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1:00 AM ET, March 8, 2006

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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.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Conservatives Prepare Austere Alternative Budget  —  WASHINGTON, March 6 — With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years …
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
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Decision '08
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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CNN:
Rumsfeld: Situation in Iraq 'exaggerated' by media  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged Tuesday the potential for civil war in Iraq but slammed the media for "exaggerated" reports about the security situation following recent violence between religious factions.
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Envoy to Iraq Sees Threat of Wider War
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Child Killing Law Challenged in South Dakota  —  Now this is worth blogging about.  —  Governor Mike Rounds is directly challenging the judge-made law known as Roe v. Wade by banning all abortions in South Dakota.  —  In case you were asleep during Social Studies classes, the Supreme Court …
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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.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Democrats Stretch Lead in Vote for Congress  —  Fourteen-point Democratic lead is among the widest since 1994  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 28 to March 1, finds the Democrats holding a substantial lead over the Republicans as the party …
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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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 …
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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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Cup O' Joe
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Never Even Thought About It  —  This updates the post below …
Discussion: The Talent Show
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.
New York Post:
'ARMY OF DAVIDS'  —  March 7, 2006 — IT'S only March, but I can guarantee you there won't be a more exciting or inspiring book published this year than "An Army of Davids."  Glenn Reynolds, its author, is best known for the Web log called Instapundit, but he is also a musician …
Discussion: alicublog and Albion's Seedlings
Reuters:
Pro-Taliban Rebel Holdouts Give Pakistanis a Fierce Fight  —  Toll Among Militants Exceeds 120, Military Says  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 6 — Pakistani security forces battled pro-Taliban rebels holding out in a town near the Afghan border on Monday, killing 19 of them as the toll …
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.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Weaves Rug Story Into Many an Occasion  —  President Uses His Oval Office Floor Covering as a Metaphor for Optimism and Leadership  —  Nothing says power like the Oval Office.  The paintings of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  The bust of Dwight D. Eisenhower.  The desk used by both Roosevelts.
Will / Attytood:
Good night and get lost!  Chris Matthews exhumes McCarthy  —  One of our favorite titles for a CD is NPR's "Driveway Moments" — referring to stories so good you won't leave the car even when you've reached where you're going.  We'd like to release a CD of some of the things we hear …
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
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.
 
 
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Healthy Policy:
The Deserving Sick  —  I second Graham.  —  ABC's new reality …
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Dana Reeve Dies of Lung Cancer at 44
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Mr. Instapundit Goes To Washington
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Opponents of DeLay Make Use of a Film
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Why We Need Oversight  —  Via Firedoglake, here's the sort …
USA Today:
8,000 desert during Iraq war
BBC:
Ensure consent for sex, men told
Richard Savill / Telegraph:
Vicar who can't forgive steps down from pulpit
Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
S. Arabia to host Israel boycott event
 

 
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John Hendel / Politico:
Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission

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