the woods has been pretty mild - certainly nothing like the attacks on the Danish embassy in Syria.
Discussion: Instapundit.com and INDC Journal
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
New York Times:
Defending a Program and His Reputation  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — A year ago, Alberto R. Gonzales sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Bush administration's nominee for attorney general and a potential candidate for the Supreme Court.  He will return on Monday …

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