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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 …
Nedra Pickler / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Cheney issued a warning for breaking Texas hunting law  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has been given a warning citation for breaking Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing him to shoot upland game birds.  —  The warning came from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
What Happens in Texas Hunting Accidents If You're Hispanic?  —  This is what the State of Texas thinks of hunting accidents that injure innocent people if your surname happens to be Hispanic and you're not the big, white boozehound Vice President of the United States:
Paul Burka / Slate:
Full of Holes  —  The gossip about Cheney's bad shot.  —  Austin, TEXAS—The headquarters of Harry Whittington, the 78-year-old Austin lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident Saturday, is the nondescript 10-story Vaughn Building, located a block from the Texas Capitol in downtown Austin.
New York Times:
Fellow Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Setback  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — The 78-year-old lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident over the weekend suffered a minor heart attack early Tuesday caused by birdshot lodged in his heart, hospital officials in Texas said.
Discussion: PunditGuy, Amygdala and Suitably Flip
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.
Aram Roston / MSNBC:
Cheney's hunting host lobbied White House  —  Ranch owner who divulged accident earned $160,000 for work in 2004  —  Katharine Armstrong, who's family owns the ranch where Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner, is a registered lobbyist who has been paid to lobby the White House, according to records.
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.
Washington Post:
Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP
Discussion: Decision '08 and Oliver Willis
National Review:
Meet the Press  —  Never has an accidental shooting occasioned so much glee.
Discussion: The RCP Blog and PunditGuy
Matthew Moore / Sydney Morning Herald:
The photos America doesn't want seen  —  MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.  —  Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs …
Ottawa Watch:
Warren Kinsella Sues for One Hundred Bazillion Dollars*  —  *Actually, the Liberal lobbyist and self-styled political asskicker wants $600,000.  Should I write him a cheque or fight this thing?  Hmm... write a cheque... fight this thing???  —  Um, I think I'll fight it.  —  Looks like we're going to court, folks.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt  —  Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.
Discussion: Daily Kos, firedoglake and The Heretik
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Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
In Rare Briefing, China Defends Internet Controls  —  BEIJING, Feb. 14 — Chinese authorities are determined to stop "harmful information" from spreading through the Internet, but the controls it places on Web sites and Internet service providers in mainland China do not differ much from those employed …
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BBC:
Party elders attack China censors
Discussion: Democratic Peace
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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Zeeshan Haider / Reuters:
Two killed in Pakistan cartoon protests
Roy / alicublog:
HAVE A RIGHT-WING VALENTINE'S DAY!  National Review comforts its dateless readers by making the prospect of sex undesirable.  —  K-Pro interviews a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League named Jennifer Roback Morse.  The comrade has written a dating guide, and you can guess the perspective.
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?
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 …
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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