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10:10 AM ET, April 3, 2006

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Francis Harris / Telegraph:
Right-wing bloggers attack freed hostage for 'treason'  —  The freed American hostage Jill Carroll arrived home after 83 days of captivity in Iraq yesterday - to a barrage of criticism from Right-wingers who accused her of showing too much sympathy for her kidnappers.
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Carroll Reunites With Family  —  After 82 Days as a Hostage in Iraq, Freed Journalist Is Home  —  BOSTON, April 2 — Journalist Jill Carroll was back on U.S. soil Sunday, tearfully embracing her parents and twin sister after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq that she said gave her a deep appreciation for the myriad simple joys of freedom.
Discussion: Rantingprofs
John Noonan / The Officers' Club:
Carroll Release: What Can We learn?  —  The question of whether or not Jill Carroll would survive captivity was answered this weekend with favorable results.  Now the question that begs asking is: "what does the Carroll captivity teach us about our enemies?"  —  In short, quite a bit.
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.
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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."
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Says It Test-Fired Underwater Missile  —  TEHRAN, April 2 — Iran said Sunday that it had test-fired what it described as a sonar-evading underwater missile just two days after it announced that it had fired a new missile that could carry multiple warheads and evade radar systems.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Associated Press:   Iran Claims to Have Test-Fired Missile That Can Destroy Warships
Dan / Riehl World View:
Iran Playing A Deadly Game
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 …
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.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Let Cooler Heads Prevail  —  So, "the debate is over."  Time magazine says so.  Last week's cover story exhorted readers to "Be Worried.  Be Very Worried," and ABC News concurred in several stories.  So did Montana's governor, speaking on ABC.  And there was polling about global warming, gathered by Time and ABC in collaboration.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
WHAT'S THE PLAN?....Glenn Reynolds suggests today that George Bush's difficulties are not so much with the people who were fair weather supporters of the war from the start, but rather with the people who were its most fervent fans: … Like most slogan-driven hawks, however …
Discussion: Sadly, No!
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MARK STEYN: … Read the whole thing, especially the last paragraph.
Discussion: Bookworm Room
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 …
Discussion: Crooked Timber
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 …
Discussion: Norwegianity
cbc.ca:
Deadly blast in doughnut shop not a terrorist job: police  —  Police have ruled out terrorism as the cause of an explosion at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop that killed one man in a trendy downtown area of Toronto on Sunday.  —  The victim was likely an arsonist or attempting suicide …
Discussion: Daimnation!
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ctv.ca:
Gas can blamed for Tim Hortons explosion
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 …
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
New York City Losing Blacks, Census Shows  —  An accelerating exodus of American-born blacks, coupled with slight declines in birthrates and a slowing influx of Caribbean and African immigrants, have produced a decline in New York City's black population for the first time since the draft riots during …
Christina Hoff Sommers / Weekly Standard:
Being a Man  —  Harvey Mansfield ponders the male of the species.  —  Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield  —  Yale, 304 pp., $27.50  —  ONE OF THE LEAST VISITED memorials in Washington is a waterfront statue commemorating the men who died on the Titanic.  Seventy-four percent …
Discussion: Althouse and chicagoboyz.net
 
 
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