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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."
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Wonder Woman / A North American Patriot:
Oh Ann!  —  "If you're going to be a conservative in America, you can't be a pussy!"  —  Ann Coulter made an over the top speech to a packed room — In fact, I was relegated to watching it on the tv feed from bloggers row, because the room was bursting at the seams.
Discussion: Right Wing News
Tom Bridge / Metroblogging DC:
I'm going to be ill.
Discussion: The Shape of Days
Jeff Harrell / The Shape of Days:
Memo to Ann Coulter
Discussion: The Daily Brief
John / AMERICAblog:
US Vice President Dick Cheney attends conference …
Ryan Sager / Miscellaneous Objections:
Huh...  Ann Coulter proposes a new "post-9/11 rule":
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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.
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 …
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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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.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Dumb Ox
Los Angeles Times:
Bush Gives New Details About Old Report of L.A. Terror Plot  —  WASHINGTON — With pressure mounting on the White House to more fully explain its anti-terrorism strategy, President Bush offered new details Thursday of a reported plot against downtown Los Angeles as evidence of success in foiling attacks.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Needlenose and Time
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
On Fear, Lizard Brains, and 1984  —  I spent much of yesterday having people try to scare the hell out of me.  In the morning it was President Bush.  At night it was Big Brother.  At times, it wasn't easy telling them apart.  Let me explain:  —  My very scary day was jump-started …
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.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:   Update 19: Bush Reveals Rationale Behind Surveillance
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 …
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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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Loaded Mouth and Eschaton
Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:
The Cartoon Jihad  —  IT IS NOW ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the recent murderous protests over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last September were anything but spontaneous.  The actions of Islamist agitators and financiers have deliberately drummed …
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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New York Times:
Official Resigns Public TV Post  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — The top television executive at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Thursday that he would be stepping down.  This is the latest in a string of departures of officials and consultants who played central roles in an effort …
Tom Paine / Silent Running:
Podcast discovers actual moderate Muslim  —  Shire Network News is the podcast of Silent Running , an Anglospheric group blog.  You can contact the presenter, "Tom Paine", here.  —  The feature interview this week is with Kamal Nawash, head of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terror …

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