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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 …
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Mark Leibovich / Washington Post:
After Cheney's Shooting Incident, Time to Unload  —  Episode Triggers a Fusillade of Wisecracks, And a Withering Blast From White House Press  —  It was one of those "everyone's a wise guy" days in Washington yesterday, thanks to Dick Cheney.  Quipping at the vice president's expense …
New York Times:
No End to Questions in Cheney Hunting Accident  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The White House sought with little success on Monday to quell an uproar over why it took the better part of a day to disclose that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally wounded a fellow hunter in Texas on Saturday …
New York Times:
White House Shoots Foot  —  Let's see.  The vice president of the United States accidentally shot someone while bird-hunting on a Texas ranch.  It took the White House nearly 24 hours to share that information with the rest of the nation because Dick Cheney thought it would be better …
Los Angeles Times:
Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and Suburban Guerrilla
William Douglas / Knight Ridder:
Cheney's companion at fault in shooting, White House says
Associated Press:
Abramoff Said to Claim Close Ties to Rove
Tom Baldwin / Times of London:
Cheney accused of cover-up over hunter shooting
John Dickerson / Slate:
Cheney's Bad Aim
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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Daily Kos:
OH-Sen: Hackett out.  Of politics.  —  Hackett is out. … Calling his donors?  Seems like a bulls**t thing to do.  But the party wasn't afraid of Hackett, they were afraid of an untested candidate in a high-profile Senate race.  He'd have all the support in the world had he decided to run for OH-02.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
THE USUAL SUSPECTS....The full Media Matters report on the composition …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Eschaton
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Wonkette:   Capitol Fashion Police Arrests: Dana Milbank
Josh White / Washington Post:
'Don't Ask' Costs More Than Expected  —  Military's Gay Ban Seen in Budget Terms  —  The financial costs to the U.S. military for discharging and replacing gay service members under the nation's "don't ask, don't tell" policy are nearly twice what the government estimated last year …
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster  —  JERUSALEM, Feb. 13 — The United States and Israel are discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government so that newly elected Hamas officials will fail and elections will be called again, according to Israeli officials and Western diplomats.
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Larger Darfur Force Needed, Bush, Annan Say  —  President Bush and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan agreed on the need for a bigger, more mobile peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region during a White House meeting yesterday, but Annan made no specific requests for U.S. military help.
Discussion: Demagogue, Amygdala and Decision '08
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
SO I GET HOME AND FIND MY INBOX full of complaints from lefties that I've been "silent" about Ann Coulter's remarks on Friday.  I guess they're scrollbar-challenged, as I did in fact note them and link to Sean Hackbarth's denunciation.  I figured that readers would know my feelings about Coulter …
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Group Starts Anti-Union Campaign  —  A new business-backed group is mounting a highly visible attack against organized labor, just as unions are trying to pick themselves up after suffering a schism and years of decline.  —  The group, the Center for Union Facts, ran full-page advertisements …
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?
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Saddam Says He's on a Hunger Strike  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and three former officials in his regime on Tuesday told the court handling their trial that they were on a hunger strike in protest of the judge overseeing the proceedings.  —  Saddam said he had not eaten in three days …

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