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3:35 AM ET, April 20, 2006

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The Man / GOP and the City:
Bauer Replaces McClellan as Press Secretary  —  What better way to reign in the White House Press Corps than to install Jack Bauer as Press Secretary?  Let's see if David Gregory has the guts to ask Jack Bauer about "sloppy seconds".  Imagine Jack Bauer trying to sit still while Helen Thomas goes on one of her diatribes.
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Valerie Plame To Attend White House Correspondents Dinner  —  NEW YORK Will Valerie Plame be the talk of this year's White House Correspondents Dinner?  E&P has confirmed that she is slated to attend this year's gala, along with her husband Joseph Wilson and several other notable non-journalist guests …
Mike Allen / Time:
Behind the White House Reshuffling  —  The President's Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced that he would resign today, and more Cabinet changes are likely to follow.  Plus, Karl Rove gives up some responsibilities to an up-and-comer  —  The sudden announcement by Scott McClellan …
John Podesta / Think Progress:
Has Rove's Security Clearance Been Revoked?  —  This morning, the White House announced that Karl Rove will step down from his policy post and resume his focus on the midterm elections.  An important question has not been asked: Will Rove also give up his security clearance?
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
White House Shifts Into Survival Mode
Bruce Bartlett / Washington Times:
Less than fully conservative
Discussion: Economist's View and Angry Bear
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Puts Face on North Korean Human Rights
Fox News:
FOX News' Tony Snow Among Possible White House Spokesman Candidates
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Bravo  —  And bravo again.  —  Whether or not you care for Michelle Malkin's political positions, you should be honest enough to admit that this crusade to try to intimidate her and her family—a crusade being waged by mostly anonymous cowards who no person in the blogosphere, left OR right …
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Michelle Malkin:
I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU  —  You know who you all are.  —  And if you think I'm going to stop blogging/writing/making a living because you've plastered my family's private home address, phone numbers, and photos and maps of my neighborhood all over the Internet to further your manufactured outrage …
Sean Wilentz / Rolling Stone:
The Worst President in History?  —  One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush  —  George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace.  Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around …
nbc17.com:
Attorneys: Photos Will Exonerate Players  —  DURHAM, N.C. — NBC has obtained exclusive photos that defense lawyers for the Duke University lacrosse players feel will exonerate their clients of rape charges.  —  Collin Finnerty, 19, and Reade Seligmann, 20, were charged Tuesday with first-degree rape …
Discussion: RightWinged.com
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Reuters:
Yahoo accused of helping jail China Internet writer  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy group for journalists said on Wednesday.
Discussion: Bring it On!
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rsf.org:
Yahoo ! implicated in third cyberdissident trial
Discussion: RConversation
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
U.S. Records Drastic Decline in Death Rate  —  ATLANTA - In what appears to be an amazing success for American medicine, preliminary government figures released Wednesday showed that the annual number of deaths in the U.S. dropped by nearly 50,000 in 2004 — the biggest decline in nearly 70 years.
Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Muslim students 'being taught to despise unbelievers as filth'  —  Pupils protest as college linked to Iran puts fundamentalist text on curriculum, reports our correspondent  —  MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained …
Michael Tomasky / American Prospect:
Party in Search of a Notion  —  From our May issue: The opportunity before the Democrats is far bigger than a few House and Senate seats if they can recognize — and seize — this unique historical moment.  —  The Democrats are feeling upbeat these days, and why not?
Tony Judt / New York Times:
A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy  —  IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled "The Israel Lobby."  The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Tilting at Windmills  —  To my eye, they are lovely: Graceful, delicate, white against green grass and a blue sky.  Last summer my children and I stopped specially to watch a group of them, wheels turning in the breeze.  —  But to those who dislike them, the modern wind turbine is worse than ugly.
tcsdaily.com:
Death Lists and Dissenters  —  Allegations of "apostasy" among Muslims are presently a topic for global controversy.  To Westerners, apostasy from Islam seems to denote conversion to Christianity, since the persecution of Muslims who have changed their religion has gained media attention …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
New WH Policy Chief Was "Brooks Brothers" Rioter  —  To the Burberry ramparts!  —  The man Bush tapped to fill Karl Rove's spot as his policy wizard is none other than Joel Kaplan, who took part in the infamous "Brooks Brothers riot" of 2000.  That's when a bunch of Washington GOP operatives …
Associated Press:
Hundreds nabbed in immigration raid  —  Executives, workers arrested in nationwide move against pallet maker … WASHINGTON - Immigration agents arrested seven executives and hundreds of employees of a manufacturer of crates and pallets Wednesday as part of a crackdown on employers of illegal workers.
 
 
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
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rawstory.com:
War costs have nearly doubled since the invasion of Iraq …
BBC:
Italy confirms Prodi poll victory
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Hear Case on Right to Choose Defense Counsel
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Althouse
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Times Shareholders: The 28 Percent Uprising
Gregory / belgraviadispatch.com:
LET THE SWIFT-BOATING OF THE GENERALS BEGIN
Paul Garwood / Associated Press:
Blast Hits Near U.S. Embassy in Kabul
Discussion: CorrenteWire
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
It's This Bad  —  Returning briefly to England from France …
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Times of London:
'Even though I am suffering, my suicide bomber son was a hero'
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
All in the Family  —  Glenn Greenwald has a post up about the …
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Trying To Get Muckraker's Papers, Did FBI Trick Widow?
Guardian:
Iranian group seeks British suicide bombers
USA Today:
War game will focus on situation with Iran
Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times:
Wombs for Rent, Cheap
NY Daily News:
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Wall Street Journal:
Can Bloggers Make Money?  —  Blogs have a lot of buzz …