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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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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.
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.
Daniel Schwammenthal / Opinion Journal:
Europe's New Dissidents  —  Middle Eastern repression comes to the Continent.
Discussion: Peaktalk
Ahmed Fathy / islamonline.net:
Danish Muslims Warn of Burning Qur'an in Planned Rally
Discussion: BBC
New York Times:
Protesters in Beirut Set Danish Consulate on Fire
Juan / Informed Comment:
Muslim Protests Against Anti-Muhammad Caricatures
Discussion: Pacific Views
Austin Bay Blog:
UPDATED: The Cartoon War: A Collision of Values
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Arthur Macmillan / Scotsman:
Publish and be damned
BBC:
Danish embassy in Beirut torched
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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 …
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 …
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
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Voice of Feminism's 'Second Wave'  —  Betty Friedan, the writer, thinker and activist who almost single-handedly revived feminism with her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique," died of congestive heart failure yesterday, her 85th birthday, at her home in Washington.
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New York Times:
Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were "strained and unrealistic."
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.
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.
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 …
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
Walking into the Iran Trap, III: Mythic War, and Endless Enemies  —  [Part I: A Decision of Policy — and the Intelligence Won't Matter  —  Part II: The Folly of Intervention]  —  In the concluding parts of this series, I will offer some thoughts about the nature of the propaganda campaigns engaged …
Discussion: Eschaton and Alternate Brain
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
A Global Reach, but a Local Focus  —  One of the big surprises for me in becoming ombudsman is that most e-mail focuses on national issues, not local news.  —  This column is an initial effort to solicit comment from readers about local news.  Is The Post covering the kind of local news …
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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