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2:15 PM ET, March 31, 2006

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ABCNEWS:
Insurgents Justify Release of Jill Carroll in Web Tape  —  Tape Claims Americans Met Some Demands  —  March 30, 2006 — ABC News has found a video on an insurgent Web site showing U.S. reporter Jill Carroll before she was released by her captors in Iraq.  The circumstances surrounding …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Questions About Carroll's Captivity  —  I spoke to David Bloom days before he died and then covered his memorial service.  I wrote about the death of Michael Kelly.  I said goodbye to Bob Woodruff before he went to Iraq and got badly injured by a roadside bomb.
Discussion: Dohiyi Mir
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?
Bob Kemper / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
McKinney faces arrest over security incident  —  WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police are expected to seek an arrest warrant next week for Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who was involved in a physical confrontation with a Capitol police officer Wednesday, police and legal authorities said Thursday.
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
No Apology From McKinney for Hill Scuffle  —  Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had a physical altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted the incident.  —  But she has refused to apologize in a statement and a brief on-camera interview.
William Teach / Pirate's Cove:   Cynthia McKinney To Be Arrested?
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New York Times:
Conservatives Stand Firm on Immigration  —  WASHINGTON, March 30 — Conservative House Republicans bluntly warned their leaders Thursday against any immigration compromise that would allow temporary foreign workers and assailed a Senate proposal that would open the way for illegal immigrants to earn citizenship.
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Associated Press:
'Let the prisoners pick the fruits'
Discussion: Needlenose and Rook's Rant
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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Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
FEC Ordered to Rethink '527' Rules
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 …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Redo Is Harshly Judged  —  A Judge Critiques 9/11 Overhaul, and Finds It Top-Heavy  —  U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner sharply criticized the restructuring of U.S. intelligence agencies last week, telling CIA lawyers that the overhaul has done nothing …
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Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Intelligence Office Has Swollen, House Panel Says
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 …
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 …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush Wanted War  —  It is my firm belief that if, say, a few dozen people simultaneously did an Internet search for the words "Bush lied," computers all over the country would crash and the energy grid would buckle, producing a rolling blackout that would begin somewhere around Terre Haute …
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 and Air America Radio
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Defeating Jihad  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Serge Trifkovic, a former BBC commentator and US NEWS and World Report reporter.  His last book was The Sword of the Prophet.  The sequel, Defeating Jihad, will be published by Regina Orthodox Press in April.  Read his commentaries on ChroniclesMagazine.org.
Michael Kinsley / Slate:
The Twilight of Objectivity  —  How opinion journalism could change the face of the news.  —  CNN says it is just thrilled by the transformation of Lou Dobbs—formerly a mild-mannered news anchor noted for his palsy-walsy interviews with corporate CEOs—into a raving populist xenophobe.  Ratings are up.
Discussion: and NewsBusters.org
Hotline On Call:
Bill Clinton's A Convert To Dean's 50-State Project  —  Will Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee be ready for the November elections?  Party leaders and congressional campaign strategists are nervously pressuring Dean to stop spending money to staff organizers in states and instead commit …
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Blake Herzog / Arizona Daily Star:
TUCSON REGION  —  Mexican flag burned at Apache Junction HS
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Illegal immigrants rally for tuition break
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
The Two Branches of Government  —  Forget it.  —  Just forget everything.
Discussion: Wizbang
Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Church fires photog over Scalia picture: Freelancer pays for 'right thing'
Danny Carlton / alias "Jack Lewis":
Sometimes I'm really glad I live in the US
Associated Press:
Army bans use of privately bought armor
Jay Lindsay / Associated Press:
Mass. high court says nonresident gays cannot marry in state
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Yale Daily News:
University must address Hashemi issue head-on
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War Kids Relief
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon to Test a Huge Conventional Bomb
Jeff A. Taylor / Reason:
How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen  —  Never mind Moussaoui …
Discussion: Dean's World
New York Times:
At Sept. 11 Trial, Tale of Missteps and Management
Discussion: TalkLeft and Prairie Weather
Toby Helm / Telegraph:
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