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11:05 PM ET, April 3, 2006

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Capitol police ask for arrest warrant for McKinney  —  Black leaders say McKinney victim of racial profiling  —  WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney for her role in a scuffle with a police officer last week, the prosecutor's office confirmed.
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accessnorthga.com:
McKinney incident referred to U.S. Attorney's Office
Discussion: Squiggler
Ian / Expose the Left:
McKinney: I Don't Look Different (VIDEO)
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Padilla Case  —  Bush Stance on Enemy Combatants to Remain Unchallenged  —  A divided Supreme Court handed the Bush administration a significant victory today when it decided not to review, for now, the federal government's powers to detain U.S. citizens as enemy combatants.
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Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Anthony Kennedy Is Ready for His Close-Up
Discussion: Althouse
Mike Allen / Time:
Exclusive: Tom DeLay Says He Will Give Up His Seat  —  The embattled former Republican leader tells TIME that he will leave Congress and not seek reelection  —  Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol …
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.
New York Times:
Jury Finds Moussaoui Eligible for Execution  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 — A federal jury found today that Zacarias Moussaoui was responsible for at least some of the deaths that occurred in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, meaning that he could be subject to the death penalty.
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Washington Post:
Jury Finds Moussaoui Eligible to Die  —  A federal jury today found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible to die for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, concluding that Moussaoui's lies to federal agents paved the way for the deadliest terrorist strike in U.S. history.
Greg Sargent / TAPPED:
HIATT TARS DEMS.  Fred Hiatt's Washington Post column today slams the Democratic Party's "Real Security" plan.  His chief objection appears to be that it's way too short on platitudes for his liking.  Hiatt writes: … Castigating the Dem plan for failing to match such grandiloquence, Hiatt continues:
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Reuel Marc Gerecht / Opinion Journal:
Can the Shiite Center Hold?  —  The unanticipated consequences of "Iraqification."  —  The Shiites of Iraq who want representative government, and who look to the resolutely moderate Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani for religious and political guidance, have endured Baathists, Sunni supremacists and holy warriors.
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
U.S. Announces Deaths of 9 American Troops
Discussion: american footprints
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.
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.
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Head of Sorbonne attacks 'ignorant' student protesters  —  The president of the world-renowned Sorbonne University has branded French students protesting about the country's new employment law "ignorant and stupid".  —  Reacting to protests over the law, which makes it easier for employers to fire …
Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh called alleged Duke rape victim a "ho[ ]" … During the March 31 broadcast of his national syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh referred to the alleged victim of a rape by members of the Duke University lacrosse team as a "ho[]."  During an on-air discussion with a caller …
Ryan Lizza / New York Magazine:
The Bush-Cheney Era Ends Here  —  If Chuck Schumer can make his dream of a Democratic-controlled senate come true.  —  D  —  emocrats have a dream.  They dream that they will wake up on November 8 and that West Virginia senator Robert Byrd, the 88-year-old antiwar firebrand …
MSNBC:
Transcript for April 2  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issue this Sunday: He ran for president in 2000 as the anti-Bush.  —  (Videotape):  —  SEN. JOHN McCAIN, (R-Ariz.): Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.  —  MR. RUSSERT: He has now become one of the president's closest allies.
New York Times:
A Letter to Our Readers  —  To Our Readers:  —  Our goal when we set out to redesign The Times Web site more than a year ago was to make experiencing The New York Times online simpler and more useful.  We hope you conclude that we have done that on the new pages appearing for the first time this month.
Michael McAuliff / NY Daily News:
Dems blast McCain for Falwell flip-flop  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain started feeling the heat of being the GOP White House front-runner yesterday as questions arose over his embrace of Jerry Falwell - a man he once labeled an "agent of intolerance."  —  The Arizona maverick who lost …
Washington Post:
A Plan to End Child Poverty  —  Britain's Initiative Has Helped 700,000 Kids.  Why Don't We Have a Goal, Too?  —  For anyone interested in reducing child poverty, there was heartening bad news out of Britain last month.  In 1999 the Blair government introduced an initiative to end child poverty by 2020 …
Discussion: Riehl World View, TAPPED and Ezra Klein
 
 
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A rhetoric of cowardice and vanity
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Would you hire this man?
Edward Gillespie / Opinion Journal:
Populists Beware!  —  The GOP must not become an anti-immigration party.
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Let's have good news from Iraq, please
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The Abortion-Rights Side Invokes God, Too
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