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U.S. and Iranians Agree to Discuss Violence in Iraq — TEHRAN, March 16 — Iran and the United States agreed Thursday to hold direct talks on how to halt sectarian violence and restore calm in Iraq, offering the first face-to-face conversation between the sides after months of confrontation over Iran's nuclear program.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
PORT SECURITY....We have been told by conservative hawks that Iran is actively building a nuclear weapon and that we should do everything we can to stop this, up to and including a military assault on suspected nuclear sites. Since Iran is incapable of delivering a nuclear weapon 7,000 miles across …
Washington Post:
Congress Raises Ceiling for Borrowing — $100 Billion Is Spent Without Offsetting Cuts — Congress raised the limit on the federal government's borrowing by $781 billion yesterday, and then lawmakers voted to spend well over $100 billion on the war in Iraq, hurricane relief, education …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Approves Budget, Breaking Spending Limits — WASHINGTON, March 16 — The Senate narrowly approved a $2.8 trillion election-year budget Thursday that broke spending limits only hours after it increased federal borrowing power to avert a government default.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:Senate Votes to Raise U.S. Debt Limit to Nearly $9 Trillion
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Witness Tampering Cited in Moussaoui Case — WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for two airlines being sued for damages by 9/11 victims prompted a federal lawyer to coach witnesses in the trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui so the government's death penalty case would not undercut their defense, victims' lawyers allege.
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New Documents from Saddam Hussein's Archives Discuss Bin Laden, WMDs — U.S. Government Releases Papers From Saddam's Reign — March 16, 2006 — Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit's summaries of four of the nine Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein's government, which were released by the U.S. government Wednesday.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Bill Would Allow Warrantless Spying — GOP Plan Would Bring Surveillance Under Review of Congress, FISA Court — The Bush administration could continue its policy of spying on targeted Americans without obtaining warrants, but only if it justifies the action to a small group of lawmakers …
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Investor's Business Daily:
Declassified Truth — The War On Terror: The government is finally getting around to unloading some of Saddam Hussein's secret documents. A look at just a few pages already leads to some blockbuster revelations. — In the early stages of the war that began three years ago …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Pandora and Polygamy — And now, polygamy. — With the sweetly titled HBO series "Big Love," polygamy comes out of the closet. Under the headline "Polygamists, Unite!" Newsweek informs us of "polygamy activists emerging in the wake of the gay-marriage movement."
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:Once same-sex marriage is OK, polygamy's next
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
GOP Irritation At Bush Was Long Brewing — President Bush's troubles with congressional Republicans, which erupted during the backlash to the Dubai seaport deal, are rooted in policy frustrations and personal resentments that GOP lawmakers say stretch back to the opening days of the administration.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Fighting Smarter In Iraq — BAGHDAD — Three years on, the U.S. military is finally becoming adept at fighting a counterinsurgency war in Iraq. Sadly, these are precisely the skills that should have been mastered before America launched its invasion in March 2003.
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Democracy Push by Bush Attracts Doubters in Party — Even as it presents an updated national security strategy, the Bush administration is facing fresh doubts from some Republicans who say its emphasis on promoting democracy around the world has come at the expense of protecting other American interests.
MSNBC:
Airline screeners fail government bomb tests — 21 airports nationwide don't detect bomb-making materials … WASHINGTON - — Lisa Myers — Imagine an explosion strong enough to blow a car's trunk apart, caused by a bomb inside a passenger plane. Government sources tell NBC News …
Media Matters for America:
AFA's Wildmon proposed a hypothetical tour of gay bathhouses, repeated misinformation on average gay incomes … On the March 8 edition of the AFA Report, Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association (AFA), responded to the Equality Ride, a seven-week bus tour …
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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Police Memos Say Arrest Tactics Calmed Protest — In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used "proactive arrests," covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002 …
Gateway Pundit:
AP Pops Another Bogus Anti-Bush Story on America — Jamie Allman from the terrific 97.1 "Allman and Smash in the Morning" Show here in St. Louis presented this grotesque piece of biased reporting by the AP on his morning show today: — Like many Americans I was angry to read …
Brad Smith / redstate.com:
OnLine Freedom of Speech Act - Stay Positive, We're Winning — So H.R. 1606, the On Line Freedom of Speech Act, has again been delayed. Naturally, some folks are angry, and some are depressed. I'm here with the good news... below the fold. — The good news is this. The speech regulators are on the defensive.
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