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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
On the Hill, Gonzales Gets His Chance at Redemption — When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's top aide contemplated the mass dismissal of chief federal prosecutors two years ago, he advocated keeping the "loyal Bushies." Two years later, the question confronting President Bush is whether …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
One Prosecutor's Ouster Central to Inquiry — When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales takes the witness chair on Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the dismissal of the United States attorney from New Mexico will be a topic of particular scrutiny, committee members and their staff said.
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Exonerates Six Who Killed in Islam's Name — The Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of six members of a prestigious state militia who killed five people they considered "morally corrupt." — The reversal, in an infamous five-year-old case from Kerman …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
In Reversal, Justices Back Ban on Method of Abortion — The Supreme Court reversed course on abortion on Wednesday, upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-to-4 decision that promises to reframe the abortion debate and define the young Roberts court.
Nathan Newman / The Coffee House:
Supreme Ct Kills Range of State Banking Laws in Gift to Predatory Lenders
Supreme Ct Kills Range of State Banking Laws in Gift to Predatory Lenders
Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
SENATOR REID ON PBA RULING: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
SENATOR REID ON PBA RULING: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Package Forced NBC to Make Tough Decisions — The package that arrived yesterday at NBC headquarters in New York was almost immediately flagged as suspicious, because it had been mailed from Blacksburg, Va., and bore the return name A. Ishmael. — Last night, the anchor of "The NBC Nightly News …
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Barbara Oakley / New York Times:
The Killer in the Lecture Hall — THE sticky note on my door was wiggling. It was a gift from a student. — Glued to the middle of it was a cockroach. — Don't get me wrong. It wasn't that I was an unpopular professor. To the contrary — according to student evaluations …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Network Says It Debated for Hours Whether to Air Shooter's Images
Network Says It Debated for Hours Whether to Air Shooter's Images
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Scott Harper / zwire.com:
McCain visits Murrells Inlet — Even though he was nursing a cold, Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain spent nearly 90 minutes talking to nearly 500 people who crammed into the Murrells Inlet VFW Hall Wednesday morning. — The "Straight Talk" tour, as it's called, included stops in Summerville and Charleston.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Drinking Age Paradox — Public policy often illustrates the law of unintended consequences. Society's complexity — multiple variables with myriad connections — often causes the consequences of a policy to be contrary to, and larger than, the intended ones.
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Greg Gordon / Real Cities:
Campaign against alleged voter fraud fuels political tempest — WASHINGTON - For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Media in the Mud — It pales in comparison to the carnage and loss of life this week at Virginia Tech. But last week the tattered reputation of journalism in this country saw severe damage. The role of the media in the phony Duke lacrosse rape story and the Don Imus firing left large parts …
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
This won't be a typical David Broder post, so bear with me.
This won't be a typical David Broder post, so bear with me.
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Washington Post:
Democrats Would Make Iraq Timetable in Bill 'Advisory' — Congressional Democratic leaders are moving to make their proposed timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq "advisory" as they seek to reconcile two versions of war spending legislation into a single bill that they plan to pass next week …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Alberto Gonzales Testimony, Part IV — Please keep comments on point and think before you post — the faster the comments go, the faster I have to start a new thread, and that disrupts the flow of the liveblogging. Thanks. — SEN. CORNYN QUESTIONS: I've known you for a long time …
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Washington Post:
Giuliani's Lead Shrinks, Clinton's Margin Holds — Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's lead over his Republican presidential rivals has narrowed considerably, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has maintained her advantage in the race for the Democratic nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Associated Press:
Kitty Carlisle Hart dead at 96 … NEW YORK (AP) — Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday. — Christopher Hart said his mother …
Michael J. Totten:
Where Kurdistan Meets the Red Zone — "If Turkey allows itself to interfere in the matter of Kirkuk, we will do the same...in Turkey." - Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani. — KIRKUK, IRAQ - Just south of the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq's northernmost provinces lies …