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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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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.
National Review:
Walking Away From the Brink  —  The much-anticipated full-blown Iraqi civil war is not upon us, at least not yet.  The sectarian pot is still simmering in the wake of the savage Golden Mosque bombing, but all of Iraq's political leaders — including the thuggish Moqtada al Sadr — have called for calm and an end to the violence.
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."
Discussion: A Blog For All
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
The shrine crisis...words that need to be said.  —  Life is coming back to normal in Baghdad and marketplaces and offices are open again after being shut for 4 days.  Although there were a few security incidents today people are mostly looking at these as part of the usual daily situation and not related to the latest shrine crisis.
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 …
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Refugee Crisis Grows as Darfur War Crosses a Border  —  ADRÉ, Chad — The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, deepening one of the world's worst refugee crises.
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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!
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 …
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 …

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