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6:40 PM ET, March 7, 2006

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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.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Democrats Stretch Lead in Vote for Congress  —  Fourteen-point Democratic lead is among the widest since 1994  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 28 to March 1, finds the Democrats holding a substantial lead over the Republicans as the party …
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.
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Two Stories and Two Primaries … Next, from the front-page of the Washington Post: … So, according to Gallup, Democrats are currently in their best position ever to retake the House of Representatives.  Yet, despite this, for some reason we are subjected to front-page stories …
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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.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE....Ed Kilgore responds to my angry post about the DLC's wonkish 7-point healthcare plan with this: … Here's my guess: in private, I'll bet all of these gentlemen do acknowledge that a simple single-payer national healthcare plan is the best policy.
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Newdonkey / NewDonkey.com:
Who's Definining UHC?
Discussion: TAPPED, Left in the West and Unfogged
Davidbarron / LawCulture:
It's Not Just Foreign Law They Don't Like . . .  Chief Justice Robert's decision for the unanimous Court in in the law school/military recruiting case today gets the constitutional analysis just right in my opinion.  (Full disclosure, I signed on to an amicus brief by a number of professors …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
U.S. Wins Ruling Over Recruiting at Universities  —  WASHINGTON, March 6 — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law that cuts federal financing for universities if they do not give military recruiters the same access to students that other potential employers receive.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Survey Says  —  Let the exchange of trade and ideas with Iran begin.  —  The most touching remark I heard during my time in Iran last year was from a woman in the wonderfully beautiful city of Isfahan.  (It is just outside this cultural treasure house that the mullahs have chosen to place one of their mountain-dugout nuclear sites.)
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Judicious Double Standards
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
USA Today:
8,000 desert during Iraq war  —  At least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. military have deserted since the Iraq war began, Pentagon records show, although the overall desertion rate has plunged since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.  —  Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Much Ado About Nothing  —  Unless I'm missing something this New York Times article is just another stab at holding bloggers to ethical standards and practices  —  which don't apply anywhere else in the universe.  —  The public relations industry existed long before bloggers came along …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its P.R. Campaign
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Weaves Rug Story Into Many an Occasion  —  President Uses His Oval Office Floor Covering as a Metaphor for Optimism and Leadership  —  Nothing says power like the Oval Office.  The paintings of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  The bust of Dwight D. Eisenhower.  The desk used by both Roosevelts.
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Envoy to Iraq Sees Threat 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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Robert A. George / RAGGED THOTS:
Getting A Clue-ney: Race & The Oscars  —  My post-Oscar update (#6) on George Clooney (see below) garnered a strong comment from "Cal." I thought I would put his statement and my response as a post, with some other views on the Oscars, race and the rise of Three Six Mafia.  —  First Cal, who starts quoting me:
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Unchristened Embryos, Destination: Hell  —  I brought up one of my favorite forced birth conundrums the other day, guaranteed to make wingnut "life begins at conception" heads explode.  If a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and you can only save a petri dish with five blastulae or a two-year old child, which do you save?
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Opponents of DeLay Make Use of a Film  —  LOS ANGELES, March 6 — A documentary about the Texas criminal investigation that led to the indictment of Representative Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, on campaign fund-raising charges is being put to use by Mr. DeLay's political opponents in an attempt to unseat him.
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Associated Press:
DeLay to spend election night with lobbyists
Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and MyDD
Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
Mr. Instapundit Goes To Washington  —  Instapundit Glenn Reynolds came to Washington yesterday to promote his new book at a National Press Club roundtable, and he gained a powerful plug from another blog revolutionary along the way.  —  Joe Trippi, who helped introduce the broader political world …
New York Times:
Shiites Try to Block Start of Parliament Amid New Violence  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 7 — The struggle to get the country's sclerotic political process inching forward ran into a new complication today, as Shiite politicians sought to block the new parliament from holding its first meeting on Sunday.
John Mainelli / New York Post:
AIR AMERICA TUNED OUT?  —  March 7, 2006 — AIR America is close to losing its New York flagship station - knocking Al Franken and his liberal colleagues off the air on their second anniversary.  —  The network has a two-year lease with WLIB (AM 1190) that is reportedly set to expire April 1 …
Associated Press:
Election - Year Politics Shadow Ports Issue  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are using the uproar over an Arab company's planned takeover of some U.S. port operations to paint Republicans as faltering on the GOP's signature issue — national security — and accuse them of ignoring port safety in the past.
BBC:
Woman loses frozen embryos fight  —  A woman left infertile after cancer treatment cannot use her frozen embryos to have a baby, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.  —  Natallie Evans started IVF treatment with her then partner Howard Johnston in 2001 but he withdrew consent for the embryos to be used after they split up.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Conservatives Prepare Austere Alternative Budget  —  WASHINGTON, March 6 — With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years …
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Bombings in India Raise Fear of Sectarian Violence  —  NEW DELHI, March 7 — A series of apparently coordinated bombs went off in the ancient Hindu holy city of Benares in eastern India this evening, raising the specter of sectarian violence.  —  The first bomb exploded at the Sankat Mochan temple shortly …
NY Daily News:
From 'Three's Company' to two's a crowd  —  BEVERLY HILLS — Seventies icon Suzanne Somers was strolling into Vanity Fair's Oscar party at Morton's when she vanished in the Madonna glare.  —  Somers had just stepped onto the red carpet when a bloodcurdling cry erupted from the paparazzi behind the barricades.
Discussion: FishBowlDC and Decision '08
Will / Attytood:
Good night and get lost!  Chris Matthews exhumes McCarthy  —  One of our favorite titles for a CD is NPR's "Driveway Moments" — referring to stories so good you won't leave the car even when you've reached where you're going.  We'd like to release a CD of some of the things we hear …
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
 
 
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Jim Fitzgerald / Associated Press:
Dana Reeve Dies of Lung Cancer at 44
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Why We Need Oversight  —  Via Firedoglake, here's the sort …
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Catholic Church Denies Communion to 10 Year Old Autistic Boy
New York Post:
'ARMY OF DAVIDS'
Richard Savill / Telegraph:
Vicar who can't forgive steps down from pulpit
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S. Arabia to host Israel boycott event
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Michael Reynolds / Donklephant:
The World: Not Going Away.  —  Here is the foreign policy truth …
Leon De Winter / Opinion Journal:
Soft Europe  —  Is the Continent willing to fight for anything, besides a welfare check?
Ed Lavandera / CNN:
Dodge City showdown at funeral