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10:00 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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Cernig / NewsHog:
ABC And The IED's From Iran That Were Made In The UK
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Monica Davey / New York Times:
South Dakota Bans Abortion, Setting Up a Battle  —  Gov. Michael Rounds of South Dakota signed into law the nation's most sweeping state abortion ban on Monday, an intentional provocation meant to set up a direct legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal.
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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
Jane Roh / Fox News:
Supreme Court Rules Against Schools in Military Recruiting Case
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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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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Democrats Struggle To Seize Opportunity  —  News about GOP political corruption, inept hurricane response and chaos in Iraq has lifted Democrats' hopes of winning control of Congress this fall.  But seizing the opportunity has not been easy, as they found when they tried to unveil an agenda of their own.
Associated Press:
Driver at UNC Cites Vengeance for Muslims  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 6 — A University of North Carolina graduate from Iran, accused of running down nine people on campus to avenge the treatment of Muslims, said at a hearing Monday that he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah."
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New York Times:
Mr. Bush's Asian Road Trip  —  There is a lot of good a president can do on a visit to another country: negotiate treaties that enhance American security, shore up a shaky alliance, generate good will in important parts of the world.  Unfortunately, President Bush didn't do any of those good things …
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and Rising Hegemon
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Taliban and AQ Taking A Beating In Pakistan
Discussion: TigerHawk and Hyscience
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Bush Proposes Line-Item Veto  —  President Bush today proposed legislation to create a line-item veto, a measure he said would help restrain government spending by allowing him to strip out pork-barrel spending.  —  Congress passed a line-item veto in 1996, but two years later …
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John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Iraqi Tribes Strike Back at Insurgents  —  In Turbulent Areas, Zarqawi's Fighters Are Target of Leaders and a New Militia  —  BAGHDAD, March 6 — First they killed the chief of the Naim tribe and his son.  Then they killed a top tribal sheik who headed the Fallujah city council.
Discussion: QandO and Defense Tech
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: Sirotablog, Left in the West and MyDD
Ed Lavandera / CNN:
Dodge City showdown at funeral  —  DODGE CITY, Kansas (CNN) — This past Saturday morning I found myself in a five-car caravan cutting across the Kansas plains with about 30 religious protesters.  In the back of a truck, there were signs that read "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
Discussion: Pensito Review and Radical Writ
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story  —  Providing the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving, researchers have detected some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection, a principal force of evolution, within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years.
Discussion: Tim Worstall
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Democrats' Real Problem  —  It is now an ingrained journalistic habit: After a period of bad news for President Bush, media outlets invariably devote time and space to "balancing" stories that all say more or less: "Yes, the Republicans are in trouble, but the Democrats have no alternatives, no plans," etc.
 
 
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New Yorker:
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
THE LIBERAL TEMPERAMENT....Before I even get started here …
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