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3:00 PM ET, April 20, 2007

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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Cornyn: Gonzales Resignation "Won't Satisfy" Dems
Discussion: Firedoglake
New York Times:
Gonzales v. Gonzales  —  If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Number Of White House Officials Allowed To Intervene In DoJ Cases …
Pajamas Media:
A HERO IS LAID TO REST  —  The funeral of Professor Liviu Librescu, who gave his life to save his students at VA Tech, took place this morning.  PJM Tel Aviv editor Allison Kaplan Sommer was there.  —  The Middle Eastern sun shone bright in the cemetery where Professor Liviu Librescu …
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Martin C. Evans / Newsday:
Witness tells a hero's story
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Dinesh D'Souza / News Bloggers Blog:
Dawkins' Message to Mourners—Get Over It!
James Q. Wilson / Los Angeles Times:   Gun control isn't the answer
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Leading Democrat in Senate Tells Reporters, 'This War Is Lost'  —  As Congressional Democrats sought to reconcile their differences and send an Iraq spending bill to the White House, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Thursday that "this war is lost," a stark assessment …
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Democrats.senate.gov:
Pentagon Confirms President Misstating Funding Facts In Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delivered the following statement today on the floor of the United States Senate following the Army's acknowledgment that it can pay for the Iraq war through June:
Nancy A. Youssef / Real Cities:
Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy  —  WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
How's all that working I wonder.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Hullabaloo
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Gates Warns Iraq Leaders That 'Clock Is Ticking' on U.S. Presence  —  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived in Baghdad on Thursday to convey a blunt message to Iraq's leadership three months after the United States began an increase of more than 28,000 troops in the country.  "The clock is ticking," he said.
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
THE NETWORKS CANCEL HIS VIDEOS AFTER ONE HOT RATINGS PERIOD.  —  Fox News Channel Senior Vice President John Moody distributed a memo to his staff this morning announcing the network's decision to "severely restrict" its use of the media package Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News.
Discussion: MSNBC, Public Eye and ABCNEWS
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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
McCain: Critics of Iran joke should "get a life"  —  LAS VEGAS — Sen. John McCain has a message for any critics who thought his musical joke about bombing Iran wasn't funny: Get a life.  —  While campaigning for president in South Carolina on Wednesday, McCain responded to a question …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Three days after guilty plea, Griles ties the knot  —  Two Bush administration officials who have been linked in scandal are now linked in wedlock.  —  The union of former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles and Sue Ellen Wooldridge could have implications for the investigation into Griles's ties to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Discussion: WSJ.com
Melanie Phillips / Spectator:
'I found Saddam's WMD bunkers'  —  It's a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz.  It's also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmes …
Discussion: Power Line
Media Matters for America:
Radio host Michael Smerconish to be simulcast on MSNBC in place of Imus  —  According to an April 20 article on Philly.com, the website of The Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Big Talker 1210 AM morning show of Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish is to be simulcast Monday through Wednesday on MSNBC."
John Nichols / The Nation:
Impeachment Fever Rises  —  When Nancy Pelosi announced last fall that impeachment was "off the table," official Washington accepted that the primary avenue for holding lawless Presidents to account had been closed off by the new Speaker of the House.  But the Republic's citizenry has not been so inclined.
Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation blogs:
12 Senators Left!  Keep Calling.  —  Major media outlets are reporting that the Senator in question is definitely a Republican.  Since we know that the Senator is a Republican we can narrow down our search to the remaining 12 Republican Senators.  Help find the anonymous Senator and call these 12 Senators today.
Ian Bishop / New York Post:
HILLARY'S POPULARITY RATINGS GO NEGATIVE  —  A new national poll shows Hillary Rodham Clinton's favorable ratings sinking like a stone, and her negatives soaring - a terrifying trend for a campaign desperately trying to convince voters she's not too polarizing to be president.
Discussion: Power Line and QandO
Joe Bel Bruno / Associated Press:
Stocks Up on Earnings; Dow Nears 13,000  —  Stocks Advance Sharply After Google Profit Beats Expectations, Dow Pushes Toward 13,000  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street bounded higher Friday after Google Inc. led a series of stronger earnings reports that propelled the Dow Jones industrials further …
Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times:
Times Co., Gannett and Tribune Co. Report Declines  —  Buffeted by an ongoing advertising recession, The New York Times Company and the Gannett Company announced yesterday that their first-quarter profits declined while the Tribune Company reported a loss.  —  The disappointing results underscored …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Fauxtography at CBC: Global Warming  —  The CBC decides to add some dramatic effect to a story about global warming by changing the coloration this picture of the Toronto skyline.  And they didn't even bother to change the file name from the original.  Oh, and those smokestacks?  Torn down in 2006.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Wizbang
 
 
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