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5:45 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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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 …
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
Cary O'Reilly / Bloomberg:
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Ban (Update2)
Discussion: Balkinization and QandO
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:   D.C. CIRCUIT ACCEPTS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VIEW OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT …
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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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 …
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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Brian / TVNewser:
Roger Ailes To Media: Pressure To Boycott Debates "Must Be Resisted"
Discussion: Hot Air, CBS News, News Hounds and CBS News
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Insurgent leader nabbed in Iraq raid  —  BAGHDAD - The leader of the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq was captured Friday in a raid west of Baghdad — his identity revealed by a fellow insurgent detained with him, an Iraqi military spokesman said.  —  Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was captured …
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.
Discussion: Democrats.com and PunditGuy
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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.).
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 …
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 …
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules  —  The Internal Revenue Service is asking tax lawyers and accountants who create tax shelters and exploit loopholes to take the lead in writing some of its new tax rules.  —  The pilot project represents a further expansion of the increasingly common …
Discussion: Political Animal
Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web … James Taranto is traveling and will be back tomorrow.  In place of Best of the Web today we're offering the premier newsletter Political Diary.  To become a Political Diary subscriber click here.  —  In today's Political Diary:  — GOP Has Much to Lose, Little to Gain in 2008 Senate Races
 
 
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Jeri Clausing / Denver Post:
GOP ready to fight over resolution on Iraq
Gregory J. Volpe / CourierPostOnline.com:
GOP silent as N.J. Assembly rebukes Iraq surge
Scott MacKay / projo.com Rhode Island news:
Measures critical of Bush's policies offered to Assembly
Dave / Garfield Ridge:
Two Days Of Coolness: My Visit To the Set Of Battlestar Galactica.
Discussion: Going to the Mat
Amanda / Think Progress:
Rep. Gingrey Blames Soldiers For Walter Reed Squalor: 'If You …
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Bacchanalia  —  In response to my piece yesterday defending …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Candidate Clinton, Embracing the Trite and the True
Discussion: First Read
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
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Rove Doing His Part to Help Shape a Positive Legacy for Bush
johnshadegg.house.gov:
Shadegg Introduces Bill Requiring Congress to Cite Constitutional Authority
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald's Folly  —  There are lies and there are memory lapses.
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Hagel expected to declare '08 bid
Telegraph:
US sends spies into Pakistan to kill bin Laden