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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
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Jeff Harrell / The Shape of Days:
Memo to Ann Coulter
Discussion: The Daily Brief
Tom Bridge / Metroblogging DC:
I'm going to be ill.
Discussion: The Shape of Days
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
The Shoe (Bomb) on the Other Foot  —  President Bush's revelation about a foiled bomb plot shows the dangers of declassification for purely partisan purposes.  —  Feb. 10, 2006 - Poor Porter Goss.  First, the longtime Florida congressman leaves his safe seat to become director of the CIA …
Discussion: The Mahablog, Fafblog! and Fox News
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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
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:   On Fear, Lizard Brains, and 1984
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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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Carter allowed surveillance in 1977  —  Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.
Discussion: Power Line
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
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
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
Pakistan Daily Times:
VIEW: Modernity and protests by Muslims —Farish A Noor  —  Islamist NGOs, parties, movements, civil society groups, media outlets and politicians have mobilised Muslims and got them on the streets to demonstrate the will of the Muslim masses and — more importantly — the power of the Muslim dollar
Discussion: lgf
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 …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
RNC Chief Defends Domestic Wiretaps  —  Mehlman Assails Democrats on Security Issues  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman yesterday accused Democratic leaders of wanting to deny law enforcement officials the tools they need to defend against terrorism and criticized …
Discussion: War and Piece
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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Myrick / asiapundit:
msn blocks blog; ccp blocks newspapers
Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
PATRIOT DEAL  —  The deal that has been struck to move …
Discussion: Stop The ACLU and The RCP Blog
Confederate Yankee:
Send in the Clown  —  The Daily Kos kids are holding …
harpers.org:
The Great American Pork Barrel
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Making Profit on the Prophet Controversy
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Blog Readership Bogged Down
Robert / Jihad Watch:
"Freedom of expression is Western terrorism"
Francoalemán / Barcepundit:
REMEMBER THE LETTER by Zapatero and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan …
Discussion: Free Thoughts

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Pew Research Center:
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Chris Warshaw / Blog for America:
Settling the Score  —  There is a Democrat from Texas in Congress …
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Washington Times: Lifts my Obama story quotes
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Call Comey  —  I wrote sometime back that we had reached a point …
Jesus' General:
Anti-Semitism  —  Commenters at strormfront and Little Green Footballs …
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Moderate Muslim Speak Out Against Intolerance Across Globe
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SD House Approves Abortion Ban
 
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