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Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear sites  —  Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Iran plant 'has restarted its nuclear bomb-making equipment'
Discussion: NewsHog
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Toon-deaf Europe is taking the wrong stand  —  From Europe's biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ''Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag.  Not literally "blasted" in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and JunkYardBlog
Times of London:
British imam praises London Tube bombers  —  A LEADING imam in the mosque where the July 7 bombers worshipped has hailed their terrorist attack on London as a "good" act in a secretly taped conversation with an undercover reporter.  —  Hamid Ali, spiritual leader of the mosque in West Yorkshire …
New York Times:
The Trust Gap  —  We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust him.  We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Katrina Report Spreads Blame  —  Homeland Security, Chertoff Singled Out  —  Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government's failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings of the threat to New Orleans …
BBC:
Thousands join pro-Islam protest  —  About 5,000 UK mainstream Muslims joined a protest in London's Trafalgar Square against controversial cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.  —  There had been fears the rally may have been disrupted by extremists, but it proved to be a trouble-free afternoon.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Do Bush followers have a political ideology?  —  Alexandra von Maltzan at All Things Beautiful has written a long and somewhat personal post expressing her "disappointment" in my blogging and in my political views.  Scott "Big Trunk" Johnson at Powerline, in a post entitled "One Beautiful Thing …
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Glenn Greenwald / Crooks and Liars:
Blasphemy in the Cult of Bush
Discussion: Eschaton and The Huffington Post
Lynn Zinser / New York Times:
Michelle Kwan Pulls Out of Olympics  —  TURIN, Italy, Feb. 12 ˆ Michelle Kwan, the face of United States figure skating for more than a decade and one of the best known female athletes in the world, announced in a tearful news conference today that she has withdrawn from her final Olympics …
Discussion: Althouse
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
Why Not Publish These Cartoons?  —  Hundreds of readers have asked why The Post hasn't reprinted the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that inflamed Muslims around the world, leading to deadly protests and the burning of embassies.  Some readers questioned the Post's journalistic courage.
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The Sideshow
Byron Calame / New York Times:
The Case of the Missing Roll-Call Votes  —  This fall's Congressional elections seem certain to rouse the interest of citizen-readers of The New York Times in the votes their legislators are casting in Washington.  Given a newspaper's fundamental role in helping readers hold lawmakers accountable …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Jim Brady Acting Up Again: It's the Accountability, Stupid  —  With this nasty letter in the Washington Post, online editor Jim Brady shows just how aggressive he is willing to be to avoid accountability at his newspaper.  It's quite remarkable, actually.  He still does not understand what went wrong.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
'Throttling' Angers Netflix Renters  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Manuel Villanueva realizes he has been getting a pretty good deal since he signed up for Netflix Inc.'s online DVD rental service 2 1/2 years ago, but he still feels shortchanged.  That's because the $17.99 monthly fee that he pays …
Nell Henderson / Washington Post:
Cheney Says New Unit Will Prove Tax Cuts Boost Revenue  —  Vice President Cheney said Thursday night that the verdict is in before the Bush administration's new tax analysis shop has even opened for business: Tax cuts boost federal government revenue.  —  That assertion won applause …
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Hal Bernton / Seattle Times:
Government wants to sell thousands of acres  —  The Bush administration on Friday proposed the largest Forest Service land sale in decades, listing 309,421 acres in more than 30 states — including nearly 7,500 acres in Washington state.  —  The plan, which requires congressional approval …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
This Week in God  —  First up from this week's God machine is the latest in a series of twists for evangelism and religious coercion problems at the Air Force Academy.  After a year of back-and-forth wrangling, and evidence of school-sponsored proselytizing, the Air Force released new guidelines …
Fox News:
U.N. Procurement Scandal: How Far Did the Inside Information Travel?  —  UNITED NATIONS — On April 27, 2005, a U.N. procurement officer named Alexander Yakovlev was working unusually late.  —  At 11:23 p.m. he fired off an e-mail to a food service executive named Andy Seiwert …

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