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9:25 AM ET, March 20, 2006

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New York Times:
On Anniversary, Bush and Cheney See Iraq Success  —  WASHINGTON, March 19 — On the third anniversary of a war that they once expected to be over by now, President Bush and senior officials argued Sunday that their strategy was working despite escalating violence in Iraq …
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Christopher Swann / MSNBC:
Quiet disapproval in US marks war's anniversary
Discussion: Althouse
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Bush Still Upbeat on Outcome In Iraq
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla and Daily Kos
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
A Sliding Scale for Victory
CNN:
Rumsfeld's Iraq-Germany analogy disputed  —  Former top officials disagree with comparison  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former top officials in two presidential administrations — one Democratic, one Republican — disagreed Sunday with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's characterization …
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Reuters:
Rumsfeld: Leaving Iraq like giving Nazis Germany
Discussion: Liberty Street
Washington Post:
GOP Struggles To Define Its Message for 2006 Elections  —  Republican efforts to craft a policy and political agenda to carry the party into the midterm elections have stumbled repeatedly as GOP leaders face widespread disaffection and disagreement within the ranks.
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Defiantly Shaky  —  Sen. Harry Reid told reporters last week that it might be true that American voters don't know where Democrats stand, but that they will know by November.  —  That may be a little too late for undecided voters, which is why both House and Senate Democrats …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Betsy's Page
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sltrib.com:
Anti-war protesters in SLC, elsewhere lament apathy  —  By the time the war protesters began their march Saturday morning in Salt Lake City, only about 50 people had gathered.  Their numbers had swelled to about 200 by noon - and that was with a little high-tech help from a marcher who text-messaged friends to join him.
Washington Post:
A Contractor's Purchase on Power  —  Mitchell Wade's Cultivation of 'Duke' Cunningham Was Just One Part of His Tactical Assault for MZM  —  The consulting work that MZM Inc. received from a Pentagon agency in 2003 was for only $40,000, but to company owner Mitchell J. Wade, the face value was just the beginning.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Sayed and de Man at Yale  —  The campus that ran off a Nazi propagandist today welcomes one from the Taliban.  —  Three weeks after the New York Times revealed that former Taliban official Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is attending classes at Yale, many at the university still have little to say about the controversy.
Discussion: Dinocrat
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
David Duke Claims to Be Vindicated By a Harvard Dean  —  A paper recently co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about the allegedly far-reaching influence of an "Israel lobby" is winning praise from white supremacist David Duke.
Discussion: Brainster's Blog
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn  —  BALTIMORE — Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics, a flurry of new scholarly studies warn, and it has worsened in recent years even as an economic boom …
Discussion: Norwegianity
Guardian:
'Iraq was awash in cash.  We played football with bricks of $100 bills'  —  At the beginning of the Iraq war, the UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition to redevelop the country.  With the infrastructure of the country still in ruins, where has all that money gone?
William Saletan / Washington Post:
Curse of the Young Old  —  The bad news is, we're living longer.  —  Don't get me wrong.  I hope you have a long and happy life.  I just hope your kids don't end up paying one-fifth to one-third of their incomes to subsidize your retirement and mine.  Because that's what awaits them …
Discussion: EconLog
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Amazon Says Technology, Not Ideology, Skewed Results  —  Amazon.com last week modified its search engine after an abortion rights organization complained that search results appeared skewed toward anti-abortion books.  —  Until a few days ago, a search of Amazon's catalog of books using the word …
CBS News:
Rewriting The Science  —  (CBS) As a government scientist, James Hansen is taking a risk.  He says there are things the White House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway.  —  Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming.  He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate.
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Scalia loosens up  —  IT WAS AT a black-tie dinner in Washington in 1985 that Washington Redskins running back John Riggins boozily gave one of his table-mates, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a memorable piece of advice: ''Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up.  You're too tight.
 
 
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NewsMax.com:
OBL Sought 'Joint Operations' with Saddam
Brian E. Crowley / Palm Beach Post:
Harris tells Christian group she believes God wants her in public service
Khalid Hasan / Pakistan Daily Times:
Swiss documentary on Afghanistan: Pakistani, Saudi engineers helped destroy Buddhas
Discussion: The American Thinker and lgf
Oliver Kamm:
Chomsky, The Guardian and Bosnia
Discussion: Stephen Pollard
Angela Charlton / Associated Press:
French Police Subdue Riots Over Jobs Law
Discussion: Big Lizards and Power Line
Matthew Schofield / Knight Ridder:
Iraqi police report details civilians' deaths at hands of U.S. troops
Discussion: TalkLeft and Needlenose
Henry Porter / Observer:
This ID project is even more sinister than we first thought
Discussion: Samizdata.net and Tim Worstall
Michelle Roberts / Associated Press:
Global War Protests Attract Smaller Crowds
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 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Chavez blasts Bush as "donkey" and "drunkard"
Washington Post:
You Call This a Protest?
Discussion: The Sideshow
Times of London:
Women at war with the mullahs
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Task Forces 6-26, 121 and 20  —  Today's New York Times …
MSNBC:
Transcript for March 19  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday …
Editorials & Commentary:
The Iraq War: Three Years Later An incomplete mission, a war-weary nation
Fox News:
Transcript: Sen. Dick Durbin on 'FOX News Sunday'
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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