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Rove counting heads on the Senate Judiciary Committee  —  The White House has been twisting arms to ensure that no Republican member votes against President Bush in the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation of the administration's unauthorized wiretapping.
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Gonzales Answers Tough Questions on Spying  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed skepticism Monday about the legality of President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program and suggested it be reviewed by a special federal court.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Activists on Right, GOP Lawmakers Divided on Spying
Discussion: PSoTD
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff / Washington Post:
Tolerance Toward Intolerance  —  Last week the publication I work for, the German newsweekly Die Zeit, printed one of the controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.  It was the right thing to do.  —  When the cartoons were first published in Denmark in September, nobody in Germany took notice.
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Michelle Malkin:
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, WILL YOU PLEASE STAND UP?  —  Kudos to the Philadelphia Inquirer for braving the forces of political correctness, foreign and domestic, and publishing one of the forbidden Muhammad cartoons.  The point that needs to be hammered again and again is that the newspaper …
New York Times:
Those Danish Cartoons  —  Cartoons making fun of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in a Danish newspaper last September are suddenly one of the hottest issues in international politics.  Muslims in Europe and across the Middle East have been holding protests with growing levels of violence and now loss of life.
Discussion: The American Thinker
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Protesters at Philadelphia Paper Ask It to Apologize for Cartoon  —  The Philadelphia Inquirer became the first major American newspaper to publish any of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Saturday, prompting a small protest outside the newspaper's offices yesterday morning.
Discussion: Aljazeera, Rantingprofs and The Heretik
Times of London:
Iranian paper launches Holocaust cartoon competition  —  Iran's biggest-selling newspaper has waded into the Muhammad controversy by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust.  —  Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper …
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NEWS.com.au:
Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons  —  IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.  —  "It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust …
Lorenzo Vidino / National Review:
Creating Outrage  —  Confused by the wave of protests, threats, boycotts, and attacks against diplomatic facilities that have shaken their idyllic tranquility after the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed on Jyllands-Posten, the Danes are asking themselves questions.
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Holding Fast to a Policy of Tax Cutting  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — George W. Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative," arguing that Americans did not have to choose between huge tax cuts and a government that would do its part to address social needs like education and health care.
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Joel Havemann / Los Angeles Times:
Bush Budget Plan Strikes Home, Not Deficit
rawstory.com:
Reporter hits McClellan on taps: 'You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law'  —  RAW STORY  —  White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan got in a heated row with a White House correspondent at Monday's press briefing over President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program, RAW STORY has learned.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Helen to Scotty: You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law.
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Michelle Malkin:
IRAN IS BURNING  —  The pretext is a protest at the Danish embassy in Iran over the Muhammad cartoons:  —  Meanwhile, the Iranian newspaper Hamshari is holding a Holocaust-mocking cartoon contest.  Yes, thank you—another opportunity to show how the civilized world, unlike the contest organizers …
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Polly Toynbee / Guardian:
No more fantasy diplomacy: cut a deal with the mullahs
Carl Bialik / Wall Street Journal:
Sometimes in Polling, It's All in the Question  —  What does the public think about the Bush administration's wiretapping program?  —  It depends on how you ask the question.  —  A half dozen polls on the issue have turned up different conclusions, and a key distinction appears …
Discussion: Mystery Pollster and PJ NSA Files
Spiegel Online:
'Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam'  —  Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, responds to the Danish cartoon scandal, arguing that if Europe doesn't stand up to extremists, a culture of self-censorship of criticism …
MSNBC:
Because they can  —  If I were the kind of blogger who ran contests, I'd have an essay contest today asking people to write in and explain which of the following two stories is the more perfect representation of the Bush Administration's overall approach to the rest of the world.
Discussion: The Big Picture and Solomonia
David Limbaugh / Townhall.com:
'Domestic' abuse  —  I hereby expressly consent to the NSA eavesdropping on any telephonic, Internet or other electronic forms of communications I may have — whether I initiate or am on the receiving end of the communication — with any person or persons the government has reasonable basis …
mccain.senate.gov:
MCCAIN RELEASES LETTER TO OBAMA  —  Washington D.C. ­- Today, Senator McCain sent the following letter to Senator Obama regarding ongoing Congressional efforts towards bipartisan lobbying reform.  The following is the text from that letter:  —  The Honorable Barack Obama  —  United States Senate
David Segal / Washington Post:
The Che Cachet  —  An Exhibition Traces How the Marxist Revolutionary's Photo Inspired an Army of Capitalists  —  NEW YORK Just look at what they have done to Che.  —  The glowering visage of the Cuban comandante and ur-Marxist pops up everywhere — in art, on the cover of magazines and …
Forbes:
Pakistan medical assn to boycott European drugs over cartoons  —  MULTAN, Pakistan (AFX) - The Pakistan Medical Association has vowed not to prescribe medicines from firms based in some European countries where controversial cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed were published, said Shahid Rao …

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