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2:35 PM ET, April 2, 2007

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feingold.senate.gov:
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER COSPONSORS FEINGOLD BILL TO REDEPLOY TROOPS FROM IRAQ  —  Washington D.C. -­ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission …
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Bob Geiger:
Democrats Move To Cut Bush's War Funding If Iraq Withdrawal Vetoed  —  The White House and Republican leaders may think that they will have dodged the majority of the American people when George W. Bush vetoes the recently-passed war-funding bill containing a provision mandating withdrawal from Iraq but …
Discussion: The Mahablog and TalkLeft
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Shatters Record for Fundraising  —  Edwards Also Passes 1st-Quarter Benchmark  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, almost three times as much as any politician has previously raised at this point in a presidential election …
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Washington Post:
Presidential Contenders Set New Fundraising Records  —  The 2008 presidential contenders continued to shatter fundraising records today, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) joining Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in breaking the $20 million barrier for first quarter.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Clinton Campaign Shows Fund-Raising Edge
Laura Clark / Daily Mail:
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims  —  Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.  —  It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
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The Raw Story:
CNN reporter slams Drudge's charge that he 'heckled' McCain; Exclusive video confirms his claim  —  CNN reporter Michael Ware this morning hit back at news aggregator Matt Drudge who accused him on Sunday of 'heckling' Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham in a Baghdad press conference.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Denies Appeal From Gitmo Detainees  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:   Analysis: Court denies detainees' habeas cases
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Beltway Journamalism and the Public  —  I don't know why, but when Jonathan Weisman's reporting at the Washington Post is bad, it's really irritating.  I think it's because he more than most 'straight' journalists is obvious about what he wants to say and fishing for quotes and sources to help him say it.
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, welcome to our first installment of The Public's Always Ahead of the Press and the Pundits — or "PAP" for short.  —  Remember how during the 2006 elections literally every political development of any kind was interpreted by pundits and the press as good for the GOP — that is …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs Is Seen on Rise  —  As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan's tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network's operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.
Dan Mangan / New York Post:
JUDI'S JOB WITH PUP-KILLER FIRM  —  Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.
Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Balking at the First Pitch  —  Bush's Skipping of Opening Day May Perpetuate a Ritual's Slow Decline  —  This is a baseball story, so let's get right to the stats.  —  Today is Washington's 65th Opening Day since 1910, when William H. Taft gave us a tradition: the ceremonial first pitch by the president.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Rightist Indignation  —  GOP Insider Vic Gold Launches a Broadside at the State of the Party  —  Vic Gold heard from Lynne Cheney a few weeks before George W. Bush was sworn in as president in January 2001.  Cheney had an assignment for her old friend: She wanted Gold to write the profiles …
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
The Decoy Effect, or How to Win an Election  —  If Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ever took a break from fundraising to bone up on psychology, they might realize the need to talk up . . . John Edwards.  —  The same goes for front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the race …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Free for All  —  The group of young intellectuals who often gathered at Ayn Rand's Manhattan home in the early 1950s had a couple of different names for themselves.  One was the "Class of '43," after the year that Rand published her first successful novel, "The Fountainhead."
 
 
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