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9:45 AM ET, April 26, 2006

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Melissa Drosjack / Fox News:
Sources: Tony Snow to Be Named White House Press Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — Tony Snow will be named new White House press secretary on Wednesday morning, FOX News has learned.  Snow is expected to be at the White House for the announcement.  He has been mulling the offer for the last several days.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Fox News's Snow on Verge of Being White House Press Secretary  —  Fox News commentator Tony Snow has decided to accept the White House press secretary's job after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates …
Michelle Malkin:
MEET THE NEW WH PRESS SEC'Y  —  ***update: Fox News confirms announcement coming Wednesday morning...more...Lucianne G.: "Tony's courage in the face of the horror he has endured for the last couple of years sets an example for us all.  Take heart from it.  I will miss doing his show every Monday.
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:   Fox Host Leads White House Aide Candidates
Brad Foss / Associated Press:
Oil, Gas Prices Drop on Bush Supply Move  —  Crude oil and gasoline futures fell Tuesday after President Bush gave the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to relax regional clean-fuel standards to attract more imports of gasoline to the United States and to make it easier for supplies to be moved from one state to another.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Takes Steps to Ease Increase in Energy Prices  —  WASHINGTON, April 25 — President Bush announced a series of short-term steps on Tuesday intended to ease the rise in energy prices, including a suspension of government purchases to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve …
Discussion: Economist's View
Washington Post:
Bush Calls For Probe Of Rising Gas Prices
Commissar / The Politburo Diktat:
Mary McCarthy Matrix Grows  —  With the addition of Dem heavy-hitter Ty Cobb and Rand Beers now making the TV circuit:  —  Click for full size.  —  Meanwhile HotAir has more on the semi, sort of, backtrack.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CIA Leak Update: Backtrack?
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:   McCarthy Defense V2.0
BBC:
'Zarqawi' shows face in new video  —  A website has posted a video message which shows unmasked a man who appears to be the Iraqi insurgency's most wanted leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  —  In the tape, the man says holy warriors are fighting on despite a three-year "crusade".
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Warren Gerard / Toronto Star:
Jane Jacobs, 89: Urban crusader  —  Jane Jacobs was a writer, intellectual, analyst, ethicist and moral thinker, activist, self-made economist, and a fearless critic of inflexible authority.  —  Mrs. Jacobs died this morning in Toronto.  She was 89.  —  An American who chose to be Canadian …
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Bruce Kesler / Editor and Publisher:
Is the Press Covering the Iraq War On the Cheap?  —  The media needs to send more "troops" to cover the war and provide much-needed coverage.  What's stopping them?  Fear of violence, certainly, but also limits on training and insurance.  Joe Galloway also notes the military's "growing resistance" to embeds.
Discussion: QandO and Blue Crab Boulevard
Opinion Journal:
Our Rotten IntelligenCIA  —  To media partisans, some leaks are more equal than others.  —  Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that she has done anything wrong.  But the agency is standing by its claim that she was dismissed last week because she …
Discussion: Cold Fury and PrairiePundit
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Never Mind Mars and Venus: Who Is 'the Decider'?  —  When President George W. Bush referred to himself as "the decider" last week, there was the ensuing list of dinner party queries: Is "decider" an actual word?  (It is.)  Is it applicable in the world of presidential politics?  (Sure, whatever.)
Discussion: Althouse
Digby / Hullabaloo:
101st Fighting Keyboarder Uniforms  —  Whenever you visit a rightwing site, you are sure to see "those" tshirts.  I saw an ad for them on the Washington Times the other day.  Now, I know that wingnuts have great sense of humor as you can tell by the huge number of successful comedians and humorists on the right.
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
U.N. Council Imposes Sanctions on 4 Men in Darfur War Crimes  —  UNITED NATIONS, April 25 — The Security Council passed a resolution on Tuesday imposing the first sanctions in the violence that has killed more than 200,000 villagers and driven two million people from their homes in Darfur, in western Sudan.
The Big Pharaoh:
Mirror?  What Mirror?  —  The poll above was posted on Egypt's number one web portal Masrawy.com.  The question asks people whom they think was behind the bombings in Dahab yesterday.  48.9% of the respondents so far think that the Israeli Mossad was behind the terrorist attack.
Murray Waas / National Journal:
Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes?  —  When the CIA announced on Friday that it had fired an employee who the agency claims "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence" with a newspaper reporter, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas …
Washington Post:
Rumsfeld and Rice Make Unannounced Visit to Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, April 26-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced joint visit to Iraq Wednesday to bolster the new emerging government and to ensure that the sometimes disjointed U.S. political …
Reuters:
Experts: Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes  —  MONTEREY, California (Reuters) — The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
 
 
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
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Washington Post:
Bad Targeting  —  CIA Director Porter Goss has been busy chasing press leaks.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bush, senators agree on alien citizenship, shut out critics
Discussion: Church and State
Carol J. Williams / Los Angeles Times:
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Daniel Finklestein / Times of London:
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Roundup of Response to Iran Piece
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Rush's million-dollar conflict?
Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times:
Leaks of Military Files Resume
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