FIRST LOOK SUPPORT DENMARK RALLY NYC  —  Just off the street, here's a first look at the delicious Rally held in NYC in Support of Denmark —a lovelier group of freedom lovers you will never meet.  So lovely in fact, someone was kind enough to serve Havarati cheese and crackers.  So great.And so polite.

Top CIA Official Under Investigation  —  Number Three Official at CIA Is Subject of Investigation Related to Bribery Probe  —  March 3, 2006 — The stunning investigation of bribery and corruption in Congress has spread to the CIA, ABC News has learned.  —  The CIA Inspector General …

"The Head of the Snake"  —  SULEIMANIYA, IRAQ - Suleimaniya is the most liberal city in Iraqi Kurdistan, partly because of its long-standing and deep ties to nearby Iran, one of the most culturally liberal countries in the Middle East.  The Iraqi Kurds I met who have been to Iran wanted me to know …

In India, Bush Urges Americans to Welcome Global Competition  —  NEW DELHI, March 3 — President Bush met with Indian entrepreneurs and toured an agricultural university during a four-hour trip to the southern city of Hyderabad today, when he said that the United States should welcome rather than fear competition from India.

Carter Seeks Vote in U.N. Against U.S.  —  President Carter personally called Secretary of State Rice to try to convince her to reverse her U.N. ambassador's position on changes to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, the former president recalled yesterday in a talk in which he also criticized …

HOW TO FIGHT THE BRAINWASHERS  —  Yesterday's story on Jay Bennish, the unhinged Denver public high school teacher caught on tape by 16-year-old student Sean Allen, continues to resonate.  —  Expose the Left has video of Sean's appearance last night on Hannity and Colmes:

Has Washington Gone Insane?  —  The Plame kerfuffle and the decline of rational problem-solving.  —  With President Bush away for a week in Asia, the rest of Washington has had to find something to do with its time other than run amuck over the latest piddling folly.

WLIB, Air America, New York City, ICBC, Randy Michaels  —  WORST CASE REALITY  —  Air America Appears To Lose Flagship Station  —  Exclusive To The Radio Equalizer  —  While Air America Radio's loss of two affiliates in Phoenix and Missoula, Montana is generating news this week …

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE....Greg Anrig, responding (partly) to my post yesterday about the eerily unanimous support for universal healthcare among liberal bloggers, says the obvious: … The liberal blogosphere disagrees about gun control, disagrees about the war in Iraq, disagrees about the role of labor, disagrees about nearly everything.

Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly  —  The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year in a trend that scientists link to global warming, according to a new paper that provides the first evidence that the sheet's total mass is shrinking significantly.

O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with "a little visit" from "Fox security" for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air … On the March 2 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor, host Bill O'Reilly threatened to turn over the personal information of a caller to "Fox security" …

U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban  —  McCain Law May Not Apply to Cuba Prison  —  Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.