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2:40 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 Post:
Panel Asks Rove for Information on '08 Election Presentation  —  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: David Corn
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:   Rove Aide Resigns
Nico / Think Progress:
Rush Limbaugh:  —  Don't fire Gonzales even though he's incompetent because winning elections is much more important: … More Rush: "USA Today's got a poll: 'Do you think something's wrong about the firing of eight US attorneys?'  72% said yes. 72% of the American people …
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RushLimbaugh.com Home:
Warming: Do Not Give Democrats the Head of Alberto Gonzales  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: Let's move on to Kyle Sampson, who was testifying today before the Leaky Leahy Judiciary Committee in the United States Senate.  There was a lot of hubbub about Kyle Sampson.
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 …
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Testimony by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in '00
Simon Heffer / Telegraph:
Online comment: Heading for war with Iran?  —  I start to wonder whether it might not be time for us to get as nasty with other countries as they do with us.  —  As we wait anxiously to see what will happen to our 15 hostages - for that is what they are - in Teheran, we should feel undiluted rage …
Discussion: Verum Serum
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Report Faults Interior Appointee  —  Landowner Issues Trumped Animal Protections, IG Says  —  A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information …
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Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Report Says Interior Official Overrode Work of Scientists
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Bush Loyalist Rose Quickly at Justice  —  When a college intern in the Justice Department whined that all he was doing was filing and answering phones, Monica M. Goodling took him aside.  If he wanted to do "substantive work," she told him, he was going to have to prove himself first.
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ColorOfChange.org:
Rev. Jesse Jackson Denounces Congressional Black Caucus Institute's FOX Debate  —  ColorOfChange.org says CBC's decision is "shamefully out of touch" with Black voters; launches national campaign calling on CBC to reverse course and for presidential candidates to reject Fox debate
Discussion: Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Which Is 'The Real War'?  —  "Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan."  —  The Senate and the House have both passed bills for ending the Iraq war, or at least liquidating the American involvement in it.
Washington Post:
Saudis Publicly Get Tough With U.S.  —  King's Remarks on Iraq Follow Signs Riyadh Is Distancing Itself From Bush  —  Of all the foreign leaders President Bush has dealt with over the past six years, few have been as direct or blunt in private as Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, according to U.S. officials.
Discussion: Foreign Policy Watch and Reuters
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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 …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
15 Britons In a Sea Of Intrigue  —  BERLIN — We are in a season of skulduggery in the Middle East, with a strange series of events that all involve the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.  The murky saga is a reminder that the real power in Iran may lie with this secretive organization …
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq: It may be a rough road to a Senate-House compromise  —  WASHINGTON — Fresh from passing the first timelines to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq, congressional Democrats now face the daunting task of reconciling critical differences between a Senate withdrawal plan passed Thursday and one approved by the House last week.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Those prissy, puritanical lefty bloggers.  —  There's been a lot of talk about me lately in the left-o-sphere.  And, sorry, but I'm not going to link to it.  You know how to find things.  Anyway, for the most part, I don't answer back.  As my mother used to say: You'll only encourage them.
 
 
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Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. gang prosecutions called overzealous
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Controversial leader of family planning office resigns
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqi Widow Saves Her Home, but Victory Is Brief
Karen Tumulty / Time:
It's Universal  —  For Democrats, health care has long been a merciless minefield.
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RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Don't confuse terrorism with Islam, says EU
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air
Guardian:
A peculiar outrage  —  The treatment of Faye Turney is wrong …
Bill / INDCJournal:
"The USMC/Iraqi team was sluggin' it out side by side." …
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