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New York Times:
G.O.P. Senators and Bush Reach Wiretap Accord — WASHINGTON, March 7 — Moving to tamp down Democratic calls for an investigation of the administration's domestic eavesdropping program, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that they had reached agreement with the White House …
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Nicholas Johnston / Bloomberg:
Senate Panel Rejects Proposal to Probe Eavesdropping (Update1) — March 7 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee rejected a proposal to investigate the Bush administration's program of conducting electronic eavesdropping without warrants, while agreeing to create new congressional panels to increase oversight.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Intelligence Committee votes not to investigate NSA eavesdropping — To be updated . . . (updated - updated again) — There are a couple of Kos diaries claiming that the Intelligence Committee has voted not to hold hearings. According to VMCKimmey:
David Morgan / Reuters:
Senate panel rejects bid for NSA inquiry — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Tuesday agreed to expand oversight of President George W. Bush's domestic spying program but rejected Democratic pressure for a broad inquiry into eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Democrats' Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle — With Private Effort on Voter Information, Ickes and Soros Challenge Dean and DNC — A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans …
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Associated Press:
Election - Year Politics Shadow Ports Issue — WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are using the uproar over an Arab company's planned takeover of some U.S. port operations to paint Republicans as faltering on the GOP's signature issue — national security — and accuse them of ignoring port safety in the past.
DefenseLINK:
Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace — DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace — SEC. RUMSFELD: Come on in, folks. Good morning. — Last week I had the privilege of visiting the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Professors of Pretense — The institutional vanity and intellectual slovenliness of America's campus-based intelligentsia have made academia more peripheral to civic life than at any time since the 19th century. On Monday its place at the periphery was underscored as the Supreme Court …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE....Ed Kilgore responds to my angry post about the DLC's wonkish 7-point healthcare plan with this: … Here's my guess: in private, I'll bet all of these gentlemen do acknowledge that a simple single-payer national healthcare plan is the best policy.
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NewDonkey.com, Sirotablog, Bradford Plumer, Don Surber, battlepanda.blogspot.com, Angry Bear, Concurring Opinions and skimble
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New York Post:
IRAQ: THE UNTOLD TRUTHS — AMONG the many positive stories you aren't being told about Iraq, the media ignored another big one last week: In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, it was the Iraqi army that kept the peace in the streets.
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Bombings in India Raise Fear of Sectarian Violence — NEW DELHI, March 7 — A series of apparently coordinated bombs went off in the ancient Hindu holy city of Benares in eastern India this evening, raising the specter of sectarian violence. — The first bomb exploded at the Sankat Mochan temple shortly …
atcenternetwork.com:
17 Responses to "7/11/2005 - Feature - Libertyville Abortion Demonstration" — BCSays: — I thought this was a brilliant piece. — Whilst I encourage the debate on abortion, this demostrates that some people are fervent anti-abortionists but haven't actually thought much about the topic at all.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Never Even Thought About It — This updates the post below …
Never Even Thought About It — This updates the post below …
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Washington Post:
Cheney: Iran Faces 'Meaningful Consequences' if It Doesn't Curb Nuclear Program — Vice President Cheney threatened Iran today with "meaningful consequences" if it fails to cooperate with international efforts to curb its nuclear program. — "For our part, the United States is keeping …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Second Texas Primary Results Thread — Most Recent Updates At The Top — It's over. The early voting totals were terrible. Cuellar pulled 12,772 (57.98%) of the early vote. Ciro got 7,579 (34.40%), and Morales got 1,678 (7.62%). This thing was lost before today even began.
Jason / Generation Why?:
The Today Show Becomes Matt Lauer's Geography Class — I honestly think MSM has given up on any attempt at objectivity. They know their game is up, so they figure, "Why hide it?" — Such is the case this morning with Matt Lauer's rendition of an unbiased Katie Couric interview.
Ben Stein / American Spectator:
Missed Tributes — Now for a few humble thoughts about the Oscars. — I did not see every second of it, but my wife did, and she joins me in noting that there was not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans.
NY Daily News:
From 'Three's Company' to two's a crowd — BEVERLY HILLS — Seventies icon Suzanne Somers was strolling into Vanity Fair's Oscar party at Morton's when she vanished in the Madonna glare. — Somers had just stepped onto the red carpet when a bloodcurdling cry erupted from the paparazzi behind the barricades.
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Says Media Exaggerating Iraqi Civilian Deaths — Defense Secretary Suggests Misreporting Swaying Public Opinion — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today presented an upbeat report of the conflict in Iraq and said he agrees with the commander of the U.S.-led coalition …