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6:30 PM ET, March 16, 2006

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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Largest Iraq Air Assault Since '03 Begins  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest airborne assault since the U.S.-led invasion, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital, the military said.  —  The military said the operation …
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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.
Kit Wagar / kansascity.com:
House OKs birth control funding ban  —  JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House voted Wednesday to ban state funding of contraceptives for low-income women and to prohibit state-funded programs from referring those women to other programs.  —  Critics jumped on the proposal …
Associated Press:
Rice: Iran 'terror's central bank'  —  SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday urged Iran to resume negotiations over its nuclear program, while also calling the country a central banker for terrorism.  —  Rice was speaking after meeting …
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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?
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Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:   Peggy Noonan Realizes She Has Conned Herself—and Says That She …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Cornered rats  —  There is a palpable increase in the level of extremism and desperation among Bush followers as the Commander in Chief's approval ratings fall lower and lower and as the views which Americans have of both him and his party become more hostile.
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Bluto / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
A Familiar Face  —  The Pentagon has just released to the public documents captured in Operation Iraqi Freedom.  They can be accessed here in Adobe Acrobat format.  —  This one's interesting; the synopsis describes it this way: … The document hasn't been translated into English …
Stephen Farrell / Times of London:
Cigars, birds, flowers and servants — life inside Jericho jail  —  Palestinian terrorist suspects are said to have served their time in style before the bulldozers arrived  —  BRITAIN made a robust defence yesterday of its decision to pull out of Jericho prison before an Israeli raid …
Discussion: Guardian, Adloyada and Mediacrity
John / AMERICAblog:
The lesson, my friends...  ...is that no matter what you do, Rush Limbaugh is going to crow about it, Ken Mehlman is going to do a mass-mailing about it, and the American Family Association will launch a boycott over it.  —  And even if you choose to do nothing, all of them will still attack you …
NY Daily News:
Clooney & Huffington's blog of war  —  George Clooney is spitting mad at Arianna Huffington - and the blogosphere is wobbling on its axis.  —  "She said some things that I won't share, but she did tell me that this could be bad for me - bad for my career.  Well, screw you!" …
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.
Joshua Holland / alternet.org:
Womenomics 101  —  Life for women in the American workplace is far from paradise — they face economic punishment for almost every aspect of their biology.  —  Tools  —  Women play a greater role in the American economy today than at any time since Rosie the riveter gave up making bombers …
Mary Katharine Ham / Hugh Hewitt:
I'm Blue  —  I have uncovered a sinister plot.  —  As I've mentioned, I was in Austin this week.  Cool city— one of those great, Southern college towns where be-baseball-capped frat guys and be-dreaded hippies mostly-happily coexist, though usually at different bars.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Al Qaeda Threatens U.S. on Video  —  Yesterday we broke the story that a new al Qaeda video was making the jihadi rounds.  Today there is confirmatian.  Yes, we actually break news around here sometimes.  —  The video features 'martyr' Fahd Farraj al-Juwair, the former Emir of Al-Qaeda …
Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Senate Bill Would Override State Health Coverage Rules  —  GOP backers see the legislation as a way for insurers to offer more affordable plans.  Critics say it would undermine treatment protections.  —  WASHINGTON — The battle over healthcare moved to a new front Wednesday …
courant.com:
Lieberman Takes Issue With Lamont's Tone  —  U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman took issue Thursday with the tone of his Democratic opponent's campaign.  —  Ned Lamont formally announced Monday that he will oppose Lieberman for the party's nomination, becoming Lieberman's first Democratic challenger since …
Discussion: firedoglake
Associated Press:
Scalia Rails Against the 'Judge-Moralist'  —  BOSTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia railed against the era of the "judge-moralist," saying judges are no better qualified than "Joe Sixpack" to decide moral questions such as abortion and gay marriage.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
 
 
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Brendan Bernhard / laweekly.com:
THE FALLACI CODE  —  Oriana Fallaci asks: Is Muslim immigration to Europe a conspiracy?
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Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:
Cynical optimism; or, to panic or not to panic with regards …
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Jonathan Gurwitz / Opinion Journal:
Once More Unto the Breach
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
First poll - Americans support Censure Resolution
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So calling for a better plan is completely bogus. …
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Rep. Harris Pledges Fortune to Revive Senate Race
John E. Mulligan / projo.com:
Chafee refuses to rule out voting to censure Bush
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GOP Seeks Curbs On '527' Groups
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
'Temporarily Relieved'  —  Yale suspends the anonymous emailer …