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10:45 PM ET, March 2, 2006

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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
03/02/06 FOX Poll: Most Oppose Port Deal; Republicans Lose Ground  —  NEW YORK — Most Americans oppose allowing a Dubai company to run some U.S. ports, even as a majority understands the U.S. would continue to control port security, according to a new FOX News poll.
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USA Today:
Americans oppose port deal  —  WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly oppose the proposed sale of cargo operations at six major U.S. seaports to a Dubai firm, calling it a threat to the nation's security, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Tuesday and Wednesday.  (Related:Ports poll results)
Discussion: The Left Coaster
BREITBART.COM:
Lawmakers still angered, but growing resigned over ports deal
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
The President Either Knew and Lied...Or He Doesn't Bother Doing His Job
Discussion: The Talent Show
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The President's Indian Fantasy  —  The rash nukes pledge is typical of Bush's strategic shortsightedness.  —  It takes a great strategic mind, something like a chess master's, to think three or four moves ahead in plotting international diplomacy.  It would be nice if the Bush administration, now and then, could think one move ahead.
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Washington Post:
U.S., India Seal Nuclear Deal  —  Accord Sets Up Sharing of Data, Fuel to Satisfy Rising Energy Needs  —  NEW DELHI, March 2 — President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh struck what both leaders called an historic agreement Thursday to provide U.S. nuclear power assistance …
Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
Bush Is Warned on Katrina in Video  —  Footage of a briefing full of dire predictions renews criticism of the government's response.  —  WASHINGTON — Newly released video footage taken just hours before Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast shows that federal officials delivered stark warnings …
Discussion: Think Progress and Expose the Left
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
L.A. Times Dishonestly Portrays Contents of Video in Which Bush Is Warned About Katrina  —  The L.A. Times web site is trumpeting a story titled Bush Is Warned on Katrina in Video.  I suspect that this will be Page One in the print edition this morning.  The story dishonestly reports the facts …
Associated Press:
Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
Agora:
Cartoonist's Daughter Hunted by 12 Jihadists  —  Update: I have now posted the transcript of the interview with Jens Rohde at the bottom of this post.  —  Update: See below for comments from the Police Intelligence Service  —  Hmmm.. It seems that all I had to do to get back to blogging was getting my indignation recharged.
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Senate Approves Patriot Act Renewal  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday gave its blessing to the renewal of the USA Patriot Act after adding new privacy protections designed to strike a better balance between civil liberties and the government's power to root out terrorists.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Approves Renewal of Antiterrorism Bill
Steven G. Vegh / Virginian-Pilot:
Religious broadcasters fear lost viewership under pay-by-channel idea  —  The idea of paying for only the cable channels they want might have strong appeal for consumers, but to religious programmers, the prospect seems just short of apocalyptic.  —  Pay-per-channel pricing …
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Associated Press:
Rice shows off her fitness regime  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Condoleezza Rice, the nation's top diplomat, is appearing in a three-part TV interview in which she rides a bike, works on her abs, pumps iron and talks about her weight.  —  Public figures usually do not go public when they work on their figures …
Associated Press:
Miss. House Advances Bill to Ban Abortion  —  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday he would probably sign a bill under consideration in the state House that would ban most abortions in Mississippi.  —  The measure, which passed the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday …
Discussion: firedoglake and Liberty Street
Gabriel Sherman / The New York Observer Media Mob:
Times Diversity Report: "A Newspaper at Risk"  —  After a 10-month study, the New York Times Diversity Council issued its confidential internal report yesterday.  The 39-page document, made available to staffers, describes The Times as "a newspaper at risk" on diversity matters and says the paper is …
villagevoice.com:
Editor's Note: What Happened to That Cover Story?  —  Early Wednesday morning, the Voice learned that the concluding section of this week's cover story, "Do You Wanna Kiss Me?" by senior associate editor Nick Sylvester, contained fabricated material.  In that section, Sylvester says he met …
Robert D. Kaplan / Washington Post:
We Can't Force Democracy  —  Creating Normality Is the Real Mideast Challenge  —  The whiff of incipient anarchy in Iraq in recent days has provided a prospect so terrifying as to concentrate the minds of Republicans and Democrats, Iraq's sectarian political factions, and even the media.
Discussion: TAPPED, Decision '08 and uggabugga
 
 
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Jonathan Steele / Guardian:
Baghdad official who exposed executions flees
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The NSA scandal now clearly includes interception of domestic …
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The Clintons of Dubai
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