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Watch News Channel 8 Video — 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.
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Homeland Security Deputy Press Secretary arrested — Deputy Press Secretary for U.S. Department of Homeland Security Arrested on Polk County Charges — Brian J. Doyle, DOB 4/7/50, the Deputy Press Secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Public Affairs in Washington …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
DHS Spokesman Is Accused of Soliciting Teen Online — The deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security was arrested last night on charges that he used the Internet to seduce an undercover Florida sheriff's detective who he thought was a 14-year-old girl, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
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Harry Shearer / The Huffington Post:
Found Object: DeLay on Hardball — To see just how grateful Chris Matthews was for getting the Tom DeLay scoop, and what DeLay may think of Hillary Clinton, go here. Thanks to the usual source gods. — Player not working? Download the quicktime video here.
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Robert B. Bluey / Human Events:
DeLay Says He'll File Ethics Complaint Against McKinney — Soon-to-retire Rep. Tom DeLay (R.-Tex.) said today he would file an ethics complaint against Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D.-Ga.) for striking a Capitol Police officer should no other House member do so first.
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
A Partisan Leaves; Will an Era Follow Suit? — WASHINGTON, April 4 — Representative Tom DeLay was the last man standing among the top three Republicans who took control of the House after the 1994 Republican landslide, and he leaves, in many ways, the most complex and contentious legacy from their conservative reign on Capitol Hill.
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Cafferty on Delay: "cocky little bandy rooster" — Jack Cafferty had a few choice words for Tom Delay today on "The Situation Room." — Video-WMP Video-QT (h/t arnie) … Deguerin: Don't we all have friends like Jack? — A day of Delay: The retrospective. Originally posted on 01/03/06
New York Times:
Couric Announces Departure From 'Today' Show — Katie Couric, the most successful host in the more than 50-year history of NBC's "Today" show, told her audience of more than 6 million viewers this morning that she will step down from the program and leave NBC when her contract concludes at the end of next month.
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Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
Bar the door - it's Katie — It looks like Katie Couric, that apple of America's eye, will be the next anchor of "CBS Evening News," arguably the most prestigious job in television journalism. Not only will Couric be following in the footsteps of Murrow, Cronkite and Dan "Fake But Accurate" …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Democracy In Iraq Not A Priority in U.S. Budget — While President Bush vows to transform Iraq into a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, his administration has been scaling back funding for the main organizations trying to carry out his vision by building democratic institutions such as political parties and civil society groups.
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David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
Big Gain for Rich Seen in Tax Cuts for Investments — The first data to document the effect of President Bush's tax cuts for investment income show that they have significantly lowered the tax burden on the richest Americans, reducing taxes on incomes of more than $10 million by an average of about $500,000.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Yes, the New Macintosh and Windows Can Be Friends — YOU should see my new Windows XP computer. It's so cool looking. It's a compact, silent, rounded six-inch slab, only two inches tall. Its sidewalls are brushed aluminum, and the top is white acrylic — with a big gray Apple logo in the middle.
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Apple Allows Windows on Its Machines — Turning a decades-long rivalry on its head, Apple Computer introduced software today that it says will easily allow users to install Microsoft's Windows XP operating system on Apple's newest computers. — The software, Boot Camp …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Feingold Backs Legalizing Same-Sex Marriages — Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), a prospective 2008 presidential candidate, said yesterday that he thinks bans on same-sex marriages have no place in the nation's laws. — Feingold said in an interview that he was motivated to state his position …
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Steve Clemons / tpmcafe.com:
US War Planners Should Listen to Israel Regarding Iran — As I stated on Christopher Lydon's NPR show, Radio Open Source, tonight — one of the take-aways from my recent Israel trip is that Israeli national security bureaucrats — diplomats and generals — have far greater confidence …
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nbcsandiego.com:
Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags — SAN DIEGO — In the wake of last week's immigration-reform protests, one school district is taking drastic measures, banning all symbols of patriotism, both U.S. and Mexican. — Images: Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags — Discuss: District Bans Patriotic Clothes, Flags
Eliot A. Cohen / Washington Post:
Yes, It's Anti-Semitic — Academic papers posted on a Harvard Web site don't normally attract enthusiastic praise from prominent white supremacists. But John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" has won David Duke's endorsement as "a modern Declaration …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Week's Blogger Of The Year — Now that the event has concluded, I can reveal why I came to Washington DC tonight. The Week Magazine selected me as Blogger of the Year for 2005, following in the footsteps of my friends from Power Line, who won the honor last year.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
2 Justices Indicate Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Televise Sessions — WASHINGTON, April 4 — Television cameras are not about to enter the Supreme Court any time soon. — That was the unmistakable message that two Supreme Court justices gave Congress at a hearing on Tuesday on the court's budget.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Mass. Bill Requires Health Coverage — State Set to Use Auto Insurance As a Model — BOSTON, April 4 — The Massachusetts legislature approved a bill Tuesday that would require all residents to purchase health insurance or face legal penalties, which would make this the first state to tackle …
National Review:
86 the Anti-527 Action — We're old enough to remember when the Republican mainstream was against restricting campaign finance. That was about four years ago. Way back then, House leaders were decrying McCain-Feingold as damaging to the GOP's electoral fortunes and probably unconstitutional.
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Agencies Not Protecting Privacy Rights, GAO Says — Government agencies that use private information services for law enforcement, counterterrorism and other investigations often do not follow federal rules to protect Americans' privacy, according to a report yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Hussein Charged With Genocide in 50,000 Deaths — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 — The Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that it had charged him with genocide, saying he sought to annihilate the Kurdish people in 1988, when the military killed at least 50,000 Kurdish civilians and destroyed 2,000 villages.
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