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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
White House Shifts Into Survival Mode — In a White House known for both defiance and optimism, yesterday's senior staff changes represent a frank acknowledgment of the trouble in which President Bush now finds himself. They are also a signal of how starkly Bush's second-term ambitions …
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New York Times:
Things Change, and Stay the Same — President Bush wants to show the nation he's shaking things up in his administration, but it is clear that the people who messed everything up will remain in place. The press secretary goes; the political-and-domestic-policy adviser is losing half his portfolio.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Rove Is Giving Up Daily Policy Post to Focus on Vote — WASHINGTON, April 19 — The overhaul of the White House staff intensified on Wednesday as Karl Rove, one of the president's most powerful and feared advisers, gave up day-to-day control over the administration's domestic policy to concentrate on the midterm elections.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Un-Spokesman — Scott McClellan's Performance Reflected the White House's Strained Press Relations — He was painful to watch at times, gamely repeating the same stock phrases under a barrage of hostile media fire, grasping for new ways to deliver the same non-answers.
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraqi Premier's Offer to Step Aside Is Seen as Breakthrough — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 20 - In a sudden reversal, embattled Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said today that he was willing to relinquish his job, a move that was hailed by the country's other leaders as a breakthrough …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Al-Jaafari's Move Could Be Breakthrough — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, under intense pressure to give up plans for a second term, agreed Thursday to let Shiite leaders reconsider his nomination, a step that could mark a breakthrough in the months-long effort to form a new government.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Bravo — And bravo again. — Whether or not you care for Michelle Malkin's political positions, you should be honest enough to admit that this crusade to try to intimidate her and her family—a crusade being waged by mostly anonymous cowards who no person in the blogosphere, left OR right …
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Michelle Malkin:
I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU — You know who you all are. — And if you think I'm going to stop blogging/writing/making a living because you've plastered my family's private home address, phone numbers, and photos and maps of my neighborhood all over the Internet to further your manufactured outrage …
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Associated Press:
Hundreds nabbed in immigration raid — Executives, workers arrested in nationwide move against pallet maker … WASHINGTON - Immigration agents arrested seven executives and hundreds of employees of a manufacturer of crates and pallets Wednesday as part of a crackdown on employers of illegal workers.
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Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Muslim students 'being taught to despise unbelievers as filth' — Pupils protest as college linked to Iran puts fundamentalist text on curriculum, reports our correspondent — MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Unforeseen Spending on Materiel Pumps Up Iraq War Bill — Senate to Take Up Measure as Military Fights to Keep Guns, Tanks Working — With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion …
Guardian:
The tragedy that followed Hillary Clinton's bombing of Iran in 2009 — In retaliation, suicide bombers trained by Tehran massacred civilians in Tel Aviv, London and New York — Timothy Garton Ash — May 7 2009 will surely go down in history alongside September 11 2001.
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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."
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Sean Wilentz / Rolling Stone:
The Worst President in History? — One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush — George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around …
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Out of Ivy — Frontpage Interview's guest today is Travis Rowley, a Rhode Islander and recent Brown University graduate. He is the author of the new book Out of Ivy: How a Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative. — FP: Travis Rowley, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
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