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1:50 AM ET, February 24, 2007

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Howard Schneider / Washington Post:
Cheney Reiterates Criticism of House Speaker Pelosi  —  Vice President Cheney today repeated his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's approach toward the Iraq war would benefit al-Qaeda, saying that he was not trying to impugn the speaker's patriotism but instead hold her accountable for the consequences of her policies.
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ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Cheney Holds Firm on Iraq Achievements  —  The Vice President Highlights Iraq Success Stories, North Korea Nuke Agreement  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney refused to acknowledge failure of any U.S. policy in Iraq, touting the fall of Saddam Hussein …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Cheney debunks himself
Discussion: The Raw Story
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Giuliani 52% Clinton 43%  —  In a match-up between the early 2008 frontrunners, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) leads New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) 52% to 43%.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Giuliani's lead growing in recent months.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Giuliani Wins The Election!  —  There's nothing more predictive than a hot, breaking poll less than 90 weeks before an election, so let's be sure we give this Rasmussen poll the attention it deserves.  Okay, we'll give it more attention than it deserves, but we'll just say we're doing it for the practice.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Exclusive: Arnold Defends Hillary, Mulls Senate Run
Discussion: Time and The Huffington Post
Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Republic Sold, to Drop Weekly Publication Schedule  —  The Canadian media giant CanWest has taken a majority stake in the 92-year-old New Republic, and plans to relaunch the weekly as a thicker, glossier - and half as frequent - magazine with a more robust Web site.
Discussion: TBogg and Political Animal
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
New Republic to Cut Back Publication Schedule  —  The New Republic, the thinning left-leaning weekly magazine whose circulation has plunged in the era of the Web, is overhauling itself with a new configuration of owners, who are investing in a new look for the magazine and cutting back its publication schedule to every two weeks.
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, so we've prepared a little Joe Lieberman care package for people to email to reporters and/or commentators when they talk about Lieberman switching parties.  —  Here's what's in it.  We've compiled lots and lots and lots of examples of Lieberman swearing up and down to the voters of Connecticut that he'd stay with the Dems.
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
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Christine Stuart / ctnewsjunkie.com:
Lieberman Calls for Political Cease-fire
Discussion: Sirotablog and Liberal Values
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Pros Get Punk'd, Amateurs Come Through
Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' SUNDAY PREVIEW: Suze Orman Reveals She is the '55-year-old Virgin'  —  NEW YORK In an interview for The New York Times Magazine this coming Sunday, financial guru and TV host Suze Orman gets on Deborah Solomon's case for not looking out for her own money, partly because "you are a woman."
Associated Press:
AP: Vilsack to end White House bid  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday.  —  Vilsack left office in January …
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Eric Black / The Big Question:
Verbatim Bachmann on Iran: "There's already an agreement made.  [Iran is] going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone."  —  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann claims to know of a plan, already worked out with a line drawn on the map, for the partition of Iraq …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Prosecutor Purge: Number Eight?  —  It seems that U.S. Attorney Margaret Chiara of Michigan's Western District is the eighth prosecutor to have been fired by the administration in recent months.  —  In a press release today, Chiara, who was nominated by President Bush in September, 2001 …
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Nate Reens / MLive.com:   U.S. attorney ousted, judge says
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
You Go, Geffen!  —  Hillary Clinton's very bad week.  —  We know from the philosophers that a true statement is true without regard to the reliability or sagacity of the person who utters it.  We have it on good authority that the truth shall set us free.  David Geffen spoke truth to Maureen Dowd last week.
Jack Date / ABCNEWS:
Former ACLU Chapter President Arrested for Child Pornography  —  Complaint Alleges Virginia Man Accessed, Downloaded Graphic Child Pornography  —  Federal agents arrested Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU, Friday in Arlington for allegedly possessing child pornography.
Discussion: Hot Air, Lonewacko and Ace of Spades HQ
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War  —  Opposition goes beyond Jewish Americans' political affiliations  —  PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll data collected since the beginning of 2005 finds that among the major religious groups in the United States …
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the campaign trail  —  The Hugh Hewitt Show  —  HH: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show, Mayor.  Good to have you.  —  RG: How are you, Hugh?  —  HH: I'm great.  —  RG: Good to talk to you.  —  HH: I'm great.  Mayor, the campaign's off to a pretty early start.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Sarah McDonald / nbr.co.nz:
Complaint against Bush billboard upheld
CBS News:
GIs Petition Congress To End Iraq War
Reason:
Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People
Kos / Daily Kos:
Why I say "ugh" on Kucinich  —  When talking about Kucinich, I usually leave it at "ugh".
Discussion: Bradford Plumer and MaxSpeak
Associated Press:
U.S. soldier gets 100 years for Iraq rape, killings
Abbas Milani / New York Times:
What Scares Iran's Mullahs?
Discussion: Ezra Klein and toohotfortnr
Pajamas Media:
DISSENT CRUSHED: ABDEL KAREEM, EGYPT'S FREE SPEECH MARTYR
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18
 Earlier Items: 
Anna Badkhen / San Francisco Chronicle:
New set of rape allegations leveled against Iraqi forces
Discussion: TAPPED
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Senator Lott Floods the Zone
Discussion: QandO and Democracy Project
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Taking cultural editing notes from those who hate America — again
White House:
Press Gaggle by Dana Perino
Discussion: Wake up America
Alan Wirzbicki / Boston Globe:
Political bloggers fear publicists will infiltrate sites
Naomi Klein / Guardian:
The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Fake Private Parts Are No Joke, Myers Says
Michael Learmonth / Variety:
Fox News jogs its blogs
 

 
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New York Times:
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New York Times:
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