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Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
McCain: Iraq War Mismanaged for Years — BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
On the Wings of McCain — I never mind flying with John McCain on tiny planes in snowy weather on windswept days. And that is because I know as long as he is on board, the plane is not going to crash. — "I don't die in a plane," McCain said to me with a smile the other day as he shoehorned himself …
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LA Times Publishes Iran Propaganda Claim, Ignores Fauxtography — The Los Angeles Times gives credence to Iran's bogus claim that the US is behind two recent attacks in Iran: Iran alleges U.S. link to militant attack. … They include this picture, a screen capture from Iranian TV:
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Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:Iran alleges U.S. link to militant attack
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Clinton Courts S.C.'s Black Voters — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Hundreds waited in line outside Allen University's Adams Gymnatorium here for the chance to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speak in her first visit to South Carolina as a presidential candidate. — After a marching band …
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Murray Waas / National Journal:
The Libby-Cheney Connection — Libby Testimony Raises More Questions About Cheney's Role In The CIA Leak Case — In the fall of 2003, as a federal criminal probe was just getting underway to determine who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media, I. Lewis "Scooter" …
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:The Defendant Isn't the Only Player With a Personal Stake in the Libby Verdict
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Associated Press:
Lawmaker Tries To Ban Naked Lady Mudflaps — State House Refuses To Restrict Splash Guard Images — PHOENIX — It's still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women. — The state House on Thursday rejected …
Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Mark Steyn's Final Solution to the Euro-Muslim Problem — Updates below: Steyn and Reynolds respond, and I reply. — Three weeks ago, Christopher Hitchens reviewed Mark Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, for City Journal, the publication of the Manhattan Institute.
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Washington Post:
Army Fixing Patients' Housing — Walter Reed Army Medical Center began repairs yesterday on Building 18, a former hotel that is used to house outpatients recuperating from injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan and that has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Can a Saudi Dealmaker Rescue Bush? — For 22 years Prince Bandar bin Sultan wheeled and dealed his way through Washington as Saudi Arabia's ambassador. By his account — provided expansively to favored journalists — he had a hand in most of America's major initiatives in the Middle East over a generation.
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The Moderate Voice
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Bush compares Revolutionary, terror wars — MOUNT VERNON, Va. - President Bush honored the 275th birthday of the nation's first president on Monday, likening George Washington's long struggle that gave birth to a nation to the war on global terrorism. — "Today, we're fighting a new war …
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Lincoln Resumes Position as Americans' Top-Rated President — Reagan and Clinton lead among members of their respective parties — PRINCETON, NJ — Since noted historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. declared Abraham Lincoln to be the country's best president in his 1948 poll of 55 historians …
Washington Post:
Almost Everyone Lies, Often Seeing It as a Kindness — The perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby goes to the jury this week. The case speaks to several issues — how the Bush administration deals with critics of the war in Iraq, and the games that Washington's reporters and politicians play with each other.
Ibrahim Ahmed / Fox News:
MUSLIM CABBIE CHARGED WITH RUNNING OVER STUDENTS AFTER RELIGIOUS DISPUTE — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Muslim cabdriver from Somalia ran over two college students near Vanderbilt University after getting into an argument with them about religion, police said. — Ibrahim Ahmed, 37 …
Joe Conason / Salon:
It could happen here — Can it happen here? Is it happening here already? That depends, as a recent president might have said, on what the meaning of "it" is. — To Sinclair Lewis, who sardonically titled his 1935 dystopian novel "It Can't Happen Here," "it" plainly meant an American version …
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
For Gods and Country — The Army Chaplain Who Wanted to Switch to Wicca? Transfer Denied. — SCHERTZ, Tex. — The night wind pushes Don Larsen's green robe against his lanky frame. A circle of torches lights his face. — "The old gods are standing near!" calls a retired Army intelligence officer.
David Abel / Boston Globe:
Romney joined NRA in August — Was advocate of gun control — Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a former advocate of gun control. — Mitt Romney, who has touted his support of gun owners since launching his presidential campaign, yesterday acknowledged he did not become a member …
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