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2:50 PM ET, April 5, 2007

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Washington Post:
Pratfall in Damascus  —  Nancy Pelosi's foolish shuttle diplomacy  —  HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad.
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Associated Press:
U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa meets Syrian president in Damascus  —  DAMASCUS, Syria: A visiting U.S. congressman held talks with President Bashar Assad Thursday, a day after a congressional delegation headed by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparked controversy by meeting the Syrian leader.
Nico / Think Progress:
Washington Post Misleads, Contradicts Own Reporting, To Attack Pelosi  —  The Washington Post editorial page today published a vicious editorial attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), calling her "ludicrous" and describing her bipartisan trip to Syria as an "attempt to establish a shadow presidency."
Dugald McConnell / CNN:
Carter backs Pelosi's trip, despite Bush's rebuke
Media Matters for America:   CNN's Malveaux asked if Pelosi's trip to Syria is "big wet kiss …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Tehran Likely to Pay Long-Term Price
Daily Mail:
Awkward questions amid the euphoria
Discussion: Telegraph and Britain and America
Washington Post:
Gonzales Prepares to Fight for His Job in Testimony  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an intensive effort to save his job, spending hours practicing testimony and phoning lawmakers for support in preparation for pivotal appearances in the Senate this month …
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Zogby:
Zogby: Romney Rockets!  —  Latest New Hampshire telephone poll shows Romney's support nearly doubles to 25% to tie McCain; Giuliani trails at 19%  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has rocketed to the top of the field of contenders for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary crown …
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Romney calls himself a longtime hunter  —  BOSTON - In boasting about his lifelong experience as a hunter, Mitt Romney may have shot himself in the foot.  —  The Republican presidential contender has told audiences on several occasions, most recently this week in gun-savvy — and early voting …
Michael J. Totten:
An Army, Not a Militia  —  SULEIMANIYA, IRAQ - Iraq is a country with three armies and I'm-not-sure-how-many militias and death squads.  The Iraqi Army is nominally the national army, but it's still being trained, supplied, and augmented by the coalition forces, which is to say the Americans.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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Patrick S Lasswell / Moderate Risk:   A Dormant Hell in Iraq
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
New bin Laden Video Expected  —  Marvellous.  Let's hope this is old footage, given a new spin.  As-Sahab has been known to recycle bin Laden's speeches in the past, edited and translated by our own American traitor Adam Gadahn.  —  But if bin Laden's speech does include the recent Arab summit …
Discussion: Hot Air
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United States Central Command:
Al-Sahab Expected To Release New Bin Ladin Video  —  Terrorism: Al-Sahab Reportedly To Release New Bin Ladin Video Message  —  On 4 April, a jihadist website carried the following posting:  —  "After a long absence by the shaykh of mujahidin, whom we have missed as well as his speeches …
Discussion: Cadillac Tight and PrairiePundit
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
THE NEXT CRUSADE  —  Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.  —  Text Size: … The Selimiye Mosque, in Edirne, a city in northwest Turkey, is a magnificent stone edifice, with four minarets and an austere, octagonal-shaped body supporting a large dome.  Built for Sultan Selim II in the sixteenth century …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and TalkLeft
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Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Favoritism Shown Towards Wolfowitz's Girlfriend
Discussion: Wonkette
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Uses Recess to Fill Envoy Post and 2 Others  —  President Bush used the Congressional recess on Wednesday to push through his choice to be ambassador to Belgium and to fill two domestic policy positions, provoking Democratic ire with all three appointments.
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en.rian.ru:
Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming  —  The government of Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia, which has a population of about 4 million, has approved a tax on barbequing, local media reported.  —  Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2 …
Arnold Tsunga / Washington Post:
Mugabe's Enablers  —  When the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community convened last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to discuss the political situation in Zimbabwe, hopes among the Zimbabwean people ran high.  President Robert Mugabe had recently extended his brutal efforts …
 
 
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Tim Harper / Toronto Star:
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Joel Mowbray / Washington Times:
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Discussion: SCSUScholars and Power Line
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