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4:40 PM ET, April 20, 2006

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Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO: SHOUTING DOWN A TYRANT  —  Drudge flash: … I have video coming...stay tuned.  —  Update: Here's the clip (thanks to Allah Pundit).  —  Download and watch the video (.wmv file).  —  Photos from Yahoo!...  News coverage from AP: … Question: Will these photos and video be available on a Google search?
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White House:
President Bush and President Hu of People's Republic of China Participate in Arrival Ceremony  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  Laura and I are pleased to welcome President Hu Jintao and his wife, Madame Liu, to the White House.  (Applause.)  —  The United States and China are two nations divided …
Clive Thompson / New York Times:   Google in China: The Big Disconnect
Associated Press:   Protester Disrupts Hu Arrival Ceremony
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:   Update 11: Bush Welcomes Hu to White House
Will / Attytood:   Woman arrested for speaking freely right after Bush call for …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
04/20/06 FOX Poll: Gloomy Economic Views; Bush Approval at New Low  —  NEW YORK — More Americans disapprove than approve of how George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Congress are doing their jobs, while a majority approves of Condoleezza Rice.  President Bush's approval hits a record low …
John Dickerson / Slate:
Building a Better Press Secretary  —  Suggestions for Scott McClellan's successor.  —  The generals aimed at Donald Rumsfeld and hit Scott McClellan.  President Bush is standing by his secretary of defense despite the complaints from retired brass, but today he did accept his press secretary's resignation.
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New York Times:
Things Change, and Stay the Same  —  President Bush wants to show the nation he's shaking things up in his administration, but it is clear that the people who messed everything up will remain in place.  The press secretary goes; the political-and-domestic-policy adviser is losing half his portfolio.
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove  —  Just as the news broke Wednesday about Scott McClellan resigning as White House press secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove shedding some of his policy duties, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury hearing evidence …
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Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
Novak: Feds know who outed CIA agent  —  Robert Novak said Wednesday that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald knows who outed a CIA agent to the Chicago Sun-Times columnist but hasn't acted on the information because Novak's source committed no crime.  —  Novak also hinted that he personally …
Discussion: AGITPROP and The Strata-Sphere
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Three in One: Michael Hiltzik, Mikekoshi, and Nofanofcablecos  —  Is an L.A. Times columnist leaving comments on the Internet under assumed "sock puppet" identities — identities which he pretends is someone other than himself?  —  Read on and judge for yourself.  As for me, I've made up my mind, and the answer is "yes."
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Michael Hiltzik / Golden State:
On Anonymity in Blogland  —  Some years ago, the New Yorker ran an amusing cartoon about one of the supposed virtues of the Internet, its anonymity.  It showed two dogs in front a computer.  One was saying to the other (I am working from memory), "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog."
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
A Crisis Almost Without Equal  —  Republicans and Democrats alike are starting to face the prospect of what it means to have George W. Bush as their commander in chief for another 33 months — in a time of war, terrorism, and nuclear intrigue.  How can the press contribute to confronting the crisis?
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Don't Wait, Calibrate  —  Learn to bend, Mr. Bush.  You won't break.  —  There have been, and apparently will be, personnel changes in the administration.  The charmless and much-abused Scott McClellan is out; the focus of Karl Rove's portfolio has shifted back to hardball politics …
CNN:
Immigration arrests 9 bosses along with 1,000 workers  —  Strategy to focus more on companies that employ illegal workers  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Federal immigration authorities arrested nine people linked to the firm IFCO Systems and rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants in multistate raids …
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Michelle Malkin:
POLITICALLY-TIMED IMMIGRATION RAIDS  —  I speak regularly with dedicated men and women who work for the Department of Homeland Security, and especially agents from across the country who work for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  I can tell you based on my reporting …
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraqi Premier's Offer to Step Aside Is Seen as Breakthrough  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 20 - In a sudden reversal, embattled Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said today that he was willing to relinquish his job, a move that was hailed by the country's other leaders as a breakthrough …
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Associated Press:
Reid blasts Bush during Reno visit  —  RENO, Nev. (AP) - The Bush administration is relying too heavily on other countries in the international effort to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, according to Sen. Harry Reid.  —  Reid, D-Nev., said the administration should be taking the lead …
Frank Furedi / spiked-online.com:
Confronting the New Misanthropy  —  Discussions about the future increasingly tend to focus on whether humans will survive.  According to green author and Gaia theorist James Lovelock, 'before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive …
Associated Press:
USA records largest drop in annual deaths in at least 60 years  —  The U.S. population may be aging, but the number of Americans who died in 2004 represents the biggest one-year decline since World War II, according to preliminary government data released Wednesday.
Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' Sunday Preview: Madeleine Albright Can Leg-Press 400 Pounds  —  NEW YORK In an interview in the The New York Times Magazine that will appear this coming Sunday, Madeleine Albright reveals, among other things, that even at 68, she works out three times a week "and I can leg-press up to 400 pounds."
 
 
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Robert Tait / Guardian:
Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress