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CBS News:
Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low  —  (CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.  —  Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving …
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Cheney seen retiring after midterm elections  —  Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to retire within a year.  —  Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections.  The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step …
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Paper: Coast Guard Has Port Co. Intel Gaps  —  WASHINGTON - Citing broad gaps in U.S. intelligence, the Coast Guard cautioned the Bush administration weeks ago that it could not determine whether a United Arab Emirates-based company seeking a stake in some U.S. port operations might support terrorist operations.
Washington Post:
Iraq's Deadly Surge Claims 1,300  —  Morgue Figure Eclipses Other Counts Since Shrine Attack  —  BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest …
Marc Humbert / Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton Says Rove Obsesses About Her  —  ALBANY, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove "spends a lot of time obsessing about me."  —  The former first lady and potential presidential contender was reacting during …
MSNBC:
A tipping point on Islam?  —  With the Cartoon Wars giving way to the ports imbroglio, Jim Geraghty, blogging from Turkey, wonders if we're seeing a tipping point in Western attitudes toward Islam.  Geraghty collects a lot of quotes, and writes of "my sense that in recent weeks …
David Carr / New York Times:
Franklin Foer Is Named Top Editor of New Republic  —  For a small outfit, The New Republic has always gone long on drama.  Its changes in leadership have usually arrived in the form of rolling coups or lightning bolts from above.  So it is refreshing, if a bit underwhelming …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Veterans May Face Health Care Cuts in 2008  —  WASHINGTON - At least tens of thousands of veterans with non-critical medical issues could suffer delayed or even denied care in coming years to enable President Bush to meet his promise of cutting the deficit in half — if the White House is serious about its proposed budget.
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Barry R. Posen / New York Times:
We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran  —  THE intense concern about Iran's nuclear energy program reflects the judgment that, should it turn to the production of weapons, an Iran with nuclear arms would gravely endanger the United States and the world.  An Iranian nuclear arsenal, policymakers fear …
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Washington Post:
How to Think Like Bob Owens  —  Bob Owens is the author of the daily political blog, Confederate Yankee, according to which he has been "a day laborer, college freshman composition instructor, car salesman, sports writer, web designer, and technical writer, just to name a few."
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
From Cash to Yachts, Convicted Congressman Set Bribery Rates  —  Court Documents Show Randall 'Duke' Cunningham Set Bribery Rates  —  Feb. 27, 2006 — Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress.  And it keeps getting worse.
tcsdaily.com:
Give Civil War a Chance  —  Blogger and TCS contributor Stephen Green argues that civil war in Iraq might not be such a bad thing, noting that, "A civil war is the nastiest way to get a good result."  He cites several examples, notably the Thirty Years War, the English Civil War …
Jason Fry / Wall Street Journal:
Blog Epitaphs?  Get Me Rewrite!  —  Rumors of Blogs' Demise Are Exaggerated,  —  But a Lot Less Obsession Would Be Healthy  —  Maybe you've heard: Blogs are a vanishing fad — this year's digital Pet Rock.  Or a business bubble about to pop. Or a sucker's bet for new-media fame seekers.
India / White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan  —  MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone.  Let me begin with a couple of issues, one, a world leader call, and then, two, a meeting the President had earlier today.  —  First of all, President Uribe of Colombia called the President this morning to express …
Discussion: Think Progress and Bring it On!
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit  —  Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies  —  The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay …
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Feingold clicks with blog fans  —  Senator tops online polls, but can that win him the presidency?  —  cgilbert@journalsentinel.com  —  Washington - When Gallup polled Democratic voters this month on the party's 2008 hopefuls, it didn't even offer Russ Feingold as a choice.
BREITBART.COM:
US economy set to roar back  —  The US economy is set for a strong rebound in the first quarter of 2006, shaking off the hurricane-related weakness of the fourth quarter, a survey of business economists showed.  —  The survey of the National Association of Business Economists called …

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