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3:35 PM ET, April 18, 2006

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CNN:
Bush: 'I'm the decider' on Rumsfeld  —  Defense chief set to meet with so-called 'TV generals'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush sharply defended Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday, saying the embattled Pentagon chief is doing a "fine job" despite calls for his resignation from six retired military generals.
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Washington Post:
The Generals' Revolt  —  There are many reasons for Donald Rumsfeld to leave.  Finger-pointing by retired officers shouldn't be one.  —  PRESIDENT BUSH'S stubborn support for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has compounded U.S. troubles in Iraq, prevented a remedy for the criminal mistreatment …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Roots of the Uprising  —  Making Donald Rumsfeld the scapegoat …
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Listen to the Brass  —  Several months ago, when Rep. John Murtha …
New York Times:
Rumsfeld Says Calls for Ouster 'Will Pass'
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
Raleigh News & Observer:
Two arrests made in Duke lacrosse case  —  Duke University lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were charged today with first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense and kidnapping in connection with a reported rape at a Duke University lacrosse party, according to George Naylor, director of the jail.
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New York Times:
Two Duke Lacrosse Players Are Arrested and Charged  —  DURHAM, N.C., April 18 — Two Duke University men's lacrosse players were arrested today and charged with rape and kidnapping in a case involving a woman who has accused three team members of attacking her at a party last month.
Discussion: Feministe, TalkLeft and JustOneMinute
CNN:
Two Duke lacrosse players charged with rape  —  Investigation under way to determine identity of third suspect  —  DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) — Two members of the Duke University lacrosse team were arrested and charged early Tuesday with raping a woman hired as a dancer at a team party, jail officials said.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Picks Portman as Budget Director  —  President Bush today selected U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman to be the new director of the Office of Management and Budget, moving quickly to revamp his team now that his new chief of staff is in place.  —  Portman, subject to Senate confirmation …
Discussion: Wonkette
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
A "Pulitzer Prize for Treason"  —  (updated below with transcript of Bill Bennett's comments)  —  Several weeks ago, The Washington Post published an Op-Ed jointly written by Bill Bennett and his neoconservative comrade Alan Dershowitz, in which Bennett — of all people …
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Michelle Malkin:
THE MOONBATS STRIKE BACK  —  The anti-troops brigade at UC Santa Cruz has now called in the left-wing blogosphere's kings of hate to attack me.  For what?  For linking to a Students Against War press release bragging about booting military recruiters off campus and for re-posting publicly …
Brit Hume / Fox News:
Zinni's Zinger?  —  Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:  —  Former Clinton CENTCOM commander, Anthony Zinni — the most prominent of the retired generals attacking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — now says that, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, "What bothered me ...
Discussion: JunkYardBlog and Flopping Aces
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Saddam and Osama: The New Revelations  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network.  Much of his research has focused on the role that nations such as Saddam's Iraq and the mullah's Iran have played in providing support …
Danielle Braff / Chicago Sun Times:
Bush death threat tied to PU student  —  A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  —  Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.
Sobek / SobekPundit:
A Very Brief History of Art, Featuring Mr. Potato Head  —  As part of my never-ending quest to make the Llamabutchers one day say, "Holy crap, that Sobek fellow is so geeky, he makes us look flat out hip!" as well as part of certain court-ordered community service (I was framed, BTW) …
Scott Carlson / Chronicle of Higher Education:
George Washington U. to Receive Jack Anderson's Papers — but FBI Wants to See Them First  —  During his life and career as a muckraking journalist in Washington, Jack Anderson cultivated secret sources throughout the halls of government — sources who passed on information that allowed Anderson …
Discussion: Attytood and TPM Muckraker
Richard Cohen:
A Campaign Gore Can't Lose  —  Boring Al Gore has made a movie.  It is on the most boring of all subjects — global warming.  It is more than 80 minutes long, and the first two or three go by slowly enough that you can notice that Gore has gained weight and that his speech still seems oddly out of sync.
Doug Giles / Townhall.com:
A Christian Can Be a Christian or a Liberal, But He Can't Be Both  —  Can a Christian be a liberal?  Short answer: no. There is no way a Christian can buy into neo-liberal ideology and be faithful to the bigger-than-Dallas teachings of the scripture and expect to continue enjoying his hard-won religious liberties.
 
 
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