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11:45 AM ET, March 13, 2007

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New York Times:
White House Said to Prompt Firing of Prosecutors  —  The White House was deeply involved in the decision late last year to dismiss federal prosecutors, including some who had been criticized by Republican lawmakers, administration officials said Monday.  —  Last October, President Bush spoke …
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Washington Post:
Firings Had Genesis in White House  —  Ex-Counsel Miers First Suggested Dismissing Prosecutors 2 Years Ago, Documents Show  —  The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Fast-Riser's High Hopes and Sudden Fall  —  D. Kyle Sampson has never worked full time as a federal prosecutor.  But for much of the Bush administration he played a considerable role in vetting who served in the Justice Department.  And last year he used his post as chief of staff …
Associated Press:   White House mulled firing all prosecutors
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:   How U.S. Attorneys Get Appointed
Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:   Key figure in Justice Dept. to step down
Associated Press:
Gen. Pace calls homosexuality immoral  —  WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Reuters:
Top U.S. General Calls Homosexuality Immoral: Report  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff said he backs the Pentagon's ``don't ask, don't tell'' limits on gays serving in the military because he believes homosexual acts are immoral, the Chicago Tribune reported in Tuesday's edition.
Discussion: TAPPED
William J. Broad / New York Times:
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype  —  Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," which won an Academy Award for best documentary.  So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:   Al Gore's Really Inconvenient Truth: Even the NY Times is Growing Skeptical
USA Today:
General: Al-Sadr's fighters feel heat  —  Coalition forces have detained about 700 members of the Mahdi Army, the largest Shiite militia in Baghdad, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday.  —  The militia, which is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and has clashed with U.S. troops in the past …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Hundreds Of Mahdis, Thousands Of Insurgents Detained
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Unity is overrated  —  Calls to 'put politics aside' really mean 'stop disagreeing with me and shut up.'  —  BECAUSE WE'RE AT the start of the electoral roller coaster, the part where the car slowly chugs upward, building anticipation for the gut-wrenching plunges and loop-the-loops ahead …
Discussion: TAPPED
Greg Sargent / The Coffee House:
Poll: Cheney's Approval Rating Sinks To 18 Percent; Bush At 34%  —  The big New York Times poll we posted below has a bunch of interesting numbers that we'll be checking out today.  For now, here's a real doozy: Dick Cheney's approval rating is all of 18 percent.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
When No News Is Strange News  —  The 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a giant in the field of logic.  The 21st-century philosopher Chuck Hagel?  Not so much.  —  The Republican senator from Nebraska, flirting with a 2008 presidential run, scheduled …
Gail Shister / Philadelphia Inquirer:
FOB (and Hillary) sees no effect on 'CBS Evening News'  —  Can a friend of Bill's cover Hillary?  —  Absolutely, says new CBS Evening News chief Rick Kaplan, a pal of both Clintons' since 1974.  He slept in the White House twice during Bill Clinton's administration.
Discussion: TVNewser
Jonathan V. Last / Opinion Journal:
Captain America, RIP  —  As a superhero, he changed along with the country.  —  Last Wednesday morning, while most people kibitzed about Scooter Libby over their morning coffee, Captain America was murdered on the steps of the federal courthouse in New York.
irs.gov:
IRS Issues Winter 2006-2007 Statistics of Income Bulletin  —  WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the release of the Winter 2006-2007 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin.  Highlights include articles on individual income taxes, split-interest trusts and tax-exempt organizations.
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Home in San Francisco, Pelosi Gets the Crawford Treatment  —  SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 — San Francisco, meet Crawford, Tex.  —  Using a tactic usually trained on the home turf of President Bush, a group of protesters from Code Pink, a women's antiwar group, have camped in front of the home …
Pat Toomey / Opinion Journal:
The McCain Record  —  Arizona's senior senator is not a consistent defender of individual freedom.  —  Political candidates often attempt to burnish their economic policy credentials on the campaign trail.  As part of an effort to provide a fair and thorough analysis of the real economic records …
Discussion: Redstate and Betsy's Page
 
 
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Iranian official lashes out at Hollywood movie "300" …
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