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7:05 PM ET, March 29, 2006

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Washington Post:
Abramoff Gets Minimum Sentence  —  Former Lobbyist to Spend 5 Years, 10 Months in Prison  —  MIAMI, March 29 — Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for his role …
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New York Times:
Abramoff Sentenced to Over Five Years in Prison in Fraud Case  —  MIAMI — Disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a business partner were sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in federal prison, the minimum they faced for fraud related to their 2000 purchase of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet.
Jim Loney / Reuters:
Abramoff gets 6 years for fraud  —  MIAMI (Reuters) - Jack Abramoff, a disgraced lobbyist at the heart of a Washington influence-peddling scandal that has rattled top Republicans, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Wednesday for fraud in the purchase of a Florida casino cruise line.
Discussion: TPM Muckraker and DownWithTyranny!
Michelle Malkin:
THE AMERICAN FLAG COMES SECOND  —  ***scroll for updates...new photo added below of a student in Dallas screamed at by an angry mob for carrying an American flag...plus fence-hopping at Montebello H.S...unreality-based Ted Kennedy gets the Clueless Blowhard of the Day Award...chanting in Las Vegas …
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Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
Why I abhor the terms "latino" and "hispanic"
Discussion: Shot In The Dark
Brian DeBose / Washington Times:
FISA judges say Bush within law  —  A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Discussion: Jeff Gannon and Don Surber
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program  —  WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation's most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush's domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program.
Hindrocket / Power Line:   SOMEONE'S MISREPORTING THIS STORY
radioblogger.com:
Time Magazine's Michael Ware from Baghdad.  —  HH: Joining me now live from Baghdad is Michael Ware, bureau chief for Time Magazine.  Michael, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.  —  MW: Thanks, Hugh.  —  HH: Michael, we met each other courtesy of CNN on a couple of editions of Anderson Cooper's program last week.
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Jonathan / Blogoland:
Hugh Hewitt, Terror Warrior
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and alicublog
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Pledge to 'Eliminate' Osama  —  WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats promise to "eliminate" Osama bin Laden and ensure a "responsible redeployment of U.S. forces" from Iraq in 2006 in an election-year national security policy statement.  —  In the position paper to be announced Wednesday …
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Bill Nienhuis / PunditGuy:
Making Promises You Can't Keep  —  Why is it that politicians who are desperate to regain power, who don't have a focused message, and whose party has no unified platform, retreat to the promiseland to invest in commitments they can't keep?  —  Politicians of all stripes make this mistake.
BBC:
Afghan convert given Italy asylum  —  The Italian cabinet has approved a request for asylum from an Afghan who escaped a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity.  —  Welfare Minister Roberto Maroni said the case of Abdul Rahman, 41, was now in the hands of the interior ministry.
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Associated Press:
Afghan Christian Convert Flees to Italy
Mark Kleiman / The Reality-Based Community:
Six theses on immigration policy  —  Some random thoughts as the nativist campaign builds up a head of steam:  —  1. For any given amount of total immigration, it's obviously better to have a larger fraction of that total be legal.  That's especially true if we're worried about terrorism.
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Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Guests or gate crashers
Discussion: PoliPundit.com, QandO and Booker Rising
Amir Taheri / Opinion Journal:
'The Last Helicopter'  —  Mideast dictators try to "wait Bush out."  They may be miscalculating.  —  Hassan Abbasi has a dream—a helicopter doing an arabesque in cloudy skies to avoid being shot at from the ground.  On board are the last of the "fleeing Americans," forced out of the Dar al-Islam …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Rubber Stamp Republican Congress: Citizen Action Update  —  Morning everyone — happy Jack Abramoff Sentencing in Florida Day.  Looks like Jack still has a few friends on the Hill.  But today, it's all about the sentencing judge — and the proffer as to what cooperation Jackie Boy has been giving the Feds.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
House Dems on the Rubber Stamp Republican Congress
Associated Press:
Bush blames Iraq's instability on Hussein  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said Wednesday that Saddam Hussein, not continued U.S. involvement in Iraq, is responsible for ongoing sectarian violence that is threatening the formation of a democratic government.
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
Agence France Presse:
Saudis, with Pakistani help, working on nuclear programme  —  BERLIN (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, a German magazine reports in its latest edition, citing Western security sources.  —  The German magazine Cicero says that during …
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
'War' on Christians Is Alleged  —  Conference Depicts a Culture Hostile to Evangelical Beliefs  —  The "War on Christmas" has morphed into a "War on Christians."  —  Last December, some evangelical Christian groups declared that the religious celebration of Christmas — and even the phrase …
Mary Curtius / Los Angeles Times:
Senators End Right to Derail Votes Secretly  —  Nearing a vote on ethics and lobbying rules that many say are too weak, they also defeat a bid to create an independent public integrity office.  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted to strip its members of the power to secretly place a …
 
 
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Editor and Publisher:
Gallup: In Shift, More Americans Now Call Themselves Democrats
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Politics in Iraq, a Mexican series!
Associated Press:
Scalia: Reporter misread hand gesture
Discussion: News Blog and Hit and Run
Slate:
Who Controls the Internet? and An Army of Davids
Discussion: Hit and Run
Gateway Pundit:
Would You Let Your Daughter Go to a French Protest?
amnestyusa.org:
Iraq: Prosecutions threaten freedom of expression in northern Iraq
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Victory  —  Attempts to seriously regulate the internets are finally dead for the moment.
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Thousands of Iraqis Flee to Avoid Spread Of Violence
Steven Emerson / The Counterterrorism Blog:
There Is No Evidence to Support Moussaoui's Claims
Tony Blankley / Washington Times:
Mexican illegals vs. American voters
Discussion: A Blog For All and EconoPundit
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Democrats Opening Assault on Bush Security Policies
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Redemption Among the Faithful
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Card's Departure Seen as a Sign President Hears Words of Critics
Barkley / MaxSpeak:
FBI AS GESTAPO: OPPRESSING THE KURDS OF HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA
Discussion: Hit and Run
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

 
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