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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.  —  Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.  —  Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin …
Associated Press:
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter  —  bd4350245ba8@news.ap.org Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.  —  Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington …
Discussion: TBogg, Booman Tribune and Iowa Voice
Tim / Hyscience:
Cheney Shoots Friend
Erik / ¡No Pasarán!:
Islamic Protestors in Paris Come Face to Face with an Unexpected Counter-Protest  —  "An eye for an eye!  A tooth for a tooth!"  Echoing protests around the world and wearing all kinds of costumes from the Middle East and the Muslim world, 4,000 Islamic demonstrators march through Paris denouncing …
Michelle Malkin:
"RAGHEADS" AND "SAMBOS" AND "GOOKS"  —  There is much buzz this weekend about comments that conservative author/columnist Ann Coulter made at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, a speech which I missed due to a book signing at the same event.
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Beneath the Rage in the Mideast  —  EGYPTIANS were hardly astonished when a ferry packed with more than 1,400 passengers sank in the Red Sea.  Anyone who has struggled to navigate daily life here knows safety standards are virtually nonexistent, and the value of human life is often overlooked …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and ¡No Pasarán!
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.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
For Possible '08 Run, McCain Is Courting Bush Loyalists  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a man in perpetual motion, flew to South Carolina on Jan. 16.  His stops included a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and speeches to local Republican groups.  But one of his most important events …
Delano R. Massey / ohio.com:
Area Muslims decry Bok cartoon  —  Editorial image printed in ABJ disrespectful, demeaning, leaders say  —  CUYAHOGA FALLS - Several Northeastern Ohio Muslims and community leaders met Friday to express their concerns about the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have ignited outrage and violence.
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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 …
Newsweek:
Bush's Bad Connection  —  The White House is defiant in defense of warrantless wiretaps.  That stance is beginning to bug Congress.  —  Feb. 20, 2006 issue - The attorney general of the United States was playing rope-a-dope.  Why, the senators wanted to know, did the White House circumvent …
Times of London:
Congo leader's £169,000 hotel bill  —  THE leader of one of Africa's poorest countries paid more than £100,000 in cash towards a £169,000 hotel bill run up by his entourage during last year's United Nations summit in New York, according to court documents obtained by The Sunday Times.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters

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