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8:55 AM ET, April 30, 2006

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Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner— President Does Not Seem Amused  —  WASHINGTON A blistering comedy "tribute" to President Bush by Comedy Central's faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Colbert Does the White House Correspondence dinner  —  Was he snubbed?  —  Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas.  I used the second half of his performance because it included the Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:
Elizabeth White / Associated Press:
Bush Lampoons Self at Press Corp Dinner  —  WASHINGTON - It was twice the fun for members of the White House Correspondents' Association and guests Saturday night when President Bush and a look-alike, sound-alike sidekick poked fun at the president and fellow politicians.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Bush Plays It For Laughs While Colbert Bombs
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Colbert's White House Correspondent Dinner Performance Underscores …
Paul the Spud / Shakespeare's Sister:   Stephen Colbert has Balls as Big as Church Bells
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
W.H. Correspondents Dinner: Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs
Discussion: RightWinged.com
Gagdad Bob / One Cosmos:
United 93: No Heroic Deed Goes Unspoiled by the Left  —  I'm going to let you in on a little secret.  I know how to completely eliminate the left.  Well, maybe not completely.  But at least 75% of them.  —  Would it be through better education?  No, being that wackademia has been hijacked by the left, that wouldn't help at all.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bloggers review "United 93″
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Of a Fire in a Field  —  A COUPLE OF FRIENDS asked …
Discussion: Blogcritics.org
AMERICAN DIGEST:   Reviewer Without a Clue
New York Times:
John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, Dies; Economist Held a Mirror to Society  —  John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment that he needled in prolific writings for more than half a century …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Death Toll for Americans in Iraq Is Highest in 5 Months  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 28 — The military on Friday announced the death of one American soldier, bringing the death toll so far in April to 69, the highest in five months.  The monthly figure disrupted a trend of steadily falling American fatalities that had begun in November.
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Violence Uproots 100,000 Iraq Families  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said.  At least 17 people, including an American soldier, were killed Saturday in fighting.
Discussion: MyDD and The Democratic Daily Blog
Michael Smith / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda leader plans an Iraq army  —  THE leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is attempting to set up his own mini-army and move away from individual suicide attacks to a more organised resistance movement, according to US intelligence sources.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and USS Neverdock
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Nelson Hernandez / Washington Post:
Killing of Al-Qaeda 'Emir' Called Blow to Insurgency  —  Second Leader in Samarra Arrested in Raid, Iraqi Official Says  —  BAGHDAD, April 28 — U.S. forces killed a local leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and captured another in raids north of Baghdad on Thursday and Friday …
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Bush challenges hundreds of laws  —  President cites powers of his office  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Tough Primary Race Confronts Lieberman  —  Antiwar Democrat Mounts a Major Challenge to Connecticut's 3-Term Senator  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With his ruddy tan and dark gray suit, Ned Lamont is an antiwar liberal with a twist.  Rather than targeting a Republican, the millionaire Greenwich businessman …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Nedrenaline  —  Update: WaPo has a very good article up about Ned.
Discussion: MyDD
Reader Iam / Done With Mirrors:
Evicting Moral Courage  —  "First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.  Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out.  Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
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expatica.com:
Threatened MP ordered out of secure home
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
'At Some Point, Reality Has Its Day'  —  Al Gore on why America-and even George Bush-is close to a tipping point on global warming.  —  April 28, 2006 - Al Gore has launched his new campaign-this one to battle the effects of global warming.  At its center is a new film, "An Inconvenient Truth …
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Gore Redux  —  The former veep is refusing to play overt campaign politics.
Discussion: Draft Gore 2008
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
McCain: Trade The First Amendment For Clean Government  —  Mark Tapscott has a clip of John McCain's appearance on the Don Imus Show that demonstrates the truly frightening prospect of having the Senator from Arizona occupy the White House.  McCain told Imus that he would trade the First Amendment for "clean government":
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
McCain Says "Clean Government" More Important Than First Amendment
New York Times:
As Gas Prices Go Up, Impact Trickles Down  —  It is hard to watch the numbers flutter ever upward on the gas pump these days.  A look at the ripple effect of rising gas prices across the country:  —  The End of Fun and Games  —  Gas prices are not doing much for the love life of Fernanda Tapia.
Discussion: The Oil Drum
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Father of the Bush Doctrine  —  George Shultz on pre-emption and the Revolt of the Generals.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—George P. Shultz was the secretary of state of the United States during the years that the Soviet Union was led, successively, by Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Discussion: Power Line
Reuters:
L.A. mayor picks NFL talks over immigrant boycott  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles' first Latino mayor in the modern era, will skip huge pro-immigration rallies planned for Monday to meet with pro football officials in Dallas, leaving organizers feeling like "a ship without a captain."
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Flopping Aces
 
 
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Associated Press:
Vatican Official Calls for 'Da Vinci Code' Boycott
Discussion: Samizdata.net and Loaded Mouth
Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
White outfit, wrong occasion, Cherie
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says
Discussion: ThreatsWatch.Org
Mark Steyn / macleans.ca:
Celebrate tolerance, or you're dead
Ian / Expose the Left:
Sweet Jesus, Keith Olbermann Needs A Life (VIDEO)
Kathleen Parker / Townhall.com:
Allen ain't nothin' but a hot dog
Discussion: Sadly, No! and Brendan Nyhan
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Mexico Passes Law Making Possession of Some Drugs Legal
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He May Have Faults but Being Wrong Isn't One of Them
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Rush Limbaugh arrested on prescription fraud charges
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Army Confirms: Rumsfeld Authorized Criminal Conduct
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