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1:40 AM ET, April 4, 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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Little Green Footballs:
Pelosi in a Hijab  —  The modern Democratic leadership. … UPDATE at 4/3/07 12:07:53 pm: … How ... quaint.
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Israel seeks to reassure Syria: No summer attack  —  Israel's political and military leadership has been preparing in recent weeks for the possibility of a Syrian attack on the Golan Heights that will start as a result of a "miscalculation" on the part of the Syrians, who may assume that Israel intends to attack them.
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
Discussion: Wizbang
Political Radar:
Crawford-Bound Bush Slams Congressional Vacation
Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
DAMASCENE COMEDY  —  Bush, today: … Haaretz:
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Dave Pidgeon / local.lancasteronline.com:   Pitts in Syria before Pelosi
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Let's see if all the big news outlets who lavished so much coverage …
Discussion: Back to Iraq and Cliff Schecter
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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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Revamps His Fund-Raising  —  Lagging in fund-raising and under fire for his support of the Iraq war, Senator John McCain is overhauling his campaign finance operation and delaying the official announcement of his candidacy, his aides said Tuesday.  —  They said he would adopt the kind …
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" …
Discussion: New York Sun Politics
Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain Denies Secret Overture to Kerry
Discussion: MyDD, News Bloggers Blog and Power Line
Newsweek:   Page 4: Teaming Up  —  Kerry was still unable to come …
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
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Robert Y. Pelton / IraqSlogger:
McCain Trip B Roll For "60 Minutes" Profile?  —  McCain: "The American People Are Not Getting the Full Picture Here"  —  John McCain has given exclusive rights to the video of his trip to CBS's 60 Minutes, Slogger has learned.  Although the presidential candidate has provided interviews …
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.
Daily Intelligencer:
'Out' Ranks the Top 50 Gays; Anderson Is No. 2  —  When New York did a "Gay Life Now" issue in 2001, only seven of the forty prominent New York gays asked to pose for the cover were willing.  Those big shots may have been gay, and they may have been out, but it just wouldn't do for them to be gay and out on the cover of a magazine.
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
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Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog:   OUT Magazine ranks the 50 most powerful gays in America …
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
NBC4:
Students Pelt Karl Rove In Protest  —  WASHINGTON — White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported.  —  Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students …
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
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
 
 
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CNN:
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Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Relatives of Interned Japanese-Americans Side With Muslims
MSNBC:
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for April 2
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests