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12:50 PM ET, February 22, 2007

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BBC:
Blair defiant over Iraq security  —  Tony Blair has refused to apologise for the security situation in Iraq, saying he bears no responsibility for it.  —  The prime minister told BBC Radio 4 that extremists trying to thwart Iraq's democracy were to blame for attacks.
Discussion: At-Largely
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Gerard Baker / Real Clear Politics:
The Thinking Behind Blair's Iraq Decision
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and QandO
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Blair: We'll Go Back If Needed  —  Critics of the Iraq war …
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Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Camps' Feud Is Out in the Open  —  An increasingly acrimonious competition between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to enlist the Democratic Party's leading fundraisers and operatives burst into the open yesterday, overshadowing what was billed as the presidential campaign's …
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Geffen-Clinton snit tests Obama
Discussion: Redstate and Matthew Yglesias
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
GOP 'darlings' slow to sign tax-cut pledge  —  The two front-runners for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination — Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani — have not signed an anti-tax-increase pledge that has been embraced by several of their rivals.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
National Guard May Undertake Iraq Duty Early  —  The Pentagon is planning to send more than 14,000 National Guard troops back to Iraq next year, shortening their time between deployments to meet the demands of President Bush's buildup, Defense Department officials said Wednesday.
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Tom Vilsack's Very, Very Bad Idea  —  I didn't watch the Democratic debate (debates?  This early??), but then I noticed (h/t Atrios and Matt Yglesias) that Jonathan Singer at MyDD wrote this: … Price indexing?  Yikes.  Like Matt, I didn't want to leap to conclusions …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At Mock Briefing, Less Give-and-Take and More Sharing  —  "Tonight, we have truly what is a 'man bites dog' story," host Bob Schieffer told the crowd at the National Press Club.  —  That, at least, was the plan: The "dogs" — NBC News's David Gregory and five other White House correspondents …
Discussion: Examiner and FishBowlDC
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Role Reversal: The White House Press Corps Faces Answers Questions from Tony Snow
Discussion: FishBowlDC and TIME: Swampland
George F. Will / Washington Post:
A Lack of Courage In Their Convictions  —  Indiscriminate criticism of President George W. Bush is an infectious disease.  Some conservatives seem to have caught it, but congressional Democrats might be crippled by it.  —  Consider some conservatives' reflexive rejection …
New York Times:
Iraq Insurgents Employ Chlorine in Bomb Attacks  —  A truck bomb that combined explosives with chlorine gas blew up in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, and officials said it might represent a new and deadly tactic by insurgents against Iraqi civilians.  —  It was at least the third truck bomb …
Nadia Abou El-Magd / Associated Press:
Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to Prison  —  ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.  —  Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student …
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Worn-Out Economic Ideas  —  Senator Barack Obama recently said, "let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again."  —  Ironically, he said it at a time when Detroit automakers have been laying off unionized workers by the tens of thousands …
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Decision '08
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REMEMBERING THE INDISPENSABLE MAN  —  Today is the anniversary of the birth of George Washington.  Of all the great men of the revolutionary era to whom we owe our freedom, Washington's greatness was the rarest, the most necessary, and, at this remove in time, the hardest to understand.
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
New York Times:
American Liberty at the Precipice  —  In another low moment for American justice, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that detainees held at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, do not have the right to be heard in court.  The ruling relied on a shameful law …
Smash / The Indepundit:
The One Man Counter-Protest  —  ERIC ODESSIT takes on 300 defeatist protesters in San Diego. … What Eric does next is so simple and elegant, it drives the "artist" nuts. … Ah, so now defeatist protests are considered "art," and passing out flags is "vandalism."  Got it.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Bread Scarce in Zimbabwe as Mugabe Holds Party  —  President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe turned 83 on Wednesday to the strains of the song "God Bless President Mugabe" on state-controlled radio, along with an interview on state television, a 16-page paean to his rule in Harare's daily newspaper …
Bill Harlan / Rapid City Journal:
Committee kills abortion ban  —  PIERRE—An abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother was rejected Wednesday morning by legislative committee in Pierre.  —  The Senate State Affairs Committee just voted 8 to 1 to kill HB1293 without a vote of the full Senate.
Cynthia Leonor Garza / Houston Chronicle:
Of great import: bilingual teachers  —  Texas schools increasingly recruit in Mexico, other nations to meet language demands  —  MONTERREY, MEXICO — At the onset, there's a mad rush to be the first in line to talk to the school recruiters.  Within seconds, the candidates …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
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Guardian:
Global capitalism now has no serious rivals.  But it could destroy itself
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Chicago Sports Review:
The Great Unraveler  —  KC Johnson is a 38-year-old bowtie …
Discussion: Media Blog and Ed Driscoll.com
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Senate illegals bill near complete
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and The Corner
James Murray / Green Business News:
Emission trading suffers as carbon prices plummet
Guardian:
Unarmed and dangerous?  —  guardian.co.uk/commentisfree > Ben Whitford
Discussion: XDA
USA Today:
Ex-lawmakers find work with lobbyists
Cristian Lupsa / Christian Science Monitor:
States begin criticizing Iraq policy, too
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