EXCLUSIVE: Iraq Weapons — Made in Iran?  —  Intelligence Officials Say Weapons Responsible for Increasing U.S. Deaths in Iraq  —  March 6, 2006 — U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border.

Supreme Court Upholds Law on College Military Recruiting  —  WASHINGTON, March 6 — The Supreme Court upheld a law today that cuts federal funding from universities that do not give military recruiters the same access to students that other potential employers receive.

Suspect plans to represent himself  —  From staff reports  —  Update: Authorities have released the 911 call by Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar.  Click the play button to hear the call (Flash player required):  —  HILLSBOROUGH — The man accused of injuring nine people when he drove …

Expert on Iraq: 'We're In a Civil War'  —  U.S. Officials Deny Violence Has Risen to That Level, but ABC News Analysts See a 'Serious Lack of Realism'  —  BAGHDAD, March 5, 2006 — As Pentagon generals offered optimistic assessments that the sectarian violence in Iraq had dissipated this weekend …

Bush Proposes Law to Give the President Line-Item Veto Power  —  Seeking to reassert his party's scuffed reputation for fiscal conservatism, President Bush yesterday proposed a law giving him authority to veto individual items in legislation as a way to curb fast-growing federal spending.

Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its P.R. Campaign  —  Brian Pickrell, a blogger, recently posted a note on his Web site attacking state legislation that would force Wal-Mart Stores to spend more on employee health insurance.  "All across the country, newspaper editorial boards …

Critics attack Academy for Brokeback snub  —  Chris Ayres: So LA weblog  —  Leading US critics have questioned whether Hollywood is yet ready to give its biggest prize to a gay love story after the race drama Crash grabbed the Best Picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards last night.

Abstinence  —  Amy Sullivan writes: … This is a rhetorical sleight of hand which entirely ignores the relevant policy debate.  The question is whether sex education in public schools should be "abstinence only," which involves telling teenagers that they shouldn't have sex and not providing …

Backseat Strategists  —  Do the Democratic Party's harshest internal critics finally have a plan for building a political majority?  —  What's most provocative in this year's crop of books about renewing the Democratic Party is what's missing.  The old sectarian fights about ideology …

Transcript: Joran van der Sloot Goes 'On the Record,' Part 3  —  This is the complete transcript from "On the Record," March 3, 2006.  —  GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: For the past two nights, you have watched as Joran van der Sloot, who remains a suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance, finally told his side of the story.

Oscar afterthoughts.  —  That was a long night of blogging yesterday!  But watching the Oscars without blogging is much more of a slog.  And I relied heavily on TiVo, so, really, it was a snap compared to just sitting around watching in real time.  I skipped nearly all of the speeches …

Guards Fault Homeland Security Protection  —  WASHINGTON — Guards at the Department of Homeland Security say the agency mishandled a potential anthrax attack on its headquarters, one of several incidents that led two senators to request an investigation of the agency's own security.