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rawstory.com:
MSNBC reports Rove believes he is in legal jeopardy — Karl Rove has described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being prosecuted than ever, MSNBC is reporting. — RAW STORY has also learned that an MSNBC report tonight will reveal …
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Faiz / Think Progress:The Gaping Hole In Rove's Defense
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Debbie Schlussel:
"United 93": Movie of the Year — When previews for "United 93" were shown in New York City movie houses, the crowd whined, "Too soon!" — But "United 93" is not arriving in theaters too soon. If anything, it is arriving too late. — It has been almost five years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 …
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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.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The Jesus cartoons — Another American university tackles free speech, and everyone involved embarrasses themselves — except the conservatives. A parable for our times. — World Net Daily broke the news yesterday that a far-left student newspaper at the University of Oregon — called …
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'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.
Michelle Malkin:
AN ATTACK ON THE ROTC — The anti-military punks are at it again. Reader Nora. A. e-mailed me photos of vandalism yesterday at UNC-Chapel Hill's ROTC armory taken by her son, an ROTC cadet on campus: — This has got to stop. (Hat tip: Sister Toldjah) Via the Raleigh News and Observer:
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Jay Price / Raleigh News & Observer:
Two ROTC buildings vandalized — Vandals spray slogans and spread paint on N.C. State and UNC-CH structures — Vandals staged attacks early Wednesday on the buildings used by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, echoing similar assaults on three Triangle recruiting stations last month.
Elizabeth Benjamin / Albany N.Y.:
Party Hearty — As The Daily Politics has noted, Union College's newspaper, The Concordiensis (affectionately known around campus as "The Concordy") reports on its front page today that U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-Clifton Park, attended a registered, on-campus frat party on April 22.
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Shane Harris / National Journal:
Silencing The Squeaky Wheels — The CIA has imposed new and tighter restrictions on the books, articles, and opinion pieces published by former employees who are still contractors with the intelligence agency. According to several former CIA officials affected by the new policy …
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind — Key lawmakers oppose his bid to block project — WASHINGTON — As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project …
Ryan Lizza / The New Republic:
Pin Prick — Senator George Allen is the only person in Virginia who wears cowboy boots. It's a warm and bright spring day in the swampy southeastern Virginia town of Wakefield, site of the annual Virginia political fest known as Shad Planking. Once a whites-only event where state Democrats picked …
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.
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
ONE LAST POINT ON TONY SNOW — I don't think many people have realized how the left blew it in its response to his appointment. The Center for American Progress and others immediately dug up every negative thing Snow ever said about Bush. This was precisely the stuff they should have downplayed.
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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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Anatomy of the "thought" process of Bush defenders — (updated below with Glenn Reynolds & Hugh Hewitt book figures - updated again) — As much as anything else, Bush defenders are characterized by an increasingly absolutist refusal to recognize any facts which conflict with their political desires …
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 …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Tension Over Press Leaks — Government Has a Right to Keep Secrets — but Also a Duty to Be More Open — Two events in the past week have thrown the spotlight on the troubled relationship between the Bush administration and the news media, raising questions that are worrisome on both sides of the divide.
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The Sideshow, Confederate Yankee, Riehl World View, Outside The Beltway and NewsBusters.org
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 …
David Postman / Seattle Times:
Seattle's Discovery Institute scrambling to rebound after intelligent-design ruling — When a federal judge stopped intelligent design from being taught in a Pennsylvania school district in December, the concept's chief advocates issued a quick and pointed response.
John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman rebuffs attempts to interview Administration officials in pre-war Iraq probe — Powell's former chief of staff says he'll 'wait and see' — WASHINGTON - The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has denied Democratic attempts …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration's secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.
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