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MSNBC:
Court rules against Guantanamo detainees — Big win for administration although appeal to Supreme Court is likely — WASHINGTON - Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision in President Bush's anti-terrorism law.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices to Revisit Thorny Issue of Sentencing Guidelines in First Cases After Recess — The Supreme Court returns on Tuesday from a monthlong recess to face a daunting and urgent task: explaining what it meant two years ago when it ruled that the federal sentencing guidelines were to be treated as …
Rocky Mountain News:
Campos: The right's Ward Churchill — Murder is the premeditated unlawful killing of a human being. Glenn Reynolds, the well-known University of Tennessee law professor who authors one of the Internet's most popular blogs, recently advocated the murder of Iranian scientists and clerics.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
PAUL CAMPOS thinks I'm beyond the pale for suggesting (in this post, which he does not link) that the Bush Administration might have been better off trying to use covert action to kill Iranian nuclear scientists and radical mullahs, instead of having to look at the massive air strikes now reportedly …
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Blue Texan / INSTAPUTZ:
The Rocky Mountain News: Putz is the right's Ward Churchill. — It's finally happened. — The mainstream media finally sees Putz for what he is: not a moderate, reasonable "non-partisan" — but a hard-right extremist. Columnist Paul Campos not only takes Putz to task for his assassination fantasies …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Trial Spotlights Cheney's Power as an Infighter — A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush's first term.
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney's Influence Lessens in Second Term — Administration More Pragmatic in Foreign Policy, Dealing With Congress — Mistrustful of North Korea and its willingness to keep promises, Vice President Cheney worked hard in President Bush's first term to prevent talks aimed at halting that country's push to develop a nuclear bomb.
CNN:
Scores choke in poison gas attack … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A cloud of deadly toxic gas engulfed an Iraqi town Tuesday, killing six people and leaving dozens of others choking on fumes after a tanker carrying chlorine exploded outside a restaurant. — An Iraqi Interior Ministry official …
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Marc Santora / New York Times:More Iraq Attacks Day After Raid on U.S. Outpost
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Mary Jane Park / St. Petersburg Times:
Tormented first by hiccups, now by media … ST. PETERSBURG - The notes under the door. The incessant phone calls. The impassioned pleas, all begging for a piece of the story. — It wasn't reporters in search of secret intelligence involving the war in Iraq.
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Geoff Mulvihill / Associated Press:
Gay couples get licenses in N.J. — TEANECK, N.J. - Hundreds of gay couples were granted the same legal rights, if not the title, as married couples Monday as New Jersey became the third state to offer civil unions. — More than a dozen other couples applied for licenses for ceremonies later in the week.
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Keith Epps / Free Lance-Star:
Police say political dispute with stranger got physical — Man's Republican beliefs irritate suspect — A Fredericksburg man was arrested Saturday on charges he assaulted three strangers at their home during a dispute over politics, police said. — According to a Fredericksburg police report …
The Politico:
Conservatives Target GOP War Critics in Congress — House Republican leaders and conservative activists are targeting critics of President Bush's plan to send more combat forces into Iraq — and some GOP lawmakers are on the hit list. — Amid a mounting campaign in Congress …
New York Times:
Moral Waivers and the Military — The Iraq war has plunged the Army into a vicious cycle of declining standards. Multiple, extended tours of duty have sapped morale and blighted recruiting. New plans for a larger overall force could reduce pressures but would also mean that recruiters would have to meet higher quotas.
Amanda / Think Progress:
Snow: President Bush 'Certainly' Was 'Aware Of The Conditions In The Wards' At Walter Reed — In today's press briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Tony Snow about the Washington Post's two-part series over the weekend, highlighting the Walter Reed hospital's dilapidated conditions.
Associated Press:
GOP donor hit with terror charges — WASHINGTON - A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years. — Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court …
maristpoll.marist.edu:
National Poll: Presidential Campaign 2008 — This WNBC/Marist Poll reports: — · Hillary Clinton still outpaces her Democratic rivals nationwide as the Democrats' choice for their party's presidential nomination: Hillary Clinton outdistances her closest contender …
Alicia Colon / New York Sun:
Heroes And Cowards — Corporal Thomas Saba was buried in the Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island last Friday. One of seven Marines killed when their helicopter was shot down in Iraq on February 7, Saba, 30, enlisted in the spring of 2002 in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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