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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.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Iran Gives US A Casus Belli, If We Want It — ABC News reports tonight that Iran has shipped improved explosive devices capable of defeating the body armor employed by US soldiers to the insurgents in Iraq. Brian Ross will tell ABC's World News Tonight that Iran is "knowingly killing US troops" …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Survey Says — Let the exchange of trade and ideas with Iran begin. — The most touching remark I heard during my time in Iran last year was from a woman in the wonderfully beautiful city of Isfahan. (It is just outside this cultural treasure house that the mullahs have chosen to place one of their mountain-dugout nuclear sites.)
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
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.
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Washington Post:
A Victory For Military Recruiters — Schools Must Give Access Despite Objection to Policy On Gays, Justices Say — The Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld a federal law that forces colleges and universities to permit military recruiting on campus, despite the schools' objections …
John Holusha / New York Times:South Dakota Governor Signs Abortion Ban
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MyDD, The Left Coaster, Swing State Project, The Reaction, Donklephant, Shakespeare's Sister and Mia Culpa
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Envoy to Iraq Warns of Wider War — He supports the White House view that an early pullout would backfire, but he is bleak about the Sunni-Shiite conflict and says it could spread. — BAGHDAD — The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a …
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The Washington Monthly
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Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Mortars were louder than reason in Baghdad today... We woke up this morning to the sounds of many explosions in Baghdad and since we are familiar with those sounds we recognized that these were no doubt mortar shelling but not like the usual which is one or two rounds fired by some terrorists …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
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 …
New York Times:
Mr. Bush's Asian Road Trip — There is a lot of good a president can do on a visit to another country: negotiate treaties that enhance American security, shore up a shaky alliance, generate good will in important parts of the world. Unfortunately, President Bush didn't do any of those good things …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Taliban and AQ Taking A Beating In Pakistan — It looks like President Bush's visit to Pakistan may have paid off, as Musharraf appears to have re-energized his campaign in Waziristan against al-Qaeda and the Taliban remnants that have taken refuge there. In a protracted battle near …
Associated Press:
Driver at UNC Cites Vengeance for Muslims — CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 6 — A University of North Carolina graduate from Iran, accused of running down nine people on campus to avenge the treatment of Muslims, said at a hearing Monday that he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah."
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John O'Neil / New York Times:
Bush Proposes Line-Item Veto — President Bush today proposed legislation to create a line-item veto, a measure he said would help restrain government spending by allowing him to strip out pork-barrel spending. — Congress passed a line-item veto in 1996, but two years later …
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
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.
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Wonkette, Crooked Timber, Senate Majority Project, The Carpetbagger Report, Hotline On Call and Balloon Juice
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Mark Schmitt / Washington Monthly:
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 …
Ed Lavandera / CNN:
Dodge City showdown at funeral — DODGE CITY, Kansas (CNN) — This past Saturday morning I found myself in a five-car caravan cutting across the Kansas plains with about 30 religious protesters. In the back of a truck, there were signs that read "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
Washington Post:
Democrats Struggle To Seize Opportunity — News about GOP political corruption, inept hurricane response and chaos in Iraq has lifted Democrats' hopes of winning control of Congress this fall. But seizing the opportunity has not been easy, as they found when they tried to unveil an agenda of their own.
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story — Providing the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving, researchers have detected some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection, a principal force of evolution, within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years.
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Tim Worstall
Jed Babbin / realclearpolitics.com:
Fighting the Ideological War — We aren't fighting a war against terrorists to win the hearts and minds of the Middle East. We are fighting it to end the threat of terrorism. Victory can't be achieved with bullets and bombs alone. This is, at its core, an ideological war.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
THE LIBERAL TEMPERAMENT....Before I even get started here, let me say up front that I have no idea if Neuropolitics.org is even a remotely credible organization. And since it's a weekend, I don't care. However, I applaud them for taking on one of today's weightiest political questions …
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