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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
04/20/06 FOX Poll: Gloomy Economic Views; Bush Approval at New Low — NEW YORK — More Americans disapprove than approve of how George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Congress are doing their jobs, while a majority approves of Condoleezza Rice. President Bush's approval hits a record low …
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
A Crisis Almost Without Equal — Republicans and Democrats alike are starting to face the prospect of what it means to have George W. Bush as their commander in chief for another 33 months — in a time of war, terrorism, and nuclear intrigue. How can the press contribute to confronting the crisis?
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:Don't Wait, Calibrate — Learn to bend, Mr. Bush. You won't break.
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Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Google in China: The Big Disconnect — The World Wide Web, Abridged: Patrons in an internet cafe in Beijing. Chatting about sports, posting entries to blogs — fine. Visiting pro-democracy sites — no way. — For many young people in China, Kai-Fu Lee is a celebrity.
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The Peking Duck
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Will / Attytood:
Woman arrested for speaking freely right after Bush call for "freedom...to speak freely" — and CNN calls it "a blemish" on Hu visit — Usually watching CNN with one eye as we blog from our undisclosed location doesn't give us much new fodder, except for the occasional "stuck landing gear" crisis.
Michael Hiltzik / Golden State:
On Anonymity in Blogland — Some years ago, the New Yorker ran an amusing cartoon about one of the supposed virtues of the Internet, its anonymity. It showed two dogs in front a computer. One was saying to the other (I am working from memory), "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog."
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Three in One: Michael Hiltzik, Mikekoshi, and Nofanofcablecos — Is an L.A. Times columnist leaving comments on the Internet under assumed "sock puppet" identities — identities which he pretends is someone other than himself? — Read on and judge for yourself. As for me, I've made up my mind, and the answer is "yes."
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove — Just as the news broke Wednesday about Scott McClellan resigning as White House press secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove shedding some of his policy duties, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury hearing evidence …
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Democrats.com, The Washington Note, Prairie Weather, The Reaction, Booman Tribune, Wampum, Wonkette, TalkLeft and WTF Is It Now??
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Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
Novak: Feds know who outed CIA agent — Robert Novak said Wednesday that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald knows who outed a CIA agent to the Chicago Sun-Times columnist but hasn't acted on the information because Novak's source committed no crime. — Novak also hinted that he personally …
Washington Post:
Al-Jafari to Give Up Nomination for Iraqi Prime Minister — BAGHDAD, April 20 — Iraq's prime minister will give up his nomination for a new term as head of the country's new government, a senior member of his Shiite party announced, only a few hours before a long-delayed parliament meeting scheduled …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
The Jerk at the Podium: Scott McClellan Steps Away — "McClellan, Bush, Cheney, and Rove proved there were other ways. Replace news management with press nullification. Drop the persuasion model, in favor of the politics of assent. Choose non-communication to demonstrate that you ought …
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The Huffington Post, Rox Populi, Decision '08, The Gun Toting Liberal, Needlenose, Washington Post and NewsBusters.org
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Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' Sunday Preview: Madeleine Albright Can Leg-Press 400 Pounds — NEW YORK In an interview in the The New York Times Magazine that will appear this coming Sunday, Madeleine Albright reveals, among other things, that even at 68, she works out three times a week "and I can leg-press up to 400 pounds."
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Riehl World View, Wonkette, The Claremont Institute, Blue Star Chronicles and A List Of Things Thrown …
Nico / Think Progress:
Harry Reid: No Good Military Options in Iran — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has joined the long list of national security officials, Iran experts, and others who argue that no good military options exist in Iran. (Read the full list HERE.) … The right wing is already on the attack.
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Associated Press, MyDD, The Strata-Sphere, Michelle Malkin, Daily Kos and The Political Pit Bull
Kurt Andersen / New York Magazine:
Introducing the Purple Party — Depressed about the Democrats? Revolted by the Republicans? You're not alone. Here in New York (with its Republican mayor and Democratic voters), a third way is being plotted. Follow the purple-brick road. — B — efore I was old enough to vote …
Stephen Mulvey / BBC:
Wildlife defies Chernobyl radiation — It contains some of the most contaminated land in the world, yet it has become a haven for wildlife - a nature reserve in all but name. — The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station is teeming with life.
Zeyad / Healing Iraq:
Street Battles in Adhamiya — The Adhamiya battle in a nutshell: Iraqi security forces from the Interior ministry (some believe to be accompanied by militiamen) attempted to enter Adhamiya from the Raghiba Khatoun area around 1 am, Monday. Adhamiya residents and its dozens of watch teams responded …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
TALKING TO IRAN....What should we do about Iran? I have a suggestion, but first I need to relate a story that's gotten suprisingly little attention from the press. Perhaps they're too bored to pick up on it. — It started on May 6, 2003, shortly after George Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq.
Pew Research Center:
Public Disillusionment with Congress at Record Levels — Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Echoes 1994 — Summary of Findings — The American public is angry with Congress, and this is bad news for the Republican Party. The belief that this Congress has accomplished less than its predecessors …
Tim Chapman / Townhall.com:
The railroad to nowhere — You've got to hand it to some Republican appropriators. Despite swirling political winds that threaten to blow the GOP majority right out of town, they keep on keeping on. — Never mind the fact that the pungent stench from the Abramoff scandal still permeates the corridors of K Street and Capitol Hill.
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