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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Questions About Carroll's Captivity — I spoke to David Bloom days before he died and then covered his memorial service. I wrote about the death of Michael Kelly. I said goodbye to Bob Woodruff before he went to Iraq and got badly injured by a roadside bomb.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
UNTHINK PROGRESS — I love this. The intrepid folks at Think Progress write: … Is it really so crazy to think that someone who hasn't spent the last 82 days in captivity by Islamic kidnappers might be thinking more clearly than someone who has? Is it so absurd to think that maybe someone …
ABCNEWS:
Insurgents Justify Release of Jill Carroll in Web Tape — Tape Claims Americans Met Some Demands — March 30, 2006 — ABC News has found a video on an insurgent Web site showing U.S. reporter Jill Carroll before she was released by her captors in Iraq. The circumstances surrounding …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:Terrorists Release Final Jill Carroll Hostage Video (Video / Images)
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer — Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. — And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate …
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Michael Conlon / Reuters:
Study fails to show healing power of prayer — CHICAGO (Reuters) - A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had any impact, researchers said on Thursday. — In fact, the study found …
George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran Defiantly Rejects New U.N. Demands — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Thursday the "international community is united" in the dispute over its nuclear program, but a Tehran envoy defiantly rejected a U.N. call to reimpose a freeze on uranium enrichment.
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New York Times, Washington Post, A Daily Briefing on Iran, Hyscience, Vital Perspective and Gina Cobb
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
No Apology From McKinney for Hill Scuffle — Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had a physical altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted the incident. — But she has refused to apologize in a statement and a brief on-camera interview.
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Bob Kemper / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
McKinney faces arrest over security incident — WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police are expected to seek an arrest warrant next week for Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who was involved in a physical confrontation with a Capitol police officer Wednesday, police and legal authorities said Thursday.
New York Times:
Conservatives Stand Firm on Immigration — WASHINGTON, March 30 — Conservative House Republicans bluntly warned their leaders Thursday against any immigration compromise that would allow temporary foreign workers and assailed a Senate proposal that would open the way for illegal immigrants to earn citizenship.
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JustOneMinute, Hit and Run, TalkLeft, The Washington Monthly, AFL-CIO Weblog and The Left Coaster
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Associated Press:
'Let the prisoners pick the fruits' — House members condemn immigration bill — WASHINGTON (AP) — House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Redo Is Harshly Judged — A Judge Critiques 9/11 Overhaul, and Finds It Top-Heavy — U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner sharply criticized the restructuring of U.S. intelligence agencies last week, telling CIA lawyers that the overhaul has done nothing …
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Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
Whose Backlash? — Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens, along with Mexican-Americans and Hispanics in general, hit the streets throughout the United States this past week in one of the largest displays of public outrage since the Vietnam-War era. — The conventional wisdom …
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Dr. Sanity, QandO, Blogs for Bush, The Strata-Sphere, Andrew Sullivan and Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon to Test a Huge Conventional Bomb — A huge mushroom cloud of dust is expected to rise over Nevada's desert in June when the Pentagon plans to detonate a gigantic 700-ton explosive — the biggest open-air chemical blast ever at the Nevada Test Site — as part of the research …
Michael Kinsley / Slate:
The Twilight of Objectivity — How opinion journalism could change the face of the news. — CNN says it is just thrilled by the transformation of Lou Dobbs—formerly a mild-mannered news anchor noted for his palsy-walsy interviews with corporate CEOs—into a raving populist xenophobe. Ratings are up.
Washington Post:
Levee Repair Costs Triple — The Bush administration said yesterday that the cost of rebuilding New Orleans's levees to federal standards has nearly tripled to $10 billion and that there may not be enough money to fully protect the entire region. — Donald E. Powell, the administration's …
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Bill Clinton's A Convert To Dean's 50-State Project — NOTE: This post is updated above. — Will Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee be ready for the November elections? Party leaders and congressional campaign strategists are nervously pressuring Dean to stop spending money …
Jay Lindsay / Associated Press:
Mass. high court says nonresident gays cannot marry in state — BOSTON —Same-sex couples from states where gay marriage is banned cannot legally marry in Massachusetts, the state's highest court said Thursday in a ruling that left the status of many unions in legal limbo.
Jeff A. Taylor / Reason:
How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen — Never mind Moussaoui, the smoldering gun was right there all the time — Anyone paying attention to the Zacarias Moussaoui trial gets it now. All the 9/11 blanks are filled in, and the picture is complete. Sorry, conspiracy freaks and blind partisan hacks.
the Ocean / ocobserver.com:
Illegal immigrants rally for tuition break — TRENTON — More than 100 people rallied yesterday in front of the Statehouse Annex, urging state and federal lawmakers to allow children of undocumented immigrants to attend college at in-state tuition rates. — The smaller-than-advertised …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Does the White House NSA defense come from John Mitchell? — (updated below - updated again) — Among the witnesses testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on Sen. Feingold's Censure Resolution is former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean.
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