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9:15 AM ET, March 5, 2009

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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Foreign ties of nominee questioned  —  Post handles classified data  —  An independent inspector general will look into the foreign financial ties of Chas W. Freeman Jr., the Obama administration's pick to serve as chairman of the group that prepares the U.S. intelligence community's …
Discussion: Israel Matzav and The New Republic
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Freeman NOW Gets Vetted?  —  Eli Lake reports that Chas Freeman is indeed to be investigated by the Inspector General.  At issue are his ties the to China National Offshore Oil Corp, in which the Chinese government has a majority stake, and his role as president of the Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), which is in part Saudi-funded.
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
For Young President, Flecks of Gray  —  WASHINGTON — Well, that didn't take long.  Just 44 days into the job, and President Obama is going gray.  —  It happens to all of them, of course — Bill Clinton still had about half a head of brown hair when he took office but was a silver fox two years later …
ABCNEWS:
Ex-First Lady Barbara Bush Has Heart Surgery  —  Bush Aide Says the Former First Lady Was ‘Alert and Funny’ After Surgery  —  Former first lady Barbara Bush had open-heart surgery Wednesday and is resting comfortably at a Houston hospital with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush …
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Scared Monkeys
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CNN:
Former first lady has heart surgery
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MSNBC:   Barbara Bush on the mend after heart surgery
Tom Doggett / Reuters:
US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks  —  U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Gateway Pundit
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Rethinks Tax Hikes
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Boehner now directly attacking Obama
Discussion: Daily Kos
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
A Global Retreat As Economies Dry Up  —  As World Trade Plummets, Bustling Ports Stand Idle And Foreign Workers Track Back Home  —  SINGAPORE This shimmering city-state was the house globalization built.  When world trade boomed, Singapore's seaport at the crossroads of East and West became …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Taps Clinton Ideas but Not Clinton Herself  —  WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has not participated in any of the White House's planning sessions on health care, the issue that defined her public persona during the 1990s.  Intent on establishing herself as a powerful secretary of state …
John Boehner / Washington Post:
Democrats' Diversionary Tactics  —  In the first two months of 2009, the Democratic Congress and the White House have spent more money than the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the response to Hurricane Katrina.  After they doled out taxpayer dollars at such a blistering pace …
Iain Martin / Iain Martin's blog listings:
President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain.  Don't call us in future.  —  Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests?  He looked like he simply couldn't be bothered.  —  Gordon Brown and Barack Obama  —  Number 10 may be content …
Wall Street Journal:
Merrill Men Paid Over $10 Million Subpoenaed  —  New York state's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has issued subpoenas to several top Merrill Lynch & Co. executives who were each paid more than $10 million in cash and stock last year, according to people familiar with the situation.
Zombie / zomblog:
Islam bus ads sponsored by CAIR and ICNA roll into San Francisco  —  San Franciscans have recently been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of riding around on public buses plastered with the words “ISLAM - Submission to God.”  I say “uncomfortable” because San Francisco …
Jeremy McDermott / Telegraph:
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez tightens state control of food amid rocketing inflation and food shortages  —  President Hugo Chavez is tightening state control over Venezuela's food supply, setting quotas for food staples which are to be sold at government-imposed prices.
Associated Press:
Obama surprises daughters with new swing set  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — First daughters Malia and Sasha Obama got a big surprise after school Wednesday: a brand-new swing set.  —  They squealed with delight upon seeing it, a spokeswoman for the first lady said.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
For GOP: all pain, no gain  —  Four months after John McCain's sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are coming to grips with the fact that the party is still - in stock market terms - looking for the bottom.  —  Republicans this week are processing two sobering new polls that found …
Maxim Lott / Fox News:
Professor Takes Heat for Calling Cops on Student Who Discussed Guns in Class  —  A professor in Connecticut reported one of her students to the police after he gave a class presentation on why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus.
Discussion: Stop The ACLU and Weasel Zippers
Hillel Fendel / Arutz Sheva:
Jerusalem: Arab Tractor Driver Plows Into Police Car, 2 Hurt  —  (IsraelNN.com) Two police officers were wounded in Jerusalem shortly after 1:00 p.m. when an Arab-driven tractor plowed into their vehicle.  The officers, though hurt, fired at the terrorist, as did a civilian, and the terrorist was killed.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Megan McArdle:
Atlas raised his eyebrows  —  Perhaps predictibly, Ayn Rand is making a comeback on the right, with Congressmen handing out her books, and loose talk of rich people “Going Galt”.  —  I don't think that we will see a mass exodus of productive people to secret hideouts.
Rod Dreher / Crunchy Con:
Enough with the “elitist” cant!  —  Victor Davis Hanson begins a post on NRO thus: … Boy, this is getting awfully tiresome, and I'm sorry to see someone of Prof. Hanson's caliber descend into this kind of rhetoric.  What is it supposed to mean to describe conservatives who have a beef …
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:   More on Rush  —  All these highbrow conservative attacks …
Seumas Milne / Guardian:
If this becomes Obama's war, it will poison his presidency  —  Pakistan is being ripped apart by the fallout from the Afghan occupation.  If the US escalates, the impact will be devastating  —  The armed assault on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore has been a brutal demonstration …
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Eight plus minutes of truth  —  digg it  —  This early morning I could write about Rush Limbaugh again but those insurance companies that are not insolvent have mortality tables which say it's likely we've got another 4 years, 1 month to make fun of Rush Limbaugh.  So let's pace ourselves.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
McCain, Dowd Substitute Mockery for Understanding  —  You understand why politics might get up to dumb gimmicks.  They're trying to get press, they're trying to get elected, whatever.  But even though lots of people do it, I genuinely don't understand why someone would go into political journalism despite …
The Huffington Post:
Walter Williams and Bryan D. Jones: Preventing Great Depression II  —  Chicken Little may be right this time.  “The sky is falling.”  As America's economy plunges rapidly toward Great Depression II, consumer and investor confidence rush downward at an even faster rate.
 
 
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