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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
03/02/06 FOX Poll: Most Oppose Port Deal; Republicans Lose Ground — NEW YORK — Most Americans oppose allowing a Dubai company to run some U.S. ports, even as a majority understands the U.S. would continue to control port security, according to a new FOX News poll.
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Poll Finds Americans Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Port Deal — WASHINGTON — Americans, by a greater than 3 to 1 margin, oppose the proposed deal that would allow a state-owned Arab firm to assume control of operations at several U.S. ports, a Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
TKS on National Review Online:
AFTER THE PORT DEAL, HOW ELSE DOES THE TIPPING POINT AFFECT OUR POLITICS? [03/02 06:53 PM] — I'll be traveling for a couple of days, so here's some food for thought until we get back. — More polls showing strong, strong opposition to the DPW ports deal - 66 percent opposed in the USA Today poll …
USA Today:
Americans oppose port deal — WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly oppose the proposed sale of cargo operations at six major U.S. seaports to a Dubai firm, calling it a threat to the nation's security, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Tuesday and Wednesday. (Related:Ports poll results)
Associated Press:
New Video Shows Blanco Saying Levees Safe — WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hectic, confused hours after Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast, Louisiana's governor hesitantly but mistakenly assured the Bush administration that New Orleans' protective levees were intact, according to a new video obtained …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:WE'RE BACK TO HEARING ABOUT KATRINA, which is a pretty good sign …
David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Approves Renewal of Antiterrorism Bill — WASHINGTON, March 2 — The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to extend the Patriot Act, clearing the way for the House to wrap up its work on the anti-terrorism bill and send it to President Bush before it expires on March 10.
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F. James Sensenbrenner Jr / USA Today:
No rights have been violated — Zero. That's the number of substantiated USA Patriot Act civil liberties violations. Extensive congressional oversight found no violations. — Six reports by the Justice Department's independent inspector general, who is required to solicit and investigate …
Agora:
Cartoonist's Daughter Hunted by 12 Jihadists — Update: I have now posted the transcript of the interview with Jens Rohde at the bottom of this post. — Update: See below for comments from the Police Intelligence Service — Hmmm.. It seems that all I had to do to get back to blogging was getting my indignation recharged.
Victor L. Simpson / Associated Press:
Italian Panel: Soviets Behind Pope Attack — An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John Paul II _ a theory long alleged but never proved, according to a draft report made available Thursday.
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Rob Jennings / dailyrecord.com:
Bush goes on 'trial' in Morris — Parsippany students confront issues of terrorism and war — DAILY RECORD — PARSIPPANY — President Bush is being tried for "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners" at Parsippany High School, with students arguing …
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Rocky Mountain News, Classical Values, Generation Why?, The Belmont Club and Riehl World View
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Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved — Frontpage Interview's guest today is Ryan Mauro, who spoke at the recent 2006 International Intelligence Summit on Iraq. He is the 19-year old author of Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq and founder of WorldThreats.com.
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Transterrestrial Musings
Robert D. Kaplan / Washington Post:
We Can't Force Democracy — Creating Normality Is the Real Mideast Challenge — The whiff of incipient anarchy in Iraq in recent days has provided a prospect so terrifying as to concentrate the minds of Republicans and Democrats, Iraq's sectarian political factions, and even the media.
Richard Kim / The Nation:
Harper's Publishes AIDS Denialist — The latest issue of Harper's Magazine contains a stunning 15-page article by well-known AIDS denialist Celia Farber (formerly of Spin magazine) that extensively repeats UC Berkeley virologist Peter Duesberg's discredited theory that HIV does not cause AIDS.
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Unfogged
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Democratic group targets Senate GOP — Daschle aiding project to gather, spread criticism — WASHINGTON — Hoping to strike back at Republicans who mounted a yearslong effort to oust him from office, former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is helping raise millions of dollars to form …
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