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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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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Democrats Opening Assault on Bush Security Policies — WASHINGTON, March 28 — Seeking to capitalize on President Bush's troubles overseas, leading Democrats in Congress are unveiling a broad attack this week on the administration's security policies at home and overseas along with a set …
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.
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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 …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Bush Opposes Iraq's Premier, Shiites Report — BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 — The American ambassador has told Shiite officials that President Bush does not want the Iraqi prime minister to remain the country's leader in the next government, senior Shiite politicians said Tuesday.
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Crunch time again — Here are a couple of disturbing reports from Baghdad.
Crunch time again — Here are a couple of disturbing reports from Baghdad.
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THE MESOPOTAMIAN, riverbendblog.blogspot.com, Winds of Change.NET, Andrew Sullivan and A Newer World
Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
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.
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ynetnews.com:
Kadima wins with 28 seats — Kadima makes history: With 99.67 percent of votes counted, Kadima wins 2006 elections with 28 Knesset seats, Acting PM Olmert to be tasked with forming new government. Labor second with 20; Likud suffers major setback, wins only 11 seats — Ynetnews
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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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Senate Votes Down Outside Ethics Office — The Senate rejected a proposal to establish an independent office to investigate ethics complaints against its members, and then cleared the way to pass a broad-based ethics and lobbying bill this week. — On a 67 to 30 vote …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Senate Ends Anonymous Holds, Holds Off On Other Reform
Senate Ends Anonymous Holds, Holds Off On Other Reform
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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.
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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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 …
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 …
Marie Szaniszlo / Boston Herald:
Scalia seeks Justice over gesture — Famously feisty Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia yesterday denied that he made an obscene gesture Sunday inside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, accusing the Herald staff of "watching too many Sopranos episodes." — In a letter to the editor …
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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 …
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.
Tony Blankley / Washington Times:
Mexican illegals vs. American voters — It is lucky America has more than two centuries of mostly calm experience with self-government. We are going to need to fall back on that invaluable patrimony if the immigration debate continues as it has started this season.
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.