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11:25 AM ET, March 16, 2006

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Call for Censure Is Rallying Cry to Bush's Base  —  WASHINGTON, March 15 — Republicans, worried that their conservative base lacks motivation to turn out for the fall elections, have found a new rallying cry in the dreams of liberals about censuring or impeaching President Bush.
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John E. Mulligan / projo.com:
Chafee refuses to rule out voting to censure Bush  —  Like the Democratic senator who initiated the proposal, the Rhode Island Republian believes the president's decision to initiate wiretaps without court orders was illegal and says he looks forward to the debate on the program that will likely ensue.
John / AMERICAblog:   The lesson, my friends...
What an interesting / Hullabaloo:
Our Best Interests
Discussion: Prairie Weather
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Dems Get Busy Breeding Little Republicans
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Report Backs Iraq Strike and Cites Iran Peril  —  WASHINGTON, March 15 — An updated version of the Bush administration's national security strategy, the first in more than three years, gives no ground on the decision to order a pre-emptive attack on Iraq in 2003, and identifies Iran …
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and TAPPED
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush to Restate Terror Strategy  —  2002 Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be Reaffirmed  —  President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq.
Associated Press:
Rice: Iran 'terror's central bank'
Discussion: Daily Kos
David A. Lieb / kansascity.com:
House rejects spending for birth control  —  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An attempt to resume state spending on birth control got shot down Wednesday by House members who argued it would have amounted to an endorsement of promiscuous lifestyles.  —  Missouri stopped providing money for family planning …
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Roy Temple / Fired Up! Missouri:
House GOP Bans County Health Clinics From Providing Birth Control  —  Submitted by Roy Temple on Thu, 03/16/2006 - 6:18am.  —  Yesterday, during debate on HB1010, the budget for the Departments of Health and Mental Health, House Republicans voted to ban county health clinics from providing family planning services.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Kit Wagar / kansascity.com:
House OKs birth control funding ban
Discussion: The All Spin Zone and MoJo Blog
Gina Holland / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Justice Reveals Death Threats  —  WASHINGTON (March 16) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have been the targets of death threats from the "irrational fringe" of society, people apparently spurred by Republican criticism of the high court.
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John Solo / Associated Press:
First Declassified Iraq Documents Released  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration Wednesday night released the first declassified documents collected by U.S. intelligence during the Iraq war, showing among other things that Saddam Hussein's regime was monitoring reports that Iraqis and Saudis …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Post-Haste  —  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence …
Discussion: Iowa Voice
WorldNetDaily:
Jessica snubs Bush, porn starlet doesn't  —  'Daisy Dukes' turns down meeting with president  —  at GOP fund-raiser, while Mary Carey still on board  —  WASHINGTON - One PG-13 star turned down a meeting with President Bush at a major Republican fund-raiser today, but a XXX-rated star …
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Steve Gorman / Reuters:
Jessica Simpson snubs Bush
Radio Blogger:
Majority leader Bill Frist's plans for the Feingold censure resolution.  —  "This is a political stunt in a time of war, talking to an America that remembers 9/11."  —  03-15frist.mp3  —  HH: Joined now by the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Tennessee Senator Bill Frist.
Discussion: Right Wing News and Hugh Hewitt
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
'Temporarily Relieved'  —  Yale suspends the anonymous emailer who blasted Taliban critics.  —  Yale University still isn't talking about why it admitted a former top Taliban official as a student, but yesterday the Yale Law School issued an apology to two alumni whom one of its officials …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
CBS News:
Is This Column Futile?  —  Is political persuasion mostly useless?  Is the percentage of people essentially immune to rational argument about political things increasing?  —  A psychologist in Atlanta and a business school professor in Syracuse, N.Y., have interesting observations …
Washington Post:
GOP Seeks Curbs On '527' Groups  —  House Republican leaders proposed changes in lobbying laws yesterday that would include a crackdown on independent, big-money committees that heavily aided Democrats in the 2004 elections.  —  The proposed ethics package would increase the amount …
Discussion: Mia Culpa and TPM Muckraker
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Researcher Will Face Charges in Steele Case  —  Federal prosecutors have decided to bring charges against a Democratic researcher accused of fraudulently obtaining a credit report on Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Discussion: JunkYardBlog and Iowa Voice
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Bush ratings continue to drop to new lows  —  NBC/WSJ poll: Majority now prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress … WASHINGTON -  —  Mark Murray  —  The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll might sound like a broken record, but the tune grows louder as congressional midterm elections …
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Weldon 9/11 tale unravels, but wait  —  Congressman has more allegations, one on bin Laden.  —  WASHINGTON - Late one night in June, Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) stood up in a largely empty House chamber and made an incendiary charge.  —  With dramatic rhetorical flourish …
Discussion: The Agonist and Rook's Rant
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
DHS Gets Another F in Computer Security  —  Annual 'Report Card' Contends Many Key Agencies Don't Adequately Protect Networks  —  Most federal agencies that play key roles in the war on terror are doing a dismal job of protecting their computers and information networks from hackers and viruses …
Alexa Olesen / Associated Press:
Chinese President Issues List of Virtues  —  BEIJING - President Hu Jintao has a message for Chinese who are greedy, lazy or unpatriotic: Be ashamed, be very ashamed.  Hu's list of eight do's and don't's was unveiled during the meeting of parliament that ended this week.
Discussion: Gina Cobb and The PekingDuck
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hey, Big Spender  —  Should we have known that President Bush would bust the budget?  —  This week's column is a question, a brief one addressed with honest curiosity to Republicans.  It is: When George W. Bush first came on the scene in 2000, did you understand him to be a liberal in terms of spending?
Discussion: QandO and Vox Popoli
 
 
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Richard Morin / Washington Post:
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