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9:20 PM ET, March 25, 2006

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Blogs Eat Themselves?  —  The entire tempest surrounding the hiring and termination of Ben Domenech as the Washington Post's designated conservative blogger shows that the blogosphere has a lot of growing up to do.  Between the hysteria, the personal attacks, the revelation of wrongdoing …
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Mark Steyn / ocregister.com:
Steyn: Will we stick our necks out for his faith?  —  Fate conspires to remind us what this war is really about: civilizational confidence.  And so history repeats itself: first the farce of the Danish cartoons, and now the tragedy - a man on trial for his life in post-Taliban Afghanistan …
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Agence France Presse:   Afghan president intervenes in case of Christian convert
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
KOOKY KT'S SPY TALE  —  ALBANY - A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, witnesses told The Post yesterday.
Bradley Olson / Baltimore Sun:
War in their future, Mids choose Marines … When it came time for Jake Dove, a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy, to decide how he would fulfill his required military duty after graduation, there was no question about it: Marine Corps all the way.  —  "In my eyes it's a perfect community," said Dove, an Annapolis High School graduate.
Discussion: The Daily Brief
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
NAVAL ACADEMY GRADS CHOOSING MARINES: … That's very interesting.
Discussion: Mudville Gazette
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Camp Saddam  —  REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq on its third anniversary.  Murtha, a decorated veteran and longtime hawk, has become a leading spokesman for his party on the war.
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Washington Post:
Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet  —  The Federal Election Commission last night released proposed new rules that leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated except for the purchase of campaign ads on Web sites.
Greg Risling / Associated Press:
'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies  —  LOS ANGELES - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday.  He was 76.  —  Owens died at his home, said family spokesman Jim Shaw.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Administration tells Congress (again) - We won't abide by your "laws"  —  The Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee submitted detailed questions to the Bush Administration regarding the NSA program, and the DoJ's responses to both the Democrats' questions and its responses to the Republicans' are now available.
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Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Atrocity in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 25 — Mohannad al-Azawi had just finished sprinkling food in his bird cages at his pet shop in south Baghdad, when three carloads of gunmen pulled up.  —  In front of a crowd, he was grabbed by his shirt and driven off.
Discussion: The Politburo Diktat
Los Angeles Times:
Iran's Nuclear Steps Quicken, Diplomats Say  —  Tehran reportedly is gearing up for uranium enrichment.  A split in the Security Council may impede efforts to halt the program.  —  VIENNA — With efforts to halt its nuclear program at an impasse, Iran is moving faster than expected …
Jason L. Riley / Opinion Journal:
Classy Economist  —  Thomas Sowell is a lifetime student of the market force.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—Thomas Sowell's excuse for limiting interviews to an hour is that it helps him "avoid stress."  But one suspects the real reason is that he has better uses for his time than to humor nettlesome journalists.
Discussion: Power Line and Fausta's blog
Cari Tuna / Yale Daily News:
Joya talks on Afghanistan, Hashemi  —  Lecture focuses on women's rights in Afghanistan, U.S. policy since fall of the Taliban  —  Female Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya criticized current U.S. policy in Afghanistan, as well as the presence of former Taliban spokesman …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and In the Bullpen
Michael Powell / Washington Post:
Near Paul Revere Country, Anti-Bush Cries Get Louder  —  HOLYOKE, Mass. — To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here is to journey into New England's impeachment belt.  Three of this state's 10 House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of President Bush.
Robert Novak / Townhall.com:
Abramoff clearing DeLay  —  WASHINGTON — Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has advised friends that he has no derogatory information about former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and is not implicating him as part of his plea bargain with federal prosecutors.
Discussion: Big Lizards and Think Progress
Peter Prengaman / Associated Press:
Thousands Decry Immigration Bill in L.A.  —  LOS ANGELES - Tens of thousands of immigrant rights advocates from across Southern California marched Saturday in protest of federal legislation that would build more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border and make helping illegal immigrants a crime.
rawstory.com:
Delta Force founder: Bush may have started World War III  —  A founding member of the elite counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force, suggested that President Bush's invasion of Iraq may have started World War III, according to the Los Angeles Daily News, RAW STORY has learned.
 
 
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
CAIR CAVES  —  The Council on American-Islamic Relations uses …
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A New Poll: The Democrats by 9 Points
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New York Times:
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Gateway Pundit:
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Nicola Woolcock / Times of London:
Bomb plot suspect sold poisoned burgers, says supergrass
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CNN:
'Perfect wife' confesses to preacher's slaying, police say
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David Bernstein / volokh.com:
The Volokh Conspiracy
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Communication Breakdown  —  Now it gets painful for George W. Bush.
Luis David / Age of Hooper:
Abdul Rahman  —  UPDATE: one installment of video is now up.  Click HERE.
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