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12:40 PM ET, March 6, 2006

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James Wolcott:
OSCAR DAY  —  On this holiest of Hollywood days, conservatives are obsessing about an awards ceremony devoted to movies they pride themselves on not seeing and indulging in a nostalgia that belongs in the back row of the bingo hall.  Imagine having such deprived mental existence that you sit around …
Lynn Elber / Associated Press:
Oscars Ratings Drop 10 Percent From 2005
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court upholds "Solomon Amendment"  —  In a sweeping legal victory for the U.S. military, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that Pengtaon recruiters must be assured an equal opportunity with other employers to sign up students at the nation's law schools.
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Bloomberg:
Military Wins at U.S. High Court on Campus Recruiting (Update1)
Discussion: QandO and TalkLeft
Marty Lederman / SCOTUSblog:   Early Thoughts on Rumsfeld v. FAIR (Commentary)
Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
President Bush losing support among Hoosiers  —  Survey: Bush's approval rating has dropped 18 points in Indiana over the past year  —  Indiana voted twice to elect George W. Bush to the White House, but an Indianapolis Star poll indicates more than half of Hoosiers now disapprove of the job he's doing as president.
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New York Times:
Scant Drop Seen in Abortion Rate if Parents Are Told  —  For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors to notify their parents or get permission to have an abortion do not appear to have produced the sharp drop in teenage abortion rates that some advocates hoped for, an analysis by The New York Times shows.
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Guards Fault Homeland Security Protection  —  WASHINGTON - The agency entrusted with protecting the U.S. homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex.  —  The guards have taken their concerns to Congress, describing inadequate training …
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Times of London:
Nato may help US airstrikes on Iran
Discussion: BBC and Flopping Aces
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Majority of Americans Believe Iraq Civil War is Likely  —  Washington Post-ABC News Poll Finds Sharp Decline in Optimism About Iraq War  —  An overwhelming majority of the public believe fighting between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq will lead to civil war and half say the U.S …
Michael Barone / Townhall.com:
Denying al-Qaida  —  The issue is historical now, but still worth exploring.  Why, for two distinct groups of Americans, has it become a matter of conviction held with religious intensity that there cannot have been any relationship between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq?
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:   Congressman Pushes Release Of Saddam Tapes
New York Times:
Kabuki Congress  —  Imagine being stopped for speeding and having the local legislature raise the limit so you won't have to pay the fine.  It sounds absurd, but it's just what is happening to the 28-year-old law that prohibits the president from spying on Americans without getting a warrant from a judge.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Taliban Man at Yale  —  University officials are embarrassed—but not embarrassed enough.  —  Are there no limits to how arrogant and out-of-touch America's Ivy League schools can get?  Last week it emerged that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
For Democrats, Many Verses, but No Chorus  —  WASHINGTON, March 5 — From Arizona to Pennsylvania, from Colorado to Connecticut, Democratic candidates for Congress are reading from a stack of different scripts these days.  —  At the Capitol in Hartford the other morning …
Camille Paglia / New York Times:
Academic, Heal Thyself  —  WHAT went wrong at Harvard?  —  Tomorrow, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet for the first time since the resignation of the university's president, Lawrence H. Summers, two weeks ago.  The dean of Arts and Sciences, William Kirby, resigned in late January …
Discussion: GM's Corner and Blogmeister USA
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Levee Fixes Falling Short, Experts Warn  —  Corps Rejects Claim Of Substandard Soil  —  NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers seems likely to fulfill a promise by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans's toppled flood walls to their original, pre-Katrina height by June 1 …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Bush to Propose Line-Item Veto Legislation
Discussion: PoliBlog and QandO
Amy Sullivan / Washington Monthly:
When Would Jesus Bolt?  —  Meet Randy Brinson, the advance guard …
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
Hollywood's Real Phobia
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Awaiting the Almighty  —  Rudy Giuliani may or may not run for president.
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Rise in Online Fundraising Changed Face of Campaign Donors
Discussion: Election Law
Alex Wong / Newsweek:
Watchdog: What Ever Happened to the Civil Liberties Board?
Discussion: PBD, Wonkette, Daily Kos and TalkLeft
Jeremy Wallace / heraldtribune.com:
Harris 'circling the wagons,' consultant says
Atlas Shrugs:
THE BOLTON INTERVIEW  —  What I most admire about John Bolton …
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CNN:
Lawmakers vow overhauls in response to ports deal
Smash / The Indepundit:
Cindy, Revisited  —  FOR THE SECOND TIME in less than a week …
William B. Scott / aviationnow.com:
Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake?
Tracy Jan / Boston Globe:
Haleigh Poutre making strides
Discussion: Gina Cobb and Ace of Spades HQ
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Post-9/11 Drive by Republicans To Attract Jewish Voters Stalls
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
General's Assessment of Iraq Questioned
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
Iran's Khatami Says Islam Is the Enemy West Needs
Kim Christensen / Los Angeles Times:
Dark Portrait of a 'Painter of Light'
 

 
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Florida billionaire David Hoffmann, who holds an 8.7% stake in Lee Enterprises and 5% in DallasNews, says he aims to make the second-largest US newspaper group

Bloomberg:
Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams

 
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