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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Specter Proposes NSA Surveillance Rules — Measure Would Make Administration Seek FISA Court's Permission to Eavesdrop — The federal government would have to obtain permission from a secret court to continue a controversial form of surveillance, which the National Security Agency …
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Mother of Mercy, Is This the End of FISA?! * — *Hat tip: Edward G. Robinson. — The Washington Post reports today about legislation drafted by Senator Specter to respond to the NSA/FISA imbroglio. The Post makes it sound as if Senator Specter would be clamping down on the Administration:
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Specter proposes a new law — something called "FISA" — (updated below) — This article from today's Washington Post is nothing short of surreal: … It is, of course, so disorientingly bizarre to hear about a proposed law requiring FISA warrants for eavesdropping because we already have a law in place which does exactly that.
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes — In five years' time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel.
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Judd / Think Progress:
Kristol: "We Have Not Had A Serious Three-Year Effort To Fight A War In Iraq" — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, one the staunches defenders of the administration's policy in Iraq, said the war in Iraq was not a "serious effort." — Transcript:
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
And From the Department of Lunacy... Talk about taking those lemons and trying your damndest to make some lemonade, eh? The above screen grab is from Fox News on Friday. I found it at Opinio Juris, and had to share it with everyone here. Lunacy, indeed.
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Times of London:
Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun — THE modern gentleman may prefer blondes. But new research has found that it was cavemen who were the first to be lured by flaxen locks. — According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age …
Scotsman:
US leader crashed by trying to 'pedal, wave and speak at same time' — MURDO MACLEOD — HE MAY be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time. — Scotland on Sunday has obtained remarkable details …
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Iran Says It Will Agree to Russian Enrichment Project — MOSCOW. Feb 26 — The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said Sunday that his country had agreed in principle to set up a joint uranium enrichment project with Russia, a potentially significant breakthrough in efforts to prevent …
Independent:
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war — Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed. By Andrew Buncombe and Patrick Cockburn — Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month …
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
South Dakota: Aftermath Round-Up —In comments to this post, commenter Joe uncovers a remarkable fact about the SD ban on abortion: "In passing the bill, the Senate amended it to make it even more pro-life, adding a sentence to state that the due process clause of South Dakota's constitution …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
HEROISM....Over at The Corner, Warren Bell calls for Hollywood to make more movies about "the heroism of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq." In particular, he'd like to see someone make a movie about the death of football star Pat Tillman, who left his lucrative civilian career to join …
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Washington Post:
A Gospel of Intolerance — It's no secret that the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion are engaged in a bitter internal struggle over the role of gay and lesbian people within the church. But despite this struggle, the leaders of our global communion of 77 million members …
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Tony Paterson / Telegraph:
Outcry in Germany as anti-Semitic film sells out — A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country's 2.5 million-strong Turkish community. — Valley of the Wolves, by the Turkish director Serdan Akar …
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Tom Watson:
Nip It In The Bud — It is easy to forget in noting the quiet passing of an old man whose last major appearance was in an ill-fitting toupee replacing Norman Fell on Three's Company in the late 1970s that Don Knotts was one for the first comedians to make the move from small screen to big screen.
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
In the Battle for Baghdad, U.S. Turns War on Insurgents — PATROL BASE SWAMP, Iraq — Here, in a half-ruined house bristling with dull black machine guns and surrounded by green sandbags, shin-deep mudholes, and shadowy palm groves, lies the leading edge of the U.S. war in Iraq.
Tom Watson:
The President and Mr. Miller — Bode Miller was the perfect candidate for the packaged American Hero, a good-lucking lad who played the rebel to perfection for the image-makers, and ran with the hype and the credit card ads to the 2006 Olympics. Miller was a portable symbol of American lone rangers …
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