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7:50 PM ET, April 12, 2006

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Reuters:
White House denies report on Iraq WMD  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a newspaper report that suggested President George W. Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true.
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B. Preston / JunkYardBlog:
WaPo Caught in a Page 1 Lie?  —  I had that scratching at the back of my head when I read that "A Good Leak" editorial in the Post the other day.  It just seemed too good to be true.  —  Well, whatever else can be said about that editorial, it may be evidence of schizophrenia within the Post.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
George / SEIXON:
Hydrogen Warfare  —  It seems as if the war to drown the Bush administration in old news presented as scandals has begun.  Who will be able to come up with the most hot air?  Walter Pincus, David Sanger & David Barstow, David Shuster, (three Davids, how about that - an Army of Davids...) …
Michael Tomasky / TAPPED:
DEAN CALLS FOR DECLASSIFICATION RE WASHPOST PIECE.  DNC Chairman Howard Dean this morning called on the Bush administration to declassify a 2003 Defense Intelligence Agency-sponsored report that undercuts a key administration claim about Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi weapons.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Minority Report  —  The Washington Post runs a deceptive …
Gauis Arbo / Blue Crab Boulevard:
Lacking Real Story, Reporter Manufactures Controversy
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches  —  Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran "going nuclear," the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they "cascade."
David Ignatius:
An Iranian Missile Crisis?  —  The emerging confrontation between the United States and Iran is "the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion," argues Graham Allison, the Harvard University professor who wrote the classic study of President John F. Kennedy's 1962 showdown with the Soviet Union that narrowly averted nuclear war.
Barry Schweid / Associated Press:
Rice Calls for 'Strong Steps' Against Iran  —  Denouncing Iran's successful enrichment of uranium as unacceptable to the international community, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the U.N. Security Council must consider "strong steps" to induce Tehran to change course.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran says it's moving toward large-scale uranium enrichment
Discussion: Security Watchtower
Diana Walsh / San Francisco Chronicle:
Military recruiters, confronted by crowd, leave campus job fair  —  Anti-war protesters at university block doors to building  —  Four military recruiters hastily fled a job fair Tuesday morning at UC Santa Cruz after a raucous crowd of student protesters blocked an entrance to the building …
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
A Street Corner in Ramadi [Updated with another photo from February of 2005]  —  Did the media fall for yet another insurgent information operation in Ramadi?  —  Click to play CNN video of Ramadi incident  —  Last weekend, several news sources, including the Associated Press and CNN …
Richard Lindzen / Opinion Journal:
Climate of Fear  —  Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.  —  There have been repeated claims that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change.  Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo …
People:
Oprah Winfrey: Wealth Is 'A Good Thing'  —  By Stephen M. Silverman with Susan Mandel  —  Oprah Winfrey is a rich woman - and she's got no problem with that.  —  Speaking in Baltimore on Monday at a fundraiser for Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Winfrey told the audience, "I have lots of things, like all these Manolo Blahniks.
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and NewsBusters.org
Michael J. Totten:
Back to Iraq Part III - The Kurdish Disaster  —  This is the third installment in a Back to Iraq series which is basically a single long essay.  Don't miss Part One and Part Two.  —  TURKISH KURDISTAN - Sean and I dragged our sorry, exhausted, and malnourished selves to the car at 6:30 …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Brady McCombs / Arizona Daily Star:
TUCSON REGION  —  City man arrested after Mexican-flag burning  —  A Tucson man was arrested Tuesday for his role in the burning of a Mexican flag as part of a counterprotest at a pro-immigration rally.  —  At about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Tucson police cited Roy Warden, 58, on suspicion of assault …
W. Thomas Smith, Jr / Townhall.com:
Dispelling myths about American soldiers  —  Myths abound when it comes to military personnel in the modern American armed forces.  Most are in some way related to recruiting new soldiers, who's fighting, and who's dying.  —  Five of the biggest myths include:
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
 
 
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