Washington Post Article About A Blogger  —  A couple months ago I got a cryptic email from someone claiming to be a reporter from the Washington Post; he asked me to call him in regard to a story he wanted to write.  —  I looked him up on the Internet... turns out David Finkel …

Bush Speaks Out for Rumsfeld  —  President Bush interrupted his Easter vacation yesterday to offer an unequivocal vote of confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a move aimed at countering a growing wave of criticism from retired generals calling for the Pentagon chief to resign over his leadership of the Iraq war.

YOUR WORLD TODAY  —  Top Iranian Government Officials Speak Out Against the West; Sectarian Attacks Drive Iraqis From Their Homes; Calls for Rumsfeld's Resignation  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR …

The Strange Case of William Howard Hobbs  —  NOTE: This post has been updated.  See below.  —  What to make of all this Bill Hobbs/Mike Kopp/John Spragens/rest of the world junk?  Should I even chime in at all?  I've been asked to and, after sleeping on it, I've decided to.

Fran O'Brien's Loses Lease  —  Steakhouse Caters to Walter Reed Patients  —  The steaks are great, of course.  —  But it isn't the T-bones, the porterhouses or the rib-eyes that will be sorely, even painfully, missed when Fran O'Brien's Stadium Steakhouse loses its lease and closes its doors this month.

Law to Segregate Omaha Schools Divides Nebraska  —  OMAHA, April 14 — Ernie Chambers is Nebraska's only African-American state senator, a man who has fought for causes including the abolition of capital punishment and the end of apartheid in South Africa.  A magazine writer once described him as the "angriest black man in Nebraska."

Iran issues stark military warning to United States  —  Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States.  —  "You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," …

Who Leaked The Report First?  —  Murray Waas wrote a rather sensational story for the National Journal yesterday about the Scooter Libby case in which he alleges that Dick Cheney told Libby to leak a classified report to the press.  Again, as with so much in this case, the truth of the matter depends …

Once Again, Scalia's the Talk of the Town  —  Justice Renders Frank Out-of-Court Opinions on 2000 Presidential Election, 'Sicilian' Gesture  —  Justice Antonin Scalia is at it again.  —  "For Pete's sake, if you can't trust your Supreme Court justice more than that, get a life!" …

E-Mails Tie Former GSA Official to Abramoff  —  Safavian Attorney Objects to Disclosure  —  Federal prosecutors last night released hundreds of e-mails documenting the business and personal ties between former White House aide David H. Safavian, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and a network of congressional representatives and staffers.

U.S. Building Massive Embassy in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water …