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9:15 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.
RushLimbaugh.com Home:
Warming: Do Not Give Democrats the Head of Alberto Gonzales
Discussion: New York Times and Macsmind
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
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.
White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  MS. PERINO: Good morning.  Good Friday afternoon, I'm sorry.  It's been 53 days since the President requested funding for the troops.  We sent up the budget on February 5th, and in addition to sending up the budget we sent the supplemental, as well.
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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.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
James Carville's Blogger Ethics Problem  —  Cable news is a rather unique beast.  There are so many ways it's a racket that it would take a book to list them all.  Here's a simple and obvious little conflict of interest, from yesterday's Situation Room on CNN.
Discussion: Eschaton, Hot Air and Daily Kos
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Most Trusted Name in Blogger Ethics Panels
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
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 …
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] …
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 and Blue Crab Boulevard
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 …
Iranian.com:
Those aren't gifts  —  Misguided advocates of negotiation with the mullahs, beware  —  Iran's mullahs have repeatedly indicated their willingness and ability to help restore order in Iraq, on the condition that the United States packs up and leaves the region.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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.
 
 
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"The USMC/Iraqi team was sluggin' it out side by side." …
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