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10:40 AM ET, April 21, 2006

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New York Post:
'RESPECTFUL' W. HEARS A HU  —  April 21, 2006 — WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he and Chinese President Hu Jintao are now able to openly discuss their disputes "with respect" - but there was no sign that any of those disputes got resolved at their White House meeting.
Joseph Kahn / New York Times:   Bush and Hu Vow New Cooperation
Jonathan Beale / BBC:   US protocol crumbles on Hu visit
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
SORRY, YOUR VIEWPOINT IS EXCLUDED FROM FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION: That's what the Ninth Circuit holds today, as to student speech in K-12 schools, in a remarkable — and in my view deeply unsound — decision (Harper v. Poway Unified School Dist.).  —  Tyler Harper wore an anti-homosexuality T-shirt …
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Henry Weinstein / Los Angeles Times:
Court Rules Against Gay-Bashing T-Shirts  —  Schools in the western United States can forbid a high school student from wearing a T-shirt that denigrates gay and lesbian students, a sharply divided federals appeals court in San Francisco ruled today.  —  In a 2-1 decision …
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana  —  WASHINGTON, April 20 — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that "no sound scientific studies" supported the medical use of marijuana, contradicting a 1999 review by a panel of highly regarded scientists.
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fda.gov:   Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a Medicine
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Seeing red over 'green scare'  —  MEET AL GORE, scaremonger.  In 2004, Gore denounced President Bush for "playing on our fears."  Today, he is at the forefront of a "green scare" about global warming intended to terrify Americans into submitting to his environmental policies.
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James Robison / Ray Robison:
Fitting the pieces together  —  In February 2001, the Sunday Times ran the article Was this Saddam's Bomb by Gwynne Roberts.  I couldn't find the original but it is also on Globalsecurity.org .  —  I only recently read this article and found it interesting but very hard to believe.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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James Robison / Ray Robison:
More support to the claim that Saddam conducted nuclear tests
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The American Thinker:   Saddam's bomb?  —  Our contributor Ray Robison notes …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Crackdown Set Over Hiring of Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON, April 20 — The apprehension on Wednesday of more than 1,100 illegal immigrants employed by a pallet supply company based in Houston, as well as the arrest of seven of its managers, represented the start of a more aggressive federal crackdown …
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The Ugly American / The Real Ugly American.com:
A MSM Meltdown?  / Pulling a Hitlzik  —  You all remember when Larry O'Donnell melted down on Hardball calling John O'Neil of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth a "creepy liar" over and over again?  —  Well this latest incident by Michael Hiltzik may top it.  —  It appears Hiltzik has been using …
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New York Times:
Shiite Drops Bid to Keep His Post as Iraqi Premier  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 20 — Under intense domestic and American pressure, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari dropped his bid to retain his job on Thursday, removing a major obstacle to forming a new government during a time of rising sectarian violence.
Michael Janofsky / New York Times:
Democrats Eager to Exploit Anger Over Gas Prices  —  WASHINGTON, April 20 — Democrats running for Congress are moving quickly to use the most recent surge in oil and gasoline prices to bash Republicans over energy policy, and more broadly, the direction of the country.
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Disinhibition Nation  —  When blogs rule, we'll all talk like —  Kevin Ray Underwood, the repressed Oklahoma cannibal, kept an Internet "blog" of his compulsions for years before kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old neighbor last week.  On his blog, Kevin wrote a lot about Kevin …
Discussion: Swords Crossed and Eschaton
Noel Sheppard / The American Thinker:
Have you ever considered the peculiar yet convenient amnesia that regularly strikes members of the drive-by media when it fits their political agenda?  Given the development of the Internet, the accuracy and ease of search engines, and the ready access of more detailed media devices …
Bill Torpy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Tech student charged with supporting terror group  —  Another Atlanta area man arrested in Bangladesh  —  A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student taken into federal custody last month has been charged with giving "material support" to a terrorist organization, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
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 …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Generals' Dangerous Whispers  —  Last time around, the antiwar left did not have a very high opinion of generals.  A popular slogan in the 1960s was "war is too important to be left to the generals."  It was the generals who had advocated attacking Cuba during the missile crisis of October 1962 …
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