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9:35 AM ET, March 27, 2006

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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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Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants  —  When members of the Senate Judiciary Committee meet today to wrestle with the fate of more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, they can expect to do so against a backdrop of thousands of demonstrators …
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Holly Bailey / Newsweek:
A Border War  —  Tom Tancredo is pulling the immigration debate to the right-and away from Bush.  —  April 3, 2006 issue - The lights were on, the cameras were rolling, but the special guest star was nowhere to be found.  Last Friday afternoon, 55 men and women from 30 countries sat …
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 …
Nedra Pickler / cbc.ca:
Immigration debate heating up in U.S. Senate
Discussion: TBogg - "
Associated Press:
Thousands protest immigration crackdown
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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Washington Post:
16 Sadr Loyalists Killed in Assault  —  U.S.-Iraqi Mission Heightens Tensions With Shiite Cleric  —  BAGHDAD, March 26 — U.S. and Iraqi special forces killed at least 16 followers of the Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Sunday in a twilight assault on what the U.S. military said was a …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Iraq (with a U.S. Assist) vs. the Mahdi Army, Take Two
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
US, Mahdi forces clash
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Detainee Case Will Pose Delicate Question for Court  —  WASHINGTON, March 26 — The Supreme Court's announcement four months ago that it would rule on the validity of the military commission by which the Bush administration wants to try Osama bin Laden's former driver, on charges of conspiracy …
Discussion: Althouse and TalkLeft
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Mr. Levin, Meet Ms. Rohbar  —  If Yale's president wants to educate a deserving Afghan, I've got just the woman for him.  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The BBC calls Malalai Joya the most famous woman in Afghanistan.  On Thursday the 27-year-old women's rights activist, a member of the Afghan Parliament …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Power Line
tcsdaily.com:
The Battle of the Borders  —  What we have now — and would with guest workers — is a conscious policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in Mexico.  By and large, this is a bad bargain for the United States.  It stresses local schools, hospitals and housing; it feeds social tensions (witness the Minutemen).
Discussion: Instapundit.com
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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?
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."
New York Times:
In an Election Year, a Shift in Public Opinion on the War  —  ALBUQUERQUE, March 25 — Neil Mondragon watched with approval at an auto repair shop recently as Representative Heather A. Wilson, a New Mexico Republican visiting her district, dropped into the pit and drained the oil from a car.
Discussion: rubber hose
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 …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Vague Law and Hard Lobbying Add Up to Billions for Big Oil  —  WASHINGTON, March 26 — It was after midnight and every lawmaker in the committee room wanted to go home, but there was still time to sweeten a deal encouraging oil and gas companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
Let me be buried on this spot!  —  Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez doesnt have any RBI's.  He's hit no fastballs out of the park and he doesnt play shortstop, second base, center field or otherwise.  He's never been on the pitching mound and has never struck out a soul.
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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