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7:10 AM ET, April 6, 2006

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CNN:
Sources: McKinney case heading to grand jury  —  Federal prosecutors could have a decision by next week  —  (CNN) — No more he-grabbed-she-slapped — whether U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney should be charged over a confrontation with Capitol Police last week will be decided by a grand jury …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
On Awards, the Spineless Press, and Ann Coulter's Legs
Discussion: Power Line
Sean / Myelectionanalysis.com:
Numbers  —  What are these numbers?  This week's Powerball winners?  A safe deposit combo?  New numbers to torment those poor b*stards stranded on the island in Lost?  —  No, they're the number of troops that have died in hostile actions in Iraq for each of the past six months.
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John Noble Wilford / New York Times:
Scientists Call Fish Fossil the 'Missing Link'  —  Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375 million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land.
Discussion: The Liberal Avenger
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Guardian:
Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution
Discussion: Dean's World
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Sestak's battles — naval, familial and political  —  Sitting in the oncology ward at Children's National Medical Center on Jan. 19, retired Adm. Joe Sestak and his wife, Susan, awaited the doctors' verdict about the condition of their 5-year-old daughter, Alexandra.
Discussion: Young Philly Politics
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Diana Jean Schemo / New York Times:
Program on Vouchers Draws Minority Support  —  WASHINGTON, April 5 — As a student at Shaw Junior High School here, Amie Fuwa strained to shut out the distractions of friends cutting up.  She struggled through math, and used photocopies or the library when textbooks were scarce.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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John Stossel / Townhall.com:
I still want to teach  —  Last month, 500 angry schoolteachers …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Why Homeschool
Michelle Malkin:
NASCAR SMACKS DOWN NBC  —  I spoke this afternoon with Ramsey Poston, managing director of corporate communications at NASCAR.  He's on his way down to Texas for the NASCAR race this weekend, and he responded to NBC Dateline's undercover Muslim stings, which I first reported on yesterday morning.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Anchor's Chair Was an Irresistible Lure for Couric  —  In the midst of the widely publicized negotiations over her future career in network television, Katie Couric called a family meeting, with her parents and two young daughters around the dinner table.  —  Laying out her options …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Poll at Odds With Katie Couric Move
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Berkeley blogger finds his voice and fends off success  —  Three years ago, 50 friends and family members were the only ones reading Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's liberal blog www.dailykos.com.  Now that 600,000 politics junkies are alighting daily on what's become the nation's most popular political blog, the inevitable is happening.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
South Park Takes On Islamists, Cowardly Broadcast Executives, And 'Family Guy'  —  Last week, when the raunchy cartoon series South Park killed off Chef after Isaac Hayes complained about the show's religious intolerance, some CQ readers noted that Matt Stone and Trey Parker had never taken on Muslims.
Discussion: Hyscience
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The Anchoress:
South Park - honest, brave, honorable
Discussion: TBogg - "
Chris Hansen / MSNBC:
'To Catch a Predator' III  —  Dateline's ongoing hidden camera investigation into computer sex predators—grown men, trolling the Web for sex with minors.  This time, police are making arrests  —  Nbc  —  Mugshots: 50 men were arrested after the latest installment of the "Dateline" report.
Steven Waldman / Slate:
The Religious Left  —  It is fruitful and has multiplied.  —  Lo and behold, there is a religious left.  The Catholic Church is helping to lead the fight against immigration restrictions.  A week doesn't seem to pass without some group convening a conference on religion and liberalism.
TBO.com:
Porn Sting Nabs Federal Official  —  LAKELAND - When he wasn't sending pornographic movies to and asking for explicit photos from a teenage girl in Polk County, a Maryland man was bragging about his job as a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement officers said.
Mark Patten / midwestvaluespac.org:
An Evening with Ann Coulter: Opening Statement  —  COULTER DEBATE OPENING STATEMENT - UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM  —  Thank you.  First of all, I know I join Ann in thanking the University of Judaism for hosting this event.  We've had an opportunity to spend some time with President Wexler …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Criminal alien exception blocked  —  Senate Democrats refused to allow consideration of an amendment yesterday that would bar illegal aliens convicted of felonies from obtaining U.S. citizenship.  —  Democrats said the amendment would "gut" the immigration bill under consideration in the Senate and refused to allow a vote on it.
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Campaign Finance Measure Approved  —  House Bill Would Cap '527' Donations, Used Largely by Democrats  —  The House approved campaign finance legislation last night that would benefit Republicans by placing strict caps on contributions to nonprofit committees that spent heavily in the last election …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and AMERICAblog
Jack Shafer / Slate:
I'm Canceling My Times Subscription  —  Why you should, too.  —  Hello, New York Times?  I'd like to cancel my subscription today.  No, I'm not protesting your Middle East coverage, your treatment of any ethnic minority or weird religion, and I am certainly not upset about some petty delivery problem.
 
 
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
The Morning After  —  Chris Bowers offered up this interesting tidbit this morning.
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Natalie Kerris / Apple:
Apple Introduces Boot Camp
Bill Scanlon / Rocky Mountain News:
Waving the peace flag
Greg Roberts / NEWS.com.au:
Academic still links Africans to crime
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
9,000-Year-Old Dental Drill Is Found
Washington Post:
Tilting Maryland's Vote
Discussion: Power Line and Betsy's Page
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Air America, CEO Danny Goldberg, Party Politics, New York, Los Angeles
Discussion: Power Line
Tammy Bruce:
John McCain Thinks Americans Are French
 Earlier Items: 
Caroline Daniel / MSNBC:
Rubin's economic group to chart course for Democrats
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kennedy book blasts Bush, 'preventive war'
Benjamin Niolet / Raleigh News & Observer:
Authorities reveal e-mail message
Arthur Bright / Christian Science Monitor:
Has Al Qaeda demoted Zarqawi?
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
McCAIN AND THE BASE....Jon Stewart grilled John McCain last night …
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Agencies Not Protecting Privacy Rights, GAO Says
Harry Shearer / The Huffington Post:
Found Object: DeLay on Hardball
 

 
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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

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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