The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed a bill backed by the White House to have a secret court review the constitutionality of the eavesdropping program.
Rep. Ben Cardin, a low-key policy wonk first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates at age 23, appears to hold a big lead over ex-Rep. and former NAACP chief Kweisi Mfume in the race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Cardin led Mfume by 46 percent to 38 percent, a margin of about 40,000 votes.
You could say that the GOP tech machine is two-for-two this year. As in winning the 50th House District race in California earlier and yesterday helping embattled Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a liberal Republican, save his bacon in a primary challenge. GOP Political Director Mike DuHaime tells us that the margin of victory was the Republican program that found friendly voters and got to them to the polls to help Chafee. It's the same "microtargeting" technique that worked in California last summer and, most notably, in President Bush's re-election. And it's the same program Democrats are trying to copy. A Bushie tells me: "This is a huge deal going into November. If anyone doubts the effectiveness of the Republican ground game, look no further than the Ocean State." Read DuHaime's get-out-the-vote victory memo to party boss Ken Mehlman here.
Harvard got rid of early admissions because it wanted other schools to get rid of early admissions. No dominoes have fallen yet, but people are definitely talking. Princeton's dean of admission seemed excited, telling the Daily Princetonian, "The choices are expanded for us now." The Duke Chronicle reports Duke is "re-evaluating" its policy. Meanwhile, officials at Yale and Penn told the Yale Daily News and the Daily Pennsylvanian they like their policies and plan to stick with them.
AP - A gunman in a black trench coat and sporting a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a Montreal college and wounded at least 20 people — six critically — before he apparently was killed by police, witnesses and authorities said.
AP - The leader of Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab group demanded Wednesday that the beleaguered Shiite-led government take steps to disarm militias after police said the bodies of 65 tortured men were dumped in and around Baghdad.
AP - A Republican senator who opposes President Bush's plan for prosecuting terror suspects said Wednesday he would move ahead with rival legislation in a potential challenge to the White House and Senate GOP leaders.
A gunman was killed by police and 20 students wounded after a shooting at a college in Montreal, police said. Initial reports indicated up to four people were killed, but Yvan Delorme, chief of Montreal Police Services, clarified the number of dead.
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