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10:35 AM ET, March 2, 2007

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Marisa Taylor / Real Cities:
Sources: GOP lawmakers tried to influence federal investigation  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico pressured the U.S. attorney in their state to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator …
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Washington Post:
House Panel Subpoenas Fired U.S. Attorneys  —  Democrats issued their first major subpoenas yesterday since taking control of Congress, as a House subcommittee voted to compel testimony from four former U.S. attorneys who were part of a wave of firings by the Justice Department.
Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis  —  Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to close off access  —  Hillary Rodham, in a 1965 freshman photo when she was president of Wellesley College's Young Republicans, with the cover page of her senior thesis from 1969 on radical organizer Saul D. Alinsky.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
At Site of '65 March, an '08 Collision  —  Sunday's Selma Event to Be a Stage for Obama — and Clinton(s)  —  Bill Clinton will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a commemoration of the 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, bringing his star power and popularity among African Americans …
Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis  —  'A stupid political decision,' says her former Wellesley poli-sci professor  —  WELLESLEY, Mass. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's political science professor said he'd give the tactic an "F."  —  It was early 1993, in the first days of the Clinton administration …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Pressed by U.S., Pakistan Seizes a Taliban Chief  —  The former Taliban defense minister was arrested in Pakistan on Monday, the day of Vice President Dick Cheney's visit, two government officials said Thursday.  He is the most important Taliban member to be captured since the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and On Deadline
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Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus:
New Bush, Iraq Poll Numbers  —  In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.  —  Mr. Bush's approval rating dropped 13 percentage points since last fall among Republicans …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Bush Is Losing Support Among Republicans
Baltimore Sun:
A new twist to an intriguing family history … WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.  —  But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
McCain Ups the Ante Over Campaign Finance  —  John McCain raised the stakes Thursday in an emerging campaign finance showdown among the major presidential candidates.  —  In move similar to Democrat Barack Obama's last month, McCain, a Republican, pledged to accept public funding in a general election …
Discussion: New York Times and TIME
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Oh George, what will we do when you're gone?  —  Our columnist on an easy target for America-bashers  —  Somewhere, deep down, tucked away underneath their loathing for George Bush, in a secret place where the lights of smart dinner-party conversation and clever debating-society repartee never shine …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Music Of the Spheres  —  You might not have noticed, but we broke another U.S. space record last month when astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria logged his 67th hour of spacewalking.  If you consider that the equivalent of the Guinness record for pogo-stick bouncing (23.11 miles in 12 hours and 27 minutes) …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Des Moines Register:
Vilsack says early polls didn't show his strength  —  The former Iowa governor says it was his inability to raise money that forced him from the presidential race.  —  Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack criticized public opinion polls Friday and said his presidential campaign was running stronger …
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
New York Times:
Poll Shows Majority Back Health Care for All  —  A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee health insurance to every American, especially children, and are willing to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Shortages Threaten Guard's Capability  —  Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" — largely as a result of shortfalls in billions of dollars' worth of equipment — jeopardizing their capability to respond to crises at home and abroad …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Checkmate  —  The Democratic Party's honeymoon is over.  —  For Big Labor, this week's "card check" victory marked the ultimate payoff for past Democratic election support.  For House Democrats, it marked the end of the honeymoon.  —  Democrats won in November in part by playing …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Last night at the University of Wisconsin Law School.  —  Here's what happened at my law school last night, at an event I avoided: … Kaplan's version of the story has never been presented, strangely enough.  The quotes are obviously cruelly torn from the teaching context.
Jules Crittenden:
Good News Bad News  —  When is bad news good news?  When it is your enemy's.  —  Reuters loads us up on the Good News out of Iraq: too many al-Qaeda dead to count in a village in Anbar, where Iraqi security forces just kept killing them all day.  US and Iraqi forces raiding into Sadr City …
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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News of Afghanistan  —  A bit early...but I'm busy.  —  Gotcha!
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Joe Klein / time-blog.com:
Self-Referential Feedback Loop
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Al Gore's Inconvenient Loot
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Going coastal  —  "There's no telling who's going to show up …
Michael Young / Reason:
A Muckraker on the Wane?  —  Does the New Yorker actually edit Seymour Hersh?
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Washington Wire:
Now They're Talking...  Four former majority leaders who used …
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California Enjoys Electoral Muscle
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Rightosphere Temperature Check: Polling Right-Of-Center Bloggers …
Dave Kilcullen / SWJ Blog:
Guardian article misrepresents the advisers' view
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Norman Podhoretz / contentions:
On Arthur Schlesinger  —  There are three things to say about the work …
Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
Ryan Sager / New York Sun:
Giuliani Will Meet The Right
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