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11:15 PM ET, March 11, 2007

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Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
Democratic senators say Gonzales should go  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign following disclosures of mass firings of federal prosecutors and a report that the FBI improperly obtained information on private citizens, top Democratic senators said on Sunday.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Crooks and Liars
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. attorneys often clash with Washington
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Political Animal
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.
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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 …
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Kleinheider / Volunteer Voters:
VIDEO: Fred Thompson On Fox News Sunday
Discussion: Redstate and Sister Toldjah
Telegraph:
Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'  —  Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.  —  They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians …
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Twice as Many Americans Conservative as Liberal  —  Looking at the topline results [PDF here] of the latest AP-Ipsos poll, I came across this:  —  So 41% of the country self-identifies as "conservative," 34% as "moderate," and only 21% as "liberal."  Further, 14% consider themselves …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
LIBERAL AMERICA?....James Joyner reports today on a new Gallup …
Discussion: Sirotablog and Matthew Yglesias
Washington Post:
Plaintiffs Reflect on Gun Ruling  —  Residents Suing D.C. Explain Motivation  —  George Lyon says he wants a gun in his home because it's his constitutional right.  Tom Palmer says he used a gun to ward off a beating.  And Gillian St. Lawrence says her shotgun is useless because it has to be unloaded and have its trigger locked.
Associated Press:
Swiss paper says former Taliban defense minister free  —  GENEVA: A Swiss newspaper claimed Sunday that the Taliban's former defense minister was free two days after his reported capture by Pakistani security forces.  —  The Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick said one of its reporters spoke …
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Cernig / NewsHog:   Pakistan Catch-And-Release Of Taliban Bigwig
Observer:
'Smart' rebels outstrip US  —  Top American generals make shock admission as Iraq leader pleads with neighbouring countries to seal off their borders  —  Paul Beaver in Fort Lauderdale and Peter Beaumont  —  The US army is lagging behind Iraq's insurgents tactically in a war that senior officers …
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Un-Discourse Situations...  I can think of seven wedges between the national net savings-investment rate as estimated by the National Income and Product Accounts and statistical estimates of the change in total measured household net worth:  — There is a gap between the rate of return …
Discussion: Economist's View
Hotline On Call:
Giuliani in '89: "There Must Be Public Funding For Abortion"  —  The YouTube wars continue...  This belly of a doozy is from November 3, 1989.  —  "There must be public funding for abortion for poor women."  —  "I have also started that I disagree with President Bush's veto last week of public funding for abortion."
Discussion: race42008.com
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Lancing The Boil  —  One of the most interesting things about following the Connecticut senate race last summer was becoming exposed to the local media.  One stand-out was Colin McEnroe, who has written the piece that should have been written by a top flight national columnist except they are so in the tank …
Sfarber / the talking dog:
TD Blog Interview with James Yee  —  James Yee is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.  In 2002 and 2003, he served as the Muslim Chaplain at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, with the rank of Captain in the United States Army.  After ten months of deployment at Guantanamo …
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Halliburton to Move Headquarters to Dubai  —  Halliburton, the big energy services company, said today that it would open a corporate headquarters in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai and move its chairman and chief executive, David J. Lesar, there.  —  The company will maintain …
David Leppard / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda plot to bring down UK internet  —  SCOTLAND YARD has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been plotting to bring down the internet in Britain, causing chaos to business and the London Stock Exchange.  —  In a series of raids, detectives have recovered computer files revealing …
Discussion: Hot Air and Liberal Values
Dave Schuler / Outside The Beltway:
Subprime Borrowers  —  A little earlier today James posted on the problems that subprime lenders are experiencing and there was a comment on that post to the effect that people who bought older homes were more likely to be "subprime borrowers" than those who bought "McMansions" and that got me to thinking.
Discussion: EconLog
Stirling Newberry / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon: Joe Conason: It Is Happening Here  —  [FDL is pleased to welcome Stirling Newberry and Joe Conason here today for a discussion of It Can Happen Here.  As with all Book Salon discussions, please be polite and keep this thread on topic.  Any off topic discussions should be taken to the prior thread.
 
 
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Nora Ephron / The Huffington Post:
The Secret: A Testimonial
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Amato!
Karen Tumulty / TIME: Swampland:
Halliburtonomics
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Saeed Ali Achakzai / Reuters:
Bin Laden 50 today?
Rocky Mountain News:
Feds tried to cut aid
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Islamic militants warn Austria, Germany
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Elayne Boosler / The Huffington Post:
Remembering Comedian Richard Jeni
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Suicide blast kills 32 Shiites in Iraq
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
Fox News at Its Finest.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Securing Iraq Votes, One at a Time
Discussion: MyDD, neo-neocon and TalkLeft
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
POP GOES THE WEASEL....The collapse of the home mortgage market …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Eschaton
Telegraph:
Iraq four years on
Discussion: The Corner and Angry Bear
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Friends Of Ali Reza Asgari, Part II
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Episode at Guantanamo Leaves Family at a Loss
Discussion: TalkLeft and Crossroads Arabia
Tracie Rozhon / New York Times:
To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime