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March 13, 2006

04:59
My doctor says not to worry yet, but that doesn't help.
Source: Salon.com
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04:19
When the facts turn against you, it's time to call ... the Nitpicking Squad!
Source: Salon.com
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01:00

EDUCATION: Graduation Madness

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March 12, 2006

21:00
In the first of a new series of speeches, the president said that his strategy is working and declared, "We will not lose our nerve."
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21:00
Druggists have complained to the White House that they are losing money under Medicare's new prescription drug benefit.
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21:00
Prospective presidential candidates called for curbing the federal spending that has soared under President Bush.
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21:00
Republicans dismissed the move by Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, as politically motivated.
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21:00
One advocate said the "silver lining" in a decision preventing universities from barring recruiters to protest the military's gay ban is that it focused attention on the ban itself.
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21:00
Some officials say they believe some of the aid funding that the U.S. has asked the Palestinian Authority to return might be reprogrammed for use by independent organizations.
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15:56
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, accusing the GOP of spreading a message of fear, says he is weighing a 2008 presidential bid. “I haven’t ruled anything out or anything in at this point,” Daschle said in an interview Saturday.
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15:19
An AP-Ipsos poll finds that the American public is, as one analyst put it,  “rock solid in its absolutely contradictory opinions” about abortion.
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14:00
Two greats join forces for "A Prairie Home Companion" the film -- with a little help from Streep, Tomlin, Reilly and an enthusiastic Texas crowd.
Source: Salon.com
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13:01
President Bush was the main attraction at an annual political press roast Saturday night, but Vice President Dick Cheney was the main target of the humor.
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12:08
The United States probably can stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons without military action, but use of force, subject to congressional approval, is still an option, U.S. lawmakers said Sunday.
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05:00
Best Week of TV Ever! "Project Runway" finale, "Battlestar Galactica" finale and "The Sopranos" premiere, all in the same week? Somebody pinch me.
Source: Salon.com
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March 11, 2006

20:54
The climax of a three-day gathering of Republican activists from 37 states came Saturday in Memphis, Tenn., as Frist won  an early test of strength for 2008 GOP presidential contenders.
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05:43
Don't call the 18-year-old boy king of chess -- defending his title this weekend -- a geek. He rules a new generation of champs raised on hip-hop and video games.
Source: Salon.com
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05:10
When I decided to get a tattoo with a man I'd only known for two weeks, my children worried I'd lost my mind. But I knew that whether it was in ink or emotions, love would always leave me scarred.
Source: Salon.com
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March 10, 2006

16:07
Sources tell Hardball that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., plans to shock his supporters tonight by asking them to not vote for him in Saturday's presidential straw poll by The Hotline.
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16:07

On the March 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, during a discussion on illegal immigration with Daniel T. Griswold, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, Bill O'Reilly cited North Korea as an example of a nation that has successfully maintained border security. Dismissing the effectiveness of "guest worker" programs to control illegal immigration, O'Reilly said: "The criminals are still going to get in here in a furtive way." Arguing for "stringent" measures, O'Reilly continued, "[Y]ou can go to any country in the world and watch how they do it. It's doable. Nobody gets into North Korea, all right? They've sealed up that border." Responding to O'Reilly's observation that "[n]obody gets into North Korea," Griswold retorted: "Nobody wants to."

North Korea borders South Korea on its southern border with the heavily fortified, four-kilometer-wide demilitarized zone that was negotiated in 1953 with the cease-fire of the Korean War. North Korea also borders China and Russia.

O'Reilly has made other dubious comments about immigration, as Media Matters for America has documented (here, here, here, and here).

From the March 8 edition of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:

O'REILLY: I'm for controlling all the borders. But you guys at Cato have gotta wise up a little bit. You're not gonna solve the illegal immigrant hordes coming in here by having an effective guest worker program because the criminals aren't gonna sign up for that. The criminals are still gonna get in here in a furtive way. And unless you put stringent -- and you can go to any country in the world and watch how they do it. It's doable. Nobody gets into North Korea, all right?

GRISWOLD: Nobody wants to.

O'REILLY: They've sealed up that border.

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