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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" …
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Red-Handed — Iran may just been caught red-handed shipping high-tech IEDs into Iraq: … I am not a legal expert, but I think it is clear that when a nation chooses to participate in warfare against another nation, that participation is nothing less conscious and calculated than a formal declaration of war.
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 …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
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 …
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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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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 …
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
From the Department of Pissing My Tax Dollars Away — Well, great. Just great. The President and his huge freaking personal White House staff can't even request a simple absentee ballot properly, so guess who is taking Air Force One out for a spin just so he can vote in the local primary in Crawford, Texas?
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
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.
Raleigh News & Observer:
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 …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
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 …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:WHEN WOULD JESUS BOLT?....I have to confess that I've always …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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