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Dubai Port Company to Divest Itself of American Holdings — The United Arab Emirates company that was attempting to take over management operations at six U.S. ports announced today that it will divest itself of all American interests. — The announcement appears to head off a major confrontation …
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CNN:
Ports deal opens rift between Bush, House GOP — Committee votes 62-2 to block approval of UAE takeover — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The White House faced a major rupture with House Republicans on Thursday after a House committee overwhelmingly voted to block a deal that would allow …
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Michelle Malkin:
BREAKING PORT NEWS: DUBAI YIELDS — ***scroll for updates...230pm EST Dem Senators Schumer, Clinton, Reid scrambling to organize press conference...248pm EST. Harry Reid looks irked at being outmaneuvered: "We want an up-and-down vote...the devil is in the details."
MSNBC:
Dubai to give up control of U.S. ports — Deal ran into tough opposition in Senate over security concerns … MSNBC TV — MSNBC staff and news service reports — WASHINGTON - A top Senate Republican says a Dubai-owned company has decided to give up its management stake in U.S. ports.
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Dubai threat to hit back — Dubai is threatening retaliation against American strategic and commercial interests if Washington blocks its $6.8 billion takeover of operations at several U.S. ports. — As the House Appropriations Committee yesterday marked up legislation …
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New York Times:
Dubai Company to Transfer U.S. Ports to American Company — WASHINGTON, March 9 — DP World, the United Arab Emirates state-owned company that had agreed to buy several port terminals in the United States, said today that it will transfer those properties to an American-owned company …
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Fox News:
Senate Could Mirror House Rebuke of Ports Deal — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday could vote on a Democratic amendment to halt a controversial ports deal that the Bush administration still hopes to push through. — The Senate vote would come just one day after the House Appropriations …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:DUBAI-BAI: IT'S ALL OVER BUT THE WHIMPERING
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ABCNEWS:
Faith Hill, Tim McGraw Blast 'Humiliating' Katrina Cleanup — Country Stars Lash Out in Anger Over Conditions in Storm-Ravaged States — March, 8, 2006 — Faith Hill and Tim McGraw — two stars who usually stay out of politics — blasted the Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort …
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John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Report posits that Chris Matthews has accepted hefty speaking fees from conservative groups — A new report advanced to RAW STORY Thursday suggests that Chris Matthews, the star of the Sunday talk show circuit's Hardball, has accepted hefty speaking fees from an array of conservative trade associations.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Senators Vote to Forgo Lobbyist-Bought Meals — The Senate agreed yesterday to toughen its ethics legislation by voting to bar lawmakers from accepting meals from registered lobbyists. — The proposal by Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) was accepted by voice vote.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Official Says Shiite Party Suppressed Body Count — BAGHDAD, March 8 — Days after the bombing of a Shiite shrine unleashed a wave of retaliatory killings of Sunnis, the leading Shiite party in Iraq's governing coalition directed the Health Ministry to stop tabulating execution-style shootings …
Michael J. Totten:
Zarqawi Was Here — BIARA, IRAQ - The PUK's Minister of the Interior ordered 20 heavily armed Peshmerga soldiers to go with me to the borderland mountain village of Biara. For years the village was occupied by Ansar Al Islam, the Kurdish-Arab-Persian branch of Al Qaeda in Northern Iraq.
TimChapman / Townhall.com:
HR 1606 - Hearing Markup — I am at the House Administration Committee markup of HR 1606, the Online Freedom of Speech Act. The committee hopes to report the bill out of committee today. Majority Leader John Boehner has indicated his desire to move the legislation quickly.
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Boy in a Bubble — What George Clooney doesn't know about life. — Memo to: The Academy — From: Just another viewer — Re: Advice, as if you wanted more — I cannot remember a time when, in the days after the Academy Awards show, it was not criticized, and even blasted.
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Washington Post:
Bush: Congress 'Shortchanged' New Orleans — Touring Gulf Coast, President Calls for Restoration of $1.5 Billion for Levee Repairs — NEW ORLEANS, March 8 — President Bush, on a Gulf Coast inspection tour that included his first visit to this city's storm-shattered Lower Ninth Ward …
Teri Figueroa / nctimes.com:
Woman sues for alleged firing over talk show bumper sticker — VISTA — A San Diego County woman is suing her former employer, accusing her manager of firing her on the spot when she saw the woman's car had a bumper sticker advertising a progressive talk radio station.
Niles Lathem / New York Post:
TOP JAIL IMAM IN HATE TIRADE — March 9, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Correction said in a recent speech that the "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House," Jews control the media, and Muslims are being tortured in Manhattan jails.