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12:10 AM ET, April 8, 2007

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Redstate:
The Pirates of Tehran  —  Oil prices fell.  The stock market rose.  Video images of smiling British soldiers with Iranian President Ahmadinejad were everywhere.  So were pictures of the 15 freed hostages embracing family members back home.  The relief over the return of the Brits was so tremendous …
Gulf Times:
Iraqi, US forces sweep through volatile city, fight Sadr backers  —  DIWANIYA, Iraq: Iraqi and US forces clashed with Shia militia loyal to the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr yesterday in a dawn operation aimed at returning the volatile city of Diwaniya to government control.
Discussion: Informed Comment
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Reuters:
U.S. air strike hits volatile Iraqi city
Discussion: The Sideshow
Atrios / Eschaton:
Journamalism  —  Ah, we remember it well.  The EFPs which …
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:   EFPs  —  Gulf Times, via Juan Cole: … What?
Detroit News:
An iPod for every kid?  Are they !#$!ing idiots?  —  We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy.  Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy …
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:   A chicken in every pot; and a Green Day song on every 2 GB Nano's …
Betsy / Betsy's Page:
I sure hope that Michigan voters are happy
Discussion: Wizbang
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
I Want an iPod … The Democrats in Michigan seem to have lost, well, their sanity.
Discussion: The Impolitic
Scott Horton / Harper's:
President Carter: Bush Ordered Me Not to Go to Damascus  —  More evidence of the White House's partisan manipulation of relations with Syria emerged yesterday, as President Jimmy Carter told a gathering in New York about his recent request to visit Syrian President Assad.  The former president stated:
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New York Times:
As One Syria Trip Draws Fire, Others Draw Silence  —  Ever since 1952, when a Republican senator, Arthur H. Vandenberg, coined the phrase, it has been said that in American foreign affairs, politics should stop at the water's edge.  Now, with President Bush confronting an opposition party …
Maha / The Mahablog:
Pelosi: Bushies Threw "Tantrum"
New York Times:
North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents  —  Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North …
Cain Burdeau / Associated Press:
Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.  —  "He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
MEDIA BIAS: HOW IT WORKS
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
HAS AL GORE BEEN TO CINCINNATI LATELY?  Because I'm visiting …
Discussion: Unfogged
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Bush: Democrats Jeopardizing Service Members' Safety  —  President Says Democrats Using Spending Bill as Way to Oppose War  —  President Bush used his Easter weekend radio address to suggest that while Americans are "blessed" to have so many brave, volunteer military service members …
New York Times:
Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics  —  From the poles to the tropics, the earth's climate and ecosystems are already being shaped by the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and face inevitable, possibly profound, alteration, the world's leading scientific panel on climate change said Friday.
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Los Angeles Times:
Earth faces a grim future if global warming isn't slowed, U.N. report says
Discussion: The Reaction and The Poor Man
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
On the ranch, Bush has a perfect escape  —  CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush's getaway in central Texas is just about everything Washington is not.  There may be no better way to explain why he loves it so much.  —  Life is remarkably different here for a president struggling through his second term.
Discussion: My Two Sense
John Kenney / Los Angeles Times:
Baghdad in the Midwest cornfields  —  What an outing to a market in Indiana would look like if a congressman's observations were correct.  —  The delegation arrived at the market [in Baghdad], which is called Shorja, on Sunday with more than 100 soldiers in armored Humvees …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
James Hider / Times of London:
Insurgents transform US military jails into 'terror training camps'  —  America's high-security prisons in Iraq have become "terrorist academies" for the most dangerous militant groups, according to former inmates and Iraqi government officials.  —  Inmates are left largely to run their blocks, which are segregated on sectarian lines.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Moderate Voice
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Mother Of All Blunders  —  On any given day, one isn't likely to find common cause with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  He's a dangerous, lying, Holocaust- denying, Jew-hating cutthroat thug — not to put too fine a point on it.  —  But he was dead-on when he wondered why a once-great power …
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons  —  And here's another Walt Handelsman animation that pokes fun at the Clinton-Obama rivalry for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.  (Apologies in advance to any Hillary Clinton supporters who are offended, but my blogger "focus group" thought this was funny.)
Stephen Braun / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton gladly plays the gender card  —  Leading in polls among female Democratic voters, the senator works to build on that support, lining up feminist leaders and appealing to working women.  —  WASHINGTON — A gender gap is growing in the Democratic presidential race, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton aims to widen it into a chasm.
Discussion: The Heretik
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Justice official is expected to help U.S. attorney's office  —  John Kelly had tried to resolve differences with three attorneys who left management posts.  —  A Justice Department official in Washington is expected to return to Minneapolis next week to help run the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota …
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Let Us Work For You, Afternoon Update
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Rocky Mountain News:
Let the hero tribute stand
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Trifecta / New Pairodimes:
None Dare Call It Impeachment
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William Douglas / Real Cities:
Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?'
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Col. Ralph Peters calls for court-martial of British sailors …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Edwards Drops From Second Fox News Channel Debate
Brian R / Press Association:
Bill Bennett  • Mike Gallagher …
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Google Launches Free 411 Service
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Giuliani Says Nation at War Requires Him
Tim Johnson / BurlingtonFreePress.com:
UVM's Republican club folds
Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Seeks to Regain Footing After a Bad Week
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) — Released From Purgatory
Ronald Bailey / Reason:
A Tale of Two Scientific Consensuses
Discussion: The Poor Man