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5:30 AM ET, March 9, 2007

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Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Mitt Romney Still Unknown to Many Republicans  —  Giuliani, Obama, and McCain have most favorable images  —  PRINCETON, NJ — One critical measure at this stage of the election campaign is the traditional trial heat that indicates who Democrats and Republicans want to be their party's nominee for president.
Discussion: race42008.com and News Desk Blog
Rob Bluey / Bluey Blog:
Mitt Romney's Big Hire  —  Of all the people Mitt Romney has brought to his presidential campaign — be it Matt Rhoades, Carl Forti or Kevin Madden — the key piece of the puzzle could be Mindy Finn, who is heading to Boston to serve as Romney's director of eStrategy.
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans Deliver Sharp Criticism of Gonzales  —  Senators Say Attorney General Fired Prosecutors Without Explanation  —  Senior Senate Republicans today delivered scathing criticism of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for his handling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys …
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:   Rove: Prosecutor Purge Is "Normal and Ordinary"
ArkansasTimes:
Rove speaks in Little Rock (UPDATED W/VIDEO)
Discussion: Think Progress
Steve Tetreault / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Ensign voices ire at agency
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Taylor Marsh
Michael Duffy / Time:
Dick Cheney in Twilight  —  George Bush's sense of humor has always run more to frat-house gag than art-house irony, so he may not have appreciated the poetic justice any more than the legal justice on display in the Libby verdict.  —  Or, to be more precise, the Cheney verdict.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Wonkette
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Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
'What Has Happened to Dick Cheney?'
Discussion: Power Line, Wonkette and Decision '08
John Hinderaker / News Bloggers Blog:
Wishful Thinking at the Post
Discussion: Firedoglake
Washington Post:
Frequent Errors In FBI's Secret Records Requests  —  A Justice Department investigation has found pervasive errors in the FBI's use of its power to secretly demand telephone, e-mail and financial records in national security cases, officials with access to the report said yesterday.
Discussion: TalkLeft and liberal catnip
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The Blotter:
Exclusive: Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines  —  Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report:  —  The FBI repeatedly failed to follow the strict guidelines of the Patriot Act when its agents took advantage of a new provision allowing the FBI to obtain phone and financial records without a court order …
Discussion: Macsmind and Crooks and Liars
Democrats.senate.gov:
SENATE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE JOINT RESOLUTION TO TRANSITION THE MISSION IN IRAQ  —  Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today joined Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer, Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray …
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Agence France Presse:   Bush would veto withdrawal plan: White House
Steve / The News Blog:
Update on Gilly—Not out of the Woods Yet  —  Still here  —  Jen here.  I just got off the phone with Gilly's Mom.  Last night, her message was that "they brought him down from surgery, but he's still under sedation."  I called her this morning to get more details, and here they are:
Discussion: Brendan Calling and Nitpicker
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Net worth of U.S. households skyrockets  —  WASHINGTON - The net worth of U.S. households climbed to a record high in the final quarter of last year, boosted mostly by gains on stocks, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.  —  Net worth — the difference between households' total assets …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Barone Post  —  A reader alerts me that it might have been a hacker's work.  It's not listed on his blog's full posts.  I'm checking into it.  In the meantime, I've taken it down.  I'll keep you posted, as it were.  —  [Update: it was a hoax inserted into his blog by a hacker.
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CBS News:
John Edwards To Skip Nevada Debate  —  Liberal Activists Protest Fox News' Role In Presidential Candidate Forum  —  (CBS/AP) Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards won't participate in a debate co-hosted by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party, his campaign said …
Jane Sutton / Reuters:
Cubans sneak ashore during U.S. security drill  —  MIAMI (Reuters) - While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Jason Shepard / ISTHMUS:
Prof pays price for causing offense  —  Sensitivities take precedence over truth and academic freedom  —  When UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplan ended his legal-process class on Feb. 15, there was no sign that he had offended anyone.  There were no questions or complaints, and no one approached him afterward.
Discussion: The Badger Herald and Althouse
Dana Stevens / Slate:
THE BATTLE EPIC 300.  —  If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war.
 
 
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Nadler-Harman Bills Would Restore Rule of Law and Due Process …
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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

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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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