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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
They Should Have Killed Him — The death penalty has a meaning, and it isn't vengeance. … Excuse me, I'm sorry, and I beg your pardon, but the jury's decision on Moussaoui gives me a very bad feeling. What we witnessed here was not the higher compassion but a dizzy failure of nerve.
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Gets Life for Role in Sept. 11 — al-Qaida Conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison for Role in Sept. 11 Attacks — ALEXANDRIA, Va. May 3, 2006 (AP)— A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided …
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Offers Final Diatribe in Court — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life Thursday, to "die with a whimper," for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He declared: "God save Osama bin Laden — you will never get him."
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Moussaoui Given Life Term by Jury Over Link to 9/11 — ALEXANDRIA, Va. May 3 — A federal jury rejected the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday, with some jurors concluding that he played only a minor role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
No Trials for Key Players — Government prefers to interrogate bigger fish in terrorism cases rather than charge them. — WASHINGTON — Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person prosecuted in connection with the worst terrorist attack in American history, did not get the death penalty …
Will / Attytood:
Why won't the government try the real criminals of 9/11? — We told you we had more to say about the Zacarias Moussaoui verdict, but in a way we lied. What we want to do is reprint what someone else said, some nail-on-head comments from Newsweek's Michael Isikoff on "Hardball" earlier tonight.
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
9/11 Verdict Draws Mixed Reactions — For the families of those killed on Sept. 11, there are many things they agree on when it comes to Zacarias Moussaoui. — That he is an unrepentant horror of a person is not much in question. They are quick to call his behavior during his trial and sentencing hearing abominable and painful.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:Complex Martyr — The Zacarias Moussaoui jurors split the difference.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
So Not Funny — First, let me state my credentials: I am a funny guy. This is well known in certain circles, which is why, even back in elementary school, I was sometimes asked by the teacher to "say something funny" — as if the deed could be done on demand.
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
House Lobbying Rules Call for More Disclosure — The House narrowly approved ethics legislation yesterday that would expand the amount of information that lobbyists must disclose about their interactions with lawmakers and would also rein in big-money political groups that spent heavily in the last presidential election.
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Growing Unease for Some Blacks on Immigration — WASHINGTON, May 3 — In their demonstrations across the country, some Hispanic immigrants have compared the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle to their own, singing "We Shall Overcome" and declaring a new civil rights movement …
Jim Stratton / orlandosentinel.com:
Contractor's deal was Harris priority, former staffers say — Former senior members of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' congressional staff say they initially rejected a defense contractor's $10 million appropriation request last year but reversed course after being instructed by Harris to approve it.
Andrew Samwick / Vox Baby:
You Pay Your Money, You Take Your Chances — I finally decided to go in for TimesSelect. I am greeted by Tom Friedman's column, "Let's (Third) Party," where I read this gem about gasoline prices: … That's a fascinating "truth." Note that he is not writing here about the externalities associated …
Charles Wheelan / finance.yahoo.com:
Debunking One of the Worst Ideas in Economics — In this column, I'm focusing on bad economics. In fact, I'm going to write about what I consider to be the two worst economic ideas — or at least ideas that pass as economics, though both have been thoroughly repudiated by nearly all credible thinkers.
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
The Fox News Effect — We report. You decide. Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news? — Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted …
Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Follow-up 2: Red Lights on Capitol Hill — More details on Shirlington Limousine — A few days ago I wondered aloud exactly how Shirlington Limousine of Arlington, Virginia, owned by Christopher Baker—a man with a lengthy history of illegal activity—got millions of dollars in federal contracts …
Radio Blogger:
Juan Cole is 10th rate...he is the embodiment of the mediocre...his sentences are syntactical train wrecks...it's illiteracy, simply. - Christopher Hitchens — HH: Christopher Hitchens, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. — CH: Nice to be back. — HH: Now I don't even know how to raise this …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Decoding the McCaffrey Memo — If this is the cost of victory in Iraq, is America willing to pay it? — Good news and bad news on the war in Iraq: The good news is that victory is possible, our troops are the best ever, the Iraqi army is getting bigger and better, and most Iraqi people want a pluralistic government.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Tax Deal Sets Day of Reckoning — Tough Choice on Deficit in Store for President, Congress in 2011 — With this week's hard-fought agreement on a $70 billion tax-cut extension, President Bush and congressional Republicans have effectively set a date for a fiscal day of reckoning …
Opinion Journal:
Prodigal State — Tort reform brings doctors back to Texas. — DALLAS—The Senate is once again taking up the issue of medical justice reform. If senators want to expand access to health care by increasing the number of physicians and lowering costs, they need to look at Texas.
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Volunteer Efforts Spark Push For Public Service Academy — Group Pressing Congress to Create College — Teach for America veteran Chris Myers Asch has done his bit for public service. — After teaching fifth- and sixth-graders for three years in Sunflower County, Miss. …
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