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1:25 AM ET, March 5, 2007

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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
CPAC: The Unauthorized Documentary  —  See seven minutes of raw, unexpurgated right-wing action courtesy of VideoNation:  —  Michelle Malkin goes unhinged and launches a hysterical tirade into the lens of my camera.  I ask Ann "John Edwards is a Faggot" Coulter why she isn't the same person on Sunday morning as on Saturday night.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Nation's Max Blumenthal Racist?
Discussion: TBogg and Ace of Spades HQ
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   CPAC: Pictures Speak A Thousand ...
Mike Stark / Calling All Wingnuts:
Sorry about the intermission
Discussion: The Populist Moderate
David Johnston / New York Times:
Senator Sought Dismissal of New Mexico Prosecutor  —  Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, said Sunday that he had urged the Justice Department to dismiss the state's top federal prosecutor, who in December was one of eight United States attorneys ousted from their jobs.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Newsweek
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Senator Admits Calling U.S. Attorney  —  Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) acknowledged today that he contacted the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque last fall to inquire about the status of an ongoing corruption probe of Democrats, saying he regretted the call but "never pressured him nor threatened him in any way."
Washington Post:
'It Is Just Not Walter Reed'  —  Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings.  He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all.  He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well.
Ross Douthat / The American Scene:
Neoconservatism and Its Discontents: Jacob Heilbrunn, summarizing Michael D. Tanner's brief against big-government conservatism: … Of course, something else happened after the Irving Kristols of the world joined the conservative movement - namely, conservatives started winning elections.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
GENERATION TRAP....If you haven't been following the ongoing brawl between Time columnist Joe Klein and the liberal blogosphere, it's probably too late to bring you completely up to speed.  Let's just say that the blogosphere thinks Klein is a wanker and Klein returns the compliment in full.
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Bloomberg: The Waiting Game  —  His billions allow Mayor Mike to enter the '08 race late.  —  NYC-Style Showdown?  Although he has not announced plans to run for president, New York City Mayor Bloomberg (speaking with a fellow commuter on the subway) has considered running as an independent in 2008
Discussion: Donklephant
CBS News:
Terrorists Take Recruitment Efforts Online  —  Scott Pelley On The Use Of The Internet To Recruit Jihadists  —  (CBS) Recently the Bush administration acknowledged that al Qaeda is reorganized and gaining strength.  As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, that's been possible …
Discussion: ParaPundit and Hot Air
Times of London:
Could 650,000 Iraqis really have died because of the invasion?  —  The statistics made headlines all over the world when they were published in The Lancet in October last year.  More than 650,000 Iraqis - one in 40 of the population - had died as a result of the American-led invasion in 2003.
Discussion: Hot Air and Little Green Footballs
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Antiwar Caucus Wants to Be Heard Now  —  About a dozen members of the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus gathered on a sunny day last summer on the terrace outside the Capitol for a news conference.  The only problem: no reporters showed up.  —  The members of the group …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Sirotablog
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Ex-GOP candidates turn attacks back on national panel  —  WASHINGTON — One advertisement accused the rival candidate of billing taxpayers for a call to a phone-sex line.  One alleged that a candidate "fixed" his daughter's speeding tickets.  Still others stated that a candidate endorsed a …
Nicholas Wood / New York Times:
Rebellious Diplomat Finds Work as Envoy of the Voiceless  —  GUILT is not a word that most diplomats would choose to sum up their careers, but Carne Ross uses just that as he looks back at much of his work over 15 years.  Guilt, frustration and anger.  —  Until about two years ago …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Mar. 4, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The Democrats say U.S. troops should leave Iraq within six months if the Iraqi government does not reduce the violence.  With us, Congressman John Murtha, Democrat from Pennsylvania.
Discussion: The Reaction and The Gavel
Dan / Riehl World View:
Gore Funding Plan For "A New World Order"  —  If your employer began paying you 80 cents on the dollar, but, not to worry, the other 20 cents was going to support "good causes", thereby giving you value instead of capital, would you be pleased?  —  If not, you won't like what Al Gore …
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Newt Blames The Victims of Katrina  —  Blog for our Future: … I tell you, this CPAC convention really highlights the humanity of these conservatives.  And the worst part?  It's not the first time Newt's put this in one of his speeches.  Jeffrey Feldman has more...
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Tom Allard / Sydney Morning Herald:
Hicks lawyer faces removal from case
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
In Wartime, Who Has the Power?  —  THE Constitution seems relatively clear.
Discussion: Balkinization and Ezra Klein
Echidne / ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES:
Do You Want To Buy Me?  —  All people are sometimes treated as commodities.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BRAVE NEW WORLD....Mickey Kaus offers up the following political analysis …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Washington Post:
Extend Legal Rights to Guantanamo
Agence France Presse:
Iran touts nuclear prowess with new banknote
Discussion: Israel Matzav
McQ / QandO:
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Alicia C. Shepard / The Huffington Post:
All Men, All the Time in News Business
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
New Orleans sues US army corps for $77bn over Katrina
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Gateway Pundit:
Secular Islam Summit: Reason, Not Revelation
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Sydney Morning Herald:
Republican heroes suddenly in short supply
Discussion: GregsOpinion.com
Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama: Iran threatens all of us
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Police and Protesters Clash in St. Petersburg
Discussion: Associated Press
Huffington Post:
Edwards Hopes To Raise "Coulter Cash" After "Faggot" Slur
Stephen Prothero / Washington Post:
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Brit Hume On Walter Reed: 'It Looks Terrible' For The Bush …
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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