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4:00 PM ET, March 9, 2007

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Howard Bashman / How Appealing:
BREAKING NEWS — Divided three-judge D.C. Circuit panel holds that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights: You can access today's lengthy D.C. Circuit ruling at this link.  —  According to the majority opinion, "[T]he phrase 'the right of the people …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
D.C. CIRCUIT STRIKES DOWN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GUN CONTROL LAW as a violation of the Second Amendment, adopts individual rights view.  Howard Bashman has more, and the opinion is here.  This is a very important development.  —  Some additional background on the Second Amendment can be found here, here and here.
Discussion: Cato-at-liberty
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
TIMETABLE ON SUPREME COURT REVIEW OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT CASE, AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Say that the D.C. Circuit decides not to rehear the case en banc; that probably means the en banc petition will be denied within several months.  Assume that it's denied by late June …
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:   D.C. CIRCUIT ACCEPTS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VIEW OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT …
Cary O'Reilly / Bloomberg:
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Ban (Update2)
Discussion: QandO
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:   DICTUM: Whatever one might plausibly say about whether …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The FBI's lawbreaking is tied directly to President Bush  —  Multiple media outlets are focusing on the unsurprising story that the FBI seems to have been abusing its powers under the Patriot Act to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs), whereby the FBI is empowered to obtain …
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New York Times:
U.S. Report to Fault F.B.I. on Subpoenas  —  The Justice Department's inspector general has prepared a scathing report criticizing how the F.B.I. uses a form of administrative subpoena to obtain thousands of telephone, business and financial records without prior judicial approval.
CNN:
Audit: FBI snooping did not follow rules … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The FBI is guilty of "serious misuse" of the power to secretly obtain private information under the Patriot Act, a government audit said Friday.  —  The Justice Department's inspector general looked at the FBI's use …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:   Justice Dept.: FBI Misused Patriot Act
Brian / TVNewser:
RTNDF 1st Amendment Awards: Transcript Of Roger Ailes' Acceptance Speech  —  Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes accepted the RTNDF's 2007 First Amendment Leadership Award tonight.  In a wide-ranging speech, he thanked reporters like Steve Centanni who "faced death for a single reason — they're journalists."
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Another Hollywood star steps forward for GOP  —  Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).
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Shane Harris / National Journal:
Rolling Back Pentagon Spies  —  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering a plan to curtail the Pentagon's clandestine spying activities, which were expanded by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, after the 9/11 attacks.  The undercover work allowed military personnel to collect intelligence …
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
An Intelligent Move by Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Discussion: Time
The Hill:
Obey berates woman over war funding, later apologizes  —  House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) berated a woman who approached him in a Congressional corridor, claiming that "idiot liberals" don't understand the war supplemental spending bill process.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald's Folly  —  There are lies and there are memory lapses.  Bill Clinton denied under oath having sex with Monica Lewinsky.  Unless you're Wilt Chamberlain, sex is not the kind of thing you forget easily.  Sandy Berger denied stuffing classified documents in his pants …
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Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Plame to testify before House committee
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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.
Fred Langan / Telegraph:
Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'  —  Pictures of a polar bear floating precariously on a tiny iceberg have become the defining image of global warming but may be misleading, according to a new study.  —  A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Candidate Clinton, Embracing the Trite and the True  —  Are you in it to win?  Would you regard civil rights as the gift that keeps on giving?  Do you believe in the American Dream, stupid?  —  If you answered yes to any of the above, you might consider supporting Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: First Read
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Rove Doing His Part to Help Shape a Positive Legacy for Bush  —  In an interview this week in his windowless West Wing office, Karl Rove said that there is "very little" discussion about President Bush's legacy at the White House these days, only a focus on developing good policy that might have a long-term impact.
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Rudy, firefighters feud  —  Group, already fuming over Ground Zero curbs, irate as he skips forum  —  Rudy Giuliani never fails to cast firefighters as his heroes, but the nation's largest firefighters union all but declared war on him yesterday after he backed out of a forum for presidential hopefuls.
Discussion: TIME and The Carpetbagger Report
Hugh Jackson / Joomla! powered Site:
Reid: "I had nothing to do with choosing FOX"  —  Senate Majority Leader says Nevada Democratic Party makes its own decisions; adds "I don't like FOX"  —  (Disclosure note: The author is also the writer of the Las Vegas Gleaner, a local blog that has made fun of the Nevada Democratic Party's decision …
 
 
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Bacchanalia  —  In response to my piece yesterday defending …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
'That's Not Nice'  —  Our political discourse needs less censorship …
Wade Sanders / Washington Times:
Kerry and the swift-boating victims
Discussion: Redstate
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules
Discussion: Political Animal
New York Times:
Veterans Face Vast Inequities Over Disability
Washington Post:
Capitol Visitor Center Debut Again Delayed
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johannhari.com:
'America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It' by Mark Steyn
Discussion: Empire Burlesque
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Violent Crime in Cities Shows Sharp Surge
Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Mitt under attack by own party: Mass. GOP aims to sink prez bid
johnshadegg.house.gov:
Shadegg Introduces Bill Requiring Congress to Cite Constitutional Authority
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Hagel expected to declare '08 bid
Telegraph:
US sends spies into Pakistan to kill bin Laden
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
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