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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 …
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.
Mike Allen / Time:
Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident  —  Word of the mishap took 20 hours to get out as the Vice President insisted on telling a local newspaper before everyone else, sources say … The Vice President was the press strategist, and Karl Rove was the investigative reporter.
Associated Press:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet in his chest traveled to his heart, hospital officials said.
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 …
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 …
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.
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Victor Davis Hanson / realclearpolitics.com:
What Will Europe Really Do?  —  Nothing is quite as surreal …
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Benny Avni / New York Sun:
Annan Backs Russia on Hamas Talks
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Lowell Ponte / Front Page Magazine:
Al Gore's Arab Pander  —  Al Gore, the Vice President under President Bill Clinton and the losing 2000 Democratic Party presidential candidate, last Sunday was in Saudi Arabia, bad-mouthing the United States.  Was Gore's motive money and political ambition?
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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
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 …
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National Review:
Women We Love  —  Who are the women National Review Online types love?  That's a tall order.  Maybe just a list of "Women Who Make the World Better," including, of course, NR's Kate O'Beirne, would be a good enough start.  —  We asked some (male) bloggers, writers, and other friends …
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