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Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter at CPAC on "Ragheads" and Assassinating Bill Clinton (and Dr. Bill Frist's Diagnosis) — On Friday, February 10, the rock star of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was none other than Ann Coulter. Before an overflow crowd of at least 1000 young right-wing activists …
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Sean Hackbarth / The American Mind:
Ann, Thanks for Nothing — With Ann Coulter you should only expect a bad stand-up comedian with a conservative schtick. That's what CPAC attendees got today. My expectations were low, yet she proceded to go below them. She referred to Muslims as "ragheads."
Wonder Woman / A North American Patriot:Oh Ann! — "If you're going to be a conservative in America, you can't be a pussy!"
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Ryan Sager / Miscellaneous Objections:Huh... Ann Coulter proposes a new "post-9/11 rule":
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Max Blumenthal / rawstory.com:Conservative Ann Coulter describes Muslims as ragheads; Senate leader ducks comment
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New York Times:
Republican Speaks Up, Leading Others to Challenge Wiretaps — WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her "serious concerns" about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Update 19: Bush Reveals Rationale Behind Surveillance — President Bush defended his warrantless eavesdropping program Friday, saying during what he thought were private remarks that he concluded that spying on Americans was necessary to fill a gap in the United States' security.
Associated Press:
Oops! - Bush Unaware Mikes Were Still On — CAMBRIDGE, Md. - The eavesdropping tables were turned on President Bush on Friday. The president apparently believed he was speaking privately when he talked about listening in without a warrant on domestic communications with suspected al-Qaida terrorists overseas.
Deborah Hastings / Associated Press:
Turin Games Kick Off With Surreal Ceremony — This gritty city below the Alps gave a heartfelt "benvenuto" Friday night to the Winter Games, a fiery opening ceremony dedicated to passion and to igniting the competitive spirits of more than 2,500 of the world's best athletes.
Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Libby Says Leaks Authorized, Papers Show — WASHINGTON - A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Curiouser and Curiouser — Some very odd happenings today on the Libby front. Yesterday the blogosphere was alive with the "Libby has flipped" meme after the publication of Murray Waas' National Journal article which actually said nothing of the sort. But it was evidently worrisome enough …
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
E-Mail Notes Say Lobbyist Met President Many Times — WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — The disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff told a magazine editor in recent days that he had met with President Bush many times and was invited to the president's Texas ranch for a gathering of campaign contributors in 2003, the editor said Thursday.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bob Barr, Bane of the Right? — You could find just about everything at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week: the bumper sticker that says "Happiness is Hillary's face on a milk carton," the "Straight Pride" T-shirt, a ride on an F-22 Raptor simulator at the Lockheed exhibit …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Ex-FEMA Leader Faults Response by White House — WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — Michael D. Brown, the former federal emergency management chief who became a ridiculed symbol of the Bush administration's flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, returned in anger to Capitol Hill on Friday and lashed back at his former superiors.
Lynn Sweet / sweet:
Washington Times: Lifts my Obama story quotes — Call the journalism police. It's a quote heist. — Familiar with the phrase, ``imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?'' — A story in Friday's Washington Times about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)—written in the wake of his flap …
Ryan Lizza / The New Republic:
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Jesus' General:
Anti-Semitism — Commenters at strormfront and Little Green Footballs have a lot in common. For instance, they both believe that you're an anti-Semite if you criticize Israel's apartheid government. — My wife, daughters, and grandson are Jewish. We live near a part of Washington State …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Blog Readership Bogged Down — Audience skews slightly young — PRINCETON, NJ — The audience for Web logs, or "blogs" had an auspicious start, going from practically zero to almost 20 in a very short time frame (20 being the percentage of Americans today who report reading blogs on at least an occasional basis).
