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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
More Questions Raised About Delay in Reporting Cheney Misfire — NEW YORK The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday.
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Not a Laughing Matter — I'm going to out something from my childhood this morning: I grew up in West Virginia, and I used to go hunting with my dad as a kid. I never actually shot any animals — I was too much of a softie, and spent my time in the woods with my dad feeding peanuts …
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Mishap on a Texas Ranch — WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a prominent Austin, Tex., lawyer on Saturday while the two men were quail hunting in South Texas, firing a shotgun at the man while trying to aim for a bird, a member of the hunting party said.
Michelle Malkin:
AL GORE SLANDERS AMERICA — Speaking from a country that sent us the majority of the 9/11 hijackers and from a conference that banned Denmark for daring to speak up against Islamist bullies, Al Gore this weekend blasted the United States for its "abuses" against Arabs:
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TigerHawk:
The Gorebot: attacking America from the fountainhead of jihad — Al Gore has travelled to the heart of the Wahabbi Muslim world and attacked the United States. One is almost forced to wonder whether he has completely lost his mind. … This is asinine both substantively and procedurally.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Follow-up to the Bush post yesterday — (updated below) — There are numerous replies around the blogosphere to my post yesterday regarding the various dynamics characterizing the behavior of Bush followers. I'm replying here to as many of the serious and/or commonly voiced responses as I can.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:THE GREENWALD QUOTE — Several readers have observed something …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for February 12 — TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: President Bush insists Congress was briefed about his plan for wiretapping without a court order. What information was shared? When, and in what form? With us, four of the very few congressional leaders who had notice …
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
UN inquiry demands immediate closure of Guantanamo — A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
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Maggie Farley / Los Angeles Times:
Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives — A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law. — NEW YORK — A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates …
Larisa Alexandrovna / rawstory.com:
Outed CIA officer was working on Iran, intelligence sources say — The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.
Gateway Pundit:
Iran Invites World to Join Holocaust Cartoon Contest — Hamshahri Newspaper in Iran published the rules for their international Holocaust Cartoon Contest today on their website. — (Click on each half to enlarge) — The number of contributions per person is 3 entries at most.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Republicans' Report on Katrina Assails Response — WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — House Republicans plan to issue a blistering report on Wednesday that says the Bush administration delayed the evacuation of thousands of New Orleans residents by failing to act quickly on early reports that the levees had broken during Hurricane Katrina.
Nick Coleman / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Troops back from Iraq being deployed on front lines of spin war — Evidence of a menacing increase in insurgent attacks on American troops in Iraq was declassified and presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., last week. The news was grim …
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Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Bracing for Penalties, Iran Threatens to Withdraw From Nuclear Treaty — TEHRAN, Feb. 11 — Iran's president warned on Saturday that Iran could withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if international pressure increased over its nuclear program. — His threat was a significant escalation …
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
The Decline and Fall of Europe — Talk to top-level scientists and educators about the future of scientific research and they will rarely even mention Europe. — Feb. 20, 2006 issue - Cartoons and riots made the headlines in Europe last week, but a far less fiery event …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Ownership Society Redux — The president likes to be consistent. Loves Laura; sticks to Laura. Kicks drink; keeps kicking it. First inaugural address: blue tie, white shirt. Second inaugural address: blue tie, white shirt. Weight in 2001: 190 pounds. Weight in 2005: 192 pounds.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
U.S. Muslims Try to Ease Europe's Discord — As the crisis over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad flared over the last two weeks, leaders of several American Muslim groups began working quietly to try to mediate between European Muslims and the West.
