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President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I've just had a good meeting with Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, and General Pete Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secretary Gates and General Pace updated me on the deployment of American reinforcements to Iraq.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Memo To Bush: 57 Days — The US News Political Bulletin reported this morning that "White House strategists are now pulling out all the stops to blame the Democratic majority in Congress for a potential delay in funding the Iraq war. ... White House aides have adopted a new gambit …
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Crawford-Bound Bush Slams Congressional Vacation
Crawford-Bound Bush Slams Congressional Vacation
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The Carpetbagger Report
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004 — Note: You can now read the rest of the interview with Senator Kerry here. — On Monday afternoon I had the chance to speak with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2004.
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Deacon / Power Line:
DID MCCAIN APPROACH KERRY? — The left-wing blog MyDD reports that, according to John Kerry, John McCain's staff approached him (not the other way around) about the idea of McCain running with Kerry in 2004. Kerry said reports that McCain's approached the Dems about switching parties
Matt Lewis / Townhall.com:
"Kerry Approached McCain" — Exclusive Interview with McCain Advisor John Weaver and CoS Mark Salter — I just had a chance to do a quick interview with McCain advisor John Weaver and long-time Chief of Staff Mark Salter — about the recent allegations regarding John McCain's supposed interest in joining the Democrat Party.
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New York Sun Politics
Andrew C. McCarthy / Human Events:
The Mullahs Scoff at Geneva ... Again — For what seems like the millionth time since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has perpetrated an act of war against the West, reaffirmed its hostile, revolutionary intentions, and demonstrated that it is a rogue state which scoffs at the civilizing impulses …
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Sky News:
New Iran Hostage Pictures — Iran has released fresh pictures of the 15 British sailors and marines being held captive in the country. — The first picture, apparently a still taken from a video, showed six sailors sitting in blue and red tracksuits on a carpet in a room.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Right and Geneva — Andy McCarthy cites the Geneva Conventions.
Think Progress:
Gingrich: When I Said 'Language Of Living In The Ghetto,' I Meant Hebrew (Or Maybe Yiddish) » — Newt Gingrich said this past weekend that the U.S. should abolish bilingual education so that people aren't speaking "the language of living in a ghetto."
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Pelosi Rebuffs Criticism of Syria Visit — DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Damascus on Tuesday, the highest- ranking American politician to visit Syria since relations began to deteriorate four years ago. President Bush criticized the trip, saying it sends mixed signals to President Bashar Assad.
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The Blotter:
ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran — Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report: — A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
CBC News:
Human food supply free of contaminated wheat gluten: Importer — The contaminated wheat gluten that prompted an extensive recall of pet food was not used in food for humans, the ingredient's importer confirmed on Tuesday. — Stephen Miller, ChemNutra Inc.'s chief executive officer …
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The Huffington Post
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Dems Press Gonzales on Justice Aide — For perhaps the first time in history, a Justice Department official has invoked the Fifth Amendment — and remains in her position at the Department. In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases — In one of its most important environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases in automobile emissions.
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CNN:
Hospital: Woman dead after CNN Center shooting … ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A woman has died according to Atlanta's Grady Hospital following a shooting Tuesday at the CNN Center complex, in what Atlanta police called a "domestic situation." — The woman, who witnesses said appeared to be pregnant …
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Can The Note save itself? — The unexpected personnel notice posted by ABC News on March 21 no doubt raised eyebrows among the Beltway's political and media elite. The network announced that Mark Halperin, the high-profile and plugged-in director of ABC's political unit and author …
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Daily Kos
Barry R. McCaffrey / Los Angeles Times:
No choice: Stay the course in Iraq — U.S. leadership deserves support for one last effort to succeed, says a retired Army general. — IRAQ IS BEING ripped apart by a low-grade civil war compounded by a dysfunctional, Shiite-dominated government. As many as 3,000 Iraqis are being killed …
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Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair — John McCain's campaign has just put out a press release announcing that GOP money-man Fred Malek has signed on as national finance co-chair. That's a very important, high-level gig. — There's only one problem, though …
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The Nation
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests — Group Detained, Questioned During D.C. War Protest — A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political …