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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Prosecutor's Firing Was Urged During Probe  —  The U.S. attorney in San Diego notified the Justice Department of search warrants in a Republican bribery scandal last May 10, one day before the attorney general's chief of staff warned the White House of "a real problem" with her, a Democratic senator said yesterday.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. Recognized Prosecutor's Work on Election Fraud Before His Firing
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Bonnie Erbe / To the Contrary:
Gonzales, the Walking Cadaver
Discussion: Nitpicker and Talking Points Memo
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Right-hand man now a scapegoat?
Discussion: TBogg
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Leahy Wants Bush Aides to Testify on Fired Prosecutors  —  The Democratic senator leading the inquiry into the dismissal of federal prosecutors insisted today that Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush must testify publicly and under oath, setting up a confrontation between Congress …
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Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Schumer Faulted on Probe  —  GOP Solons See Conflict on Attorneys  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Schumer is coming under criticism from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who say Mr. Schumer's leadership in the investigation of the U.S. attorney firings presents a conflict …
Jules Crittenden:
Insurgents Resilient!  —  The AP's Stephen R. Hurst proclaims the resilience of Sunni insurgents! … I'm getting a warm and fuzzy Pravda kin dof feel off that, the "resilience."  Three more paragraphs follow, dealing mainly with deaths of Americans, spiced up with phrases like the one about Anbar being …
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Karen DeYoung / Iraq:   Iraq War's Statistics Prove Fleeting
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Whose Ox Is Gored?  —  The media discover the former vice president's environmental exaggerations and hypocrisy.  —  The media are finally catching up with Al Gore.  Criticism of his anti-global-warming franchise and his personal environmental record has gone beyond ankle-biting bloggers.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and ShopFloor.org
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Barbara Walters invites Hugo Chavez to propagandize  —  For those keeping score, this is the second time in less than five weeks that the Bush-hating leader of an enemy state has used ABC News to profess his "love" for humanity.  —  He knew just what to say, too.  —  Look at the look on her face.
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
HOW OFTEN SHOULD JUDGES CITE LAW REVIEW ARTICLES?:  In the New York Times, Adam Liptak has a very interesting article on the apparent decline in citations to law review articles in judicial opinions over the law few decades.  You should read the whole thing, but here's an excerpt:
Mark Ward / BBC:
Vehicle warning system trialled  —  Technology correspondent, BBC News website  —  Vehicles may soon be swapping information about road conditions to warn drivers about jams and dangers.  —  A German research project on show at hi-tech trade fair Cebit envisions a peer-to-peer network …
Audrey Gillan / Guardian:
The regrets of the man who brought down Saddam  —  His hands were bleeding and his eyes filled with tears as, four years ago, he slammed a sledgehammer into the tiled plinth that held a 20ft bronze statue of Saddam Hussein.  Then Kadhim al-Jubouri spoke of his joy at being the leader …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Cliff Schecter
Business Week:
Another Inconvenient Truth  —  Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver  —  The organizers of the Academy Awards declare all their celebrity presenters to be "carbon-neutral."  Vail Resorts Inc. (MTN ) in Colorado boasts that its chairlifts and lodges are "100% powered by wind."
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Four Years In  —  Four years in.  An inch of time.  Four years in and the foolish and credulous among us yearn to get out.  Their feelings require it.  The power of their Holy Gospel of "Imagine" compels them.  Their overflowing pools of compassion for the enslavers of women …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Tim Lambon / New Statesman:
Observations on Iraq  —  It's hard to describe the noise when a whole cabinet of crockery is emptied on to the floor.  Even harder not to shout in indignation when the American soldier who intentionally tipped it forward, until the plates and dishes slid smashing to the floor, says without regret …
Discussion: Today in Iraq and Jules Crittenden
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Siun / Firedoglake:
"The desire for freedom resides in every human heart."
Discussion: Today in Iraq
George Packer / New Yorker:
BETRAYED  —  The Iraqis who trusted America the most.  —  Text Size: … On a cold, wet night in January, I met two young Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad.  A few Arabic television studios had rooms on the upper floors of the building, but the hotel was otherwise vacant.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
 
 
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
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Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
WashPost Promotes 'Peace' Marchers to Pentagon on Front Page …
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Jerusalem Post:
Report: France urged Israel to hit Syria
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VIDEO: Sestak, Andrews Dominate Debate With Tom DeLay and Richard Perle
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Signs of Life in the Second Amendment
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Poll: Confidence in Iraq war down sharply
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
DeLay Sees the Reason for His Party's Loss (and, No, It Was Not Him)
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Congress, End the War
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Sean-Paul Kelley / MySanAntonio.com:
Iran's holy city isn't what it seems
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Lawrence Lessig / New York Times:
Make Way for Copyright Chaos  —  LAST week, Viacom asked …