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Exclusive: O'Donnell Leaving 'The View' — Rosie O'Donnell Is Set to Announce Today Her Departure From 'The View' — Rosie O'Donnell is leaving "The View." ABC has been unable to come to a contractual agreement with "The View" co-host. As a result, her duties on the show will come to an end mid-June.
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TMZ.com:
It's True — Rosie Will Leave "View!!" — TMZ has now confirmed the buzz that we exclusively reported last night: Rosie O'Donnell will announce on today's show that she is leaving "The View." And TMZ has confirmed that "View" honchos are already searching for her replacement. — Stay tuned!
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
TMZ: Rosie to announce tomorrow that she's leaving "The View;" Update: ABC confirms — 75% of my content, up in smoke. I'm a wreck. — Assuming it's true, what do you think — did she jump or was she pushed? And if the latter, why did Barbara push her? — Update: Life has no meaning anymore.
New York Post:
ROSIE GROSSES OUT MEDIA ELITE — ROSIE O'Donnell's blue humor made faces red when she emceed the Matrix Awards in front of 2,000 feting New York's most accomplished women in media at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom yesterday. — The loose-lipped lesbian dropped the F-bomb …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, NewsBusters.org, Daily Intelligencer, Hot Air, Gawker and TMZ.com
New York Times:
Bush and Cheney Chide Democrats on Iraq Deadline — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney aggressively challenged the motives of Congressional Democrats on Tuesday, as the House and Senate prepared to consider a war spending bill that would order troops to be withdrawn from Iraq beginning later this year.
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TIME: Swampland, Pollster, OpenMike, At-Largely, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Brendan Nyhan
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George S. McGovern / Los Angeles Times:
George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war — The 1972 presidential nominee strikes back at the vice president for comparing today's Democrats to the McGovern platform. — VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney recently attacked my 1972 presidential platform and contended …
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Associated Press, The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, Angry Bear, The Moderate Voice, Economist's View and theneweditor.com
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds — It is difficult to watch these clips from yesterday's House hearings investigating the absolute, deliberate lies regarding Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fed to the American public by the U.S. military — with an eager and accommodating assist …
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Wall Street Journal:
Delays in Renzi Case Raise More Gonzales Questions — WASHINGTON — As midterm elections approached last November, federal investigators in Arizona faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a corruption investigation of Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, people close to the case said.
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Philip V. Brennan / NewsMax.com:
Bombshell Cripples Case Against Haditha Marines — Convincing evidence that corroborates NewsMax.com's accounts of the Haditha insurgent ambush has compelled the prosecution to take extraordinary steps to bolster their crumbling case. — The stunning announcement that all charges …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Oval Office Bunker — The disconnect that is destroying what's left of the Bush presidency was clear in an image from the Oval Office this week. President Bush was sitting warily in his chair, pursing his lips as if he had just eaten a bad radish, as a reporter asked about the performance …
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Firedoglake, Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, Middle Earth Journal and CorrenteWire
Jules Crittenden:
Anzac Day — April 25 is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, marking the landings at Gallipoli in 1915 and the disastrous campaign there. Churchill's idea for a second front went badly wrong, and he ended up resigning as First Lord of the Admiralty. The deaths of thousands of diggers …
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The Moderate Voice
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog:
Laura Bush wants you to know that when it comes to Iraq, no one is suffering more than the First Couple. No one. — Listen, you Americans, Laura Bush wants you to know the President is suffering over Iraq. In fact, Laura told Anne Curry on the Today Show, that the American people need to know that …
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PBS:
FRONTLINE [series home] — What do you think most Americans think when they hear the term "global warming"? — I think Americans now believe that something has happened to the climate; that they think that the weather patterns are not the same as they were 20 years ago …
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The Huffington Post
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry — Seven years ago, a Missouri doctor discovered a troubling pattern at a microwave popcorn plant in the town of Jasper. After an additive was modified to produce a more buttery taste, nine workers came down with a rare, life-threatening disease that was ravaging their lungs.
Tyler Hill / Yale Daily News:
Univ. rescinds stage weapons ban — Stage weapons will again be allowed in University theatrical productions, in a reversal of last week's ban, Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said Tuesday morning. — Administrators decided Monday afternoon to require that audiences instead be informed …