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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 …
Discussion: Prometheus 6
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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:
Discussion: Thoughts from Kansas
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Specter proposes a new law — something called "FISA"
Discussion: firedoglake
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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Adloyada:   The Ilan Halimi case: issues of institutional racism?
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 …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
And From the Department of Lunacy...
Discussion: Think Progress and Norwegianity
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Bush Policies Weakening Guard, Governors Say  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Governors of both parties said Sunday that Bush administration policies were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other emergencies.
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 …
Drudge Report:
BUSH, ROVE SAY HILLARY WILL WIN DEM PRIMARY — BUT LOSE GENERAL ELECTION  —  President Bush and his top strategist, Karl Rove, say Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be tough to beat in the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008 — but not in the general election!
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Pam's House Blend
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Don Knotts Dies: Was TV Hit For Three Decades  —  Another comedy great — so successful that he was a smash hit on three series, in three decades and a batch of popular low-budget films — has passed from the scene: Don Knotts, best known as the nerdish-deputy Barney Fife.  The AP:
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Blogs for Bush
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 …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Andrew Sullivan
unitedforpeace.org:
Storm the White House  —  Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave.  Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now.  —  Washington, DC USA  —  TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation
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 …
Discussion: Legal Fiction, Althouse and Feministe
Josh Rosenau / Thoughts from Kansas:
My Sunday sermon  —  I don't like evangelism.  I believe what I believe, you believe what you believe, and I think it's arrogant to suggest that you have all the answers that I need.  That goes for atheists, it goes for theists.  It's why I don't write about religion here.
Cmar Ii / Iraqi Bloggers Central:
Who Did It?  —  Iraq Is Lost Camp vs Iraq Will Succeed Camp  —  A boy injured by a car bomb explosion looks up while recovering in a hospital, in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb.25, 2006.  A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala …
Chip Brown / New York Times:
The Freshman  —  Talib in Luce Hall  —  Sometimes walking up College Street, when the bells were ringing in Harkness Tower and the light on the gabled dorms and leafy quads made the whole campus seem part of some Platonic dream, he could almost forget that there were people back home who would be happy to kill him.
Discussion: firedoglake and Opinio Juris
Hindrocket / Power Line:
"SADDAM HAD WMD"  —  That's the title of this editorial in Investors Business Daily, which reprises some of the recently discovered evidence.  There are Saddam's audio tapes: … Then there's the account given by Georges Sada, second in command in Iraq's air force: … The conclusion?

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