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7:40 PM ET, April 2, 2006

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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Jill Carroll Hostage Case: A Black Eye To Blogging (UPDATED)  —  TMV NOTE: Since we've added a major update, we're moving this previous post to the top of this site.  Please scroll down for newer posts. … So now former hostage Jill Carroll is free from captivity.
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Graciousness and Class  —  Well, so much for Jill Carroll needing …
Discussion: A Blog For All and SpeakSpeak News
Crooks and Liars:
John McCain just loves Falwell now  —  John McCain just loves Falwell now  —  John McCain, joined Tim Russert, on MTP this morning and was challenged on a number of issue including his new found affection for Jerry Falwell.  —  Video-WMP low res Video-QT (pretty big file)
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Daily Kos:   "Straight-Talk" Spinning On Meet The Press
Editor and Publisher:
Condi Rice in U.K. Flunks Reporter's 'Sgt. Pepper' Test  —  NEW YORK Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's goodwill trip to England has been met with protests at nearly every stop, and she had to explain Saturday that when she said that the U.S. had made "thousands" of mistakes in Iraq she meant figuratively, not literally.
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Elizabeth Day / Telegraph:
Condimania  —  The Dean of Blackburn is a holy man and …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
toledoblade.com:
Advisory post gave Noe voice in U.S. Mint policy  —  Coin dealer pushed gold pieces; Treasury Dept. conducts probe  —  WASHINGTON — In the months before Tom Noe came under scrutiny for his state-funded rare-coin venture, he used a federal appointment to forge relationships with U.S. Mint officials …
Discussion: MyDD, TPM Muckraker and Majikthise
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Today's Post Scoop  —  The Post often drops their big national security scoops on Sunday: today it's a story that argues that if we were to use military force against Iran, they would counterattack not using conventional forces (beyond their means) but via terrorist attacks.
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Attacking Iran May Trigger Terrorism
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Test-Fires Missile Able to Duck Radar
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and NewsHog
Robert B. Reich / New York Times:
The Poor Get Poorer  —  It is not exactly a new debate.  On my bookshelf sits "Which?  Protection or Free Trade," edited by H. W. Furber and published in Boston in 1888.  That was some 70 years after the British economist David Ricardo first suggested that the gains from trade exceed …
Discussion: Sirotablog
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:
The taboo subject at the heart of the immigration debate
Discussion: MyDD and Left in the West
Lauren La Rose / Globe and Mail:
Man dies in explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons  —  Toronto — The heart of Toronto's trendy Yorkville shopping district was shocked to a standstill Sunday after an explosion killed one man at a Tim Horton's outlet.  —  Police would not confirm early reports that a man had entered the washroom shortly …
Discussion: TigerHawk
Mark Townsend / Observer:
Official: Iraq war led to July bombings  —  The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks.  —  Despite attempts by Downing Street to play down suggestions that the conflict …
Discussion: Harry's Place and What Do I Know?
Kevin Phillips / Washington Post:
How the GOP Became God's Own Party  —  Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
FEMA Calls, but Top Job Is Tough Sell  —  WASHINGTON, April 1 — The calls went out across the nation, as Bush administration officials asked the country's most seasoned disaster response experts to consider the job of a lifetime: FEMA director.  But again and again, the response over the past several months was the same: "No thanks."
New York Times:
The Endgame in Iraq  —  Iraq is becoming a country that America should be ashamed to support, let alone occupy.  The nation as a whole is sliding closer to open civil war.  In its capital, thugs kidnap and torture innocent civilians with impunity, then murder them for their religious beliefs.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Don't deny that some Muslims are hot for jihad  —  If I were an anti-war leftie, I'd be very depressed by the Iraq anniversary protests.  A few hundred people show up hither and yon to see Cindy Sheehan get arrested for the 15th time that week, or Charlie Sheen unveil his critically acclaimed …
Discussion: sisu and Instapundit.com
Dr. Sanity:
NO RELATION TO REALITY, INDEED  —  Unbelievable material from MEMRI (hat tip: LGF).  Read/watch the entire interview, but here is the final bit: … If there was ever in history a better example of the paranoid fear of female sexuality, I can't think of it.
The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Egyptian cartoonists strike back at Denmark  —  The Syndicate of Egyptian cartoonists decided that they would respond to the danish cartoons by making their own cartoons on what happend.  They were done in order to- and I quote- " as a response to those who fell under the thrall of racism …
Daniel Howes / Detroit News:
Ford Foundation probed; AG claims Mich. left out  —  Cox: N.Y. trust must pay heed to family legacy  —  M ichigan Attorney General Mike Cox is investigating the New York-based Ford Foundation, focusing on its governance, potential conflicts of interest and a comparatively thin record of giving …
Forrest M. Mims III / sas.org:
Meeting Doctor Doom  —  There is always something special about science meetings.  The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year.
Discussion: Preemptive Karma and Babalu Blog
 
 
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
HOW I SPENT MY SUNDAY MORNING WITH C-SPAN, TAYLOR MARSH, AND MAPQUEST
William Yardley / New York Times:
Support for War Tests Lieberman's Re-election Prospects
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A vaccine's little helpers
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Adam / Adam Nagourney's Personal Diary:
It's April fools- duh!
Think Progress:
VIDEO: Gen. Zinni Calls on Rumsfeld and Others to Resign for …
Miami Herald:
Wiseguy defendant doubled as FBI snitch
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Malia Rulon / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Schmidt's degrees questioned
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Washington Post:
More White House Staff Changes Coming
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Harris Campaign Leaking Staff
Andrew Buncombe / Independent:
US and UK forces establish 'enduring bases' in Iraq
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They Hate the Church More Than They Hate Life Itself
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Here are the Chronicle's recommendations in the April 11 primary runoff elections
Janet Elliott / Houston Chronicle:
Dewhurst retreats on tax stance
Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun Times:
Basic Instinct 2  —  "Basic Instinct 2" resembles its heroine …
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Bloomberg:
Buckley Says Bush Will Be Judged on Iraq War, Now a `Failure'
 

 
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