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10:40 PM ET, March 29, 2006

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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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Arnold Schwarzenegger / Los Angeles Times:
Next step for immigration  —  THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS ago, I first arrived in America owning nothing but a dream.  —  I had few friends, little money and knew even less English.  But of this I was certain: Here was a land where I could go as far and as fast as my dreams and my desire would take me.
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Republican Split on Immigration Reflects Nation's Struggle  —  WASHINGTON, March 28 — It is almost as if they are looking at two different Americas.  —  The Senate Republicans who voted on Monday to legalize the nation's illegal immigrants look at the waves of immigration reshaping …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Illegals To Americans: We Hate America  —  It's hard to imagine that the schoolchildren who engaged in a pro-illegal immigration rally yesterday helped their cause much, except to harden the polarization already felt on both sides of the issue.  While our politicians in Washington talked …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and TBogg - "
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: Don Surber and Jeff Gannon
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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
Discussion: Dean's World
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
FISA Judges Bless NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program
Discussion: The Sideshow
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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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!
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Offer National Security Strategy  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats on Wednesday proposed a wide-ranging strategy for protecting Americans at home and abroad, an election-year effort aimed at changing public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security.
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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.
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.
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush to Iraqis: Time to Get a Government  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush expressed frustration Wednesday that Iraqis have so far failed to form a unity government, but he said withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq too early would damage U.S. security.  —  "I want the Iraqi people …
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Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Kaloogian Blames Iraq Photo Error on Staffer  —  Oops.  —  Howard Kaloogian, a leading GOP candidate for Randy "Duke" Cunningham's seat in Congress, posted a photo on his Web site of a quiet Turkish suburb.  No problem there — but his site said it was of Baghdad, taken during his trip there.
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Sharon's Party Is Winner In Israel  —  Support for Kadima Short of Projections  —  JERUSALEM, March 28 — The Kadima party led by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won the most seats in Israel's parliamentary elections Tuesday, in a vote that hinged on his plan to draw the country's final …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Card's Departure Seen as a Sign President Hears Words of Critics  —  A few weeks ago, President Bush's spokesman dismissed talk of an impending staff change as "inside Washington babble."  —  White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr.'s resignation yesterday suggests that Bush was listening.
Steven Emerson / The Counterterrorism Blog:
There Is No Evidence to Support Moussaoui's Claims  —  This morning I appeared on NBC's "Today" program to discuss the claims by Zacarias Moussaoui yesterday that he was supposed to hijack a fifth jetliner with Richard Reid and fly it into the White House as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Teddy Davis / ABCNEWS:
McCain Woos the Right, Makes Peace With Falwell  —  Possible 2008 Presidential Contender Makes Inroads With GOP Base  —  March 28, 2006 — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., still breaks from GOP orthodoxy on such issues as torture and immigration.  But operating below the radar …
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.
Associated Press:
Scalia: Reporter misread hand gesture  —  Justice blames 'too many episodes of 'The Sopranos''  —  BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, accused the newspaper's staff of watching "too many episodes of 'The Sopranos'" …
 
 
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