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2:05 AM ET, March 27, 2006

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Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 — The bodies of 30 beheaded men were found on a main highway near Baquba this evening, providing more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.  —  Interior Ministry officials …
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Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Shiite Fighters Clash With G.I.'s and Iraqi Forces  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 — American and Iraqi government forces clashed with Shiite militiamen in Baghdad on Sunday night in the most serious confrontation in months, and Iraqi security officials said 17 people had been killed in a mosque, including its 80-year-old imam.
Washington Post:
Iraqi Doctor Admits to Killings  —  BAGHDAD, March 26 — A doctor in the northern city of Kirkuk has admitted to killing at least 35 Iraqi police officers and Army soldiers by giving them lethal injections, reopening their wounds and engaging in other deadly acts as they were being treated in Kirkuk Hospital …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
U.S. vs. the Mahdi Army
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:   US, Mahdi forces clash
Steven Senne / Newsweek:
Supreme Court: Detainees' Rights-Scalia Speaks His Mind  —  Scalia at the New England School of Law on March 15  —  April 3, 2006 issue - The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees …
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Marty Lederman / SCOTUSblog:
Justice Scalia Announces Opposition to Trials in Civil Courts for Alien Military Detainees  —  Just over two weeks ago, on March 8th, Justice Scalia gave a speech at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the school at which he spent hus Junior Year abroad in the mid-1950's.
Discussion: OrinKerr.com
Ed Whelan / Bench Memos on National Review Online:   Scalia, Hamdan, and Recusal
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Markos of Daily Kos on "Reliable Sources"  —  Markos of Daily Kos on "Reliable Sources"  —  Markos appeared on "Reliable Sources," today and explained the impact bloggers are having in politics today.  He also talked about the Republican noise machine and James Brady's lack …
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CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Are Media Turning Against War in Iraq?  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): Souring on the war.  As President Bush goes toe to toe with White House reporters, are news organizations turning against the war in Iraq?
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Lara Logan smacked down the "negative Iraq War Coverage" charges  —  Lara Logan smacked down the "negative Iraq War Coverage" charges  —  She's outraged over these chargers...  I'll have the video up a little later.  The media was assailed all week by the administration trying to pass the meme that the press is too negative.
Don Van Natta Jr / New York Times:
Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says  —  LONDON — In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, as the United States and Britain pressed for a second United Nations resolution condemning Iraq, President Bush's public ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was blunt: Disarm or face war.
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Andrew G. Bostom / The American Thinker:
Under the Scimitar of Damocles  —  Abdul Rahman faced death at the hands of our Afghan allies for the "crime" of converting to Christianity.  This fate is no fluke, not a brutal Afghan variant on the practice of "tolerant" Islam.  Death for apostacy is part and parcel of Islamic scripture and tradition.
Los Angeles Times:
500,000 Pack Streets to Protest Immigration Bills  —  The rally, part of a massive mobilization of immigrants and their supporters, may be the largest L.A. has seen.  —  A crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest federal legislation …
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Joy Jones / Washington Post:
'Marriage Is for White People'  —  I grew up in a time when two-parent families were still the norm, in both black and white America.  Then, as an adult, I saw divorce become more commonplace, then almost a rite of passage.  Today it would appear that many — particularly in the black community …
Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
America, the Global Target  —  Hoping to lower tensions between the Muslim world and the West, British Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained the other day that the world confronts "a clash about civilization," not "a clash between civilizations."  But the overriding lesson of events since Sept. 11 …
Jane Galt / Asymmetrical Information:
Healthcare, Part IV  —  So here are the things I care about, when I think about healthcare: … All that's very nice . . . but how do we bell the cat?  —  Here is my suggestion.  It is simple and elegant enough to be explained in a single sentence, yet powerful enough to meet all the criteria above:
Michael Sokolove / New York Times:
Why Is Michael Steele a Republican Candidate?  —  It was last spring when Karl Rove called Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland, to sell him on running for the Senate, and to close the deal, Rove paused to put President Bush on the phone.  As Steele recalls it …
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Seeking Fiscal Health Without Gas Tax  —  CORVALLIS, Ore. — Two professors were cruising around the campus of Oregon State University here in a Ford Explorer.  A wireless black box, mounted on the dashboard, tracked the miles in a test of a per-mile fee system that state officials said might …
 
 
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
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Orlando Patterson / New York Times:
A Poverty of the Mind  —  SEVERAL recent studies have garnered …
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St. Petersburg Times:
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