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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak — WASHINGTON, April 26 — Karl Rove, the senior counselor to President Bush, testified for several hours on Wednesday before the federal grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case, in an appearance that was a sign of renewed attention by the special prosecutor …
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Rove Testifies for 5th Time in CIA Leak Case
Rove Testifies for 5th Time in CIA Leak Case
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Ari Fleischer / Washington Post:
Showtime at the White House — The Washington press corps — working in an industry that's been transformed by talk radio, 24-hour cable news and the Internet — still views the White House briefing room as it was back in the 1950s — or the '60s, '70s, '80s or even early '90s.
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THIS AIN'T YOUR DADDY'S Parasitic Pin …:
TONY SNOW HAS A GIGANTIC HEAD — Kevin Drum asks: … The biggest f**king head this side of Brit Hume. I don't know where FOX finds these f**king hydrocephaloids to do its news shows - Easter Island, maybe, or the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - but somebody needs to find that place and destroy it …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
A Different Press Secretary — WASHINGTON, April 26 — In formally naming the Fox News commentator Tony Snow to be his press secretary on Wednesday, President Bush completed a decade-long transformation of the role of the presidential spokesman from behind-the-scenes functionary to daily on-camera personality.
David Espo / Associated Press:
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship — WASHINGTON — President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans …
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Michelle Malkin:
OPEN-BORDERS BUSH: THE FINAL STRAW? — Not that this is a surprise to anyone who has actually listened to President Bush's open borders-sympathizing over the last five years, but here's the "news" from AP tonight: … A more accurate headline: Privately, Bush Says He Favors Amnesty — More:
New York Times:
Rice and Rumsfeld Express Confidence in Iraqi Leader — BAGHDAD, April 27 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld concluded a one-day visit to Iraq on Thursday morning with a declaration of confidence in the prime minister designate, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki …
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
New Iraqi Vice President's Sister Killed
New Iraqi Vice President's Sister Killed
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Projected Iraq War Costs Soar — Total Spending Is Likely to More Than Double, Analysis Finds — The cost of the war in Iraq will reach $320 billion after the expected passage next month of an emergency spending bill currently before the Senate, and that total is likely to more than double …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Pain at Pumps May Be Felt at Polls — As Gas Prices Soar, Voters Want to Send a Message to Lawmakers — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 26 — One of the soaring bridges to the beach here is named for longtime Republican congressman E. Clay Shaw Jr., and at its foot is a gas station where drivers …
Roger Friedman / Fox News:
Neil Young: Exclusive 'Impeach the President' Lyrics — 'Law & Order' | Odds 'n' Ends — Neil Young: Exlusive 'Impeach the President' Lyrics — Neil Young's new album, Living with War, is an incendiary, moving, totally American document of peaceful protest that is going to make a lot of people crazy one way or another.
CBS News:
'We Know What's Best For You' — (CBS) This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. — For several weeks in a row there have been headlines like "Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low." This week, it was CNN's turn to break the news, with a poll showing just 32 percent …
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
CIA warns ex-agents over talking to media — The Central Intelligence Agency has warned former employees not to have unapproved contacts with reporters, as part of a mounting campaign by the administration to crack down on officials who leak information on national security issues.
Healthy Policy:
Canada, health care reform, and you — A few things in the health care debate have been riling my feathers lately. The first is yesterday's post by Ezra Klein examining how the folks over at the right-leaning The Corner are busy questioning the definition of "is". Ramesh Ponnuru writes:
Will / Attytood:
The questions that "United 93" can't answer — Once again, Attytood gives you tomorrow's news today. This is our story that will run on the front page of the Daily News, looking at a few of the unanswered questions that may get lost in the hoopla about the opening of the movie "United 93":
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Senate Panel Urge FEMA Dismantling — WASHINGTON, April 26 —The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so fundamentally dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina that Congress should abolish it and create a new disaster response agency from scratch, according to a draft of bipartisan recommendations proposed by a Senate committee.
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weblog.blogads.com:
2006 blog reader survey results (56,000 of 'em) — We've wrapped up tallying the results of this year's blog reader surveys, conducted last month. When we surveyed blog readers in 2004, we got 17,000 responses. Last year we got 30,000. This year we had 56,000. — A fantastic result!
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
In Iraq's Choice, A Chance For Unity — So what should the world make of Iraq's new prime minister, Jawad al-Maliki? What chance will his new government have of containing the sectarian violence in Iraq and averting a full-blown civil war? — The first reaction of many outsiders is likely to be, "Jawad who?"