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3:00 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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Seth Stern / CQ.com:
Members Were Aware of Lapses at Walter Reed  —  Senior Republicans who knew about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center while their party controlled Congress insist they did all they could to prod the Pentagon to fix them.  —  But C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., former chairman …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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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.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
GETTING PORKED ('07)  —  The just-released "2007 Pig Book" …
Discussion: The Caucus and The Corner
Michael Barone / US News:
Lawmaker's Intervention in Law Enforcement Crosses Line  —  The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush administration.  —  When a U.S. senator (to wit …
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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
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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 …
Rebecca Dana / Slate:
The Katie Show  —  DOES COURIC'S ROCKY START AT CBS SPELL TROUBLE FOR HILLARY CLINTON?  —  No one has ever accused Hillary Clinton of being too perky or showing too much leg.  Even so, the presidential candidate could learn a lot from Katie Couric.  The bright-eyed former morning-show host …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Producer for Katie Couric Out at CBS News
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
FLASH: Here We Go Again — Pulitzer Finalists Leaked!  —  NEW YORK It didn't take long for the Pulitzer Prize finalist lists to begin leaking out.  Within hours of the 14 Pulitzer juries packing up to go home on Wednesday after three days of judging at Columbia University, the names of this year's alleged finalists began to spread.
Discussion: Wonkette
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 …
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
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 …
Charles Hurt / Examiner:
Anti-terrorism bill to relax foreigners entry into US  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate's anti-terrorism bill would relax visa requirements for foreign travelers coming to the United States, a move that some worry will leave the country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and The Corner
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.
 
 
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Jennifer Harper / Washington Times:
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NPR:
'Embrace the Suck' and More Military Speak
Daniel Casse / contentions:
Rudy and Realignment  —  Anyone who doubts that the Reagan coalition …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Nebraska Senator to Announce Monday Whether He Will Run for President
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
After Libby Trial, New Era for Government and Press
Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
The Democratic Divide  —  In a two-party, winner-take-all system …
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Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
'Common Ground' Caucus
Jim Henley / Unqualified Offerings:
There's Your Trouble, the Continuing Series
Advocate:
Why we need a federal hate-crimes law—and why we can get it
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
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Discussion: 27B Stroke 6 and AMERICAblog
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
New York Label May Not Fit All in Giuliani Run