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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Going a Short Way to Make a Point — Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. — Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it's time for another round of congressional finger-pointing. — "Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president …
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John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Sag in New Poll — Bush and Congress — Get Perilously Low Marks — As Gas Prices Rise — Rising gas prices have intensified discontent with Washington and handed Congress a frightening midterm election backdrop: a deeply pessimistic electorate, despite a robust economy.
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 …
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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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Rove Testifies Again in C.I.A. Leak Case — WASHINGTON, April 26 — Karl Rove, the senior counselor to President Bush, appeared this afternoon before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a Central Intelligence Agency officer's identity. Mr. Rove did not comment after his appearance …
Los Angeles Times:
Visit by Rumsfeld, Rice Sets Off Criticism in Iraq — Some leaders worry that the Americans' surprise trip could hurt talks on forming a government. Analysts see an effort to shore up U.S. opinion. — BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld paid …
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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.
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Scot J. Paltrow / Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors May Widen Congressional-Bribe Case — Cunningham Is Suspected — Of Asking for Prostitutes; — Were Others Involved? — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes …
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks — Under proposal, every U.S. taxpayer would get one — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.
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MSNBC:
Solidarity without sentimentality — The power of one (woman) over history — But first, Tony Snow: The fun starts here and here and a few free comments from me, here on "Comment is Free." (I'm not responsible for the "Yellow Snow" hed, for goodness sakes.)
Thomas Frank / New York Observer:
Joe Klein's Turnip Day — Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid, by Joe Klein. Doubleday, 256 pages, $23.95. — Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue …
David Beamer / Opinion Journal:
United 93 — The filmmakers got it right. — The calendar says it's April 25, 2006. At noon, my wife, Peggy, and I are walking around Battery Park—near the Tribeca area—in New York. It is our first time. The flowers are blooming; kids are fishing; people boarding the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
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.
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 …
Demetri Sevastopulo / MSNBC:
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.
WorldNetDaily:
'Jesus with erection' ignites outrage — Student newspaper publishes drawings in response to Muhammad 'toons — A Catholic activist organization has written to Oregon's governor and state lawmakers to protest a University of Oregon student newspaper for having published cartoons showing Jesus Christ naked and with an erection.
Washington Post:
No Outcry About Lobby Scandal, Lawmakers Say — Republicans See Little Risk In Pushing Modest Ethics Bill — The scandal surrounding disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been a Washington obsession for months, but Republican lawmakers who returned from a two-week recess this week …
Austan Goolsbee / New York Times:
In iTunes War, France Has Met the Enemy. Perhaps It Is France. — THE French take pride in their revolutions, which are usually hard to miss — mass uprisings, heads rolling and such. So, with the scent of tear gas in the air this past month from the giant protests against a youth labor law …
aaron:
Because K's are Funny — Counterattacking My Eternally Friendly Saudi Hackers — Backstory on the Saudi's hacking my blog. — The title of this post is a reference to a line spoken by Walter Matthau (who deserved the Oscar more than George Burns) in The Sunshine Boys. — Search Google images for koran.
Karen Gutiérrez / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Prof, others charged in cross case — Jacobsen, students accused of trashing NKU lawn display — HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - A professor and six students at Northern Kentucky University were charged Wednesday with misdemeanors related to the April 12 destruction of an anti-abortion display on campus.
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