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2:55 PM ET, March 8, 2006

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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 …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Senate Panel Blocks Eavesdropping Probe  —  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Bush Orders DHS to Create Center for Faith-Based Aid  —  President Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security yesterday to create a center for faith-based and community initiatives within 45 days to eliminate regulatory, contracting and programmatic barriers to providing federal funds …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
TX-28 Postmortem, Part II: Qualitative and Strategy  —  Well, it looks like our first primary challenge against an incumbent Democrat didn't work out.  To my knowledge, there haven't been any official concession yet, but no matter what happens, I would like to point out that Republicans still …
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Sylvia Moreno / Washington Post:
DeLay Wins Tex. GOP Primary
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
DeLay Beats 3 Rivals in Texas G.O.P. Primary
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At Conservative Forum on Bush, Everybody's a Critic  —  If the ancient political wisdom is correct that a charge unanswered is a charge agreed to, the Bush White House pleaded guilty yesterday at the Cato Institute to some extraordinary allegations.  —  "We did ask a few members …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Agrees To Vote On Ports  —  Efforts by the White House to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned company's acquisition of operations at six major U.S. ports collapsed yesterday when House Republican leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Leaders Vowing to Block Ports Agreement
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
03/07/06 FOX News Poll: Majority Opposes South Dakota Abortion Law  —  NEW YORK — A majority of Americans say they would oppose having a law in their state like the new South Dakota legislation that bans abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother.
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain'  —  VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program.  America's ambassador to the United Nations said Iran's comments reflected the menace it poses.
Media Matters for America:
Hardball for the left, softball for the right: Conservatives dominate on Hardball … Since its CNBC debut as Politics with Chris Matthews in 1996*, MSNBC's long-running Hardball with Chris Matthews has consistently attracted criticism from the right wing.  For example, in January 2006 …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Clinton W. Taylor / Townhall.com:
Giving Yale the finger  —  Since the New York Times and Wall Street Journal broke the news about the admission of Taliban official Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi to a special student program at Yale, we've received numerous emails from outraged Yale Alumni.  One email stood out from the rest …
Stephen Barr / Washington Post:
Retirement Fund Tapped to Avoid National Debt Limit  —  The Treasury Department has started drawing from the civil service pension fund to avoid hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit.  The move to tap the pension fund follows last month's decision to suspend investments in a retirement savings plan held by government employees.
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Delivering the Conservative Line on 'Monologues'  —  Monique Stuart was a teenager when Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" first appeared off-off-Broadway a decade ago.  —  But by the time the 24-year-old saw the play in her senior year of college, she'd already made up her mind that it wasn't worth much.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
NJ's dumb bill on anonymity  —  New Jersey Assemblyman Peter Biondi has proposed a numbskulled, unconstitutional, offensive, and downright stupid bill that would force operators of internet services — presumably, forums, chats, blog hosts, web hosts, perhaps even email services and ISPs …
The / The Opinionated Bastard:
Blaming the Media  —  Jan in the comments on this piece asks: … One of the ironies for me as a blogger is that the more I just "toss off something" the more responses I get.  If I present a well-reasoned, well-articulated argument, no one comments.  Vent a little in the middle of the night, and I get 100 comments.
Discussion: The Anchoress and Ed Driscoll.com
Elizabeth Dole / BlueNC:
NRSC Fundraising Scheme Has Potential to Intimidate Elderly  —  Earlier today I went out to my mailbox to get our mail.  I saw a very official looking envelope that had printed "Return Enclosed" at the bottom as if it were a tax return.  While it was addressed to my husband …
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Nadine Brozan / New York Times:
Dana Reeve, Devoted Caretaker and Advocate, Is Dead at 44  —  Dana Reeve, who devoted herself to the care of her paralyzed husband, the actor Christopher Reeve, and became a forceful advocate for research into spinal cord injuries, died on Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
New York Times:
Fight Looms on Lawmakers' Use of Corporate Jets  —  WASHINGTON, March 7 — Senator Barack Obama flew at least nine times on corporate jets last year, traveling to fund-raisers in New York and San Francisco, home to Chicago and to Rosa Parks's funeral in Detroit.
Discussion: Sirotablog
 
 
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