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6:50 PM ET, March 25, 2006

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Blogs Eat Themselves?  —  The entire tempest surrounding the hiring and termination of Ben Domenech as the Washington Post's designated conservative blogger shows that the blogosphere has a lot of growing up to do.  Between the hysteria, the personal attacks, the revelation of wrongdoing …
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Mark Steyn / ocregister.com:
Steyn: Will we stick our necks out for his faith?  —  Fate conspires to remind us what this war is really about: civilizational confidence.  And so history repeats itself: first the farce of the Danish cartoons, and now the tragedy - a man on trial for his life in post-Taliban Afghanistan …
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Agence France Presse:
Afghan president intervenes in case of Christian convert  —  KABUL (AFP) - President Hamid Karzai has personally intervened in the case of an Afghan man facing execution for converting to Christianity, a top official said, amid fierce criticism in the West.  —  Karzai was consulting …
Washington Post:
Russians Helped Iraq, Study Says  —  Papers Show Hussein Was Tipped Off About U.S. Strategy During Invasion  —  Russian officials collected intelligence on U.S. troop movements and attack plans from inside the American military command leading the 2003 invasion of Iraq and passed that information …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:   U.S. Inquiry Finds Russians Passed Spy Data to Iraq in '03
Bradley Olson / Baltimore Sun:
War in their future, Mids choose Marines … When it came time for Jake Dove, a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy, to decide how he would fulfill his required military duty after graduation, there was no question about it: Marine Corps all the way.  —  "In my eyes it's a perfect community," said Dove, an Annapolis High School graduate.
Discussion: The Daily Brief
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
NAVAL ACADEMY GRADS CHOOSING MARINES: … That's very interesting.
Discussion: Mudville Gazette
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Administration tells Congress (again) - We won't abide by your "laws"  —  The Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee submitted detailed questions to the Bush Administration regarding the NSA program, and the DoJ's responses to both the Democrats' questions and its responses to the Republicans' are now available.
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
KOOKY KT'S SPY TALE  —  ALBANY - A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, witnesses told The Post yesterday.
Washington Post:
Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet  —  The Federal Election Commission last night released proposed new rules that leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated except for the purchase of campaign ads on Web sites.
Michael Powell / Washington Post:
Near Paul Revere Country, Anti-Bush Cries Get Louder  —  HOLYOKE, Mass. — To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here is to journey into New England's impeachment belt.  Three of this state's 10 House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of President Bush.
Greg Risling / Associated Press:
'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies  —  LOS ANGELES - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday.  He was 76.  —  Owens died at his home, said family spokesman Jim Shaw.
Discussion: Silflay Hraka, phronesisaical and PSoTD
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Atrocity in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 25 — Mohannad al-Azawi had just finished sprinkling food in his bird cages at his pet shop in south Baghdad, when three carloads of gunmen pulled up.  —  In front of a crowd, he was grabbed by his shirt and driven off.
Discussion: The Politburo Diktat
Nicola Woolcock / Times of London:
Bomb plot suspect sold poisoned burgers, says supergrass  —  AN ISLAMIST terrorist sold poisoned burgers from a street-corner van and planned to contaminate beer at a football stadium, the Old Bailey was told yesterday.  —  The alleged extremist, one of seven on trial for plotting to blow …
Discussion: Gina Cobb
Los Angeles Times:
Iran's Nuclear Steps Quicken, Diplomats Say  —  Tehran reportedly is gearing up for uranium enrichment.  A split in the Security Council may impede efforts to halt the program.  —  VIENNA — With efforts to halt its nuclear program at an impasse, Iran is moving faster than expected …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Camp Saddam  —  REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq on its third anniversary.  Murtha, a decorated veteran and longtime hawk, has become a leading spokesman for his party on the war.
New York Times:
Unwelcome Attention From Moussaoui Trial  —  WASHINGTON, March 24 — The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui was supposed to have been the government's best opportunity to hold someone accountable for the deaths on Sept. 11, 2001.  —  But after federal prosecutors finished laying …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Prairie Weather
 
 
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Guardian:
Iraq hostages 'were saved by rift among kidnappers'
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
CAIR CAVES  —  The Council on American-Islamic Relations uses …
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Ouch! Photos Show Iraqi & Russian Defense Reps Days Before War!
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Communication Breakdown  —  Now it gets painful for George W. Bush.
Luis David / Age of Hooper:
Abdul Rahman  —  UPDATE: one installment of video is now up.  Click HERE.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Democrat Pleads Guilty in Steele Case
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