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President Bush Pleased with Attorney General's Testimony — President Bush was pleased with the Attorney General's testimony today. After hours of testimony in which he answered all of the Senators' questions and provided thousands of pages of documents, he again showed that nothing improper occurred.
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New York Times:
Gonzales Endures Harsh Session With Senate Panel — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, trying to salvage his job, endured withering questioning on Thursday from Senate Judiciary Committee members who expressed grave doubts about his truthfulness and judgment in the firing of federal prosecutors.
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Washington Post:
Gonzales Testifies Before Senate Panel — SEN. PATRICK J. LEAHY, D-VT. CHAIRMAN: Good morning. — This week, like all Americans, we join in mourning the tragic killings at Virginia Tech on Monday. The innocent lives of students and — before we start, I noticed the people holding outside.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Coburn To Gonzales: Spend More Time With Your Family — I stopped live-blogging the Senate Judiciary Committee testimony of Alberto Gonzales at the lunch break, and at that time Gonzales appeared to be struggling to explain himself even to the Republicans on the panel.
New York Times:
Gonzales v. Gonzales — If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it's hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge.
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
GOP senator calls for Gonzales to resign — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales struggled Thursday to convince skeptical senators he did nothing improper in firing eight federal prosecutors, losing ground as a second senator from his own party joined the calls for his resignation.
David Stout / New York Times:
In Testimony, Gonzales Says Firings Were Justified
In Testimony, Gonzales Says Firings Were Justified
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David Maraniss / Washington Post:
'That Was the Desk I Chose to Die Under' — The roommates crossed paths near the bathroom door at 5 in the morning. In the Monday darkness, another school week at Virginia Tech was about to begin. Karan Grewal had pulled an all-nighter to finish his accounting paper.
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Lynn M. Paltrow / American Prospect:
Miscarriage of Justice — The federal "partial-birth" abortion ban has grave implications for all pregnant women, not only those seeking to end pregnancies. — Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first federal law that bans an abortion procedure for all women and all doctors in all states.
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TMZ.com:
Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter — An enraged Alec Baldwin unleashed a volcanic tirade of threats and insults on his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig," and bashing her mother Kim Basinger — and TMZ has obtained the whole thing unfiltered and raw.
John Edwards '08 Blog:
I'm Signing On — I really thought that the 2004 presidential campaign would be the last I would be involved in. I have always wanted to make a difference, but for me I thought those days were over. — A few weeks ago, John and Elizabeth Edwards made their decision to continue …
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Agence France Presse:
Iraq war is 'lost': US Democrat leader — The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday. — "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything …
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
'Accommodations' could open door to more demands — Last week, I wrote about Minneapolis Community and Technical College's proposal to install ritual washing facilities to facilitate Muslim prayer. Is this a tempest in a teapot, as some have suggested? — Canada, our neighbor to the north …
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Open Congress:
S.223 — Blog articles for S.223 — S.223: A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form. — APRIL 20, 2007 — S.223 — S.223 A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form. introduced Jan. 09, 2007 293 views
Rocky Mountain News:
Nacchio found guilty — For a few minutes Thursday afternoon, Joe Nacchio dared to smile. — Seated between his attorneys, the former Qwest CEO and one-time titan of the telecom industry looked hopeful as U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham read verdicts of not guilty to the first 23 counts of insider trading.
Rick Perlstein / commonsense.ourfuture.org:
Rick Perlstein's blog — Last year I attended a major conference of conservative intellectuals and activists at Princeton University as the token liberal. There I heard Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention say that the Democratic Party ostracizes all pro-life Democrats.
Nancy A. Youssef / Real Cities:
Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy — WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
Avni Patel Reports / The Blotter:
Ruling Congress, Dems Rolling in Special Interest Cash — Avni Patel Reports: — The campaign coffers of the new Democratic House committee chairmen have seen a big jump in contributions from lobbyists and special interests since the Democratic takeover of Congress, according …
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