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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
With Tribute To King, Bush Reaches Out — NAACP Chief Praises President for Appearance — President Bush paid honor to the life of Coretta Scott King from the pulpit of a Baptist church in suburban Atlanta yesterday, recalling that "as a great movement of history took shape …
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William Branigin / Washington Post:Thousands Pay Respects to Coretta Scott King
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Los Angeles Times:A Eulogy for King, a Scolding for Bush
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Michael Kimmelman / New York Times:
A Startling New Lesson in the Power of Imagery — They're callous and feeble cartoons, cooked up as a provocation by a conservative newspaper exploiting the general Muslim prohibition on images of the Prophet Muhammad to score cheap points about freedom of expression. — But drawings are drawings, so a question arises.
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Editor and Publisher:
Publish or Not? Muhammad Cartoons Still Vexing U.S. Editors — NEW YORK Editors across the country continue to face difficult decisions surrounding the cartoons featuring the prophet Muhammad, which have set off rioting abroad. Few American papers have published the cartoon so far …
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Amir Taheri / Opinion Journal:
Bonfire of the Pieties — Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion. — "The Muslim Fury," one newspaper headline screamed. "The Rage of Islam Sweeps Europe," said another. "The clash of civilizations is coming," warned one commentator.
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Washington Post:The Uses of Cartoons — EXTREMISTS AND political opportunists across …
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Andrew Higgins / Wall Street Journal:How Muslim Clerics Stirred Arab World Against Denmark
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize — (CNSNews.com) - John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. — Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton to the U.N. post …
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Strong Leads and Dead Ends in Nuclear Case Against Iran — Iranian engineers have completed sophisticated drawings of a deep subterranean shaft, according to officials who have examined classified documents in the hands of U.S. intelligence for more than 20 months.
Allan Sloan / Washington Post:
Bush's Social Security Sleight of Hand — If you read enough numbers, you never know what you'll find. Take President Bush and private Social Security accounts. — Last year, even though Bush talked endlessly about the supposed joys of private accounts, he never proposed a specific plan …
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Bush Plan Would Trim Survivor Benefits — WASHINGTON - President Bush's budget calls for elimination of a $255 lump-sum death payment that has been part of Social Security for more than 50 years and urges Congress to cut off monthly survivor benefits to 16- and 17-year-old high school dropouts.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Redstate Racists — I don't throw around the racist word very often, because to me it is a very very serious charge. But there's no other way to say it; this right-wing blogger 'Blanton' at Redstate is racist, and all the commenter freaks nodding in frothing agreement to his screed seem mighty close as well.
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Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE EMAILS: Jack Abramoff Describes Relationship With President Bush — ThinkProgress has obtained emails written by Jack Abramoff in which the fallen lobbyist personally describes his relationship with President Bush. They depict a relationship far more extensive than has been previously reported.
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease — The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet keeps women from getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet had no effect. — The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women aged 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years.
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
McCain mocks Obama — WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) received a dressing down Monday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who accused the freshman of using the ethics reform issue for "self-interested partisan posturing." — In a sarcastic letter, McCain accused Obama …
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John In Dc / Open Letter To Chris Matthews:
MSNBC offering conservative voter outreach, for a price — Well, isn't this interesting. — A top MSNBC producer, who worked on Hardball with Chris Matthews, and now works for MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, is off giving paid-only lectures about how to influence conservative voters.
Washington Post:
Boehner Rents Apartment Owned by Lobbyist in D.C. — Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen …
Warren P. Strobel / Knight Ridder:
State Department sees exodus of weapons experts — WASHINGTON - State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less experienced political operatives who share the White House and Pentagon's distrust of international negotiations and treaties.
Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO: ALAN DERSHOWITZ GETS IT — European readers Brian A. and Kenneth M. have passed along links to an excellent interview with Alan Dershowitz that aired this week on Danish television. I don't agree with much of what Dershowitz espouses, but on many crucial War on Terror-related issues he is dead-on …
The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Boycott Egypt — Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Democrats Fear Their Battle Against Beset GOP Falls Short — It's like the old movies. Like Dracula rising from the grave. Jason, whom you think is finished, coming alive to strike again — and come back in another popular sequel. — Just a couple of months ago, the media …
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Ex-Officer Spurned on WMD Claim — A former special investigator for the Pentagon during the Iraq war said he found four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that he is sure contain stocks of chemical and biological weapons. But when he asked American weapons inspectors to check out the sites, he was rebuffed.
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