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USATODAY.com - So who's to blame for record high oil prices?
USATODAY.com - The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, in an editorial: "As she struggles to keep her presidential campaign alive and relevant, Hillary Clinton is trying to convince the unelected superdelegates who will decide the Democratic presidential nomination that her better than 2-1 victory over Barack Obama in Tuesday's West Virginia primary marks a turning point in the race and underscores her argument that he cannot win in November. It does neither.
USATODAY.com - The two No. 1 female athletes who abruptly announced their retirements this week sent a welcome message: Dedication and drive to get to the top are important — but life has more than one note, and one act, to it. Having the instinct to know when and how to follow a different path is rare. But, quite clearly, golfer Annika Sorenstam and tennis star Justine Henin have it.
The Christian Science Monitor - Ron Paul and his 1 million supporters aren't going away. And that's probably a good thing for America's future.
The Christian Science Monitor - Lawsuits are not the best way to force the public into solving planet-size problems such as climate change. In most cases, political consensus – as Al Gore is trying to achieve – brings the most fitting solutions. But the environmentalists who sued on behalf of polar bears likely knew that and shouldn't be surprised at what their suit has wrought.
HuffingtonPost.com - The storm over President Bush's "appeasement" remarks in Israel misses the point. No, we should not appease, engage, or give shoulder rubs to Islamist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. But wishing they would go away, while arming their enemies has gotten us nowhere.
The Nation - The Nation -- Last weekend, I traveled to Mississippi's first congressional district, a bastion of Republican power that has been home to William Faulkner, Elvis Presley, and the scene of massive riots on the night James Meredith attempted to integrate the University of Mississippi.
The Nation - The Nation -- In the House....This week, members furiously tangled over the war supplemental spending bill, which would fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through at least March 2009.
RealClearPolitics.com - I received a ton of email in response to my column yesterday arguing that the Clinton campaign's biggest mistake was missing Obama's association with Reverend Wright, clues about which were available as early as February 2007.
RealClearPolitics.com - I'm not necessarily interested in wading into the brouhaha over whether Bush's remarks in Jerusalem yesterday were an implicit attack on Barack Obama.
The Weekly Standard - There are natural disasters, and there are man-made disasters. Cyclones and earthquakes are, of course, natural. But the devastation wrought by a government's refusal to allow aid workers entry into crisis areas; by its confiscation of aid; by its diversion of resources so it can fix a referendum "legitimizing" its antidemocratic authority--that sort of disaster is man-made. And it requires a man-made response.
Richard Reeves - WASHINGTON -- "The Change You Deserve" may sound like scrambled Obama, but it was, in fact, considered as this election-year slogan of the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was rejected when someone noticed that it was also the slogan of a prescription drug called Effexor.
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s.
Larry Elder - I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I thought, a Reagan Republican.
Joe Conason - Double standards are endemic in American journalism.
Ann Coulter - On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent.
AP - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
The Weekly Standard - First, the good news. Conservatives won a sweeping victory in an enormously important election the week before last.
Brent Bozell III - In the last presidential election, leftist special interest groups and socialist billionaires like George Soros waged war with an unprecedented tsunami of negative TV attacks on the Republican incumbent, suggesting he was a draft dodger that knowingly lied us into war.
Susan Estrich - When I got to one of my offices yesterday (I won't say which, lest you hold it against them, which I certainly don't), people were crowded around the computer, watching the latest video on YouTube. And laughing.
