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2:00 PM ET, March 3, 2007

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Fox News:
Members of the audience seemed startled, then many clapped, and she proceeded to open the floor to questions, reported EditorandPublisher.com  —  After her comments, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a press release expressing his outrage.  Dean called Coulter's remarks 'hate-filled and bigoted.'
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Romney and Giuliani Make Pitch to Conservatives  —  Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York are both Republican presidential candidates who have been voted into office by largely Democratic electorates.  They both have a history of taking liberal positions on social issues.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
But Did Ginger Rogers Wear Flip-Flops?  —  "It's an honor to be here in high heels, walking backwards," Mitt Romney said yesterday as he began his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference.  —  Don't panic, Phyllis Schlafly: He was merely referring to a previous speaker's invocation of an old joke.
Discussion: Rising Hegemon
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Coulter Said What?  (Bumped)  —  Ann Coulter is speaking at the moment, and drawing a huge crowd — with longer lines than those for the Rudy Giuliani.  She's definitely one of the stars here at CPAC, and I listened to the audio stream for a bit while she opened her speech.
Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
The lunatic right returns  —  Bad news for Republicans: Leading conservatives are embracing former Swift Boaters.  —  IF YOU HATED IT the first time, you might like the sequel better.  —  Remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the right-wing goon squad whose defamatory insinuations helped sink John Kerry's presidential campaign?
Discussion: Op For and Michelle Malkin
Editor and Publisher:
UPDATE: Ann Coulter Suggests John Edwards Is a 'Faggot' — Now The Backlash Begins  —  NEW YORK In recent years she has suggested that Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore have or may have homosexual tendencies.  Now columnist/author Ann Coulter has targeted former senator (and current candidate for president) John Edwards.
Discussion: Gay Orbit and Don Surber
Jason / COUNTERCOLUMN:   Los Angeles Times Smears Medal of Honor Winner
Matt Browner Hamlin / The Huffington Post:
CPAC: Romney Wants Extremist Love
Discussion: Redstate
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
COULTER FATIGUE
Redstate:
The Shunning of Ann Coulter
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Fallout Over Coulter's Anti-Gay Remark
Discussion: AMERICAblog and MyDD
UPI:
Ann Coulter calls John Edwards 'faggot'
Discussion: Simianbrain and AMERICAblog
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
THE PURGE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS (PARTIALLY) EXPLAINED.  —  The more we learn about the purge of at least eight U.S. attorneys around the country, the bigger the mystery becomes.  Not so much the "how" of it all: It's clear that GOP staffers slipped unnoticed language into the about-to-be-reauthorized Patriot Act …
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Washington Post:
White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say  —  The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies on immigration …
Bruce Finley / Denver Post:
Activists' expulsion cited as Bush rule  —  2005 FORUM IN DENVER  —  A former White House official who ordered three activists expelled from a 2005 Denver public forum with President Bush says it was White House policy to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush's appearances nationwide.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites
Discussion: Instapundit.com and KnoxViews
New York Times:
Noticeably Absent From the Giuliani Campaign: His Children  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani at his inaugural as mayor of New York in 1994, where his son, Andrew, 7, captured the show.  But Andrew was not at events like the one in Spartanburg, S.C., last month, right, part of Mr. Giuliani's bid for the presidency …
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
RUDY DRAGGED DOWN  —  RIGHTIES CROSS ABOUT HIS DRESS  —  Rudy Giuliani's liberal stance on abortion, guns and gays wasn't his biggest problem yesterday as he addressed a conference of conservative activists - it was his having dressed in drag.  —  A whisper campaign targeting …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Bill Maher is Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed  —  In 2002, ABC made the decision to not renew Bill Maher's contract after he made some disgraceful comments on his program "Politically Incorrect" concerning America's military response to 9/11.
William Shawcrosson / Times of London:
Remember: for Cambodia, read Iraq  —  The Killing Fields illustrates brilliantly part of the long disaster that has been Cambodia over recent decades.  It is a compelling film that follows the story of a young Cambodian, Dith Pran, who worked for the New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
KILLING FIELDS THEN AND NOW  —  The Times (London) …
Discussion: The Virginian
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions  —  The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.
Joe Klein / time-blog.com:
Since you asked  —  A left-wing extremist exhibits many, but not necessarily all, of the following attributes:  —believes that the decision to go to war in Iraq was not an individual case of monumental stupidity, but a consequence of America's fundamental imperialistic nature.
 
 
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Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
A Better Way on Presidential Succession
Discussion: Balkinization
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
BRIAN FLEMMING LOOKS AT WHAT HE WAS WRONG ABOUT in March of 2003 …
Washington Post:
Libby Jury Seeks Clarity On 'Reasonable Doubt'
Discussion: Althouse and Bring it On!
Joe's Dartblog:
COMING ATTRACTIONS  —  In a world of deception...where blood blurs …
Jamie Hyneman / Popular Mechanics:
MythBusters Workshop: Extreme Plumbing
ACLU:
Federal Appeals Court Denies Day in Court for Victim of CIA …
Discussion: JURIST
Howard Rosenberg / Legalities:
President Giuliani's kind of justice
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Claudia Rosett / Philadelphia Inquirer:
A major flaw in new U.S. diplomacy
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Washington Post:
Defense Secretary Sends Stern Message About Accountability
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
New York Post:
YOU DIRTY RAT!  —  Rats!  New York City has become a national laughingstock.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Unnervingly creepy photo of the day
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Getting Wasted  —  John McCain said a stupid …
Guardian:
Liechtenstein: no retaliation for Swiss 'invasion'