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1:25 PM ET, March 11, 2007

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New York Times:
The Failed Attorney General  —  During the hearing on his nomination as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held — President Bush's in-house lawyer — and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Sen. Schumer Calls For Alberto Gonzales To Resign  —  Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign.  Schumer said Gonzales has "been even more political than his predecessor, Attorney General Ashcroft," and that Gonzales …
Associated Press:
Report: Rove was urged to oust U.S. attorney  —  N.M. GOP chief says he complained about prosecutor, was told 'he's gone'  —  WASHINGTON - The chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party was quoted Saturday as saying he urged presidential adviser Karl Rove and one of his assistants to fire the state's U.S. attorney.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
LAW.com:
DOJ Goes Into Damage Control Over Firing of U.S. Attorneys
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
The 'Surge' Is Succeeding  —  A front-page story in The Post last week suggested that the Bush administration has no backup plan in case the surge in Iraq doesn't work.  I wonder if The Post and other newspapers have a backup plan in case it does.  —  Leading journalists have been reporting …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Upset Over Canceled Fox Debate, Kondracke Attacks 'Left-Wing Liberals' As 'Junior-Grade Stalinists'  —  On Fox News' Beltway Boys, co-host Mort Kondracke blasted the decision by the Nevada Democratic Party to pull out of a Fox News-sponsored presidential debate.
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Chrish / News Hounds:
FOX chooses article carefully to outsource condemnation of Nevada Dems' cancellation  —  The editors at FOXNews.com ignored 145 articles listed in a Google search that objectively told of the decision by Nevada Democrats to cancel a Democratic presidential candidate debate that would have been hosted by the right-wing network.
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: FORMER SEN. FRED THOMPSON ON 'FOX NEWS SUNDAY'  —  The following is a partial transcript of the March 11, 2007, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, chances are you've never heard of U.S. President Charles Ross …
Discussion: Wizbang and No Silence Here
Associated Press:
Poll: Character trumps policy for voters  —  WASHINGTON - For all the policy blueprints churned out by presidential campaigns, there is this indisputable fact: People care less about issues than they do about a candidate's character.  —  A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll says 55 percent …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
New John Edwards Sells Less Biography, More Liberal Issues  —  When he first ran for president, then-Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) was the fresh face in the Democratic Party, a perpetually buoyant campaigner who built his candidacy around his own biography and whose success in the primaries earned him a place on the 2004 Democratic ticket.
Discussion: Daimnation! and The Moderate Voice
Observer:
Climate scientist 'duped to deny global warming'  —  A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth.  Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography …
Discussion: NewsHog
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Little Green Footballs:   The Great Global Warming Swindle
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Warming Report to Warn of Coming Drought
Discussion: Liberal Values and Maggie's Farm
Times of London:
Defector spied on Iran for years  —  AN Iranian general who defected to the West last month had been spying on Iran since 2003 when he was recruited on an overseas business trip, according to Iranian sources.  —  This weekend Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari, 63, the former deputy defence minister …
Colin Freeman / Telegraph:
Iran tells US to set timetable for Iraq exit  —  Iranian officials last night demanded a timetable for US troop withdrawal from Iraq as they attended a rare meeting with American diplomats in Baghdad.  —  The conference was aimed at stopping Iraq being used as a sectarian battleground by Sunni and Shia neighbours.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
HILL: I'M THE JFK OF 2008  —  VOWS TO BEAT ODDS  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the campaign of the nation's lone Catholic president, John Kennedy, last night as she talked about her challenge in becoming the first female commander-in-chief.  —  "He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic.
Discussion: The Corner and The Strata-Sphere
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Episode at Guantanamo Leaves Family at a Loss  —  MEDINA, Saudi Arabia — Mishal al-Harbi's brain was deprived of oxygen for several minutes on the evening of Jan. 16, 2003, while he was in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  As a result, he cannot stand, his speech is slurred …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Crossroads Arabia
Telegraph:
Cameron considers tax hikes on air travel  —  Harsh new taxes on air travel, including a strict personal flight "allowance", will be unveiled by the Conservatives tomorrow as part of a plan that would penalise business travellers, holidaymakers and the tourist industry.
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Lotto Makes Sense, Even for Losers  —  AT least poker tables have some atmosphere, a jingle of highball glasses, a hint of 1990s menthol smoke in the armchairs, the sweet musk of nearby cash.  The same goes for playing the horses: there are characters, scandals, competition, not to mention real payoffs.
Discussion: Economist's View
 
 
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Pardon Libby Now  —  It will be good for Bush and good for the country.
Discussion: Think Progress and The Corner
Tracie Rozhon / New York Times:
To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for wars
Discussion: AMERICAblog
2007.sxsw.com:
SXSW Interactive  —  Attracting digital creatives as well as …
Discussion: MyDD
Richard Lawrence Cohen / RLC:
Times Reporter Dares to Buy Sliced Brisket
Marcelle Clements / ambivablog.typepad.com:
The Best-Kept Secret: The Antidote to "The Secret"
Telegraph:
Iran votes to impose petrol rationing
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Media Matters for America:
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Sunday Talking Head Thread
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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Romney courts South Florida voters
Discussion: The American Mind
Observer:
Scandal of treatment for wounded Iraq veterans
Washington Post:
Iran's Dissenters  —  HERE'S HOW International Women's …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
WNBC:
Caught On Tape: Mugger Attacks 101-Year-Old Woman In Queens
Discussion: Riehl World View
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Crisis Looms in Mortgages
Hindrocket / Power Line:
HISTORICAL IRONY IN SOUTH AMERICA
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: UPI reporter gets emotional over Iraq; Update: Clip added
 

 
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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

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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