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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
At Mecca Meeting, Cartoon Outrage Crystallized  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 — As leaders of the world's 57 Muslim nations gathered for a summit meeting in Mecca in December, issues like religious extremism dominated the official agenda.  But much of the talk in the hallways was of a wholly different issue …
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Freedom / Freedom for Egyptians:
Egyptian Newspaper Pictures that Published Cartoons 5 months ago  —  No Danish Treatment for an Egyptian Newspaper  —  I promised you in my previous post to bring you the images of the Egyptian newspaper, Al Fager (as pronounced in Egyptian Arabic) that published the Danish Cartoons five month ago on Oct 17, 2005.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
A Cartoon's Portrait of America  —  The trouble started in Denmark, a faraway country of which we know little.  It revolves around cartoons, an art form we associate with light humor.  It has sparked riots in Surabaya, Tehran, Peshawar and rural Somalia, places where there aren't many Americans in the best of times.
The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Boycott Egypt  —  Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the …
Media Matters for America:
CNN spliced out standing ovation greeting Lowery's WMD remarks at King funeral … The February 8 edition of CNN's The Situation Room featured a video clip of part of civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery's address at the February 7 funeral of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King …
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August J. Pollak / xoverboard.com:
As a white guy, did you just throw up right now?  —  The most disturbing part of the fake outrage over Coretta Scott King's funeral is the absurdist mentality of right-wingers on black outrage.  I can't think of anything more insulting to an entire race of people than acting as if they'll change …
CNN:
Greenfield: 'Do you really do this at a funeral?'
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
Swiftboating King's Funeral - Here It Comes!
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Court's Judges Were Warned About NSA Spy Data  —  Program May Have Led Improperly to Warrants  —  Twice in the past four years, a top Justice Department lawyer warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information overheard in President Bush's eavesdropping program …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
White House Agrees to Brief Congress on NSA Surveillance  —  Responding to congressional pressure from both parties, the White House agreed yesterday to give lawmakers more information about its domestic surveillance program, although the briefings remain highly classified and limited in scope.
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John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Senior House Republican wants answers on wiretap program
Discussion: The Road To Surfdom
Tim Golden / New York Times:
Tough U.S. Steps in Hunger Strike at Camp in Cuba  —  United States military authorities have taken tougher measures to force-feed detainees engaged in hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after concluding that some were determined to commit suicide to protest their indefinite confinement, military officials have said.
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Toast of the TV in Russian Eyes: It's Solzhenitsyn  —  MOSCOW, Feb. 8 — A grandfatherly figure, his bearded face wrinkled into a smile, peers down from billboards around town.  —  It is surprise enough that the man is Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the once-exiled writer, Nobel Prize winner and, of late, octogenarian scold.
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CNN:
Senate nerve agent scare a false alarm  —  More than 200 were evacuated from Russell office building  —  (CNN) — A U.S. Senate office building was evacuated Wednesday evening after a sensor detected the presence of a possible nerve agent, but it was later determined to be a false alarm, sources said.
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:   Police: All Tests for Nerve Agent Negative
USA Today:
Dems in search of pithy agenda  —  WASHINGTON — Bonnie Lauria had a modest request this week for a panel of Democrats at a United Auto Workers conference: Stop the torrent of words.  —  "Too much information is not good sometimes," said Lauria, 64, a retired General Motors plant worker from West Branch …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot  —  Indicted Rep. Tom DeLay Lands Spot on Appropriations Committee  —  WASHINGTON Feb 8, 2006 (AP)— Indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, forced to step down as the No. 2 Republican in the House, scored a soft landing Wednesday as GOP leaders rewarded him with a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee.
Pew Research Center:
Summary of Findings  —  Public concern over Iran's nuclear program has risen dramatically in the past few months.  Today, 27% of Americans cite Iran as the country that represents the greatest danger to the United States.  In October, just 9% pointed to Iran as the biggest danger to the U.S. …
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Hurricane Victims Demand More Help  —  Federal Government Not Doing Enough to Aid Rebuilding, Survivors Say  —  They came to Washington yesterday from temporary housing, from apartments in Houston, hotel rooms in Dallas and spare bedrooms in cousins' homes.  —  They came to say that the only place they really want to go is home.
Jim Geraghty / Washington Times:
The growing role of bloggers  —  Imagine what the mood at President Bush's State of the Union address would have been if the big news before the speech was the Senate's confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Harriet Miers.  —  It's hard to believe that as recently as late October that was the White House's goal.
Nick Britten / Telegraph:
100,000 Muslims to vent anger in London at cartoon protest  —  A mass demonstration of 100,000 Muslims will take place in London next weekend as anger continues over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.  —  The Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella group which claims to represent …
White House:
President Bush Welcomes King Abdullah of Jordan to the White House  —  PRESIDENT BUSH: Your Majesty, welcome back.  I have had two good discussions with His Majesty.  Last night His Majesty and the Crown Prince came to have dinner with Laura and me and some members of Congress, and we had a really good discussion.
Discussion: Left I on the News

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