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2:55 AM ET, March 7, 2006

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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Iraq Weapons — Made in Iran?  —  Intelligence Officials Say Weapons Responsible for Increasing U.S. Deaths in Iraq  —  March 6, 2006 — U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Iran Gives US A Casus Belli, If We Want It  —  ABC News reports tonight that Iran has shipped improved explosive devices capable of defeating the body armor employed by US soldiers to the insurgents in Iraq.  Brian Ross will tell ABC's World News Tonight that Iran is "knowingly killing US troops" …
Discussion: Dadahead, Big Lizards and Decision '08
Cernig / NewsHog:
ABC And The IED's From Iran That Were Made In The UK
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Law on College Military Recruiting  —  WASHINGTON, March 6 — The Supreme Court upheld a law today that cuts federal funding from universities that do not give military recruiters the same access to students that other potential employers receive.
Discussion: Big Lizards
McQ / QandO:
BUSH ASKS FOR LINE ITEM VETO  —  The president who has never vetoed a single bill is asking for the power to veto specific items within bills sent to him: … My question is why would the Supreme Court find a new version of the law any more acceptable than the last version which it found unconstitutional?
wral.com:
Suspect In UNC Hit-And-Run Wanted To 'Spread Will Of Allah'  —  Authorities Release 911 Call Made By Mohammed Taheri-azar  —  HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A suspect who is accused of hitting students with a sport utility vehicle at the University of North Carolina made his first court appearance Monday.
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Raleigh News & Observer:   Suspect plans to represent himself
Associated Press:
UNC Grad in Court on Alleged Hit and Run
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Supreme Court Upholds Solomon Amendment  —  New Chief Justice Roberts delivers the opinion for the court.  His summary of the issue: … The key issue is the so-called unconstitutional conditions doctrine, which Roberts described as having the following effect: "the Solomon Amendment …
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Washington Post:
A Victory For Military Recruiters  —  Schools Must Give Access Despite Objection to Policy On Gays, Justices Say  —  The Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld a federal law that forces colleges and universities to permit military recruiting on campus, despite the schools' objections …
Discussion: Legal Fiction and Deep Keel
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The Solomon Amendment is upheld by a unanimous Supreme Court.  —  SCOTUSblog reports: … Chief Justice Roberts writes the opinion.  There are no additional opinions.  (Alito, of course, does not participate.)  —  As the unanimity indicates, this outcome was not at all surprising.
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Envoy to Iraq Warns of Wider War  —  He supports the White House view that an early pullout would backfire, but he is bleak about the Sunni-Shiite conflict and says it could spread.  —  BAGHDAD — The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a …
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Expert on Iraq: 'We're In a Civil War'  —  U.S. Officials Deny Violence Has Risen to That Level, but ABC News Analysts See a 'Serious Lack of Realism'  —  BAGHDAD, March 5, 2006 — As Pentagon generals offered optimistic assessments that the sectarian violence in Iraq had dissipated this weekend …
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Mortars were louder than reason in Baghdad today...  We woke up this morning to the sounds of many explosions in Baghdad and since we are familiar with those sounds we recognized that these were no doubt mortar shelling but not like the usual which is one or two rounds fired by some terrorists …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Abstinence  —  Amy Sullivan writes: … This is a rhetorical sleight of hand which entirely ignores the relevant policy debate.  The question is whether sex education in public schools should be "abstinence only," which involves telling teenagers that they shouldn't have sex and not providing …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
From the Department of Pissing My Tax Dollars Away  —  Well, great.  Just great.  The President and his huge freaking personal White House staff can't even request a simple absentee ballot properly, so guess who is taking Air Force One out for a spin just so he can vote in the local primary in Crawford, Texas?
Discussion: archy and First Draft
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Mark Schmitt / Washington Monthly:
Backseat Strategists  —  Do the Democratic Party's harshest internal critics finally have a plan for building a political majority?  —  What's most provocative in this year's crop of books about renewing the Democratic Party is what's missing.  The old sectarian fights about ideology …
Discussion: Left in the West, Sirotablog and MyDD
Kevin Sites / Reuters:
Peace activist Sheehan arrested in NY protest  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist whose son was killed in the Iraq war, was arrested with three other protesters in New York on Monday after a rally with women from Iraq.  —  Sheehan became a central figure …
Discussion: The American Mind
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Flip / Suitably Flip:
Cindy Sheehan Arrested in New York for Blocking U.S. Mission to U.N.
Discussion: Gina Cobb
Vanessa Blum / Sun-Sentinel:
Miami judge refuses to delay sentencing for lobbyist Abramoff  —  MIAMI — A federal judge on Monday refused to delay sentencing 90 days for disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff despite statements from government lawyers that sending Abramoff to prison could jeopardize his cooperation in ongoing criminal probes.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its P.R. Campaign  —  Brian Pickrell, a blogger, recently posted a note on his Web site attacking state legislation that would force Wal-Mart Stores to spend more on employee health insurance.  "All across the country, newspaper editorial boards …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Oscar afterthoughts.  —  That was a long night of blogging yesterday!  But watching the Oscars without blogging is much more of a slog.  And I relied heavily on TiVo, so, really, it was a snap compared to just sitting around watching in real time.  I skipped nearly all of the speeches …
Discussion: TBogg and SIVACRACY.NET
 
 
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