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5:05 AM ET, March 27, 2006

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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.
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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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and State of the Day
Washington Post:
Iraqi Doctor Admits to Killings
Washington Post:   16 Sadr Loyalists Killed in Assault
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:   Iraq (with a U.S. Assist) vs. the Mahdi Army, Take Two
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
U.S. vs. the Mahdi Army
Discussion: Healing Iraq
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.
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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Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
The Future Marches in LA — and Denver, Chicago and...  500,000 people marched yesterday in Los Angeles against making being a global economic refugee a felony — and they were joined by hundreds of thousands more in Denver (50,000), Phoenix (20,000) Houston, and other cities across the country …
Nedra Pickler / cbc.ca:
Immigration debate heating up in U.S. Senate
Discussion: TBogg - "
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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Marty Lederman / SCOTUSblog:
Justice Scalia Announces Opposition to Trials in Civil Courts …
Discussion: OrinKerr.com
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   A DQ For Scalia?
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Seeking Fiscal Health Without Gas Tax  —  CORVALLIS, Ore. — Two professors were cruising around the campus of Oregon State University here in a Ford Explorer.  A wireless black box, mounted on the dashboard, tracked the miles in a test of a per-mile fee system that state officials said might …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   How Green Was My Gas Tax?
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:
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Evangelical teens rally in S.F.  —  More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against "the virtue terrorism" of popular culture, and they were greeted by an official city condemnation and a clutch of protesters who said their event amounted to a "fascist mega-pep rally."
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.
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 …
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Singer Found Gold and Inspiration in California  —  Buck Owens, the Bakersfield rebel who brought a distinctly California flavor to country music in the 1950s and '60s and built a Central Valley-based multimedia empire belying his "Hee Haw"-bred bumpkin persona, died Saturday.  He was 76.
Discussion: Matt Welch and Magpie
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 …
Washington Post:
Terrorist 007, Exposed  —  For almost two years, intelligence services around the world tried to uncover the identity of an Internet hacker who had become a key conduit for al-Qaeda.  The savvy, English-speaking, presumably young webmaster taunted his pursuers, calling himself Irhabi — Terrorist — 007.
Discussion: Clarity & Resolve and Stygius
New York Times:
Windows Is So Slow, but Why?  —  Back in 1998, the federal government declared that its landmark antitrust suit against the Microsoft Corporation was not merely a matter of law enforcement, but a defense of innovation.  The concern was that the company was wielding its market power …
ninemsn:
Sydney bomb plot link to race riots, murderer  —  A woman charged at the weekend with plotting to bomb Sydney was a convert to Islam who planned the attack at the behest of a jailed murderer angered over anti-Muslim race riots here late last year.  —  Jill Courtney, 26, was arrested …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
 
 
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