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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:
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.
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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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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 …
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 …
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Davidbarron / LawCulture:
It's Not Just Foreign Law They Don't Like . . . Chief Justice Robert's decision for the unanimous Court in in the law school/military recruiting case today gets the constitutional analysis just right in my opinion. (Full disclosure, I signed on to an amicus brief by a number of professors …
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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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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
USA Today:
8,000 desert during Iraq war — At least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. military have deserted since the Iraq war began, Pentagon records show, although the overall desertion rate has plunged since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. — Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers …
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