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Associated Press:
Man shot by Cheney has minor heart attack … CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack  —  The 78-year-old lawyer who Vice President Cheney accidentally shot in a hunting accident suffered a minor heart attack this morning after a piece of birdshot moved and lodged in his heart, doctors said.  —  Doctors treating Harry Whittington …
Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Cheney Accident Triggers Jokes on Late-Night TV  —  For TV comics, it's a target so big and so attractive that few will resist taking their shot.  —  Vice President Dick Cheney was already the butt of jokes on the late-night TV circuit for his brooding public persona, ardent support for the war …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Update 22: White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap  —  The White House has decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to joke about it.  —  President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University …
CNN:
Hunter shot by Cheney has 'minor heart attack'  —  Doctors: Birdshot moved to Harry Whittington's heart  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNN) — The fellow hunter who was shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered a "minor heart attack" after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
McClellan Takes Aim at Cheney  —  After a not-entirely-successful effort on Monday to explain the vice president's hunting accident, press secretary Scott McClellan reloaded this morning and took aim at Dick Cheney himself.  —  President Bush, he announced, would be on the South Lawn …
Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Demagogue and Wonkette
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Mild Heart Attack  —  The 78-year-old lawyer who was accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday suffered a mild heart attack today after bird shot migrated to his heart, doctors in South Texas said, and he underwent a successful catheterization to determine the extent of the damage.
Discussion: King of Zembla and TAPPED
Los Angeles Times:
Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential
New York Times:
No End to Questions in Cheney Hunting Accident
Washington Post:
When the Veep Shoots Someone
John Dickerson / Slate:
Cheney's Bad Aim
Media Matters for America:
If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005  —  Executive Summary  —  The Sunday-morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC are where the prevailing opinions are aired and tested, policymakers state their cases …
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Investor's Business Daily:
The Shame Of Al Gore  —  Leadership: What possesses a former vice president of the U.S. to travel to the birthplace of Islamist terrorism and denounce his country?  Only a special breed of demons, apparently, can explain Al Gore.  —  The chief demon, of course, surely must be Gore's continuing quest for the presidency.
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Michelle Malkin:
NEXT, THEY CAME FOR KFC  —  Much of the American mainstream media has grown bored with the story, but the Cartoon Jihad continues to boil over.  AP reports on the worst violence in the Islamists' pretextual protests against the Mohammed Cartoons today in Pakistan: … Reuters coverage here.
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Ali Reza Ronaghi / Reuters:   Petrol bombs strike British embassy in Iran
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race, and Perhaps Politics  —  Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders.
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Victor Davis Hanson / realclearpolitics.com:
What Will Europe Really Do?  —  Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world's fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes.  How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle East?
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
U.S. Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years.  —  New projections, buried in the Interior Department's …
White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan  —  MR. MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone.  I'd like to begin with a little preview of tomorrow's remarks in Ohio.  The President will be traveling to Dublin, Ohio tomorrow to deliver remarks on his health care agenda.  The President has outlined …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SALUTING THE 3RD ACR  —  Via email from a 3rd ACR family member, a letter from the Mayor of Tall 'Afar, Iraq to the men and women of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and their families. … Members of the Regiment are now returning home to Ft Carson, Colorado.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Why Ann Coulter matters  —  (updated below)  —  Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds accuses me today of "degrad(ing) the blogosphere" because I wrote a post at Crooks & Liars observing that Reynolds had done nothing to denounce the violence-advocating and epithet-spewing remarks of Ann Coulter …
Discussion: Instapundit.com and Gina Cobb

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