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11:10 AM ET, April 28, 2006

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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Red Lights on Capitol Hill?  —  The Wall Street Journal reported today that indicted former California Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham may not have limited his good times to partying on a rented yacht.  It turns out the FBI is currently investigating two defense contractors …
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Billmon:
Sex Pistols  —  I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the possibility (from Harper's via TPM Muckraker) that Porter Goss, director of the CIA, may be implicated in a hooker service for corrupt (and horny) congressmen paid for by defense contractors and run out of — you really gotta love this part — the Watergate Hotel.
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe?  —  Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal.  He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated.  Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them:
New York Times:
Prosecutor Weighs Charges Against Rove in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, April 27 — Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case, is expected to decide in the next two to three weeks whether to bring perjury charges against Karl Rove, the powerful adviser to President Bush …
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Bloomberg:
Rove Remains in Legal Limbo as Prosecutor Presses CIA Inquiry  —  April 28 (Bloomberg) — Presidential adviser Karl Rove faces the prospect of either remaining under a lingering legal cloud or indictment in a special counsel's investigation of the disclosure of a covert CIA agent's identity, according to people familiar with the case.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senators Hurry to Quell Furor Over Gas  —  WASHINGTON, April 27 — Senate Republicans tried on Thursday to get the upper hand in the escalating political battle over high gasoline prices by proposing a $100 rebate for taxpayers and by suggesting that they might increase taxes on oil-industry profits.
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H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
Congress Struggles to Act on Gas Prices  —  WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are walking a tightrope.  With gasoline prices soaring they want to appear tough on oil companies.  —  But apparently not too tough.  —  While congressional Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate promised …
Discussion: Donklephant
cbs5.com:
State Senate Supports Immigrant Walkout On Monday  —  (AP) SACRAMENTO California's state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.
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Michelle Malkin:
EXCLUSIVE: ILLEGAL ALIEN DAY PLANNING  —  Courtesy of an inside tipster at the LA Unified School District, I've obtained documents showing the public school teachers and officials' plans in advance of the Monday illegal alien boycott.  (Click on each page for full-size PDF).
Chief / freedomdogs.com:
101st Fighting Keyboadists: The Many, The Proud  —  I got a request to create some fresh art this morning from Captain Ed and Frank J from IMAO concerning the broadly used straw man from the left: "101st Fighting Keyboardists."  I won't bother to link to any of the many lefty sites that are wearing this one thin.
Discussion: Prometheus 6
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran 'Won't Give a Damn' About Resolution  —  VIENNA, Austria - Iran "won't give a damn" about any U.N. resolutions concerning its nuclear program, its president said Friday, hours before an expected finding that Tehran has failed to meet a Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Daniel Dombey / Financial Times:
Russia and China warn UN not to antagonise Iran
Discussion: The Belmont Club
BREITBART.COM:
Australian research shows mobile phones affect brain function  —  Radiation from mobile phone phones affects the way the brain works, Australian researchers have found.  —  Scientists from Swinburne University of Technology's Brain Sciences Institute in Melbourne found people's response times slowed during …
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New York Times:
U.S. Economy Still Expanding at Rapid Pace  —  Gas prices are rising, as are mortgage rates.  House prices in many once-hot markets have started slipping.  The American automobile industry shows no sign of recovery.  And the paychecks of most workers have not even kept up with inflation over the last four years.
Jay Cost / Real Clear Politics:
Wilentz the Buff  —  Rolling Stone has a splashy cover story this week that asks if George W. Bush is the worst president in American history.  —  Smart rock fans, of course, ignore Rolling Stone.  A rock magazine that once wrote that Exile on Main Street shows the Stones …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Power Line
Pamela McClintock / Variety:
'Atlas' pic mapped  —  Ayn Rand's most ambitious novel may finally be brought to the bigscreen after years of false starts.  —  Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to "Atlas Shrugged" from Howard and Karen Baldwin ("Ray"), who will produce with John Aglialoro.
Discussion: Crooked Timber and Hugh Hewitt
Thomas Joscelyn:
Guantanamo Detainee Caught At The Border  —  As the nation continues to debate what to do about our southern border, I thought I would point out a piece of informaton I found in a cache of documents released by the Pentagon in early March.  In connection with a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice, Rumsfeld Visit Highlights Tension  —  BAGHDAD, April 27—A full 10 seconds of silence passed after a reporter asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld what the intense secrecy and security surrounding their visit to Iraq signified about the stability …
Editor and Publisher:
Dana Priest Responds to Criticism of Secret Prisons Story  —  NEW YORK Ever since she earned a widely-expected Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for her Washington Post exclusive on CIA "secret prisons" in Europe, Dana Priest has been attacked by conservative commentators …
 
 
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White House:
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Clooney, senators urge action on Darfur
Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report
Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
WHO YOU CALLIN' STUPID?  Methinks a lot of folks out there are too quick …
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"It ain't legal, and by God, it ain't right"
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