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12:30 PM ET, March 12, 2007

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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Gonzales Said To Stonewall a GOP Query  —  Probe of Leaks Are at Center of Inquiries From the Right  —  The top Republican on the House's main investigative committee, Rep. Thomas Davis of Virginia, is charging the Justice Department with stonewalling his inquiries about the FBI's assertion …
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Opinion Journal:
Meltdown at Justice  —  Incompetence is compromising presidential power.  —  Just when President Bush seemed to have beaten back the Congressional defeatists on Iraq, along comes his own Justice Department to undermine some hard-won antiterror policy gains.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Justice Official 'Horrified' Phone Call Was Seen as Threat
Discussion: TalkLeft
Los Angeles Times:
Do we really need a Gen. Pelosi?  —  Congress can cut funding for Iraq, but it shouldn't micromanage the war.  —  AFTER WEEKS OF internal strife, House Democrats have brought forth their proposal for forcing President Bush to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2008.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Early Primary Rush Upends '08 Campaign Plans  —  The trickle of states moving their 2008 presidential primaries to Feb. 5 has turned into an avalanche, forcing all the presidential campaigns to reconsider every aspect of their nominating strategy — where to compete, how to spend money …
Washington Post:
A Balance for Labor  —  THE HOUSE has passed organized labor's top legislative priority, a measure that would make it far easier for unions to organize: They could get a majority of workers to sign cards rather than having to win a contested election.  The proposal's prospects of getting past …
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Examiner:
AFL-CIO bullying Colorado on Dems' 2008 convention
Discussion: Power Line and Betsy's Page
AndyJ / Kucinich for President 2008:
Cancelled Presidential debates smack of manipulation by 'run and hide' candidates  —  AUSTIN (TX) — The cancellation in the past two days of two planned nationally televised debates because of candidates' "scheduling conflicts" and unwillingness to participate smacks of …
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Michelle Malkin:
Kucinich smacks "run-and-hide" Dems
Discussion: Hot Air and Right Wing News
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Businesses Prepare to Mount a Concerted Attack on Regulation  —  Call it the end of the post-Enron era.  —  A major anti-regulatory offensive culminates this week with a one-two punch thrown by Washington and Wall Street's most moneyed institutions, as the Treasury Department convenes …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Los Angeles Times:
Fallback strategy for Iraq: Train locals, draw down forces  —  If the current 'surge' fails, planners suggest relying on advisors as the U.S. did in El Salvador in the 1980s.  —  WASHINGTON — American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy for Iraq that includes …
Sebastian Rotella / Los Angeles Times:
France's Chirac bows out, and the race is on  —  Long a fixture in French politics, he confirms he won't seek a third term as president.  A close contest to succeed him is anticipated.  —  PARIS — Setting the stage for a suspenseful presidential race, French President Jacques Chirac announced Sunday …
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Berger & Libby: A Tale of Two Crimes  —  "History will be kind to me," Winston Churchill once said, "for I intend to write it."  —  Indeed, he did.  His multiple-volume histories of the two world wars are still widely read, though discounted by professional historians as incomplete and in some ways misleading.
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
CAIR OK'd to meet in Capitol  —  A House Democrat has arranged for a conference room in the Capitol building to be used tomorrow by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy group criticized for its persistent refusal to disavow terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
March Madness  —  Public-sector lobbyists lavish gifts on congressmen and their staffers.  The scandal is it's perfectly legal.  —  Capitol Hill is in the grips of "March Madness"—and I don't mean the NCAA basketball playoffs.  "This is also the month that hundreds of lobbyists annually …
Discussion: QandO, EconLog and Cato-at-liberty
Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives balk over Giuliani's judges  —  His picks as New York mayor raise doubts over whether he'd put 'strict constructionists' on the high court.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, in an effort to temper his support for abortion rights and his other socially liberal stances …
Omaha World-Herald:
Hagel hasn't tipped his '08 hand  —  A tight-lipped Sen. Chuck Hagel arrived in Omaha from Washington on Sunday afternoon and prepared to make what could be the biggest political announcement of his life.  —  Some Nebraska Republicans speculated that Hagel appeared ready to jump …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and First Read
Doug Elfman / Chicago Sun Times:
Self-proclaimed hustler Eddie Izzard wants to serve dinner, not dessert  —  Eddie Izzard was in his 30s before he became famous as a comedian, but he wanted to be a dramatic actor way back when he was a 12-year-old schoolboy in the U.K.  —  "They did Shakespeare's 'Caesar,' " Izzard, 45, says.
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama, Clinton Sparring Early  —  CLINTON, Iowa — Standing in front of a large banner that blared "Clinton," surrounded by students in Clinton Community College sweat shirts, Sen. Barack Obama offhandedly mentioned the obvious.  —  "Hillary, you know, she's interesting," Obama said …
Secular Coalition for America:
Congressman Holds No God-Belief  —  Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) is first Congress member in history to acknowledge his nontheism  —  Contact: Lori Lipman Brown, (202) 299-1091  —  There is only one member of Congress who is on record as not holding a god-belief.
Tyler Cowen / Cato Unbound:
The Paradox of Libertarianism  —  Yes: Bigger government.  —  But no, that isn't as bad as it might sound to many Cato readers.  —  I see a few major policy achievements in a libertarian direction.  In the United States inflation has come down from unacceptable levels in the 1970s to an eminently livable situation.
 
 
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Associated Press:
Nevadans in New York state of mind with Giuliani, Clinton at top of poll
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
NEOLIBERALISM.  I want to amplify a point Badler made on David …
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
A Wrangle After Democrats Shun Fox as Debate Platform
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
On Screens Soon, Abused Earth Gets Its Revenge
Opinion Journal:
Kerry's Swift Retribution
Faiz / Think Progress:
Leahy On Halliburton Move: 'This Is An Insult To The U.S. Soldiers And Taxpayers'
New York Times:
For War's Gravely Injured, Challenge to Find Care
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Daily Kos
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Weak Lead-In Programming Takes a Toll on the News Ratings
Discussion: CBS News
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Brian Williams, Anchoring and Hunkering in Iraq
Michael Luo / New York Times:
In Crowded G.O.P. Field, a Lesser-Known Hopes to Capitalize on the Issues
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile
New York Times:
New Defense Chief Eases Relations Rumsfeld Bruised
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for Russia?
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Washington Post:
Winning the White House? History's Against Them.
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Native American trackers to hunt bin Laden
 

 
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