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1:35 PM ET, April 3, 2006

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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 …
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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.
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: 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
Michelle Malkin:
SAME OLD, SAME OLD (VIDEO ADDED)  —  ***update: watch video of McKinney's friends here .  Finished watching Rep. Cynthia McKinney and friends' grievance-fest in Atlanta.  It was streamed live at WXIA.  We were promised "something new."  But the assortment of local race card-wielders lauded …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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11alive.com:
McKinney Speaks Monday Morning
Discussion: Hyscience
Lowell Ponte / Front Page Magazine:
Cynthia McKinney: The New Face of the Left?
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.
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.
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 …
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.
New York Times:
Iraq's Premier Is Asked to Quit as Shiites Split  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 2 — Iraq's dominant Shiite political bloc fractured Sunday when its most powerful faction publicly demanded that the incumbent Shiite prime minister resign over his inability to form a unified government.
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Sectarian Strife Fuels Gun Sales in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 — With chipped, painted fingernails, Nahrawan al-Janabi picked up a cartridge and slid it into the chamber.  —  "Like this," she said, loading her new Glock pistol with a loud, satisfying click.  "You see, like this."
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prosecution of Midwife Casts Light on Home Births  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 29 — Angela Hendrix-Petry gave birth to her daughter Chloe by candlelight in her bedroom here in the early morning of March 12, with a thunderstorm raging outside and her family and midwife huddled around her.
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Iraq Violence Kills at Least 50; 6 U.S. Personnel Reported Dead  —  BAGHDAD, April 2 — At least 50 people were killed Sunday in Iraq in a catalogue of violence that included a mortar attack, military firefights, roadside bombings and other explosions.  —  In addition, the U.S. military reported …
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 …
 
 
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Michael McAuliff / NY Daily News:
Dems blast McCain for Falwell flip-flop
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The Abortion-Rights Side Invokes God, Too
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Need for Upheaval  —  Ryan Lizza wrote a great article on Chuck Schumer.
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Democrats' Narrow Vision
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