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10:45 AM ET, March 31, 2006

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Debbie Schlussel:
So, Anti-American Jill Carroll was Freed . . .  Why are so many people who claim to be patriotic Americans so overjoyed that Jill Carroll was freed, yet hardly a peep when American contractors and others were freed?  —  Here's a clue for the obviously dimwitted.  Why was Jill Carroll freed?
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Questions About Carroll's Captivity
Discussion: A Blog For All
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Jill Carroll: What Happens Next Is What Matters
Discussion: A Blog For All
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer  —  Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.  —  And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate …
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Prayer Doesn't Aid Recovery, Study Finds
Discussion: the talking dog
Associated Press:
Study: Prayer doesn't affect heart patients
Discussion: The World Wide Rant and Pharyngula
Los Angeles Times:
Calm Is Urged in Iran Debate  —  Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N. nuclear agency chief, sees no imminent danger from Tehran and asks those discussing the issue to 'lower the pitch.'  —  BERLIN — United Nations atomic energy chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged the international community Thursday …
Discussion: Penraker
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Carne Ross / Washington Post:
Could Sanctions Stop Iran?
Discussion: Associated Press and Decision '08
George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran Defiantly Rejects New U.N. Demands
Discussion: Gina Cobb
New York Times:
G.O.P. Is Taking Aim at Advocacy Groups  —  WASHINGTON, March 30 — To many Republicans, the liberal activist organization MoveOn.org is a political boogeyman that they hope to chase off with new restrictions on so-called 527 groups.  —  But the pursuit may turn out to be fruitless.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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New York Times:
At Sept. 11 Trial, Tale of Missteps and Management  —  WASHINGTON, March 30 — Three weeks of testimony and dozens of documents released in the sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui have offered an eerie parallel view of two organizations, Al Qaeda and the Federal Bureau of Investigation …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Prairie Weather
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Jeff A. Taylor / Reason:
How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen  —  Never mind Moussaoui, the smoldering gun was right there all the time  —  Anyone paying attention to the Zacarias Moussaoui trial gets it now.  All the 9/11 blanks are filled in, and the picture is complete.  Sorry, conspiracy freaks and blind partisan hacks.
Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
Whose Backlash?  —  Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens, along with Mexican-Americans and Hispanics in general, hit the streets throughout the United States this past week in one of the largest displays of public outrage since the Vietnam-War era.  —  The conventional wisdom …
Washington Post:
Levee Repair Costs Triple  —  The Bush administration said yesterday that the cost of rebuilding New Orleans's levees to federal standards has nearly tripled to $10 billion and that there may not be enough money to fully protect the entire region.  —  Donald E. Powell, the administration's …
William Teach / Pirate's Cove:
Cynthia McKinney To Be Arrested?  —  Via the Atlanta Journal Constitution: … They should throw her in the loony bin, rather then in the pokey.  For a long, long time.  —  Previously: Impeach Cynthia McKinney.  —  Hah!  Checked the DUmmies.  While some seem to be grounded in reality …
Booman Tribune / A Progressive Community:
Waas on Plamegate  —  Sometimes an article comes along that is so good and so comprehensive and so...well...perfect...that there is no way for a blogger to whittle it down and pull out the salient points and provide commentary.  —  Murray Waas has just published the magnum opus on the Plame Affair.
Toby Helm / Telegraph:
Blair will be gone by Christmas, say friends  —  Your view: is it time for Tony to go?  —  Tony Blair is to announce his resignation by Christmas, members of his inner circle believe.  —  The Prime Minister's closest aides feel that, following a series of damaging rows over education and "sleaze", he will quit within nine months.
stamfordadvocate.com:
Obama rallies state Democrats, throws support behind Lieberman  —  HARTFORD, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Barack Obama rallied Connecticut Democrats at their annual dinner Thursday night, throwing his support behind mentor and Senate colleague Joe Lieberman.  —  Obama, an Illinois Democrat who is considered …
Yale Daily News:
University must address Hashemi issue head-on  —  Kingman Brewster '41, onetime president of the University, once said of the qualities needed to gain admission, "A demonstrated failure of moral sensitivity or regard for the dignity of others cannot be redeemed by allegations that the young man …
Discussion: The Mahablog and dartblog.com
John / AMERICAblog:
The Left's Fear of Money, Part II  —  Nine months ago I wrote a post that got a good amount of attention, it was about the fear of money that some people have on the left.  I think it's time for the next installment.  —  Last night I attended the Radio and Television Correspondents Association annual dinner in Washington, DC.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Simianbrain
 
 
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