FOX News' Tony Snow Among Possible White House Spokesman Candidates  —  WASHINGTON — With a few personnel shifts going on in the White House, there's speculation that presidential spokesman Scott McClellan may be looking to step down.  —  One of the people the White House has approached …

F.B.I. Is Seeking to Search Papers of Dead Reporter  —  WASHINGTON, April 18 — The F.B.I. is seeking to go through the files of the late newspaper columnist Jack Anderson to remove classified material he may have accumulated in four decades of muckraking Washington journalism.

Kill us, but you won't enslave us.  —  Last week we stopped writing for a while and we apologized to our readers saying that we lost a close friend but we didn't want to give more details as we were overwhelmed by an exceptional situation and a huge shock.  We also were afraid from writing …

A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy  —  IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled "The Israel Lobby."  The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) …

All in the Family  —  Glenn Greenwald has a post up about the Horowitzian effort to block blogger Juan Cole from receiving an offer to teach at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and in the Yale History Department.  It's no surprise; it is during college that many begin …

Party in Search of a Notion  —  From our May issue: The opportunity before the Democrats is far bigger than a few House and Senate seats if they can recognize — and seize — this unique historical moment.  —  The Democrats are feeling upbeat these days, and why not?

CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs  —  President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said.  —  The new Open Source Center (OSC) …

News Organizations Try to Block Subpoenas for Notes in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, April 18 — Lawyers for NBC News, The New York Times and Time magazine filed motions in federal court on Tuesday to quash subpoenas for interview notes, drafts of articles and other records sought …

China 'selling prisoners' organs'  —  Top British transplant surgeons have accused China of harvesting the organs of thousands of executed prisoners a year to sell for transplants.  —  The British Transplantation Society condemned the practice as unacceptable and a breach of human rights, in a statement released on Wednesday.

Tilting at Windmills  —  To my eye, they are lovely: Graceful, delicate, white against green grass and a blue sky.  Last summer my children and I stopped specially to watch a group of them, wheels turning in the breeze.  —  But to those who dislike them, the modern wind turbine is worse than ugly.

Senator rips ex Exxon CEO's retirement package  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid record oil prices and soaring gasoline costs, Exxon Mobil's $400 million retirement package to its former CEO is a "shameful display of greed" that should be reviewed by Congress and investigated by federal regulators …

CREW FILES DOJ COMPLAINT AGAINST TEXAS REP. PETE SESSIONS  —  Evidence Suggests Quid Pro Quo for Official Actions  —  Washington, DC - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed a Department of Justice (DOJ) complaint against Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) …