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10:05 AM ET, March 27, 2006

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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 …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Citizen Action Steps: Phase One  —  It's time for some action.  —  This is the first phase in a plan that we've been working on — we've had some help from other blogs and from some political folks on this - and now it's time to ask for the help of all of you.
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Nedra Pickler / cbc.ca:
Immigration debate heating up in U.S. Senate
Discussion: TBogg - "
Associated Press:
Thousands protest immigration crackdown
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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Telling Us What We Already Knew  —  The New York Times reports on leaked notes from a US-UK White House summit in January 2003 that shows both George Bush and Tony Blair determined to remove Saddam Hussein and to put an end to the twelve-year quagmire that kept Saddam in power.
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
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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hnn.us:   The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:   Analysis: Hamdan and the prospects of tie votes
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
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."
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?
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
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.
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.
Laurel J. Sweet / Boston Herald:
Judicial intemperance - Scalia flips message to doubting Thomases  —  Minutes after receiving the Eucharist at a special Mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a special blessing of his own for those who question …
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 …
 
 
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Cicero / Donklephant:
Threshold  —  I am quite aware of Thomas Friedman's 'Flat Earth …
Joe Carter / the evangelical outpost:
The Plagiarism Postulate: Reflections on the "Domenech Debacle"
BBC:
Many dead in US-Iraq base blast
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Agonist
Time:
Republicans On The Run  —  As midterm campaigns gear up …
Michael Reynolds / The Mighty Middle:
Our One Year Anniversary. Last Month. (Updated)
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Joseph White / Associated Press:
Patriots Stun Huskies, Advance to Final Four
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Harbinger In Ohio?  —  CLEVELAND — In the central Ohio town …
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Washington Post:
Terrorist 007, Exposed  —  For almost two years, intelligence …
Discussion: Clarity & Resolve and Stygius
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Election Whistle-Blower Stymied by Vendors
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Healthcare, Part IV
Associated Press:
Rice Accepts DJ's Apology for Racial Slur
Charles Murray / Opinion Journal:
A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
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Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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