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4:30 AM ET, February 20, 2007

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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 …
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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Washington Post:
Hospital Investigates Former Aid Chief  —  For the past three years, Michael J. Wagner directed the Army's largest effort to help the most vulnerable soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  His office in Room 3E01 of the world-renowned hospital was supposed to match big-hearted donors …
Discussion: First Draft
River / Baghdad Burning:
The Rape of Sabrine...  It takes a lot to get the energy and resolution to blog lately.  I guess it's mainly because just thinking about the state of Iraq leaves me drained and depressed.  But I had to write tonight.  —  As I write this, Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we get on Nilesat) …
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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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
TEAM HILL SWITCHING CAMPAIGN HQ TO VA.
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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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MARK STEYN RESPONDS to bogus charges that he favors genocide:
Discussion: The RBC and INSTAPUTZ
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Steyn and Genocide  —  Mark Kleiman wonders what the following …
Discussion: The Corner and The RBC
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" …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Crooks and Liars
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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
Discussion: Firedoglake
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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 …
Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Accused Terrorist Is Big GOP Donor  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) won't say what it plans to do with thousands of dollars in campaign donations it received from an accused terror financier.  —  Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari gave $15,250 …
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.
Discussion: Unfogged and Decision '08
 
 
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Graceless  —  Among the broadcast media, three people stand …
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"I supported the troops before I cut the legs out from under them"
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Wizblog
Ruth Gledhill / Times of London:
Churches back plan to unite under Pope
Bushra Juhi / Associated Press:
Two Soldiers Killed in Iraq Base Attack
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Rep. Sam Johnson Learns to Love Foreign Quagmires
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
NATIONAL SECURITY WISH....The debasement of our national security …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Angry Bear
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
BBC: U.S. plans for attack on Iran revealed (again)
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Russia delays Iran atom plant work as tensions rise
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
For Gods and Country  —  The Army Chaplain Who Wanted to Switch to Wicca?
Discussion: CorrenteWire and NewsHog
David Abel / Boston Globe:
Romney joined NRA in August
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Bush compares Revolutionary, terror wars
New York Times:
Making Martial Law Easier
Discussion: QandO, NewsHog and TigerHawk