Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days; 18 cents a gallon  —  Mulling proposal to give feds more power to target price gougers  —  Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a "federal gas tax holiday" by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.

Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated)  —  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News."  The tape is titled A Message to the People.  This is his first video without a mask …

CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Data  —  Post, Others Received Information; CIA Investigations Ongoing  —  Washington Post staff writer Dafna Linzer was online Tuesday, April 25, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the firing of CIA intelligence officer Mary McCarthy for leaking classified information …

How Would a Patriot Act? — the release  —  (updated below - and again)  —  The release date for my book — How Would a Patriot Act?  Defending American Values from a President Run Amok — is still a little more than two weeks away (May 15), but the book is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon.

Hugh Hewitt's Odd Logic  —  If newspapers were less liberal they wouldn't be losing so many readers.  That's what conservative media activists have convinced themselves is behind the steady decline in American newspaper readership; a decline conservatives take great delight in.

"Cole Fire: Yale is set to ditch Taliban Man and may hire a notorious anti-Israel professor" (UPDATED)  —  From the good news / bad news file.  From John Fund, WSJ: … [My emphases]  —  Fabulous!  And predictable: any outcry over the welcoming of the Other at Yale was sure to be muted at best …

Lone Lawmaker Blocks Flight 93 Monument in Pa.  —  For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.  —  But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument …

The Left's Big Ideas  —  So Democratic Party leaders met over the weekend in New Orleans, gleefully criticized President Bush's stewardship and issued a "vision" statement that most pundits and reporters saw as less than visionary and not terribly specific.  —  Perfectly true …

A moral responsibility  —  JIM LEHRER: Do you agree in principle with that?  And we'll get back to your point earlier about what avenues were open to her if she felt the way she did.  —  RAY MCGOVERN: I think, Jim, this was an exceptional case.  —  JIM LEHRER: An exceptional case?

Snow In May?  —  A week after White House press secretary Scott McClellan suddenly resigned, and — nothing.  —  Late last week, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten directly (firmly but politely) asked senior administration officials to stop unburdening themselves to the process-hungry Washington press corps.

One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand  —  The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?  —  A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats."

Monday's act heroic after 30 years  —  Outfielder recalls protecting country's honor from protesters  —  LOS ANGELES — It was 1976, a fun year for America.  It was the country's bicentennial, the war in Vietnam had ended a year earlier and everyone really wanted to put all the problems from the 1960s …

Sen. Roberts seeks delay of Intel probe  —  Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel's inquiry into the Bush administration's handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off …

"Wankgers": Why are Michelle Malkin and the rest of the right silent on the arrest of their "hero," Wenyi Wang?  —  UPDATE: We get results...check it out!  —  The case of Wenyi Wang — the Falun Gong follower arrested last Thursday for heckling Chinese president Hu Jingtao on the White House lawn …

Democrats Beat Republicans in 2005 Fund-Raising on Wall Street  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — Democrats outdid Republicans last year in attracting political donations from investment banks, brokerages and fund managers for the first time since 1994, helped by support from hedge funds and companies such as Merrill Lynch & Co.