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7:00 PM ET, March 30, 2007

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Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
Key Rove aide fingered in US Attorney investigation to step down; Could face subpoena  —  Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush's key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House.  The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified …
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Washington Wire:
White House Faces More Departures  —  John D. McKinnon reports on staff changes at the White House.  —  Several impending departures from the White House could further complicate life for the hard-pressed Bush administration.  —  Peter Wehner, the head of strategic initiatives …
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Gonzales defends his role in firings  —  BOSTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, amid a growing clamor for his resignation, acknowledged Friday confusion about of his role in firing eight U.S. attorneys but said he doesn't "recall being involved in deliberations" over which prosecutors were to be ousted.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Policy Aide's Departure Continues Transformation of Bush's Staff  —  Over the past several years, Peter H. Wehner has sent a blizzard of e-mails around the White House and the rest of Washington, offering strategy and policy ideas to President Bush and making the case for those policies to outsiders.
RushLimbaugh.com Home:
Warming: Do Not Give Democrats the Head of Alberto Gonzales
Discussion: New York Times and Macsmind
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:   Rove Aide Resigns
Fox News:
DISPLAY OF CONTROVERSIAL 'CHOCOLATE JESUS' SCULPTURE CANCELLED, FOX NEWS LEARNS  —  March 29: 'My Sweet Lord,' a chocolate statue by artist Cosimo Cavallaro of a naked Jesus hangs at Ranieris Sculpture Casting studio in New York.  —  NEW YORK — A controversial planned exhibit …
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Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
N.Y. gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit
Discussion: The Huffington Post
The Daily Howler:
DISAPPEARING ICE DISAPPEARED!  At HuffPo, Mooney described three parts—of an ongoing, four-part problem:  —  THE STORY OF CHRIS AND THE BIG HORNY MONSTER: Who should Democrats nominate for the White House?  At THE HOWLER, we haven't decided.  But if you still don't understand the venom aimed …
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The Daily Howler:   THE ABDUSSAMATOVIAN CANDIDATE! …
Think Progress:
Bush Caught Hyping False Iraq Spending Deadline  —  The Bush administration has been trying to force Congress to abandon its support for an Iraq withdrawal time line by claiming that a "clean" Iraq spending bill must be signed by mid-April or U.S. troops will suffer.
Associated Press:
FOX NEWS, BLACK CAUCUS TEAM FOR DEBATES  —  WASHINGTON — Fox News, rebounding from a presidential debate squabble with Democrats, has a new deal with an old debate partner.  The cable news network will co-sponsor primary debates for each party's presidential field this fall in association …
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Chris Kelly / The Huffington Post:
Meet John D'oh: Michelle Malkin is Watching You  —  "We are coming to a new order of things.  There's too much talk been going on in this country.  Too many concessions have been made.  What the American people need is an iron hand."  — Someone in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, but Not the Good Guy
Discussion: Wonkette and The Impolitic
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Transplant Update (Update: Success!  Update II: FM Speaks!)  —  Note: This has been bumped to the top; newer posts are below.  —  I have a few moments to update everyone on the First Mate's progress.  She went into surgery around 9:15 CT, about an hour ago.
RADAR:
TIME TO ADMIT OVERSIGHT?  —  Is Time trying to bury the attorney general scandal that's seized Washington, D.C., for the past three months?  In just the last week, new documents emerged contradicting Alberto Gonzales's account of his role in the firings, a low-level Department …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqi Widow Saves Her Home, but Victory Is Brief  —  The two men showed up on Tuesday afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun's family.  One was carrying a shiny black pistol.  —  Ms. Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad.  A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before.
Washington Post:
Giuliani Sees Policy Role for Wife  —  Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani told ABC News's Barbara Walters that he would welcome his wife, Judith, at White House Cabinet meetings and other policy discussions if he were elected president next year.  —  "If she wanted to," Giuliani said in the …
Media Matters for America:
Citing more sex-change operations, increased lesbian fertility clinics, Savage said of 9-11: "That was God speaking"  —  On the March 27 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage complained that Americans currently live in "post-Christian times" in which "[t] …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
This Is London:
WITH FIVE PRIVATE JETS, TRAVOLTA STILL LECTURES ON GLOBAL WARMING  —  His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment.  But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway.  —  The 53-year-old actor, a passionate pilot, encouraged his fans to "do their bit" to tackle global warming.
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael Fullilove / Financial Times:
America's 'Seinfeld' strategy in Iraq  —  The history of US foreign policy is punctuated by a series of doctrines.  The Monroe doctrine (1823) declared that European powers would not be allowed to intrude into the western hemisphere.  The Truman doctrine (1947) committed Washington …
 
 
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White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino
Discussion: Think Progress and First Draft
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
'08 hopefuls rush to meet first fundraising deadline
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MSNBC:
WTO confirms US loss in online gaming case
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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The Poor Man Institute:
DoughBob Watch  —  DoughBob LoadPants puts together …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Nitpicker
Iranian.com:
Those aren't gifts  —  Misguided advocates of negotiation with the mullahs, beware
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
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Libby Purves / Times of London:
Africa gives Mugabe its blessing to fight West's sanctions
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Planned House Vote on Armenian Massacre Angers Turks
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Angus Crawford / BBC:
New low-cost vaccine for Africa
Discussion: Donklephant and Biased BBC
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Controversial leader of family planning office resigns
Simon Heffer / Telegraph:
Online comment: Heading for war with Iran?
Karen Tumulty / Time:
It's Universal  —  For Democrats, health care has long been a merciless minefield.
Bill / INDCJournal:
"The USMC/Iraqi team was sluggin' it out side by side." …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
15 Britons In a Sea Of Intrigue
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Which Is 'The Real War'?  —  "Our bill calls for the redeployment …
 

 
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