MTP Transcript for Mar. 25, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the battle over the U.S. attorneys.  The Democrats vote to subpoena the White House staff.  The president stands by his attorney general.  —  PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: He's got support with me.  I support the attorney general.

24% Consider Al Gore Global Warming Expert  —  Former Vice President Al Gore (D) received a warm welcome on Capitol Hill last week for his testimony on the environment and Global Warming.  However, while he is now an Academy Award winner and celebrity activist, just 24% of Americans consider Gore an expert on Global Warming.

GSA Chief Is Accused of Playing Politics  —  Doan Denies 'Improper' Use of Agency for GOP  —  Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove's political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier …

Hagel says Bush too dismissive of Congress on Iraq  —  Source: Reuters  —  President George W. Bush should stop being dismissive of opposition in Congress to the Iraq war and it is time that lawmakers set boundaries for U.S. involvement, a Republican senator said on Sunday.

Exclusive: John And Elizabeth Edwards  —  Edwards Open About Cancer, Unconditional About Couple's Decision On Presidential Run  —  (CBS) When John and Elizabeth Edwards announced this past Thursday that her breast cancer had returned and spread to her bones, and that his presidential campaign …

Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human  —  Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.  —  The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect …

"VITRIOL" FROM NORTHERN VIRGINIA-BASED AOL  —  Today's Minneapolis Star Tribune has an article on the recent Twin Cities controversies involving taxis and check-out lines.  Like so many "news" stories in the Strib, it's an editorial posing as reportage.  It begins with an anecdote …

War story told by former sailor disputed  —  Deployment to Iraq not in personnel record; paper issues correction  —  The March 18 Sunday New York Times Magazine cover story was a gripping account of the emotional problems some female veterans suffer as results of their war experiences, sexual assaults or both.

Australian faces new Guantanamo trial  —  View related video  —  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — After a nomadic decade that carried him from the Australian outback to the battlefields of Afghanistan, David Hicks ended up locked away at this remote U.S. base in Cuba, accused of training with al-Qaida and fighting for the Taliban.

Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Slave Trade  —  On March 25, 1807, two hundreds years ago today, Parliament passed An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.  Here is the key language of the Act: … William Wilberforce, of course, was the leading voice in the movement to abolish the slave trade.

A Fresh Face Vows to Revive the G.O.P.  —  Amid the sea of square jaws and swept-back gray hair in Congress, Representative Adam H. Putnam, a tousled redhead whose cherubic appearance still causes Capitol police to stop him occasionally, appears a bit out of place.

How to Win in Iraq—and How to Lose  —  It is best if an enemy nation comes and surrenders of its own accord.  —Du You (735-812)  —  To the student of counterinsurgency warfare, the war in Iraq has reached a critical but dismally familiar stage.  —  On the one hand …

City Asks Court Not to Unseal Police Spy Files  —  Lawyers for the city, responding to a request to unseal records of police surveillance leading up to the 2004 Republican convention in New York, say that the documents should remain secret because the news media will "fixate upon and sensationalize them …

Beldar on Goldberg and Beinart on whether Democrats have paid a political price for opposing the Vietnam War  —  NR/NRO's Jonah Goldberg takes issue with an op-ed in TIME in which TNR editor Peter Beinart argues that the new Democratic majority in Congress ought to "go for it" — meaning …

William "the Bloody" Kristol makes our point for us...  Kristol thinks Alberto should go because his Chief of Staff is gone...He's saying that Alberto should know what his own Chief of Staff is doing, which of course makes perfect sense since he was a Chief of Staff himself...Scapegoating be damned. …