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11:50 AM ET, March 4, 2006

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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE AP CLARIFIES WHAT THE AP MUDDIED  —  Lord help those who rely for their news on the mainstream media and their inferior imitators around the country.  A mere two days after its outrageously misleading reporting on the warnings given to President Bush before Hurricane Katrina hit, the AP has issued this:
Discussion: Generation Why?
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Drudge Report:
AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO  —  WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans …
Washington Post:   Caught on Tape  —  ON THE DAY before Hurricane Katrina hit …
Mark Noonan / Blogs for Bush:
AP Must Stand for Assassins, Political
Discussion: Big Lizards and NewsBusters.org
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
AP Issues Clarification Concerning Bush-Katrina Video Story
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner on National …:
KATRINA AP "CLARIFICATION"
Raleigh News & Observer:
FBI agent: UNC suspect allegedly cited 'American treatment of Muslims'  —  Carrboro police evacuate suspect's apartment complex  —  CHAPEL HILL — Police evacuated the apartment complex of a 23-year-old man who injured six people when he drove a Jeep Laredo across the main student hub …
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Michelle Malkin:
A JIHADIST IN NORTH CAROLINA  —  Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, lone jihadist  —  New details from ABC 11 in Raleigh, N.C., about the Muslim man who plowed into students on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus today: … Taheriazar is a native of Iran and a December 2005 UNC graduate, according to the Raleigh News and Observer.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Bill Frist threatens to re-structure the Intelligence Committee in order to block NSA hearings  —  (updated below)  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee was created in 1976 and, from the beginning, it has been unique in its structure and operation.  Due to the urgency of ensuring …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Bill Frist: Cheater  —  Since its creation in 1976, the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has purposely been a bi-partisan, non-political committee.  It was specifically designed to have equalize the partisanship among Republicans and Democrats, to function as a check …
New York Times:
Bush Says Pakistan Cannot Expect Nuclear Deal Like One With India  —  ISLAMABAD, March 4 — President Bush made clear today that Pakistan should not expect anytime soon a civilian nuclear agreement like the one the United States reached only days ago with India, and he bluntly …
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
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Andy McSmith / Independent:
Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq'  —  Tony Blair has proclaimed that God will judge whether he was right to send British troops to Iraq, echoing statements from his ally George Bush.  —  Contradicting warnings from advisers not to mix politics and religion, the Prime Minister …
BBC:
Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons  —  Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged.  —  Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan on 27 February to block about a dozen websites of various origins.
Discussion: The Big Pharaoh
White House:
President Discusses Strong U.S.-India Partnership in New Delhi, India  —  President's Visit to India and Pakistan  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  Thank you.  Please be seated.  Distinguished guests, namaste.  (Applause.)  Laura and I have been looking forward to this visit for a long time, and we're delighted to be in India.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Bloomberg
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
PRESIDENT BUSH, AS THE INDIANS SAW HIM
Discussion: Solomonia
Sophie Arie / Telegraph:
Chavez prepares his people's army to confront US  —  Venezuela begins training a vast army of civilian reserves today to fight off the attack its Left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, says the United States is plotting against it.  —  The oil-rich state aims to teach up to two million volunteers …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Tim Worstall
John Gizzi / Human Events:
Chertoff Has 'Few Days Left,' Sources Say  —  In the aftermath of the public revelation of the presidential "teleconference" and mounting criticism of the performance of Michael Chertoff, Administration sources told HUMAN EVENTS today that the secretary of Homeland Security has "only a few days left" in the Bush Cabinet.
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New York Times:
U.S. Reveals Identities of Detainees  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, March 3 (AP) — After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon released documents on Friday that have the names of detainees at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay.
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
In Baby Boomlet, Preschool Derby Is the Fiercest Yet  —  The fierce competition for private preschool in New York City has been propelled to such a frenzy this year by the increased numbers of children vying for scarce slots that it could be mistaken for a kiddie version of "The Apprentice."
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
House mulls bill on food label removal  —  WASHINGTON —Hundreds of warnings on food labels could vanish under a measure moving toward approval in the House.  —  The bill would stop states from adding warnings that are different from federal rules.  States currently add hundreds of extra warnings …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Searching for the Sheikh of Slaughters  —  Coalition forces are investigating claims Zarqawi may have been detained in the raid in the Jazerra region  —  The death or capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq who is affectionately called the "Sheikh of Slaughters" …
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and bRight & Early
 
 
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