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3:55 PM ET, April 3, 2006

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal  —  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a military jail for more than three years as an "enemy combatant."  The Court, however, declined to dismiss the case as moot, as the Bush Administration had urged.
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Associated Press:
Justices, 6-3, Sidestep Ruling on Padilla Case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Jose Padilla, held as an enemy combatant without traditional legal rights for more than three years, sidestepping a challenge to Bush administration wartime detention powers.
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
SHIITES FINALLY SPLIT ON JAAFARI  —  Not that they already weren't, as Dawa party candidate and current Prime Minister Ibraham al-Jaafari only won by a single vote within the UIA due to backing by the Sadrists, but the barrier for removing him has been broken as several independent politicians …
Discussion: New York Times and The Right Coast
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Michelle Malkin:
SAME OLD, SAME OLD (VIDEO ADDED)  —  ***update: watch video of McKinney's friends here .  *** (hat tip: Allah)  —  Finished watching Rep. Cynthia McKinney and friends' grievance-fest in Atlanta.  It was streamed live at WXIA.  We were promised "something new."
Discussion: Iowa Voice
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Dwight Meredith / Wampum:
2005 Koufax Awards —The Winners  —  I apologize for the delay in posting the winners.  We had a big turn out both in comments and in emails and a number of the categories had excruciatingly close races (one category had an exact tie, more on that below).  The voting was roughly evenly split between comments and email.
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
White House shake-up to continue?  —  Sources: Press spokesman, treasury chief may be next  —  CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) — Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan and Treasury Secretary John Snow could be next in a shake-up in the Bush administration, according to White House and GOP sources.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Ivory Tower Stonewall  —  A 9/11 survivor asks Yale to explain why it admitted the Taliban Man.  —  Katherine Bailey and her sister, Margaret Pothier, have a bone to pick with Yale President Richard Levin over his university's admission of a former Taliban official as a student.
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ClintTaylor / Townhall.com:
The Next Step: The Yale Corporation
Discussion: Penraker and protein wisdom
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Frist Is Treading a Perilous Path Leading to 2008  —  WASHINGTON, April 2 — History does not bode well for Bill Frist, and he knows it.  —  "Coming into this job, everybody said if you, in your future, ever want to consider running for president of the United States, people said, 'Do not do it …
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Time:
Prognosis Looks Grim, Doc
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters  —  Contractor Will Try to Finish 20 of 142 Sites  —  BAGHDAD — A reconstruction contract for the building of 142 primary health centers across Iraq is running out of money, after two years and roughly $200 million, with no more than 20 clinics …
Noahmax / Defense Tech:
RUSSIAN ROOTS FOR IRAN'S "UNDERWATER MISSILE"  —  In 1994, Russian military contractors were handing out brochures touting their "high-speed underwater missiles."  This weapon, called the Shkval, had a "high kill capability," the contractors promised.  Against it, "known anti-torpedo defense system[s]" were "not effective."
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Drudge Report:
LAURA BUSH SAYS HILLARY KEPT BAD HOUSE; WEST WING DECORATIONS WERE GAUDY, OUTDATED  —  First Lady Laura Bush believes Hillary Clinton did not keep good house during her time as first lady, a new book will charge.  —  Ron Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the WASHINGTON POST …
Matt Stoller / mydd.com:
Right-wing Racism and the Moderate Voice  —  There's a discussion over at The Moderate Voice about whether the Jill Carroll affair damages the credibility of bloggers.  I find this discussion irritating, because it cuts to a basic problem with the nonpartisan new media blog pontificators …
Richard / Hyscience:
Populists Beware Of Immigration Reform? … Edward Gillespie, former chairman of the Republican National Committee in the 2004 election cycle, has a piece titled "Populists Beware" in the Opinion Journal today in obvious support for a temporary guest worker program (surprise - his firm …
Jamie Mobley / story.seguingazette.com:
UT professor says death is imminent  —  AUSTIN — A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.  —  Â"Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,Â" Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. EdwardÂ's University on Friday.
USA Today:
Growth in federal spending unchecked  —  WASHINGTON — Federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century, provoking some conservatives to complain that government under Republican control has gotten too big.  —  The federal government …
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The News Media  —  Let's say you were part of a group designing the news media from scratch.  Someone says that it would be a good idea to have competing news media — daily newspapers and weekly magazines, radio and television news programs.  Sounds like a good start.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Fred Hiatt:
Democrats' Narrow Vision  —  You can look at the Democrats' national security plan, released last week, as simply a political shield, akin to the upgraded body armor they promise for U.S. troops.  —  The party remains traumatized by the failure of biography to protect Vietnam veterans Max Cleland …
NY Daily News:
Gore gets 'Green' and mean with W  —  George W. Bush as Neville Chamberlain?  —  That's the comparison Al Gore makes in Vanity Fair's environmentally correct "Green Issue."  —  The former veep — President Bush's 2000 election opponent — keeps insisting that he has no intention of running again for the White House.
Niles Lathem / New York Post:
NYC'S TERROR BANK  —  April 3, 2006 — DA SHUTS $3B ACCT.  —  WASHINGTON - Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has shut down a massive terror-finance pipeline in which a whopping $3 billion in profits from drug deals and other crimes flowed through a major New York bank to Middle East fanatics, The Post has learned.
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT and CALIFORNIA YANKEE
 
 
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Limbaugh called alleged Duke rape victim a "ho[ ]"
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Gadfly With Buzz  —  MSNBC's Olbermann, Exercising the Right
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Endgame for Jafari.  —  Chances for a peaceful resolution …
David Barboza / New York Times:
Labor Shortage in China May Lead to Trade Shift
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
The Abortion-Rights Side Invokes God, Too
Discussion: Feministe and NewsBusters.org
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Need for Upheaval  —  Ryan Lizza wrote a great article on Chuck Schumer.
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Head of Sorbonne attacks 'ignorant' student protesters
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Scotland Sunday Herald:
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Some homeowners struggle to keep up with adjustable rates
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prosecution of Midwife Casts Light on Home Births
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Y is for Yahoo  —  THE HOUSE CAUCUS TO RETURN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY …
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and Power Line
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Iraq Violence Kills at Least 50; 6 U.S. Personnel Reported Dead
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Sectarian Strife Fuels Gun Sales in Baghdad
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Carroll Reunites With Family