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John / AMERICAblog:
New domestic spying poll numbers are very bad for Bush  —  Some right-wingers have been crowing over a new poll that shows: … I've got news for you.  That's an abysmally low number for Bush.  —  Even I would probably approve of the NSA listening in on phone calls between suspected terrorists and …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
More Rasmussen: 64% Say Warrantless Eavesdropping OK  —  With only 23% disagreeing.  —  After the 2002 midterms — sheesh, that seems like it was almost three years ago or something — William Kristol offered his opinion that the Democrats had, basically, gone crazy.
Ezra Klein:
Trust, But Verify  —  Man, this is some insanely bad polling: … And I mean bad in both senses of the word.  First, as John notes, these are bad numbers.  I sure as hell think the NSA should listen in on suspected terrorists!  Anyone going to make the contrarian case against it?  —  Good.
Stephen Kaus / The Huffington Post:
Popping the Wrong Question  —  We may be hearing more about a Rasmussen poll showing that "[s]ixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States."
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
The Politics of Intel
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
U.S. Defends Conduct in Padilla Case  —  Supreme Court Asked To Overrule 4th Circuit  —  A federal appeals court infringed on President Bush's authority to run the war on terror when it refused to let prosecutors take custody of "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla, the Justice Department said yesterday …
Discussion: the talking dog and No More Apples
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Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Padilla's Lawyers Ask for Review of Powers  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held as an "enemy combatant" for nearly four years, want the Supreme Court to resolve how much power a president has while the nation is at war.  —  Lawyers Donna Newman and Andrew Patel told …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:   U.S. Asks Supreme Court to Transfer Terror Suspect
Reuters:   Supreme Court asked to transfer Padilla
Lisa Sandberg / mysanantonio.com:
Justices agree to consider hearing DeLay's money laundering case  —  AUSTIN — Media reports that U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay had convinced the state's highest court to hear his appeal were as widely circulated as they were, well, wrong.  —  Justices for the Texas Court Criminal Appeals agreed merely …
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Associated Press:
L.A. Times Prints Quote From Fake Release  —  GREEN RIVER, Wyo. - A quote in a fake news release that was intended as an April Fool's joke ended up in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times.  The story in Tuesday's editions of the Times noted how successful the reintroduction of wolves …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
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Julie Cart / Los Angeles Times:   Wolves Thrive but Animosity Keeps Pace
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:
CONSERVATISM AND THE SOUTH (AND SUNBELT)  —  It seems "weird[]" to Matthew Yglesias that I'm not convinced that Americans in the South and the Sunbelt have less intellect, and less prudence, than other Americans.  It seems weird to me that he finds it weird.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:
HART'S CONSERVATISM  —  Jonah, I agree with you that Jeff is "always worth reading."
Discussion: ARMAVIRUMQUE
Washington Post:
The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff  —  How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Congressional Corruption Scandal  —  Jack Abramoff liked to slip into dialogue from "The Godfather" as he led his lobbying colleagues in planning their next conquest on Capitol Hill.
Khalid Tanveer / Associated Press:
Pakistani Killed Daughters to Save 'Honor'  —  MULTAN, Pakistan - Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" — a crime that shocked Pakistan.
Radio Blogger:
Around the globe with Robert D. Kaplan  —  HH: Joining me to begin the conversation about the year around the globe, Robert D. Kaplan.  He is the author of Imperial Grunts: The American military on the ground.  He is also a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly.  He has been a guest on this program before.
Discussion: Instapundit.com and Hugh Hewitt
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Presidents all the same when scandal strikes  —  Two of the most powerful moments of political déjà vu I have ever experienced took place recently in the context of the Bush administration's defense of presidentially ordered electronic spying on American citizens.
Jim Hughes / Denver Post:
Vets get in races to fight GOP  —  War experience touted for Dems.  Veterans for a Secure America fields candidates for Congress nationwide, including two in Colorado.  —  More than 30 Iraq and Persian Gulf War veterans have entered congressional races across the country as Democrats …
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood's bad guy problem  —  WHEN YOU THINK about it, World War II was far from black and white.  Sure, the German and Japanese militarists were evil, but Britain and the United States did terrible things too.  They killed hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese civilians …
Discussion: GOP Bloggers
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
Fury in Austria at EU 'poster art' insult to the Queen  —  Austria has launched its presidency of the European Union by unveiling posters of naked figures wearing masks resembling the Queen, Jacques Chirac and George W. Bush.  —  The images, part of a government-funded campaign …
Discussion: Tim Worstall and Gates of Vienna

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