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2:55 PM ET, March 19, 2007

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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss  —  National Survey of Iraq  —  A new national survey paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever starker sectarian chasm …
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White House:
President Bush Discusses Fourth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  Four years ago today, coalition forces launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to remove Saddam Hussein from power.  They did so to eliminate the threat his regime posed to the Middle East and to the world.
Discussion: TAPPED and Gateway Pundit
Karen DeYoung / Iraq:
Iraq War's Statistics Prove Fleeting
Discussion: The Heretik
Nico / Think Progress:
Tony Snow 'Defensive' On Iraq Anniversary, Tells CNN's Ed Henry To 'Zip It'  —  President Bush will address the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion in a speech today at the White House.  —  During this morning's press gaggle, Tony Snow told reporters that Bush will use the speech to attack …
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Associated Press:
Bush Pleads for Patience in Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - With Democrats pushing for an end to the Iraq war now entering its fifth year, President Bush pleaded for more patience Monday, saying success is possible but "will take months, not days or weeks."  —  The war has stretched longer …
Discussion: Don Surber
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Schumer Faulted on Probe  —  GOP Solons See Conflict on Attorneys  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Schumer is coming under criticism from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who say Mr. Schumer's leadership in the investigation of the U.S. attorney firings presents a conflict …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Republicans and U.S. attorneys — then and now  —  The fundamental difference between (a) a new administration replacing all U.S. attorneys (as multiple Presidents have done — including Clinton, Reagan and even Bush 41) and (b) cherry-picking ones for firing in the middle of an administration, has been amply documented.
Discussion: Eschaton, DownWithTyranny! and Macsmind
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Opinion Journal:
Get Out of DOJ  —  Should Gonzales resign?  Plus KSM's confession and more.  —  Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is under fire for what Democrats are calling a political purge.  But how unprecedented was the dismissal of those eight U.S. attorneys?
Discussion: Macsmind
David Ehrenstein / Los Angeles Times:
Obama the 'Magic Negro'  —  The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man.  —  AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Another Silly Obama Meme
Discussion: politburo diktat 2.0
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
News media and politics: an uneasy union  —  Some prominent journalists have mates who work for a presidential candidate.  They approach this potential conflict in different ways.  —  Some of America's most prominent political journalists are, quite literally, wedded to the 2008 presidential race …
Discussion: Public Eye, Romenesko and FishBowlDC
CBN.com:
John McCain Rips the Club For Growth  —  John McCain has taken some hits for not attending certain conservative events.  With CPAC, he says it was a simple schedueling conflict.  But he will not be speaking at the upcoming conservative Club For Growth meeting either.  Why not?
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts  —  Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight …
Associated Press:
Study finds one-third in D.C. illiterate  —  WASHINGTON - About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia.  —  Adults are considered functionally illiterate …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
In '08 Race, Web Tactics Are Even More Integral  —  Handicapping Field  —  Is a Bigger Chore  —  As Goals Diverge  —  WASHINGTON — John Edwards topped the field of Democratic presidential contenders in the liberal blog DailyKos's latest straw poll.  But Barack Obama has the most "friends" on MySpace.
Discussion: Wonkette
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read  —  It's becoming one of the central rules of the U.S. attorney purge scandal: whatever "performance related" complaint the administration claims as the justification for a U.S. attorney's firing, it's actually an area of performance for which that U.S. attorney was lauded.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Whose Ox Is Gored?  —  The media discover the former vice president's environmental exaggerations and hypocrisy.  —  The media are finally catching up with Al Gore.  Criticism of his anti-global-warming franchise and his personal environmental record has gone beyond ankle-biting bloggers.
 
 
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Cathy's World:
In hospital  —  As earlier mentioned in the comments section …
Discussion: LA Observed
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Detainee confesses to USS Cole bombing
Discussion: The Jawa Report
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
GOP Gave Joe A Boost
Discussion: MyDD and The Swamp
Steven Swinford / Times of London:
BA sat corpse in first class
Aaron Hanscom / TCS Daily:
Spanish Lessons in Appeasement
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Opinion Journal:
Trash Talk  —  Some lawyers-to-be should exercise their right to remain silent.
Discussion: Althouse and Freakonomics Blog
Tantor / Conservative Propaganda:
Vietnam Vets Face Down The Moonbats
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Case For Fred Thompson
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Shaun Mullen / Kiko's House:
Vietnam, Iraq & A Tale of Two Marches
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Guest Post: Rep. Duncan Hunter
James V. Grimaldi / Washington Post:
Smithsonian Documents Detail Chief's Expenses
Sara Corbett / New York Times:
The Women's War  —  On the morning of Monday, Jan. 9, 2006 …
David Carr / New York Times:
All the World's a Story  —  Journalism has always been a product of networks.
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Official Alerted F.B.I. to Rules Abuse 2 Years Ago, Lawyer Says
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The Blame-America-First Crowd  —  "They always blame America first."
George Packer / New Yorker:
BETRAYED  —  The Iraqis who trusted America the most.  —  Text Size:
 

 
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Reuters:
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