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Cheney to become president...briefly — WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday, and will transfer power to Vice President Dick Cheney during the procedure, expected to take about two and a half hours, the chief White House spokesman said.
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:Bush to Have Colonoscopy at Camp David
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's Tentative Dip Into New Neckline Territory — There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton. — She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:This Just In... According to Robin Givhan of the WaPo, Hillary Clinton is a woman.
Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
NOTE TO READERS: — Several conservative blogs have raised questions about the Diarist "Shock Troops," written by a soldier in Iraq using the pseudonym Scott Thomas. Whenever anybody levels serious accusations against a piece published in our magazine, we take those charges seriously.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:"Shock Troops" Blog Round-Up
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Kos / Daily Kos:
JetBlue caved — Okay, so JetBlue, after deciding to resist Bill O'Reilly's pressure last night, just decided to back down. Let them know what you think about that. … As for my part, I'm cancelling my JetBlue American Express card and will be looking at alternative options for my future travel.
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Bill O'Reilly / Fox News:
JetBlue changes strategy — Earlier this week we confronted JetBlue CEO Dave Barger about his airline sponsoring a conference held by the hate-filled Web site, the Daily Kos. — That far-left concern routinely posts vile thoughts such as Tony Snow should die from cancer, the pope is a primate, and Israel deserves to be attacked.
Michael J. Totten:
Welcome to Baghdad — BAGHDAD — Never again will I complain about the inconvenience and discomfort of airports and civilian airline travel delays. You won't either if make your way from Kuwait to Baghdad in July during a war. — Military planes leave Kuwait every couple of hours …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Exclusive: Hillary's Stinging Letter To SecDef Gates Obtained — In an unusual challenge to a Defense Secretary from a sitting Senator, Hillary Clinton has just written a sharply worded letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, demanding that he personally account for a Pentagon official's assertion yesterday …
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Scott Weinberger / WCBS-TV:
Jersey City Woman Finds Missile Launcher On Lawn — Officials: Launcher, Good For One Use Only, Had Already Been Fired — Featured Slideshows: — Reporting — (CBS) JERSEY CITY A Jersey City woman made what to her and her neighbors was a shocking discovery Friday morning when she noticed …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Romney targets Obama - with a twist — Promoting sex education for kindergarten students—kind of a sexy topic — was injected into the 2008 presidential race. It conjures up visions of condoms and cupcakes passed around before the afternoon naptime. Except that it is not true.
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NewsBusters.org
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:"How much sex education is age appropriate for a 5-year-old?
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Shays screams at Capitol Police officer — On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) got into a loud, angry dispute with a U.S. Capitol Police officer at the security checkpoint inside the entrance of the West Side of the Capitol. On Friday, Shays, a veteran lawmaker …
White House:
Executive Order: Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency — By the authority vested in me as President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces by the Constitution and the laws …
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Washington Post, New York Times, Balkinization, Think Progress, Wizbang, NION, Jihad Watch and Salon
Guardian:
Harry Potter: the economics — Successful magical worlds depend on basic economic principles, and that's where JK Rowling's Harry Potter falls short. — Why are books about magic so exciting? The lure is almost tautological: magic is compelling because it allows us to imagine doing the things we cannot ordinarily do.
The Corner:
A Busy Saturday — Readers are really into Cheney being president for awhile. Suggestions for Acting President Cheney include — Bomb Iran. — Commute the sentences of those border agents. — Fire Mike Chertoff. — Tell Harry Reid to ... well, you know... Pardon Scooter.
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Shakesville
Associated Press:
Nancy Pelosi to publish memoir — NEW YORK - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who this year became the first woman to hold the top spot in the House of Representatives, is writing a memoir, to be released in the summer of 2008 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
David Stout / New York Times:
Bush Says Democrats Are Playing Politics on Iraq — President Bush assailed Democrats anew about Iraq today, accusing them of choosing to indulge in a political debate over troop withdrawals rather than giving the troops what they need to carry out their mission.
Greg Sargent / Talking Points Memo:
Being a New... VIDEO SURFACES OF RUDY SCREAMING, "BULLSH#$T!" — Being a New Yorker, I'd remembered that during a cop union rally in 1992, Rudy had come unhinged and screamed, "Bulls#$t!" — For some time now I've been meaning to track video of this moment down.
Casey Ross / Boston Herald:
Romney aide's bogus badges: Sources detail 'illegal' security tactic — In an apparent violation of the law, a controversial aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls …
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