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7:35 PM ET, March 7, 2006

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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 …
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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.
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.
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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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
General Confusion?  —  So, is there a civil war in Iraq?  Let's ask the Generals.  —  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Perfect" Peter Pace (a moniker bestowed on him by his superiors in the Marine Corps) says things are swell.  When asked by Tim Russert how Iraq was doing Pace responded:
Washington Post:
Now Repeal the Ban  —  THE SUPREME Court's unanimous decision yesterday upholding the Solomon Amendment is no surprise.  It offers the correct answer to the legal question the case posed: Can the government deny federal money to universities that, in protest of the military's discrimination …
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Child Killing Law Challenged in South Dakota  —  Now this is worth blogging about.  —  Governor Mike Rounds is directly challenging the judge-made law known as Roe v. Wade by banning all abortions in South Dakota.  —  In case you were asleep during Social Studies classes, the Supreme Court …
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.
Reuters:
Iran faces consequences in nuclear dispute: Cheney  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday.
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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?  —  Having just done two adulatory posts about articles in The Washington Monthly, and planning another for tomorrow, I guess it's a matter of balance to take serious issue with the Monthly's blog, Political Animal, wherein Kevin Drum just posted a petulant and abusive attack …
Discussion: TAPPED, Left in the West and Unfogged
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 …
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others  —  Retired Army Maj. Gen. William L. Nash: … Anthony Cordesman: … Current US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad: … Official Presidential and DoD outlook, via Chairman of the JCOS, Gen. Peter Pace:
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Envoy to Iraq Sees Threat of Wider War
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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 …
 
 
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Jim Fitzgerald / Associated Press:
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Why We Need Oversight  —  Via Firedoglake, here's the sort …
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Leon De Winter / Opinion Journal:
Soft Europe  —  Is the Continent willing to fight for anything, besides a welfare check?
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BBC:
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