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2:00 PM ET, March 8, 2007

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New York Times:
Buildup in Iraq Needed Into '08, U.S. General Says  —  The day-to-day commander of American forces in Iraq has recommended that the heightened American troop levels there be maintained through February 2008, military officials said Wednesday.  —  The White House has never said exactly …
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Washington Post:
As Iraq Exit Plan Arrives, Democrats' Rift Remains  —  Even in her conservative Kansas district, calls and letters to freshman House Democrat Nancy Boyda show a constituency overwhelmingly ready for U.S. troops to come home from Iraq.  —  Yet as the House nears a legislative showdown on the war …
Associated Press:
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the deadline would be added …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
David Espo / Associated Press:
House Democrats to unveil Iraq war plan  —  WASHINGTON - In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats are advancing legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.  —  Democratic officials who described the measure said the timetable …
Washington Post:
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008
Discussion: Think Progress and Hot Air
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
A Verdict on the Wilson Affair  —  Denis Collins, a Washington journalist on the Scooter Libby jury, described sentiments in the jury room reflecting those in the Senate Democratic cloakroom: "It was said a number of times. . . . Where's Rove?  Where are these other guys?"
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Washington Post:
Bush Deflects Pressure To Give Libby a Pardon  —  Clemency Before 2008 Election Could Be Politically Risky  —  President Bush said yesterday that he is "pretty much going to stay out of" the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby until the legal process has run its course, deflecting pressure …
Matt Sanchez / Salon:
Porn free  —  Left-wing blogs gleefully outed my gay porn past after I criticized antiwar zealots.  But the truth has set me free.  —  Was I totally clueless?  When I stepped forward in late 2005 to talk about anti-military attitudes at New York's Columbia University, I knew my past might be put under the microscope.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
(Coming Clean) Sanchez  —  Dan already linked to the piece earlier, but I think it's worth excerpting the following extended bit from Matt Sanchez's Salon piece, "Porn Free": … Last night, in a comment submitted to an earlier thread here announcing this latest GAY PORN COCK OF LIES! "scandal," I wrote:
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Nico / Think Progress:
CONFIRMED: Top House Spending Official Knew Of Walter Reed Squalor  —  Congressional Quarterly confirms today that senior House conservatives, including the chairmen of the appropriations and oversight committees, knew about the neglect and deplorable conditions at Walter Reed years before they were exposed by the Washington Post.
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Seth Stern / CQ.com:
Members Were Aware of Lapses at Walter Reed
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
GETTING PORKED ('07)  —  The just-released "2007 Pig Book" …
Discussion: The Corner and The Caucus
David Abel / Boston Globe:
Obama paid late parking tickets  —  Racked up penalties while at Harvard  —  Barack Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge.  —  Barack Obama is no longer a scofflaw, at least in Cambridge and Somerville.  —  Two weeks before the US senator from Illinois launched his presidential campaign …
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James Norton / The Somerville News:
Obama finally pays local parking tickets
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Producer for Katie Couric Out at CBS News  —  The shake-ups at the evening newscasts continued last night.  —  In the latest disruption, CBS News replaced Rome Hartman, the executive producer of the "Evening News with Katie Couric," with the long-time TV news executive and producer Rick Kaplan …
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence  —  A former Iranian deputy defense minister who once commanded the Revolutionary Guard has left his country and is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies, providing information on Hezbollah and Iran's ties to the organization, according to a senior U.S. official.
Debra Burlingame / Opinion Journal:
Gitmo's Guerrilla Lawyers  —  How an unscrupulous legal and PR campaign changed the way the world looks at Guantanamo.  —  He was the first American to die in what some have called "the real war."  Johnny "Mike" Spann, the 32-year-old CIA paramilitary commando, was interrogating prisoners …
The Politico:
RudyTube 1993: Rudy and Donna  —  Hard watching now, here's Rudy Giuliani's then-wife Donna Hanover and their kids, starring in David Garth's famous 1993 commercial about the "gentle," family Rudy, the soft side of a tough prosecutor.  —  Now, 13 years later, Donna's son …
Advocate:
Why we need a federal hate-crimes law—and why we can get it  —  This year marks our best chance yet to get a federal hate-crimes law passed and signed into law.  It would give the government the power to prosecute anti-LGBT crimes and law enforcement the resources to investigate them properly.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
After Libby Trial, New Era for Government and Press  —  The investigation and trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, will have many legacies and lessons — for government officials, for supporters and critics of special prosecutors and for historians of the events leading to the war in Iraq.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Three Good Options for The Right  —  The axiom is as old as human striving: The perfect is the enemy of the good.  In politics this means that insisting on perfection in a candidate interferes with selecting a satisfactory one.  —  Which is why the mood of many of the 6,300 people …
 
 
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Daniel Casse / contentions:
Rudy and Realignment  —  Anyone who doubts that the Reagan coalition …
Discussion: The American Scene
Charles Hurt / Examiner:
Anti-terrorism bill to relax foreigners entry into US
Discussion: The Corner
Michael Barone / US News:
Lawmaker's Intervention in Law Enforcement Crosses Line
Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
The Democratic Divide  —  In a two-party, winner-take-all system …
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Unions really really don't matter that much these days...
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
'Naughty hottie' has sex with 'God' on TV
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Discussion: ¡No Pasarán!
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RUDY HAS HILL'S NUMBER
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