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4:40 AM ET, March 4, 2007

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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Criticize Slur by Conservative Author  —  Three of the leading Republican presidential candidates on Saturday denounced one of their party's best-known conservative commentators for using an antigay epithet when discussing a Democratic presidential contender at a gathering of conservatives here.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Romney tops conservative straw poll  —  WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference.  —  Despite his record of inconsistency on some social issues, the former Massachusetts governor got 21 percent …
John Edwards '08 Blog:
Hate words and you  —  When Miss Coulter spoke about John at the conservative convention in Washington yesterday, she used a word that she intended as a nasty and derogatory suggestion.  John and I have long ago shrugged off the vile words of this person.  When she made a joke about the exact moment …
Washington Times:
Romancing the conservatives  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday delivered a faultlessly tailored appeal to more than 1,000 grass-roots conservative activists hungry for a renewed commitment to limited government.  —  Addressing the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Romney Loses The Straw Poll — No, Really  —  Governor Mitt Romney won the straw poll results at the CPAC event, one of the last stories of the conference.  He outstripped Rudy Giuliani and left John McCain in the dust, but CPAC attendees will understand the real story behind those numbers:
Redstate:   Rudy vs. Romney: That's the End Result of CPAC
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Three Leading GOP Campaigns Condemn Coulter's Remarks
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
But Did Ginger Rogers Wear Flip-Flops?
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Giuliani, Romney, McCain camps denounce Coulter's attack on Edwards
Discussion: Bluey Blog
wtopnews.com:
Expert on Russian Intelligence Shot Outside Home  —  ADELPHI, Md. - Police are investigating a shooting that wounded a prominent intelligence expert.  —  Fifty-three-year-old Paul Joyal was shot Thursday night outside his house in the 2300 block of Lackawanna Street in Adelphi.
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Candace Rondeaux / Washington Post:
Expert on Soviet Intelligence Shot in Adelphi  —  Federal and local law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting in Prince George's County that critically injured a prominent intelligence expert who specializes in the former Soviet Union.  —  Paul Joyal, 53, was shot Thursday …
Pete Williams / MSNBC:
Expert in Russian poisoning case is shot
Discussion: Macsmind
Brett Zongker / wtopnews.com:   Russian Expert Shot Near D.C.-Area Home
Raphael G. Satter / Associated Press:
Stargazers Watch Total Lunar Eclipse  —  LONDON (AP) - The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.  —  The Earth's shadow took over six hours …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
I hate to do this. …
Discussion: The American Mind and MyDD
New York Times:
A New Mystery to Prosecutors: Their Lost Jobs  —  After Daniel G. Bogden got the call in December telling him that he was being dismissed as the United States attorney in Nevada, he pressed for an explanation.  —  Mr. Bogden, who was named the top federal prosecutor in Nevada in 2001 …
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Robert D. Novak / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Another Hillary defector
Discussion: The Agonist, Liberal Values and Wizbang
New York Times:
The Must-Do List  —  The Bush administration's assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections.  The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped.
Discussion: Wizbang and JammieWearingFool
New York Times:
Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison Terms  —  The decision by New York to confine sex offenders beyond their prison terms places the state at the forefront of a growing national movement that is popular with politicians and voters.  But such programs have almost never met …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Wall Street Journal:
The Million-Dollar Kid  —  Government figures put the total cost of raising a child at $279,000, but some increasingly common expenses can send the number soaring over $1 million.  Where you fall on the kid-spending spectrum.  —  The government says families in the top-third income bracket …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Associated Press:
Iraq terror group posts tape of killings  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-affiliated group said Saturday it killed 18 kidnapped government security forces in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police, posting an online video of the officers …
Discussion: GINA COBB, TigerHawk and Webloggin
The Blotter:
Afghanistan: US forces attack suspected al Qaeda hideout  —  Christopher Isham and Gretchen Peters Report:  —  For the past two days, U.S. and NATO forces have been conducting a major attack against a compound in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden or another senior al Qaeda leader …
 
 
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Austin Bay Blog:
Iraq's political and economic bullet
Discussion: Classical Values
Media Matters for America:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Romney at CPAC  —  He's the base's strongest candidate, I think.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DON SURBER: … He's right.  Compact fluorescents are swell …
Discussion: INSTAPUTZ
Michael Gisick / abqtrib.com:
GOP VIPs ponder David Iglesias fallout
Discussion: MyDD and Talking Points Memo
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons
Discussion: Firedoglake
R. H. Potfry / the nose on your face:
France Surrenders as "Precaution" After Swiss Troops Wander Into Liechtenstein
Lance / A Second Hand Conjecture:
Ann Coulter and Little Greenwald's Footballs: Revised as a Carnival of Fisking
Discussion: Classical Values
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Bing West / SWJ Blog:
Iraq Trip Report
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Paul Mirengoff / News Bloggers Blog:
She earned her celebrity status the old fashioned way
Kelly Kennedy / Army Times:
Committee subpoenas former Walter Reed chief
Discussion: King of Zembla
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Obama Had Slaveowning Kin
Zalmay Khalilzad / Washington Post:
A Shared Stake in Iraq's Future
Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
A Better Way on Presidential Succession
William Shawcrosson / Times of London:
Remember: for Cambodia, read Iraq