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9:45 PM ET, April 23, 2006

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Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Bin Laden Tape: Ten Main Points  —  Al Jazeera aired audiotape-fragments it said was from Bin Laden.  In it, the leader of al Qaida made the following main ten points:  —  1. Hamas: Despite the fact that we (including Ayman Zawahiri) warned (Muslim Palestinians) not to take part …
Austin Bay Blog:
Why is Osama declaring war on the world?  —  Salah Nasrawi reports for the Associated Press that bin Laden is urging jihadis to head for Sudan.  Why?  To prepare to wage holy war against...get ready... The United Nations.  —  The AP's lede: … The AP report says the tape was broadcast …
Discussion: Instapundit.com and PrairiePundit
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Treason by association  —  Almost every Bush follower screeching about the Mary McCarthy story thinks it is extremely significant that (a) she donated money to John Kerry's campaign; (b) Dana Priest's husband knows Joe Wilson, as does McCarthy herself; and (c) McCarthy has professional ties to Sandy Berger.
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Times of London:
Iran's president recruits terror master  —  Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv  —  Plot for revenge attacks on West  —  IRAN'S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world's most wanted terrorists …
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Zbigniew Brzezinski / Los Angeles Times:
Been there, done that  —  Talk of a U.S. strike on Iran …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Power Line
Mike Allen / Time:
Can Josh Bolten Rescue the Bush Presidency?  —  He started by shaking up the staff.  Next comes a five-point White House "recovery plan"  —  At the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans.
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Newsweek:
Bush Pops His Bubble
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Cathy Siepp / Los Angeles Times:
Battling cancer — and Blue Cross  —  Unlike THE TYPICAL Blue Cross "valued member," as the annual letter on rate and benefit changes always calls us, I wasn't upset to learn that my monthly premium would increase by $50, to $395 a month, for me and my daughter.  —  That's because I'm not really a Blue Cross valued member.
Discussion: Cathy's World
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
BATTLING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY....Cathy Seipp, who contracted …
Daniel / Venezuela News And ViewsVenezuela News …:
A commemoration for the 70 000 that died under Chavez  —  Acuestate por la Vida,  —  commemorating the 70 000 deaths by violence in Venezuela in the last 6 years.  —  Since Hugo Chavez has become president in 1998, the toll of violent death from crime has been multiplied by three.
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A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Lawrence Wilkerson / Baltimore Sun:
Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?  —  We Americans came not from a revolution but from an evolution.  —  That is in large part why our so-called revolution produced success while most throughout history did not.  We came as much from the Magna Carta as from our own doings …
Los Angeles Times:
Bush's third term  —  IF PRESIDENT BUSH HOPES the "shake-up" of his administration initiated last week will re-energize his listless presidency, he's bound to be disappointed.  A far more audacious makeover is needed — one that sends Vice President Dick Cheney into early retirement.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists  —  Do you worry?  You look like you do.  Worrying is the way the responsible citizen of an advanced society demonstrates his virtue: He feels good by feeling bad.  —  But what to worry about?  Iranian nukes?
Brian Bennett / Time:
The Missing Girls of Iraq  —  Sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam Hussein, has resurfaced in Iraq.  TIME reports on a seldom-discussed epidemic: girls being kidnapped and sold to brothels  —  The man on the phone with the 14-year-old Iraqi girl called himself Sa'ad.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Suburban Guerrilla
Shakespeare's Sister / Ezra Klein:
The Three-Ring Circus Floats Some Trial Balloons  —  Shakes here...  Some Republicans are urging Bush to dump Cheney and replace him with Condi "if he is serious about presenting a new face to the jaded American public."  —  Well, that's certainly a big if, but okay, I'll play along.
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
'We would have been close even if 9/11 hadn't happened'  —  Tony Blair had just finished a video conference with George W. Bush when I arrived to meet him at Downing Street.  Their conversation, inevitably, had been mainly about Iraq.  "Every week, we have a video conference to catch up on things," he explained.
Discussion: RedState
Eliot A. Cohen / Opinion Journal:
Honor in Discretion  —  Conduct unbecoming from retired generals.  —  One could say much to defend Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld against the recent attacks of half a dozen retired generals—that the indictments are either old ("not enough troops," a trope from April 2003) or vague …
Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Kerry Dismisses Idea Whites Run Nomination  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry dismisses as "absolutely ridiculous" the notion that his support for Iowa and New Hampshire's prominent roles in the presidential nomination process means he thinks only the votes of white people count.
 
 
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Two Types  —  Aside from the underclass, there are basically …
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What Happened at Duke?  —  Sex.  Race.  A raucous party.  A rape charge.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats Contour November Strategy
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