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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.
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Michelle Malkin:
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EMBASSY TORCHED — Via Reuters, here's the latest on what's happening in the Muslim world: … Associated Press adds this: … WaPo: … Video at BBC News. — Jeff Jacoby: "We are all Danes now" — Mark Steyn: "'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences" — Excerpt:
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.
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 …
Ahmed Fathy / islamonline.net:Danish Muslims Warn of Burning Qur'an in Planned Rally
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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.
Clarice Feldman / The American Thinker:
Court documents were released yesterday which appear to sound the death knell for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's case against Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Leftists who once eagerly anticipated a "Merry Fitzmas" are likely to find a lump of coal in their stockings next December, before the trial …
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 …
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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 …
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
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Seeing the Forest
