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10:35 AM ET, March 23, 2007

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Austin Bay Blog:
Michael Yon threatened with expulsion by a general  —  This is stupid.  Michael Yon and Bill Roggio are the best out there.  Telling Michael Yon to exit the theater is the WWII equivalent of telling Ernie Pyle to quit filing dispatches.  —  Everyone knows the PAO system has never …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Confederate Yankee:
The Silencer  —  This is U.S. Army General Vincent K. Brooks.  —  He might look familiar as the man once known as the "the face of the U.S. military" for his role as spokesman for U.S. Central Command during the beginning of the Iraq War, He was the former chief PAO (Public Affairs Officer) of the US Army.
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:   Iraq: Michael Yon on the Firing Line (Again)
Robert Barr / Associated Press:
Iran nabs British sailors in Iraq waters  —  LONDON - Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors who had boarded a ship suspected of smuggling cars in the Persian Gulf off the Iraqi coast on Friday, officials said.  —  The British government demanded "the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment."
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Reuters:
Iran seizes British navy personnel in Iraqi waters  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Iran captured fifteen British Royal Navy personnel during a "routine boarding operation" in Iraqi waters on Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defense said.  —  Iran's ambassador in London has been summoned and Britain …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Sky News:
British Forces Held By Iran  —  The Government is demanding the "immediate and safe return" of 15 British sailors and Marines who are being held by Iranian forces.  —  They were taking part in a routine operation boarding merchant ships in Iraqi territorial waters when they were seized by Iranian naval vessels.
Paul Wilson / Scotsman:
Navy personnel captured at gunpoint
Discussion: Guardian and NewsHog
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Liberals Relent on Iraq War Funding  —  House Likely to Pass Bill With Pullout Date  —  Liberal opposition to a $124 billion war spending bill broke last night, when leaders of the antiwar Out of Iraq Caucus pledged to Democratic leaders that they will not block the measure, which sets timelines for bringing U.S. troops home.
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New York Times:
Democrats Shore Up Support for Iraq Votes  —  For days, Democratic leaders have scrambled to shore up enough support to pass their Iraq legislation.  They delayed the final vote by a day, fearful that a few undecided lawmakers — on the left and right — could jeopardize their plan to set …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
An Inside-the-Bushies Mentality  —  If you read the obituary pages of The Post each morning, you encounter the kinds of people who are being trashed by the Bush administration's contempt for public servants.  On a typical day, perhaps a third of the obits feature such people …
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:   A history of replacing U.S. attorneys
Washington Post:
Retreat and Butter  —  TODAY THE House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill that would grant $25 million to spinach farmers in California.  The legislation would also appropriate $75 million for peanut storage in Georgia and $15 million to protect Louisiana rice fields from saltwater.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Sadly, No!
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:   Fred Hiatt and Iraq — Together Forever
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Thoughts on John and Elizabeth Edwards  —  The first time I got bad medical news was 11 years ago.  I responded what with then was (and sometimes still is) characteristic bluster.  I confidently told my doctor that I would crush this little obstacle and soon resume my life as normal.
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New York Times:
Edwards Says Wife's Cancer Has Returned
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Edwards Continues '08 Presidential Run
Discussion: Donklephant and Time
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Editor resigns over killed opinion section  —  An emotional internal rift rocked the Los Angeles Times today, as Publisher David D. Hiller scrapped a special edition of the paper's Sunday opinion section to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, causing editorial page editor Andres Martinez to resign in protest.
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Washington Post:
E-Mails Show Machinations to Replace Prosecutor  —  Administration Worked for Months to Make Rove Aide U.S. Attorney in Arkansas  —  Two months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice Department to take his place.
New York Times:
New to Pentagon, Gates Argued for Closing Guantánamo Prison  —  In his first weeks as defense secretary, Robert M. Gates repeatedly argued that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had become so tainted abroad that legal proceedings at Guantánamo would be viewed …
Michael Kinsley / time-blog.com:
Politics, Lies, and 93 v. 8  —  David Brooks has an excellent column today, and not for the usual reasons that liberals praise Brooks (and he drives conservatives crazy): because he comes halfway toward us.  It's because, in discussing the US Attorneys story, he nails a distinction that I, at least, was struggling with.
Associated Press:
Court strikes down Internet porn law … PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.
Discussion: QandO and Blogcritics Section
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Federal Judge Blocks Online Pornography Law
Discussion: Making Light and Unfogged
New York Times:
Army Revises Upward the Number of Desertions  —  A total of 3,196 active-duty soldiers deserted the Army last year, or 853 more than previously reported, according to revised figures from the Army.  —  The new calculations by the Army, which had about 500,000 active-duty troops at the end of 2006 …
Discussion: ScrappleFace and TalkLeft
Howard Campbell / Associated Press:
Police: Pakistan cricket coach murdered  —  KINGSTON, Jamaica - The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan's national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
 
 
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