HOUSE REJECTS WITHDRAWAL MEASURE – The chamber voted 321 to 93 against a resolution to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan this year, as Reuters’ Susan Cornwell reports. It was never gonna happen, but it made good politics for two contingents: It permitted Republicans to make hay out of their hated Defeat-o-Crats and briefly gave a high-profile venue to the seldom-seen anti-war movement. http://reut.rs/eXyuh1
AFGHAN OFFICIALS ADDED THE 29TH AND 30TH VILLAGES to their village protection program on Thursday, an ISAF official in Kabul tells Morning D. Orgun-e and Zarghun Shahr districts, in Paktika Province, convened meetings of villagers and elders to formalize local support for the Afghan Local Police, who’ll begin to help take over with local security.
Reported first living organ donor aids transmission
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/03/17/us-hiv-organdonor-idINTRE72G6PT20110317
Why Obama is going to Brazil
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-03-18-column18_ST3_N.htm
While in Rio Obama to sign bilateral agreement with Brazil to share Social Security, what does that mean?
http://riogringa.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/03/obamas-brazil-agenda.html?amp&
Libya airstirkes could start soon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2011/03/airstrikes_on_libya_could_comm.htmlII
Imminent says France
http://www.businessinsider.com/libya-air-strikes-are-imminent-according-to-the-french-2011-3
Clinton Peeved Over Obama’s ‘Amateur Night’ Foreign Policy Shop
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/17/clinton-peeved-over-obama%E2%80%99s-amateur-night-foreign-policy-shop/
Obama coming to Chicago in April for DNC event
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/4374800-418/obama-coming-to-chicago-in-april-for-dnc-event.html
UN approved
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/17/seeks-resolution-authorizing-wide-range-strikes-libya/
The vote was 10-0 with five abstentions, including Russia, Germany and China
Libya Declares Immediate Halt to Military Action Against Anti-Government Forces
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/18/libya-declares-immediate-halt-military-action-anti-government-forces/
Wacky MSNBC Segment: Lawrence O’Donnell Begs for Viewers While Blasting Beck & Bible
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wacky-msnbc-segment-lawrence-odonnell-begs-for-viewers-while-blasting-beck-god/
US cost of living hits record high
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42130406
Media Matters (NOT)
Beck: Obama Is “Not With The Terrorists, I’m Not Saying That, But He Is Sympathetic To Their Cause”
Beck Sees Evidence For His Grand Conspiracy Theory Everywhere
Beck: “The Country Will Not Survive A Second Term” Of President Obama
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103170027
Cabinet meets over Libya no-fly zone
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110318/wl_uk_afp/libyaunrestunresolutionbritain
Why 25 billion threat to reinsurers is overblown
http://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-disaster-reinsurance-2011-3
Japan: Level 5
http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-2011-3
Helicopter video of nuke plant
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/helicopter-video-gives-remarkable-views-of-damaged-nuke-plant/
Wisconsin judge temporarily blocks new state law curbing public worker collective bargaining rights
http://www.channel3000.com/news/27239147/detail.html
Forbes Magazine Slams Chevrolet Volt, But Was It Really Conceived Through Deception?
http://www.autospies.com/news/Forbes-Magazine-Slams-Chevrolet-Volt-But-Was-It-Really-Conceived-Through-Deception-62484/
UN warns of ‘shocking’ abuses in Bahrain
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0caef8937886ede277ae4997fbd9c4f6.641&show_article=1
Feds fine Spiderman
http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/feds-fine-spider-man-broadway-production-company-for-cast-injuries/
http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/spider-man-big-changes-imminent/
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