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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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Limelight at Wiretap Hearing: 2 Laws, but Which Should Rule? — It is the sort of problem that judges confront every day. One law forbids a certain activity. The other may allow it. Which one counts? — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales made the case to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Activists on Right, GOP Lawmakers Divided on Spying — Despite President Bush's warnings that public challenges to his domestic surveillance program could help terrorists, congressional Republicans and conservative activists are split on the issue and are showing no signs of reconciling soon.
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 …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:In Quizzing a Reticent Gonzales, Senators Encounter a Power Shortage
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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.
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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.
Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority — SPECTER: Thank you very much, Senator Cornyn. — DURBIN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. — Thank you, Attorney General, for being here.
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority — The transcript picks up with the testimony of Senator Herb Kohl. Return to Part I. — Senator Kohl? — KOHL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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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 …
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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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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Budget Plan Assumes Too Much, Demands Too Little — President Bush's budget blueprint would bring the federal government's budget deficit under control by decade's end. But to do that without raising taxes, the White House would need a sweeping tax reform that it has avoided proposing and a swift end to the war in Iraq.
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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Duo hogs top prize in pig-squealing contest — Father-son team oinks way to victory in French cult competition — TRIE-SUR-BAISE, France - Yohann and Olivier Roussel's performance climaxed in a cacophony of oinks and grunts, unleashing an explosion of applause.
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Kelluman / neandernews.com:Danish Imams Busted!
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Where's My Subpoena? — Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, and me. — In Washington, the only thing worse than having to testify before a grand jury is not being asked to. I never wanted to go to prison or make hard choices about protecting my sources, but I thought I'd get more out of my bit part …
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McCain launches harsh broadside at Obama — Accuses freshman senator of 'disingenuousness' — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John McCain unleashed an unusually biting and blunt broadside Monday against Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, accusing him of backtracking on a previous commitment to help develop …
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mccain.senate.gov:MCCAIN RELEASES LETTER TO OBAMA
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
New roles take centre stage but old divisions lurk in the wings — Sabre-rattling Europe and emollient US will soon settle down to business as usual — WHEN European and US policymakers, led by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary …
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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 …
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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.
