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12:20 PM ET, April 30, 2006

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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:
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
W.H. Correspondents Dinner: Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs  —  Turns out comedy is best left to the amateurs.  —  Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field.  Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for.
Discussion: RightWinged.com and TigerHawk
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: AMERICAblog
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Bush Plays It For Laughs While Colbert Bombs  —  George Bush attended the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight, an annual event that encourages all parties to engage in some self-deprecating humor and relax in each other's company for an evening.  Fox News showed Bush's speech live …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and PSoTD
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Colbert's White House Correspondent Dinner Performance Underscores Irony's Power And Delicacy  —  The scene: The White House Correspondent Dinner.  The time: right after President George W. Bush put in a boffo performance next to a top-notch Bush impersonator.  It was a hard act to follow.
democraticunderground.com:   Text captured by DUers Great CeasarsGhost and tridem
Paul the Spud / Shakespeare's Sister:
Stephen Colbert has Balls as Big as Church Bells
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Teresa Wiltz / Washington Post:   All Georges  —  At the White House Correspondents' Dinner …
crooksandliars.com:   Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner:
Dan / Riehl World View:   Colbert Should Have Phoned It In  —  Perhaps it actually might have been funny.
USA Today:
Bush, celebrities attend press corps dinner
Discussion: US Politics
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 …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking  —  On March 24, 2006, The Boston Globe published an article by Charlie Savage reporting that the President, after signing into law the bill which renewed the Patriot Act, issued a "signing statement" making clear that …
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Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith Dies at 97  —  John Kenneth Galbraith, the author, scholar, diplomat and presidential adviser, who was a preeminent symbol and source of liberal political thought, died last night in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97.  —  His son Alan said his father died …
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.
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Where's the dissent about source of quote?  —  John Kerry announced this week's John Kerry Iraq Policy of the Week the other day: "Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to deal with these intransigent issues and at last put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military."
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Of a Fire in a Field  —  A COUPLE OF FRIENDS asked me to go with them to see "United 93," but I declined both offers saying I wasn't sure that I needed any reminders other than what I saw in New York on that day.  In the end, though, I went to it as I went to the funerals, alone.
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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.
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
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
expatica.com:
Threatened MP ordered out of secure home  —  AMSTERDAM — Liberal Party MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been ordered to vacate the high-security home she is renting in The Hague within four months.  —  An appeal court sided with her neighbours who complained her presence put their own safety at risk and caused disruption to their lives.
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Rod Liddle / Times of London:
We may have to bomb Iran  —  Natanz seems an agreeable little town …
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
League of Dictators?  —  Why China and Russia Will Continue to Support Autocracies
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democratic Hard Chargers Try to Return Party to Power
Discussion: Norwegianity
Associated Press:
Vatican Official Calls for 'Da Vinci Code' Boycott
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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
White outfit, wrong occasion, Cherie
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says
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Mark Steyn / macleans.ca:
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Sweet Jesus, Keith Olbermann Needs A Life (VIDEO)
Gagdad Bob / One Cosmos:
United 93: No Heroic Deed Goes Unspoiled by the Left
Reuters:
L.A. mayor picks NFL talks over immigrant boycott
Kathleen Parker / Townhall.com:
Allen ain't nothin' but a hot dog
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Violence Uproots 100,000 Iraq Families
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
McCain: Trade The First Amendment For Clean Government
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