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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 …
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 …
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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.
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
U.S. Is Settling Detainee's Suit in 9/11 Sweep  —  Ehab Elmaghraby in Alexandria, Egypt, with his parents in April 2004.  Mr. Elmaghraby, detained after 9/11, said he settled his lawsuit reluctantly.  —  The federal government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought …
Discussion: TalkLeft and ACSBlog
MaxedOutMama:
Absolutely Crying With Laughter … She sums it up: … And Pedro The Quietist stumbled onto the latest meme in LaLa Leftist Land - any pregnancy is an opportunistic parasitical infection!  And, as Pedro discovered via a dangerous journey into the alternate Kos Universe …
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.
Discussion: A Blog For All
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush, Speaking Up Against Bigotry  —  There are times when George Bush sorely disappoints.  Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropian explanation, pander to his base or simply not have a clue about what he is talking about, he does something so right, so honest and, yes …
Hoffmania Himself / Hoffmania!:
Not A Good Month For Bush Radio  —  The Arbitrends for Los Angeles came out today, and Richard Mellon Scaife will probably want his money back - his messengers have lost listeners by the boatload.  These are month-to-month extrapolated ratings (not rolling three-month average) for listeners 12+.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and The Sideshow
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.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
High Court to Take Up Pressing Issues This Week  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — The most pressing and unsettled questions in election law are those that concern the role of money, the role of race and the role of partisanship.  The Supreme Court this week will take up all three.
Discussion: Swing State Project
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 …
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Darkhorses to the Rescue  —  IF NOT KATHERINE, WHO?  —  The plea agreement negotiated by Mitchell Wade, the founder of defense contractor MZM, Inc., presents more than additional embarrassing material in the case of disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who was the focus of the federal investigation.

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