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Meet the press.

Throwing down the gauntlet.

You go first. No, you.

Kinder, gentler, lamer.

Your tax dollars at work, splitting atoms in Saudi Arabia. PLUS: France is building reactors for Algeria and Libya.

Reflecting on the McClellan moment. Plus: What McClellan said about Richard Clarke’s tell-all.

Bolton: not happy.

Blind pig finds truffle.

Say cheese.

Costume party.

America second.

Legacy.

And look who has front-row media seats.

Yeah, that’s me.

Deja voo-doo.

“You can’t be the president unless you have a firm set of principles to guide you.”

“Scold.”

Just in:
President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats. He also signed a big increase in the Pentagon’s non-war budget.
The president’s action was announced on Air Force One as Bush flew to Indiana for a speech expected to criticize the Democratic-led Congress on its budget priorities.
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What do they do? Keep swimming, swimming, swimming. Plus: Pelosi’s waterfront earmark.

Swimming in pork.

Bush and the U.N. vs. American sovereignty.

President Bush to make a “personnel announcement.”

Topics: Economy, Pakistan, Tillman, Iraq, housing market. Plus: GWB puts up his dukes. Plus: No gas tax increase.

The Founding Fathers: They meant what they wrote
President Bush attacked immigration enforcement proponents for engaging in “empty political rhetoric”–and the NYTimes was all too happy to report on it:
President Bush today accused opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat it in Congress, and took on his own conservative political base as he [...]

So much for anti-Americanism, says the Examiner:
Amazing, isn’t it, how the conventional wisdom that holds sway among many sophisticated — i.e. liberal — Washingtonians and New Yorkers is often so completely divorced from reality.
These folks have come to take it as a given that America’s involvement in Iraq has inflicted severe damage to our nation’s [...]

What goes around, comes around. A new documentary unmasking Michael Moore debuts today at the South by Southwest film festival:
The cameras get turned on Michael Moore for a change at the South by Southwest film festival, where the documentary Manufacturing Dissent will have its world premiere.
The film from directors Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk, playing [...]

Taking a stand
College students in the Middle East protest a world leader by shouting “Death to the dictator!” And for once, they are not talking about George W. Bush. Jim Hoft has more.
Allah’s got video of the brave dissidents.

Oh, say, do you remember how the Dems huffed and puffed when President Bush warned before the midterms that “The terrorists win and America loses” if the Dems prevailed?
Well, the Dems triumphed and the terrorists may indeed win–the “restoration of habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants:”
A battle is shaping up between Democrats and the [...]

I’m really trying to keep my spirits and yours up, but stuff like this ain’t helping:
President George W. Bush on Wednesday said increasing the national minimum wage is likely an issue on which he could cooperate with Democratic leaders in Congress.
“I believe in a lot of issues we can find common ground and there’s a [...]

Set for 1pm.
How do you spell illegal alien amnesty? Reuters:
President George W. Bush, disappointed at the Democrats’ seizure of the House of Representatives, will hold a news conference on Wednesday to urge his opponents to work with him, the White House said.
The news conference was set for 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) in the White [...]