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 …

Not A Good Sign For Snow: WH Reporter Complains About Fox On TV  —  From a gaggle with Scott McClellan today:  —  We're fairly sure "Q" is : Jim VandeHei  —  Q It's come to my attention that there's been requests — this is a serious question — to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied.

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 …

Senate report: Dismantle FEMA  —  WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina exposed flaws in the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security that are "too substantial to mend," and FEMA should be dismantled and rebuilt inside the troubled department, according to the final report by Senate investigators.

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.

Fed Signals Pause in Campaign to Raise Interest Rates  —  The Federal Reserve may pause in its campaign to raise short-term interest rates, Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in an appearance before Congress today, noting that though the economy is in robust health it faces the prospect of slower growth …

Police: Hispanic Teen Nearly Killed For Trying To Kiss White Girl  —  Police Think Attack Was Racially Motivated  —  HOUSTON — Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party in Spring, Texas, authorities said.

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 …

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 …

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.

Blasphemy case registered against EU papers  —  KARACHI: Police have registered cases against the editor and publisher of a Danish newspaper and several other European dailies over their publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), under a blasphemy law that carries the death penalty, an officer said.

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 …

Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French pride  —  The French president, Jacques Chirac, yesterday unveiled what he hopes will be his great legacy to France's struggle against the global dominance of the US: a series of technological projects including a European search engine to rival Google.

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 …

Judge Embeds a Puzzle in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling  —  LONDON, April 26 — Justice Peter Smith's 71-page ruling in the recent "Da Vinci Code" copyright case here is notable for many things: the judge's occasional forays into literary criticism, his snippy remarks about witnesses on both sides …

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 …

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.

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.

Rockefeller did you "teller" - XVII - Profit under the Palms  —  The most excellent Douglas Hanson of American Thinker reinforces the theme of my previous post with an article that shows that the war against Bush isn't about just a difference of opinion.

State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me  —  Warren Kremer Paino Advertising has filed a 3 count multi-million dollar federal lawsuit against me for the reporting I've done in this blog.  They are claiming defamation, libel, and copyright infringement.

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.

BREAKING NEWS in the Andrea Clark Case  —  [Editor's Note- representatives of St. Luke's are being contacted and offered an opportunity to submit their perspective on this issue for publication on LST.]  —  UPDATE: I have received an email from Andrea's sister, Melanie, as well as talked with her on the phone.