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2:05 PM ET, April 24, 2006

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Associated Press:
Bin Laden Tape: U.S. Is at War With Islam  —  CAIRO, Egypt — Usama bin Laden issued new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab television Sunday and accused the United States and Europe of supporting a "Zionist" war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr / Washington Post:
Bush's Thousand Days  —  The Hundred Days is indelibly associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Thousand Days with John F. Kennedy.  But as of this week, a thousand days remain of President Bush's last term — days filled with ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against Iran.
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Thomas Bray / Real Clear Politics:
President Lincoln 'Lied' Us Into War Too
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Maha / The Mahablog:
The Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Read on the Internets
Discussion: Norwegianity and PSoTD
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Warily, Iraqis Investing Hope in New Leaders  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 23 — On the cusp of their first permanent government since the American-led invasion, Iraqis are not exactly celebrating.  Rather, they seem to be gritting their teeth and clinging grimly to the battered hope for democracy …
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Opinion Journal:
Cole Fire  —  Yale is set to ditch Taliban Man and may hire a notorious anti-Israel professor.  —  Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi's luck is running out.  Eight weeks ago the Taliban diplomat turned special Yale student made a media splash on the cover of the New York Times magazine in which he proclaimed …
Don Jacobs / knoxnews.com:
Parade for 'warriors'  —  Thousands downtown welcome 278th Regimental Combat Team home after deployment to Iraq  —  Up to 20,000 people turned out Saturday for a parade to welcome home the National Guard's 278th Regimental Combat Team, providing a big-city atmosphere powered by small-town values.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
TENNESSEE WELCOMES ITS SOLDIERS HOME
Discussion: The Anchoress
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails  —  Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'  —  BAGHDAD — Last Nov. 13, U.S. soldiers found 173 incarcerated men, some of them emaciated and showing signs of torture, in a secret bunker in an Interior Ministry compound in central Baghdad.
Michelle Malkin:
INTRODUCING HOT AIR  —  I'm excited to introduce you today to Hot Air—a conservative Internet broadcast network I founded with a team of multi-talented bloggers.  (Press release here.)  —  Internet video is booming.  Apple's iTunes store has sold a gazillion videos since its debut.
Discussion: Hot Air, Power Line and PunditGuy
Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Senate Vote Inquiry Widens as Democrats Probe White House Link  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — To Republicans, the New Hampshire phone-jamming incident is an isolated case of political dirty tricks that took place more than three years ago.  —  To Democrats, it's a scandal with echoes of Watergate …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
Natan Sharansky / Opinion Journal:
Dissident President  —  George W. Bush has the courage to speak out for freedom.  —  There are two distinct marks of a dissident.  First, dissidents are fired by ideas and stay true to them no matter the consequences.  Second, they generally believe that betraying those ideas would constitute the greatest of moral failures.
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Solomonia
Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
Blog Fight On Capitol Hill  —  How deep is the partisan rancor in Congress?  So deep that aides are bickering over who knows more about blogs.  —  The spat broke out in the House on Friday between spokesmen for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Georgia Republican Jack Kingston …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Religious Push Against Gay Unions  —  WASHINGTON, April 23 — About 50 prominent religious leaders, including seven Roman Catholic cardinals and about a half-dozen archbishops, have signed a petition in support of a constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells  —  COLUMBIA, Mo., April 19 — Democrats are pressing their support for embryonic stem cell research in Congressional races around the country, seeking to move back to center stage an issue they believe resonates with voters and to exploit …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
At Los Angeles Times, a Columnist Who Used a False Web Name Loses His Blog  —  In the last few years, newspapers around the country have been testing the waters of the seldom-restrained, often scrappy world of Web-based journalism by setting their reporters loose to write their own blogs.
Bridget Gutierrez / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
TV station catches gaffe by McKinney  —  Congresswoman berates staffer as tape rolled after interview  —  Move over Britney Spears, Cynthia McKinney's — oops! — done it again.  —  The flap-plagued congresswoman, who has been in the media spotlight since she scuffled with a Capitol Hill police officer …
Discussion: Wonkette and News Blog
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
A Greener Way to Cut the Grass Runs Afoul of a Powerful Lobby  —  ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Some have automatic transmissions.  Drink holders.  Electrical outlets.  That staple of the American suburb, the lawn mower, now has many features of a late-model car.  But not a catalytic converter, a muscular piece of antipollution engineering.
 
 
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CNN:
Iran president calls Israel 'fake regime'
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Carl Hartman / Associated Press:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

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