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9:10 AM ET, March 6, 2006

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Pajamas Media:
Live-Blogging the Oscars 2006  —  Does anybody care what Nicole Kidman is wearing (or not)?  Does anybody care how many times Jon Stewart disses Dick Cheney?  Does anybody care who even wins the Academy Awards anymore?  —  Yes, we all care - even if we say we don't... It's the Oscars, after all!
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Memo to Jon Stewart: Keep Your 'Daily' Job  —  "Crash" was not only the film chosen Best Picture at the 78th Academy Awards last night; it was also the sound made by the show itself as, metaphorically speaking, it drove into a wall.  —  It's hard to believe that professional entertainers …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Academy Awards Live Blog  —  I will be continuing the CQ tradition of live-blogging the Academy Awards tonight, starting at 7 pm CT, or perhaps a little before to catch the pre-event reporting.  None of the films competing really engaged me at all last year, and a couple of them — Munich …
James Wolcott:   OSCAR DAY  —  On this holiest of Hollywood days, conservatives …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Simulblogging the Oscars.
Discussion: TBogg and Classical Values
Jim Treacher / Blowing Smoke:
HERE IS THE POST WHERE I LIVE-BLOG THE OSCARS FOR SOME REASON
Discussion: small dead animals
Michelle Malkin:   LIVEBLOGGING THE OSCARS  —  Party over at Pajamas Media.
Guardian:
US envoy hints at strike to stop Iran  —  · Bolton says nuclear plant can be 'taken out'  —  · UN agency meets to send report to security council  —  Julian Borger Washington  —  The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has told British MPs that military action …
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Nathan Guttman / Jerusalem Post:
AIPAC sends tough message to Iran
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
Times of London:
Nato may help US airstrikes on Iran
Discussion: Flopping Aces
New York Times:
Iran's Best Friend
Discussion: ThreatsWatch.Org
New York Times:
Scant Drop Seen in Abortion Rate if Parents Are Told  —  For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors to notify their parents or get permission to have an abortion do not appear to have produced the sharp drop in teenage abortion rates that some advocates hoped for, an analysis by The New York Times shows.
Judd / Think Progress:
Is John Hinderaker Nuts?  —  Today, Powerline's John Hinderaker wrote a post entitled "Is Murtha Nuts?"  He claims that during an appearance today on Face the Nation "pretty much every 'fact' that Murtha hysterically tossed out is wrong."  —  Hinderaker then proceeds to "fact check" …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:   IS MURTHA NUTS?  —  Democratic Congressman Jack Murtha seems to have gone around the bend.
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
General's Assessment of Iraq Questioned  —  WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's top general acknowledged Sunday that "anything can happen" in Iraq, but he said things aren't as bad as some say.  "I wouldn't put a great big smiley face on it, but I would say they're going very, very well from everything you look at."
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John Derbyshire / The Corner on National Review Online:
IRAQ POINTS  —  A couple of Iraq points from Sunday's press.  —  (1) A reader:  —  "Dear Derb—In case you didn't see it, on Meet The Press this morning, Tim Russert displayed on-screen WFB's article 'It Didn't Work' and asked Peter Pace how he could remain so optimistic about Iraq …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
One day left for the White House to squash an investigation  —  (1) Today is the first day for the supplemental guest posting necessitated by the circumstances I described over the weekend here.  —  I'm genuinely excited about the fact that a regular contributor over the next few weeks …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Taliban Man at Yale  —  University officials are embarrassed—but not embarrassed enough.  —  Are there no limits to how arrogant and out-of-touch America's Ivy League schools can get?  Last week it emerged that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban …
Alan Abramowitz / Washington Post:
What's Behind Those Bad Poll Numbers  —  Judging by the numbers, it wasn't a good week for George Bush.  Of course, news that the administration had approved a deal to turn over the operation of six U.S. ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates did nothing to buoy his sagging approval ratings.
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Guards Say Homeland Security HQ Insecure  —  WASHINGTON - The agency entrusted with protecting the U.S. homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex.  —  The guards have taken their concerns to Congress, describing inadequate training …
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Levee Fixes Falling Short, Experts Warn  —  Corps Rejects Claim Of Substandard Soil  —  NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers seems likely to fulfill a promise by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans's toppled flood walls to their original, pre-Katrina height by June 1 …
New York Times:
Kabuki Congress  —  Imagine being stopped for speeding and having the local legislature raise the limit so you won't have to pay the fine.  It sounds absurd, but it's just what is happening to the 28-year-old law that prohibits the president from spying on Americans without getting a warrant from a judge.
CNN:
Lawmakers vow overhauls in response to ports deal  —  Head of Dubai company seeks to reassure Americans  —  (CNN) — Two U.S. lawmakers called Sunday for overhauling the rules by which the United States approves foreign management of facilities involved in national security.
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Post-9/11 Drive by Republicans To Attract Jewish Voters Stalls  —  Nearly five years ago, immediately after the Sept.11, 2001, attacks, Republican strategists identified what they hoped would be a powerful new engine of support.  "September 12 Republicans" were Jewish Democrats and independents …
Tim Golden / New York Times:
Voices Baffled, Brash and Irate in Guantánamo  —  United States soldiers guarding an entrance to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.  About 760 men have been held there.  —  Among the hundreds of men imprisoned by the American military at Guantánamo Bay …
Discussion: TalkLeft
 
 
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