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2:10 AM ET, April 6, 2006

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Harry Shearer / The Huffington Post:
Found Object: DeLay on Hardball  —  To see just how grateful Chris Matthews was for getting the Tom DeLay scoop, and what DeLay may think of Hillary Clinton, go here.  Thanks to the usual source gods.  —  Player not working?  Download the quicktime video here.
TBO.com:
Porn Sting Nabs Federal Official  —  LAKELAND - When he wasn't sending pornographic movies to and asking for explicit photos from a teenage girl in Polk County, a Maryland man was bragging about his job as a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement officers said.
Sean / Myelectionanalysis.com:
Numbers  —  What are these numbers?  This week's Powerball winners?  A safe deposit combo?  New numbers to torment those poor b*stards stranded on the island in Lost?  —  No, they're the number of troops that have died in hostile actions in Iraq for each of the past six months.
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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Sestak's battles — naval, familial and political  —  Sitting in the oncology ward at Children's National Medical Center on Jan. 19, retired Adm. Joe Sestak and his wife, Susan, awaited the doctors' verdict about the condition of their 5-year-old daughter, Alexandra.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
McCAIN AND THE BASE....Jon Stewart grilled John McCain last night about McCain's recent efforts to cozy up to Jerry Falwell and demonstrated that sometimes fake journalists do their jobs better than real ones.  He pressed McCain harder than Tim Russert did last Sunday and got McCain flustered enough …
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Lincoln Madison / The Third Path:   John McCain on The Daily Show
Steven Waldman / Slate:
The Religious Left  —  It is fruitful and has multiplied.  —  Lo and behold, there is a religious left.  The Catholic Church is helping to lead the fight against immigration restrictions.  A week doesn't seem to pass without some group convening a conference on religion and liberalism.
Chris Hansen / MSNBC:
'To Catch a Predator' III  —  Dateline's ongoing hidden camera investigation into computer sex predators—grown men, trolling the Web for sex with minors.  This time, police are making arrests  —  Nbc  —  Mugshots: 50 men were arrested after the latest installment of the "Dateline" report.
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Former Top DHS Child Porn Official A Sex Criminal?  —  Oh, my goodness.  —  As I noted earlier, a senior Homeland Security Department law enforcement agent was busted last October for exposing himself to a girl in the food court of a mall.  —  Next to the recent arrest of DHS spokesman Brian Doyle …
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Caroline Daniel / MSNBC:
Rubin's economic group to chart course for Democrats  —  Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and most influential Democratic economic adviser, launched an initiative on Wednesday aimed at influencing the economic policy debate and charting a course …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Treasury Secretary Is Said to Be Thinking of Quitting
Michelle Malkin:
NASCAR SMACKS DOWN NBC  —  I spoke this afternoon with Ramsey Poston, managing director of corporate communications at NASCAR.  He's on his way down to Texas for the NASCAR race this weekend, and he responded to NBC Dateline's undercover Muslim stings, which I first reported on yesterday morning.
Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
Bar the door - it's Katie  —  It looks like Katie Couric, that apple of America's eye, will be the next anchor of "CBS Evening News," arguably the most prestigious job in television journalism.  Not only will Couric be following in the footsteps of Murrow, Cronkite and Dan "Fake But Accurate" …
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John Noble Wilford / New York Times:
Scientists Call Fish Fossil the 'Missing Link'  —  Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375 million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land.
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Berkeley blogger finds his voice and fends off success  —  Three years ago, 50 friends and family members were the only ones reading Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's liberal blog www.dailykos.com.  Now that 600,000 politics junkies are alighting daily on what's become the nation's most popular political blog, the inevitable is happening.
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Agencies Not Protecting Privacy Rights, GAO Says  —  Government agencies that use private information services for law enforcement, counterterrorism and other investigations often do not follow federal rules to protect Americans' privacy, according to a report yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
I'm Canceling My Times Subscription  —  Why you should, too.  —  Hello, New York Times?  I'd like to cancel my subscription today.  No, I'm not protesting your Middle East coverage, your treatment of any ethnic minority or weird religion, and I am certainly not upset about some petty delivery problem.
Discussion: FishBowlDC and Decision '08
 
 
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AND THE WINNER IS  —  Congratulations to our friend Ed "Michael" …
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