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5:20 PM ET, March 31, 2006

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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
UNTHINK PROGRESS  —  I love this.  The intrepid folks at Think Progress write: … Is it really so crazy to think that someone who hasn't spent the last 82 days in captivity by Islamic kidnappers might be thinking more clearly than someone who has?  Is it so absurd to think that maybe someone …
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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: Crooks and Liars and Dohiyi Mir
New York Times:   Freed Reporter Recovering in Iraq
ABCNEWS:
Insurgents Justify Release of Jill Carroll in Web Tape
TigerHawk:
The Iran Crisis: A "roundtable" discussion at Princeton University  —  Last night I attended "roundtable" discussion of the Iranian nuclear crisis at Princeton University.  I originally wrote my report up as a "live-blogging" session, but it was sometimes tough to hear through the accents …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Solomonia
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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.
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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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Michael Conlon / Reuters:
Study fails to show healing power of prayer  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had any impact, researchers said on Thursday.  —  In fact, the study found …
Discussion: EconoPundit and Boing Boing
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'  —  House members condemn immigration bill  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use …
Discussion: Rook's Rant and Needlenose
Blake Herzog / eastvalleytribune.com:
Immigration tensions spark flag-burning in A.J.  —  This week's tensions over immigration reform literally caught fire in the East Valley on Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it.
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Paul Kiel / TPM Muckraker:
Rudy Plea Deal Implicates Buckham  —  Tony Rudy was the second former aide to Tom DeLay to go down - the first was Michael Scanlon.  But the details in his plea, it looks like he's going to take down a third with him, Ed Buckham.  Buckham's name might not be immediately familiar to you now …
Discussion: Off the Kuff
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Paul Kiel / TPM Muckraker:
More on Rudy's Guilty Plea
Discussion: Wampum and Talking Points Memo
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
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, Simianbrain and Don Surber
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 …
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.
Discussion: Dean's World and Ray Robison
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.
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon to Test a Huge Conventional Bomb  —  A huge mushroom cloud of dust is expected to rise over Nevada's desert in June when the Pentagon plans to detonate a gigantic 700-ton explosive — the biggest open-air chemical blast ever at the Nevada Test Site — as part of the research …
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 …
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Bill Clinton's A Convert To Dean's 50-State Project  —  NOTE: This post is updated above.  —  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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Preemptive Karma
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
The Two Branches of Government  —  Forget it.  —  Just forget everything.  Forget everything They ever taught you — it's garbage anyway.  —  Yeah, yeah, I know what you learned; I learned it too.  There are three branches of federal government, not two:  — Excutive  — Legislative
Discussion: Wizbang and Vox Baby
Jay Lindsay / Associated Press:
Mass. high court says nonresident gays cannot marry in state  —  BOSTON —Same-sex couples from states where gay marriage is banned cannot legally marry in Massachusetts, the state's highest court said Thursday in a ruling that left the status of many unions in legal limbo.
the Ocean / ocobserver.com:
Illegal immigrants rally for tuition break  —  TRENTON — More than 100 people rallied yesterday in front of the Statehouse Annex, urging state and federal lawmakers to allow children of undocumented immigrants to attend college at in-state tuition rates.  —  The smaller-than-advertised …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Paul Kiel / TPM Muckraker:
The Daily Muck  —  The sordid backstory of the Abramoff scandal …
NewsMax.com:
FBI's Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation
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mrc.org:
Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2005
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Courage in Coverage  —  The Risks in Reporting Real Stories in Baghdad
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Shiite Ayatollah Ignores Letter From Bush
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