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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.
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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.
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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 …
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.
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.
CNN:
Immigration arrests 9 bosses along with 1,000 workers — Strategy to focus more on companies that employ illegal workers — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Federal immigration authorities arrested nine people linked to the firm IFCO Systems and rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants in multistate raids …
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Knowledge Is Power
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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 …
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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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WTF Is It Now??
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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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?
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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
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Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO: SHOUTING DOWN A TYRANT — Drudge flash: … I have video coming...stay tuned. — Update: Here's the clip (thanks to Allah Pundit). — Download and watch the video (.wmv file). — Photos from Yahoo!... News coverage from AP: … Question: Will these photos and video be available on a Google search?
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Ken Silverstein / Harpers.org:
The Curt Weldon Employment Agency — Representative Curt Weldon (R., Penn.), a powerful member of the House Armed Services Committee, has been a good friend to the Italian firm Finmeccanica, and it appears that his good deeds on its behalf have been rewarded.
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 …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Valerie Plame To Attend White House Correspondents Dinner — NEW YORK Will Valerie Plame be the talk of this year's White House Correspondents Dinner? E&P has confirmed that she is slated to attend this year's gala, along with her husband Joseph Wilson and several other notable non-journalist guests …
Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
Opinion seemed to encourage a higher review — A state court handed U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay a legal victory Wednesday, but in language that almost seemed to urge Travis County prosecutors to second-guess it with an appeal. — The state's 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin affirmed Judge Pat Priest's decision …
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 …
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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