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2:25 PM ET, March 2, 2007

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Profiles In Political Courage?  —  It's not often I disagree with my friend John Podhoretz at The Corner, but today's post on John McCain and CPAC struck me as rather odd.  In response to a post by Kathryn Jean Lopez that scolded McCain for skipping both NRI and CPAC, John said that McCain was right to stay away:
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Michelle Malkin:
CPAC-apalooza  —  ***update 1156am***  —  Giuliani's scheduled to speak at noon.  Meantime, a popular sticker...  ***update 942am***  —  Newt Gingrich landed at Blogger Row.  He chatted with Hot Air TV for 10 minutes.  We'll have the interview up later.
Discussion: Bluey Blog
Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
At conservatives' conference, little love is expressed for GOP
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
McCain and Obama in Deal on Public Financing
Discussion: The Politico
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Plame film in works at Warner Bros.  —  Studio sets movie about CIA leak scandal  —  Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm.  —  Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:   COMING (TOO) SOON  —  Variety reports that Warner Brothers …
Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis  —  Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to close off access  —  Hillary Rodham, in a 1965 freshman photo when she was president of Wellesley College's Young Republicans, with the cover page of her senior thesis from 1969 on radical organizer Saul D. Alinsky.
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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis  —  'A stupid political decision,' says her former Wellesley poli-sci professor  —  WELLESLEY, Mass. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's political science professor said he'd give the tactic an "F."  —  It was early 1993, in the first days of the Clinton administration …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
At Site of '65 March, an '08 Collision
Baltimore Sun:
A new twist to an intriguing family history … WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.  —  But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now …
Marisa Taylor / Real Cities:
Sources: GOP lawmakers tried to influence federal investigation  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico pressured the U.S. attorney in their state to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator …
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Washington Post:
House Panel Subpoenas Fired U.S. Attorneys
CBS News:
Poll: The Politics Of Health Care  —  Most Americans Favor Universal Health Care, Give Democrats Edge On Improving System  —  (CBS) Americans think the U.S. health care system is in need of major repairs, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll.  —  Nine out of 10 say the system needs …
Discussion: Donklephant and Texas Rainmaker
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The Blotter:
When Dick Cheney Talks, Pakistan Listens  —  Brian Ross and Habibullah Khan Report:  —  Pakistan intelligence sources say a second high-ranking Taliban leader has been taken into custody, as the country appeared to be responding to Vice President Dick Cheney's showdown meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Joe Klein / time-blog.com:
Self-Referential Feedback Loop  —  Let me respond to Ezra Klein's response to Justin Fox's delightful bit about us mainstream sorts trying to be bloggers.  —  Now, I like Ezra.  He's a smart guy.  We have the same last name and all...But he's wrong about this: … To which I can only say, what security?
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY.  Now, now, Other Klein, just because …
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
Hotline On Call:
YouTube Oppo Of The Day  —  1. Sen. Barack Obama, speaking in a fairly impoverished Cleveland, saying he wants "everybody here to pony up five dollars, ten dollars for this campaign.  I don't care how poor you are, you've got five dollars."  —  2. An anti-Giuliani video, just in time for CPAC.
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Oh George, what will we do when you're gone?  —  Our columnist on an easy target for America-bashers  —  Somewhere, deep down, tucked away underneath their loathing for George Bush, in a secret place where the lights of smart dinner-party conversation and clever debating-society repartee never shine …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Names Critic Of Iraq Policy to Counselor's Post  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has tapped Eliot A. Cohen, a prominent writer on national security strategy and an outspoken critic of the administration's postwar occupation of Iraq, as her counselor, State Department officials said yesterday.
Matthew Yglesias:
Second Shift  —  The BBC reports: … "Gee," remarks Jessica Valenti, "wonder why that is."  Well, I like to wonder.  Later, the piece gives us the specific numbers: "an employed woman does 15 hours a week of housework when she lives with her employed partner, up from 10 hours when single."
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Music Of the Spheres  —  You might not have noticed, but we broke another U.S. space record last month when astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria logged his 67th hour of spacewalking.  If you consider that the equivalent of the Guinness record for pogo-stick bouncing (23.11 miles in 12 hours and 27 minutes) …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Bob Barr / Washington Times:
Immigration indigestion  —  It is often said that "politics makes strange bedfellows," but it is the immigration debate that is making even stranger bedfellows — causing otherwise conservative Republican members of Congress to clamor for draconian restrictions on businesses and for greater mandatory use of Social Security numbers.
Discussion: The Corner and Lonewacko
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Iraqi Troops, Tribesmen Kill 50 Suspected Insurgents  —  Fierce Battle in West Lasts Several Hours  —  Iraqi security forces backed by Sunni tribesmen killed dozens of suspected Sunni insurgents over several hours of fighting Wednesday in a village in western Iraq, Iraqi police officials said Thursday.
 
 
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
K Street's Favorite Democrat
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BEST CARE ANYWHERE....The Washington Post's recent series …
Stuart Staniford / theoildrum.com:
Saudi Arabian oil declines 8% in 2006
Dinesh D'Souza / News Bloggers Blog:
Letting Bin Laden Define Islam
CBS News:
U.S. Heading Towards Bankruptcy?
Discussion: ParaPundit
Syed Saleem Shahzad / Asia Times:
Ready to take on the world
Washington Post:
Not 'a Good-News Story'  —  YESTERDAY THE Post reported …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
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 Earlier Items: 
Jules Crittenden:
Good News Bad News  —  When is bad news good news?  When it is your enemy's.
Discussion: Power Line
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Checkmate  —  The Democratic Party's honeymoon is over.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Al Gore's Inconvenient Loot
Julie Mason / NewsWatch:
Going coastal  —  "There's no telling who's going to show up …
Discussion: Facing South
Des Moines Register:
Vilsack says early polls didn't show his strength
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Rightosphere Temperature Check: Polling Right-Of-Center Bloggers …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Shortages Threaten Guard's Capability
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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