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9:25 AM ET, April 18, 2007

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Glenn Reynolds / NY Daily News:
People don't stop killers.  People with guns do  —  On Monday, as the news of the Virginia Tech shootings was unfolding, I went into my advanced constitutional law seminar to find one of my students upset.  My student, Tara Wyllie, has a permit to carry a gun in Tennessee, but she isn't allowed to have a weapon on campus.
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Reid Warns Against Rush on Gun Control  —  After the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cautioned Tuesday against a "rush to judgment" on stricter gun control.  A leading House supporter of restrictions on firearms conceded passage of legislation would be difficult.
Radley Balko / Reason Magazine:
Obama Compares Virginia Tech Massacre to Outsourcing
Discussion: EconoPundit
Los Angeles Times:
Shooter plotted in silent rage  —  Seung-hui Cho, sullen and angry, set out with two recently purchased handguns and a backpack full of ammo.  —  BLACKSBURG, VA. — The 23-year-old student who went on a bloody rampage at Virginia Tech had prepared the attack for weeks …
Discussion: On Deadline and The Lede
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Toby Harnden / Telegraph Blogs:
In the dorm room of a mass murderer
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Daily Mail:
Polygamous husbands can claim cash for their harems  —  Polygamous husbands settling in Britain with multiple wives can claim extra benefits for their "harems" even though bigamy is a crime in the UK, it has emerged.  —  Opposition MPs are demanding an urgent change in the law …
Discussion: On Deadline and Hot Air
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Gates Says Iraqi Shake-Up Could Aid Reconciliation  —  The decision by anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw ministers loyal to him from the Iraqi cabinet could advance political reconciliation if the vacancies are used to broaden the government's representation, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Tuesday.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
GATES: HOORAY FOR DEMOCRATS!....Defense Secretary Robert Gates …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Texas Rainmaker:
Obama Compares Va Tech Massacre to... Outsourcing  —  Here's the audio of a speech Barack Obama gave today discussing the Virginia Tech massacre: … I don't know what's dumber... equating a business decision to outsource work as 'violence' against employees... or equating this whole stupid line …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Associated Press:
N.J. Gov.'s SUV Went 91 Mph Before Crash  —  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The SUV carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, Superintendent of State Police Col. Rick Fuentes said Tuesday.  —  The governor was critically injured when the vehicle crashed …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
No Offense Intended With This Year's Choice of Entertainer, but Still an Outcry  —  After more than 40 years in show business, Rich Little is still a working comedian, doing his well-practiced impersonations from Las Vegas to Granite Falls, Minn. He is even available for corporate retreats and weddings.
Rick Perlstein / commonsense.ourfuture.org:
E. coli conservatives  —  First, they came for the spinach.  —  I remember the day last September.  The supermarket had a new kind of salad dressing, one that looked like it would taste good with spinach.  I went to the produce section to buy a bag.  But they all had been recalled.
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney  —  Looks like he's reached his boiling point.  —  Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans …
Tobias Buck / Financial Times:
EU aims to criminalise Holocaust denial  —  Laws that make denying or trivialising the Holocaust a criminal offence punishable by jail sentences will be introduced across the European Union, according to a proposal expecting to win backing from ministers Thursday.
Discussion: Armavirumque and European Tribune
Matthew Keenan / Bloomberg:
Clinton Triples College Speaking Schedule as Hillary Campaigns  —  Former President Bill Clinton, one of the most coveted and elusive commencement speakers at U.S. colleges, spurns dozens of invitations each year.  —  This spring, he's stepping up his schedule as his wife …
Bill Theobald / Tennessean.com:
Thompson's pre-decision tour continues  —  WASHINGTON — When actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson first said in a television interview March 11 that he was "giving some thought" to running for president, it sounded almost casual.  —  Since then, however, Thompson and his supporters …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
For Clinton, Even Presidential Politics Is Local  —  Senator Hopes Attention to Little Things Will Help Her Take Next Big Step  —  On the same day that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced that he had raised $25 million in the first three months of his presidential campaign …
Discussion: On Politics
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Tammy Bruce exposes far-left outlets' hit list on everyone to their right  —  If you're a center-left, centrist, center-right or conservative and you've uttered an opinion in public, chances are far far left loss leaders Media Matters and Air America have a dossier on you.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Senate Ethics Confirms Domenici Probe Over U.S. Attorney Firing  —  The Senate, thanks a resolution it just adopted, has confirmed that Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is the subject of "preliminary inquiry" over his involvement in the firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
Michael Astor / Associated Press:
Brazil shootouts kill at least 20 dead  —  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Shootouts involving drug gangs and police Tuesday left at least 20 alleged gang members dead and sent mourners in a cemetery fleeing from gunfire, officials said.  —  The deaths are the latest in an upsurge of killing …
 
 
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Mitt Romney helps tap new donors
Lisa De Pasquale / Human Events:
Foulmouthed 'Wonkette' Doesn't Fool Me
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Sliming Wolfowitz  —  THE WORLD BANK PRESIDENT DID NOTHING WRONG.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Fausta's blog
New York Times:
Finance Filings Offer Glimpses of '08 Candidates
Leo Lewis / Times of London:
Détente hit as high-tech WC sets off fires down below
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Baucus, Rangel form PAC
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
White House to RNC: Don't You Give Those Emails to Dems
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and The Next Hurrah
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Inside The Bush DoJ's Purge of The Civil Rights Division
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
VISITING IRAQ....Lawrence Korb just got back from a trip to Iraq.
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
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