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4:17 AM ET, February 19, 2007

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Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
McCain: Roe v. Wade should be overturned  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record), looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain Runs a Different Race  —  DAVENPORT, Iowa — The jokes were familiar.  So was the casual banter with voters who showed up at town hall meetings to meet the candidate.  But the contrast this weekend was unmistakable: Sen. John McCain is a different man running in a vastly different moment …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power  —  Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border …
Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Some mull idea of Sen. Bill Clinton  —  WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary's unexpired Senate term.  —  "As a senator, he'd be a knockout," said Harold Ickes …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
As Clinton Runs, Some Old Foes Stay on Sideline  —  Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the "vast right-wing conspiracy" than Richard Mellon Scaife.  —  Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune …
Discussion: Political Animal
farsnews.com:
Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals  —  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry.
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Washington Post:
The Hotel Aftermath  —  Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons  —  The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs …
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Associated Press:
Explosions Rattle Baghdad Neighborhoods  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A string of bombings killed 10 people Monday in the Baghdad area one day after a massive car bomb attack in a Shiite area market delivered the first major blow to the U.S.-led security crackdown.
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Associated Press:   2 Baghdad Car Bombs Kill 56, Injure Scores
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA  —  Investors Business Daily has a hard-hitting editorial denouncing the Congressional Democrats and their "slow bleed" strategy.  It begins: … And that's not the hard-hitting part!  More important, IBD has a poll that highlights the danger the Democrats face:
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
It's Reported, They Mock, You Decide  —  Making fun of the president is not ideological.  Not making fun of the president, on the other hand, is.  —  And that's what distinguishes "The ½ Hour News Hour," a Fox News version of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," from most other satirical shows.
Discussion: Hot Air and WuzzaDem
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Fox News Channel's '1/2 Hour News Hour': Right Funny, in Spots
Discussion: Hot Air
WSMV-TV:
Cabbie Runs Down Students  —  Religious Argument Leaves One Hospitalized  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.  —  The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Rashofitz - Where We Are In The Scooter Libby Trial  —  "Rashomon" is the cinematic classic in which a story of rape and murder is told from the perspective of four of the people involved.  But what is "the truth", and in what ways are the four people shading their versions of events?
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Mahmoud Habboush / NY Daily News:
Killer's daughter admits it was political  —  GAZA CITY - Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war  —  WHAT DOES IT mean to support the troops but oppose the cause they fight for?  —  No loyal Colts fan rooted for Indianapolis to lose the Super Bowl.  No investor buys 100 shares of Google in the hope that Google's stock will tank.
Nibras Kazimi / Talisman Gate:
Insurgents' Dirty Laundry on Air  —  I was wondering how the current spate of jihadist-on-jihadist strife is going to be revealed to the public at large, but I never contemplated that it will be done on a jihadist satellite station, Al-Zawra, and through the person of the slimy nutcase who owns it, Mishaan al-Jebouri.
Martin Peretz / Opinion Journal:
House Call  —  Political expediency and the nonbinding resolution.  —  Our political imagination of evil is impoverished, and nowhere is it more impoverished than in Iraq.  Even today, when the blood of innocents flows so richly and regularly, we do not seem to grasp its origins, or its power.
Harry / Crooked Timber:
You Can be The Ethicist  —  I was posed this problem by someone in a very highly ranked research department in one of the social sciences (not Philosophy, not Madison), and post with permission.  —  Graduate Admissions Committee for the department in question is deciding whom to admit.
Faiz / Think Progress:
True 'Fair And Balanced' Coverage: Wallace Calls Out Feith For Lying On Fox News  —  Last week on Fox News Sunday, former Rumsfeld aide Douglas Feith told Chris Wallace, "Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.  It's just not correct.
Discussion: TigerHawk and Eschaton
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace shoots down Feith's claims
Discussion: driftglass and The Impolitic
 
 
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NY Daily News:
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Louisa Lim / NPR:
Chinese Muslims in the Year of the Pig
Rungrawee C. Pinyorat / Associated Press:
At least 28 bombs explode in Thailand
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Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
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Discussion: Hot Air, Liberal Values and The RBC
Bill Maxwell / St. Petersburg Times:
White House delivers surge in lies, hypocrisy
SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:
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Discussion: Firedoglake and TPMCafe blogs
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Reid Lets Senate Go Into Recess
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Will Elizabeth Edwards Resign, Too?
 Earlier Items: 
IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Hume smacks down Murtha; doesn't know "what the heck …
Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
FRANK RICH: Oh What a Malleable War
Laith / Inside Iraq:
Benefits of the security plan
Paul Kennedy / Los Angeles Times:
The good old days of the Cold War
Atrios / Eschaton:
Tear It Down  —  It'll be unfair to him and to Mormons …
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
In Majority, Democrats Run Hill Much as GOP Did
Discussion: Decision '08 and PrairiePundit
Matthew Yglesias:
You Do What You Can