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12:00 AM ET, April 4, 2006

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Mike Allen / Time:
Exclusive: Tom DeLay Says He Will Give Up His Seat  —  The embattled former Republican leader tells TIME that he will leave Congress and not seek reelection  —  Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol …
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Washington Post:
Rep. DeLay Won't Seek Reelection  —  Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), a primary architect of the House Republican majority who became one of the most powerful and feared leaders in Washington, told House allies tonight that he will resign from the House rather than face a reelection fight that appears increasingly unwinnable.
Dana Bash / CNN:
Sources: DeLay to leave House re-election race  —  Former majority leader to announce move Tuesday  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Tom DeLay will drop out of his re-election race, two Republican congressional sources told CNN on Monday.  —  DeLay was forced to step down as House majority leader …
New York Times:
DeLay Will Not Seek Re-election to Congress  —  WASHINGTON, April 4 - Rep. Tom DeLay will announce on Tuesday that he will not seek re-election and will leave Congress within months, according to congressional aides.  —  The aides said that Mr. DeLay, who has been swept …
TJ Aulds:
Tom DeLay to step down  —  Under constant fire from Democrats, indicted on state charges and embroiled in a federal investigation, Tom DeLay said Monday he would retire from the U.S. House of Representatives and move to the Washington, D.C., area, abandoning the office he has held since 1984.
Discussion: RedState
DavidNYC / Swing State Project:
TX-22: DeLay Retiring!
Discussion: Daily Kos and Left in the West
MSNBC:
MSNBC: DeLay won't seek re-election
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Capitol police ask for arrest warrant for McKinney  —  Black leaders say McKinney victim of racial profiling  —  WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney for her role in a scuffle with a police officer last week, the prosecutor's office confirmed.
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wsbtv.com:
McKinney Admits Misusing Taxpayer Money  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Cynthia McKinney admits that she broke government rules by spending money to fly a celebrity to Atlanta.  —  Channel 2 Action News has uncovered documents showing McKinney, D-Ga., spent about $1,000 of taxpayer's money …
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Padilla Case  —  Bush Stance on Enemy Combatants to Remain Unchallenged  —  A divided Supreme Court handed the Bush administration a significant victory today when it decided not to review, for now, the federal government's powers to detain U.S. citizens as enemy combatants.
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Associated Press:
Justices, 6-3, Sidestep Ruling on Padilla Case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Jose Padilla, held as an enemy combatant without traditional legal rights for more than three years, sidestepping a challenge to Bush administration wartime detention powers.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Anthony Kennedy Is Ready for His Close-Up
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Jury Finds Moussaoui Eligible for Execution  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 — A federal jury found today that Zacarias Moussaoui was responsible for at least some of the deaths that occurred in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, meaning that he could be subject to the death penalty.
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Washington Post:
Jury Finds Moussaoui Eligible to Die  —  A federal jury today found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible to die for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, concluding that Moussaoui's lies to federal agents paved the way for the deadliest terrorist strike in U.S. history.
Dwight Meredith / Wampum:
2005 Koufax Awards —The Winners  —  I apologize for the delay in posting the winners.  We had a big turn out both in comments and in emails and a number of the categories had excruciatingly close races (one category had an exact tie, more on that below).  The voting was roughly evenly split between comments and email.
Reuel Marc Gerecht / Opinion Journal:
Can the Shiite Center Hold?  —  The unanticipated consequences of "Iraqification."  —  The Shiites of Iraq who want representative government, and who look to the resolutely moderate Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani for religious and political guidance, have endured Baathists, Sunni supremacists and holy warriors.
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Greg Sargent / TAPPED:
HIATT TARS DEMS.  Fred Hiatt's Washington Post column today slams the Democratic Party's "Real Security" plan.  His chief objection appears to be that it's way too short on platitudes for his liking.  Hiatt writes: … Castigating the Dem plan for failing to match such grandiloquence, Hiatt continues:
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Jamie Mobley / story.seguingazette.com:
UT professor says death is imminent  —  AUSTIN — A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.  —  Â"Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,Â" Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. EdwardÂ's University on Friday.
Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh called alleged Duke rape victim a "ho[ ]" … During the March 31 broadcast of his national syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh referred to the alleged victim of a rape by members of the Duke University lacrosse team as a "ho[]."  During an on-air discussion with a caller …
 
 
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Ms. Underestimated:
Too Soon? I Say Long Overdue! "United 93"
Lance Mannion:
A rhetoric of cowardice and vanity
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Town's-Eye View of Immigration Debate
New York Times:
A Letter to Our Readers
Discussion: FishBowlDC, Gothamist and Gawker
Tatiana Siegel / Reuters:
Erotic thrillers lose steam at box office
Ryan Lizza / New York Magazine:
The Bush-Cheney Era Ends Here
Dominic Hilton / Toronto Star:
Would you hire this man?
Discussion: Knowledge Is Power
Washington Post:
A Plan to End Child Poverty
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Gadfly With Buzz  —  MSNBC's Olbermann, Exercising the Right
Chicago Tribune:
Let's have good news from Iraq, please
David Barboza / New York Times:
Labor Shortage in China May Lead to Trade Shift
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
The Abortion-Rights Side Invokes God, Too
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Head of Sorbonne attacks 'ignorant' student protesters
NY Daily News:
Gore gets 'Green' and mean with W
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
White House shake-up to continue?
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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