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11:25 PM ET, April 3, 2007

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White House:
President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  I've just had a good meeting with Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, and General Pete Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Secretary Gates and General Pace updated me on the deployment of American reinforcements to Iraq.
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Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004  —  Note: You can now read the rest of the interview with Senator Kerry here.  —  On Monday afternoon I had the chance to speak with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2004.
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Deacon / Power Line:
DID MCCAIN APPROACH KERRY?  —  The left-wing blog MyDD reports that, according to John Kerry, John McCain's staff approached him (not the other way around) about the idea of McCain running with Kerry in 2004.  Kerry said reports that McCain's approached the Dems about switching parties
Matt Lewis / Townhall.com:
"Kerry Approached McCain" — Exclusive Interview with McCain Advisor John Weaver and CoS Mark Salter  —  I just had a chance to do a quick interview with McCain advisor John Weaver and long-time Chief of Staff Mark Salter — about the recent allegations regarding John McCain's supposed interest in joining the Democrat Party.
Newsweek:   Page 4: Teaming Up  —  Kerry was still unable to come …
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Pelosi visits market, mosque in Syria  —  DAMASCUS, Syria - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) mingled with Syrians in a market and made the sign of the cross at a Christian tomb Tuesday during a visit to pursue dialogue with the country's leader.
Discussion: theneweditor.com and GINA COBB
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Pelosi Rebuffs Criticism of Syria Visit  —  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Damascus on Tuesday, the highest- ranking American politician to visit Syria since relations began to deteriorate four years ago.  President Bush criticized the trip, saying it sends mixed signals to President Bashar Assad.
Discussion: Wizbang
Andrew C. McCarthy / Human Events:
The Mullahs Scoff at Geneva ... Again  —  For what seems like the millionth time since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has perpetrated an act of war against the West, reaffirmed its hostile, revolutionary intentions, and demonstrated that it is a rogue state which scoffs at the civilizing impulses …
Discussion: Balloon Juice, OxBlog and PrairiePundit
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   The Right and Geneva  —  Andy McCarthy cites the Geneva Conventions.
The Blotter:
ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran  —  Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:  —  A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
Think Progress:
Gingrich: When I Said 'Language Of Living In The Ghetto,' I Meant Hebrew (Or Maybe Yiddish) »  —  Newt Gingrich said this past weekend that the U.S. should abolish bilingual education so that people aren't speaking "the language of living in a ghetto."
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Jeffrey Feldman / FRAMESHOP:
Newt Needs Night School
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
House Democrats: White House liaison has no right to plead Fifth  —  House Democrats leading the investigation into the firing of eight US Attorneys are questioning the legal strategy of a top Justice Department official.  —  Monica Goodling, who serves as liaison to the White House …
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Diedtra Henderson / Boston Globe:
Was human food tainted too?  —  Suspect gluten went to plants that make products for people, FDA says  —  ROCKVILLE, Md. — Tainted wheat gluten that triggered a massive nationwide pet food recall also ended up in processing plants that prepare food consumed by people, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.
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CBC News:
Human food supply free of contaminated wheat gluten: Importer
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Can The Note save itself?  —  The unexpected personnel notice posted by ABC News on March 21 no doubt raised eyebrows among the Beltway's political and media elite.  The network announced that Mark Halperin, the high-profile and plugged-in director of ABC's political unit and author …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair  —  John McCain's campaign has just put out a press release announcing that GOP money-man Fred Malek has signed on as national finance co-chair.  That's a very important, high-level gig.  —  There's only one problem, though …
Discussion: The Nation
CNN:
Hospital: Woman dead after CNN Center shooting … ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A woman has died according to Atlanta's Grady Hospital following a shooting Tuesday at the CNN Center complex, in what Atlanta police called a "domestic situation."  —  The woman, who witnesses said appeared to be pregnant …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and digg
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests  —  Group Detained, Questioned During D.C. War Protest  —  A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political …
 
 
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Internal Combustion  —  Can you hear all the heads exploding on the right this evening?
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USA Today:
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Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Relatives of Interned Japanese-Americans Side With Muslims
MSNBC:
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Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Iraqi merchant: McCain visit propaganda
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
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