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12:20 PM ET, April 9, 2007

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Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Says It's Able to Make Nuclear Fuel  —  NATANZ, Iran — Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, a dramatic expansion of a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West.  —  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
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Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Iran announces "industrial" nuclear fuel work  —  NATANZ, Iran (Reuters) - Iran announced on Monday it had begun industrial scale nuclear fuel production in a fresh snub to the U.N. Security Council which has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Tehran for refusing to halt such work.
Discussion: The Corner and The Daily Dish
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
Iran set to announce nuclear plans on Monday
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Pajamas Media
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Iraqis protest to mark Baghdad's fall  —  BAGHDAD - Tens of thousands draped themselves in Iraqi flags and marched peacefully through the streets of two Shiite holy cities Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.  Demonstrators were flanked by two cordons of police as they called …
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Chicago Tribune:
Sadr stokes anti-U.S. fervor Thousands head to rally; 10 GIs killed  —  BAGHDAD — Calling the United States the "great evil," powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Sunday ordered his militiamen to redouble their effort to oppose American troops and argued that Iraq's army and police force should join him in defeating "your archenemy."
Edward Wong / New York Times:   Iraqis Protest U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs  —  Is it too late to bring civility to the Web?  —  The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place.  Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code …
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct
New York Times:
Another Layer of Scandal  —  As Congress investigates the politicization of the United States attorney offices by the Bush administration, it should review the extraordinary events the other day in a federal courtroom in Wisconsin.  The case involved Georgia Thompson, a state employee sent …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Gingrich Assails Gonzales on Prosecutor Firings  —  Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, today became the latest Republican to criticize Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for the controversial dismissals of eight United States attorneys and said Mr. Gonzales should consider stepping down.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
President Renewing Efforts on Immigration  —  Plan for Overhaul Faces Battle in Divided Congress  —  President Bush will relaunch his push for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws today in Arizona, with a fresh speech on the border and a new congressional leadership that is friendlier to his views …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Bush To Launch Immigration Campaign Today
Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
GOP-issued laptops now a White House headache  —  Democrats say a private e-mail system was used in violation of federal rules.  —  WASHINGTON — When Karl Rove and his top deputies arrived at the White House in 2001, the Republican National Committee provided them with laptop computers …
Discussion: Firedoglake and CorrenteWire
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:   Does Anybody Know Where My Policy Laptop Is?
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
Faye's amazing hostage story  —  and JULIE MOULT  —  FREED British hostage Faye Turney told last night how she feared she was being measured for her COFFIN by her evil Iranian captors.  —  The sickening charade was an act of mental torture — but to Navy sailor Faye it was terrifyingly real.
Discussion: WSJ.com
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This Is London:
OUTRAGE AS IRAN CAPTIVES CASH IN
Discussion: protein wisdom
Ian Bishop / New York Post:
N.Y.'S BARACK $TARS  —  CLINTON DEFECTORS BOOSTING OBAMA  —  Hundreds of New Yorkers are reaching into their wallets to bankroll Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid - including many longtime boosters of arch rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.  —  In fact, Obama's biggest campaign bundlers …
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Richard Wolffe / Newsweek:
The End of Inevitability  —  The Clinton camp pressed donors to give only to Hillary.
USA Today:
Bush's approval rating sits below 40%  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush is reaching levels of consistency that no White House would want.  —  Bush's job-approval rating in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Monday through Thursday is 38%.  His standing has stayed below 40% for seven consecutive months.
Mike Baker / charlotteobserver.com:
Elizabeth Edwards afraid of neighbor  —  She has never met `rabid Republican,' but wouldn't be nice  —  RALEIGH —Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home — and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.
Discussion: Hot Air, TigerHawk and The Corner
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Is Pat Robertson's law school changing America?  —  One of the problems with public perceptions about crazed TV preacher Pat Robertson is that most perceive him as just a crazed TV preacher.  He'll go on his crazed daily television show (The 700 Club), offer crazed commentary just about everything …
Bill Sammon / Examiner:
White House says economic surge robust  —  WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The White House says the economic surge that began five and a half years ago on President Bush's watch is more robust than the much-touted expansion during the Clinton administration.  —  "This is a much stronger expansion …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Afghanistan's Karzai Says Taliban, Al Qaeda Have Been 'Defeated'  —  Afghanistan's President Tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer That While His Country Needs More Help, 'The Taliban Is Not Coming Back'  —  Amid reports that thousands of suicide bombers and insurgents were getting ready …
Richard S. Lindzen / Newsweek:
Why So Gloomy?  —  Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over.  There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level.  Both of these statements are almost certainly true.
 
 
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / The State:
S.C. Democrat to raise funds for Edwards
Eric Pfeiffer / Washington Times:
Senate Democrats say they won't halt funding for troops
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Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Europe's Problems Color U.S. Plans to Curb Carbon Gases
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Belle Waring / Crooked Timber:
Nukes Now  —  It's a standard move in global warming denial rhetoric …
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CBS News:
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For Thompson, Delay Is Costly
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