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10:20 PM ET, March 25, 2007

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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Hatch, Cannon come to Gonzales' defense  —  Utah's senior senator says there is no clear evidence the attorney general lied  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah defended U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Saturday after newly released documents showed Gonzales …
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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senators Are Critical of Gonzales  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales faced a weakening of Congressional support over the weekend, as Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in questioning his credibility, pointing to new evidence that conflicts with his statements that he played little role …
Discussion: Political Animal
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Mar. 25, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the battle over the U.S. attorneys.  The Democrats vote to subpoena the White House staff.  The president stands by his attorney general.  —  PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: He's got support with me.  I support the attorney general.
Robert Hodierne / Navy Times:
War story told by former sailor disputed  —  Deployment to Iraq not in personnel record; paper issues correction  —  The March 18 Sunday New York Times Magazine cover story was a gripping account of the emotional problems some female veterans suffer as results of their war experiences, sexual assaults or both.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHAT YOU FIND DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LOOK  —  The cover story in last week's New York Times magazine was titled The Women's War.  Its subject was women who return from Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; its theme was that both combat and sexual assault—incidence of which …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
"VITRIOL" FROM NORTHERN VIRGINIA-BASED AOL  —  Today's Minneapolis Star Tribune has an article on the recent Twin Cities controversies involving taxis and check-out lines.  Like so many "news" stories in the Strib, it's an editorial posing as reportage.  It begins with an anecdote …
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Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Maybe it's time for candidate to be a husband  —  TO BETTER UNDERSTAND why John Edwards is still running for president despite his wife's recurring cancer, read "Saving Graces."  —  The memoir, written by Elizabeth Edwards, explains a lot about this couple.  —  Together, they are running for political office.
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CBS News:
Exclusive: John And Elizabeth Edwards
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Firedoglake
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
At Forum, Democrats Differ on Health Care
Reuters:
Hagel says Bush too dismissive of Congress on Iraq  —  Source: Reuters  —  President George W. Bush should stop being dismissive of opposition in Congress to the Iraq war and it is time that lawmakers set boundaries for U.S. involvement, a Republican senator said on Sunday.
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Chuck Hagel: George W. Bush 'Could' Face Impeachment if He Ignores Congress on Iraq War  —  Senator Chuck Hagel has fired a warning shot across the White House's bow.  —  On George Stephanopoulos' This Week, Senator Hagel expressed frustration that Bush was ignoring Congress's steps to drive …
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Why the right goes nuclear over global warming  —  Most of the heat is generated by a small number of hard-core ideologues.  —  LAST YEAR, the National Journal asked a group of Republican senators and House members: "Do you think it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made problems?"
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Activists remember a different Romney  —  Advocates for gay and abortion rights and the environment say the GOP candidate misled them on his positions.  —  BOSTON — As an abortion-rights advocate, Deborah Allen did not think she would find much in common with Mitt Romney.  Then she heard his pitch.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Those Left Behind By Evolution
Las Vegas Sun:
THE SUN INTERVIEW  —  Daniel Bogden  —  Nevada's former U.S. attorney opens up about his values, his work and the political double-dealing that cost him his job  —  Here is the altar boy, football and baseball star, God-fearing, every-Sunday- Mass Catholic sitting in his modest house …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
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Sam Howe Verhovek / Los Angeles Times:   Firing of Nevada prosecutor Bogden sparks anger
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Myths About Moveon  —  In the heat of the fight around the supplemental, there were a lot of accusations thrown around that Moveon lied to its members, that it somehow sold out, and/or that it is now a Beltway insider organization.  There is also the strategic question of whether the supplemental was a good step or a bad one.
Discussion: Eschaton and TalkLeft
Athenae / First Draft:
One  —  NYT: … Mostly it's a flattering story, so I don't want to pick, but there's something running underneath it that I think is very interesting and makes me ... not angry, but just kind of a very strong NO.  —  And that's the assumption that it's either work or family …
Discussion: The Agonist
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
In the Hospital, Mrs. Edwards Set Campaign's Fate
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:
EXCLUSIVE: LA Times Publisher's Friend And Tribune Co Ex-Director Don Rumsfeld Was Asked To Guest-Edit After Grazer  —  EXCLUSIVE: It's no longer Grazergate; it's now Rumsfeldgate at the Los Angeles Times.  I'm told that Donald Rumsfeld was asked to guest-edit the newspaper's "Current" opinion section which appears on Sundays.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
IS 24 LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE?....Last week 24 reverted to form: after learning early in the episode that CTU had been infiltrated by a mole, the (suspected) mole was located and immediately hauled off to an "interrogation room."  Within a few minutes, this season's bad cop, Mike Doyle …
Michael Hedges / Houston Chronicle:
Conservatives quit board over DeLay appointment  —  WASHINGTON — As Tom DeLay pursues a return to the public stage, he's meeting resistance from an unexpected source: conservatives who say that he betrayed the movement as a congressional leader.  —  Four board members of the American Conservative Union …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Chicago Tribune:
Abolish the death penalty  —  One of the core tenets of this newspaper since its founding has been that the extraordinary power of government must be wielded carefully and sparingly—particularly when that power weighs on the life and liberty of citizens.  —  It has, as well …
 
 
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Lee H. Hamilton / Washington Post:
A Partnership on Iraq  —  President Bush staked out his position …
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Eyebrows Are Raised in Mich. Over Reasons for Prosecutor's Firing
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