Top Items:
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 …
RELATED ITEMS:
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:
CNN:
White House scribe asks for the remote — Press corps asks to watch CNN on Air Force One — WASHINGTON (CNN) — It wasn't the price of gasoline, Darfur or the rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One.
RELATED ITEMS:
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 …
Discussion:
rawstory.com, AMERICAblog, Outside The Beltway, The Carpetbagger Report, Oliver Willis and Decision '08
RELATED ITEMS:
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
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).
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
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
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Join The 101st Fighting Keyboardists! (Bumped) — Our friends on the port side of the blogosphere have had quite a time tossing around funny little nicknames for those of us who support the war on terror and use our blogs to express our convictions about it.
RELATED ITEMS:
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
RELATED ITEMS:
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 …
RELATED ITEMS:
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Atrios / Eschaton:
An Inconvenient Truth — It's hard spending 90 minutes with Gore-on-film, and then another half hour or so with Gore Live In Person, and not feel a great deal of sadness for what could have been. Without spinning out elaborate alternative history scenarios, I can just return …
Washington Post:
Ethics Bill Clears the House in Tight Vote — The House narrowly cleared the way yesterday to vote on an overhaul of congressional lobbying rules after hours of contentious, closed-door meetings yielded a Republican agreement to broaden measures to rein in home-district pet projects and other narrow special-interest amendments.
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
A Day in Court — Scalia floats and Breyer rocks. — On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Roe v. Wade, creating the right to an abortion. This column is not about abortion. It is about the Supreme Court. — The preceding two sentences would strike some as a contradiction.
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Local Government Reporter, IA — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Editorial Assistant, Remote US — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
