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12:45 AM ET, March 27, 2006

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Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 — The bodies of 30 beheaded men were found on a main highway near Baquba this evening, providing more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.  —  Interior Ministry officials …
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Washington Post:
Iraqi Doctor Admits to Killings  —  BAGHDAD, March 26 — A doctor in the northern city of Kirkuk has admitted to killing at least 35 Iraqi police officers and Army soldiers by giving them lethal injections, reopening their wounds and engaging in other deadly acts as they were being treated in Kirkuk Hospital …
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Shiite Fighters Clash With G.I.'s and Iraqi Forces  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 — American and Iraqi government forces clashed with Shiite militiamen in Baghdad on Sunday night in the most serious confrontation in months, and Iraqi security officials said 17 people had been killed in a mosque, including its 80-year-old imam.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
U.S. vs. the Mahdi Army
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Healing Iraq
Steven Senne / Newsweek:
Supreme Court: Detainees' Rights-Scalia Speaks His Mind  —  Scalia at the New England School of Law on March 15  —  April 3, 2006 issue - The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees …
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Marty Lederman / SCOTUSblog:
Justice Scalia Announces Opposition to Trials in Civil Courts for Alien Military Detainees  —  Just over two weeks ago, on March 8th, Justice Scalia gave a speech at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the school at which he spent hus Junior Year abroad in the mid-1950's.
Discussion: OrinKerr.com
Ed Whelan / Bench Memos on National Review Online:   Scalia, Hamdan, and Recusal
Andrew G. Bostom / The American Thinker:
Under the Scimitar of Damocles  —  Abdul Rahman faced death at the hands of our Afghan allies for the "crime" of converting to Christianity.  This fate is no fluke, not a brutal Afghan variant on the practice of "tolerant" Islam.  Death for apostacy is part and parcel of Islamic scripture and tradition.
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CNN:
Officials: Afghan convert to be freed
Daniel Cooney / Associated Press:
Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Markos of Daily Kos on "Reliable Sources"  —  Markos of Daily Kos on "Reliable Sources"  —  Markos appeared on "Reliable Sources," today and explained the impact bloggers are having in politics today.  He also talked about the Republican noise machine and James Brady's lack …
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CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Are Media Turning Against War in Iraq?  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): Souring on the war.  As President Bush goes toe to toe with White House reporters, are news organizations turning against the war in Iraq?
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Lara Logan smacked down the "negative Iraq War Coverage" charges  —  Lara Logan smacked down the "negative Iraq War Coverage" charges  —  She's outraged over these chargers...  I'll have the video up a little later.  The media was assailed all week by the administration trying to pass the meme that the press is too negative.
Don Van Natta Jr / New York Times:
Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says  —  LONDON — In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, as the United States and Britain pressed for a second United Nations resolution condemning Iraq, President Bush's public ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was blunt: Disarm or face war.
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Jane Galt / Asymmetrical Information:
Healthcare, Part IV  —  So here are the things I care about, when I think about healthcare: … All that's very nice . . . but how do we bell the cat?  —  Here is my suggestion.  It is simple and elegant enough to be explained in a single sentence, yet powerful enough to meet all the criteria above:
Los Angeles Times:
500,000 Pack Streets to Protest Immigration Bills  —  The rally, part of a massive mobilization of immigrants and their supporters, may be the largest L.A. has seen.  —  A crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest federal legislation …
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Joy Jones / Washington Post:
'Marriage Is for White People'  —  I grew up in a time when two-parent families were still the norm, in both black and white America.  Then, as an adult, I saw divorce become more commonplace, then almost a rite of passage.  Today it would appear that many — particularly in the black community …
Will / Attytood:
Norgs: The train has left the station  —  Yes, it's a cheap gimmick, and "norg" is a word that might never live past these blog entries.  But it's a cheap gimmick aimed at starting a valuable conversation that should have begun years ago.  With all the gloom and doom in the newspaper business these days …
Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
America, the Global Target  —  Hoping to lower tensions between the Muslim world and the West, British Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained the other day that the world confronts "a clash about civilization," not "a clash between civilizations."  But the overriding lesson of events since Sept. 11 …
St. Petersburg Times:
Harris puts her faith in religion … As Katherine Harris' rocky Senate campaign takes an increasingly evangelical Christian bent, her remaining top campaign staffers are preparing to jump ship.  —  Colleagues say Harris' closest confidante lately appears to be spiritual adviser Dale Burroughs …
Neil the Ethical Werewolf / Ezra Klein:
You Punish Doctors, You Punish Women  —  Says Patterico, in criticizing an eye-opening post in which Ampersand argues that many abortion opponents just want to punish women for having sex: … This is only correct if prison is the only kind of punishment — in other words, it's quite far from the truth.
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
The Post and the Whole Picture in Iraq  —  When the Iraq war started, more than 700 reporters were "embedded," traveling with U.S. troops in the field.  Embedding brought a newfound respect between reporters and soldiers.  Members of the media and the military hoped that this would bring …
Michael Sokolove / New York Times:
Why Is Michael Steele a Republican Candidate?  —  It was last spring when Karl Rove called Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland, to sell him on running for the Senate, and to close the deal, Rove paused to put President Bush on the phone.  As Steele recalls it …
 
 
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