memeorandum @ 8:15 AM ET, March 29, 2006

8:15 AM ET, March 29, 2006

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Olmert Declares Victory in Israel Election — JERUSALEM - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory for his centrist Kadima party in Israel's elections Tuesday, vowing to act on his own if necessary to draw Israel's final borders and "painfully" uproot Jewish settlers if negotiations with the Palestinians are not possible.

Discussion: AMERICAblog

Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Joy in PA over Likud collapse

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Power Line

The Corner on National Review Online:
POWER VACUUM IN ISRAEL [JPod]

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Peaktalk and Hugh Hewitt

Toronto Star:

Tell Afghan court belief is no crime — Canadian troops have died in Afghanistan helping to oust the Taliban regime, to free 28 million people from tyranny and to restore democracy. And 2,300 Canadian troops are now policing Kandahar, one of the most violence-torn regions of the country …

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross / Weekly Standard:
The New Roman Lions

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

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 …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, RightWinged.com, The Agonist, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Gateway Pundit and AMERICAblog

Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:

Supreme Court Justices Question Law on Detainee Trials — WASHINGTON, March 28 — As the justices of the Supreme Court took their seats Tuesday morning to hear Osama bin Laden's former driver challenge the Bush administration's plan to try him before a military commission, one question …

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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Case Tests Power of Judiciary, President

Discussion: Power Line

Greg Levine / Forbes:

Bush Says Chief Of Staff Andrew Card Resigns — NEW YORK - — White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card has resigned. — President George W. Bush announced the resignation in a press conference Tuesday morning. — Card was not only a longtime friend of his boss, but had served …

Discussion: Wonkette and Don Surber

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MSNBC:
White House shake-up: Chief of staff resigns

Discussion: Coldheartedtruth, The Daily Nightly, Daily Kos, The Hotline's Blogometer and BottleOfBlog

Hotline On Call:

RNC Memo Warns GOPers Not To Distance Themselves From Bush — Republican pollster Jan van Lohuizen, in a memo written for RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, warns that if members of Congress try to drive a wedge between themselves and Pres. Bush, it'd be akin to adding weight to an anchor.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Shakespeare's Sister, Middle Earth Journal, Pam's House Blend and Freedom Folks

Rukmini Callimachi / Associated Press:

New Orleans to Sell Flooded Buses on EBay — Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay. — Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed …

Discussion: A Blog For All

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

Choosing Ignorance — THE NEW YORK TIMES today joined the debate about Iraqi documents with a front-page news article and an op-ed by Peter Bergen. It's been nearly two weeks since the first documents were released, but a belated acknowledgement of the news is better than nothing.

Discussion: The Corner on National …, Dr. Sanity, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, The Reaction, Media Blog on National …, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hit and Run

Slate:

The Secret of George Mason — What its Final Four basketball team and its unusual economics department have in common. — Unlike his neighbors, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, founding father George Mason has rarely gotten his props from historians and the public.

Discussion: Will Wilkinson and Outside The Beltway

Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:

Senate to Weigh Guest-Worker Proposal — With the Republican Party deeply divided, the Senate will take up a broad revision of the nation's immigration laws today amid signs that conservatives are ready to compromise on efforts to offer illegal immigrants new avenues to lawful employment.

Discussion: The Left Coaster, Captain's Quarters and crawfordslist

Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:

Sean Hannity, Alec Baldwin, WABC, New York City — WABC MELTDOWN — Alec Baldwin And Sean Hannity In Radio Cockfight — After an ugly on-air meltdown between actor/ guest host Alec Baldwin and caller Sean Hannity Sunday evening, New York radio fans are wondering: was this a planned stunt?

Discussion: Riehl World View, Orcinus, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Expose the Left and The Huffington Post

Wretchard / The Belmont Club:

Crunch time again — Here are a couple of disturbing reports from Baghdad. Alaa the Mesopotamian says that its unclear which security forces are to be trusted. … Baghdad Burning reports a somewhat similar picture. She was watching television when a strange message was broadcast.

Discussion: THE MESOPOTAMIAN and Winds of Change.NET

Tom Stuckey / Associated Press:

Attempt to revive gay marriage ban fails in Senate … An attempt to revive a constitutional amendment that would prohibit same-sex marriage failed in the Maryland Senate today, apparently leaving no further options this year for opponents of gay marriage. — With a proposal to amend …

Discussion: The All Spin Zone

Brian / mediabistro.com:

Q1 '06: MSNBC's Olbermann Beats CNN's Zahn & HLN's Grace In The Demo — In the first quarter of 2006, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann beat CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the 25-54 demographic. "This marks MSNBC's first quarterly primetime victory over CNN in the demo in almost five years …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, SpeakSpeak News and The Left Coaster

Tim Johnson / Knight Ridder:

Online language instruction booming in China — BEIJING - Chinese instructors are teaching their language to students around the world without ever leaving China, as Liu Yang recently demonstrated while sitting in a cubicle peering at a streaming video image on her computer monitor.

Discussion: The Peking Duck