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10:55 AM ET, April 25, 2006

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CIA Leak: A Blog Primer  —  This is one of those stories where, if you miss the first 48 hours, you end up feeling so far behind the curve that you tune it out and never bother with it again.  So here's a round-up of news and blog coverage which, while longish, will bring you up to speed.
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
Sources: Tony Snow likely to take White House post  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan.  —  The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Orders Probe Into Gas Price Cheating  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Bush is trying to calm Americans' outrage over soaring gas prices by ordering an investigation into whether the price of gasoline has been illegally manipulated, his spokesman said Monday.
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Opinion Journal:
Denny Pelosi  —  Gas prices rise, and Republicans panic.  —  Few things are less becoming in a political party than desperation, as Republicans are now demonstrating as they panic over rising oil and gas prices.  If blaming private industry for Congress's own energy mistakes is the best the GOP can do …
Mac Johnson / Human Events:   The O'Reilly Fiction  —  I have a friend who is fond of the saying …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Playing By The Rules  —  Republican style...  Is every Republican in Washington the emotional age of seven?  The rules require that some of the lesser teams get a chance to participate in the "playoffs" so the manly he-men who have shed their blood and sweat throughout the grueling season …
Discussion: rubber hose
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:   Put Me In, Coach  —  The way a man handles himself out on the field …
Wall Street Journal:
Softball on the Mall Was Bipartisan Fun Till Politics Intruded
Discussion: Wonkette
Christopher Elliott / New York Times:
One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand  —  The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?  —  A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats."
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Sad Case Of Andrea Clarke  —  Yesterday, as I was perusing the Democratic Underground, I ran across a very troubling story.  I'm reposting it here, so that you can read it just as I did last night (The phone numbers presently are x'd out, although you can read them in the original post)...
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Texas Rainmaker:   A Houston Woman in Need
Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
Hugh Hewitt's Odd Logic  —  If newspapers were less liberal they wouldn't be losing so many readers.  That's what conservative media activists have convinced themselves is behind the steady decline in American newspaper readership; a decline conservatives take great delight in.
Discussion: Don Surber, Blinq and Power Line
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lone Lawmaker Blocks Flight 93 Monument in Pa.  —  For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.  —  But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument …
The Big Pharaoh:
I Am ALIVE  —  I am alive.  I'm far away from Dahab but the security situation is very tight where I am.  I had plans to go to Dahab though.  I called a friend who went back to Cairo from Dahab yesterday and he told me that two of his friends, who remained in Dahab, were injured in the attack.
Michael Forsythe / Bloomberg:
Democrats Beat Republicans in 2005 Fund-Raising on Wall Street  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — Democrats outdid Republicans last year in attracting political donations from investment banks, brokerages and fund managers for the first time since 1994, helped by support from hedge funds and companies such as Merrill Lynch & Co.
Discussion: MyDD and Middle Earth Journal
White House:
President Discusses Comprehensive Immigration Reform  —  Fact Sheet: Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Securing Our Border  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  (Applause.)  Thanks for letting me come by.  Tom, thanks for the invitation.
Richard Allen Greene / BBC:
Blogs link families with children at war  —  Carla Lois started an online diary - a weblog - just before the army sent her son Noah to Iraq in January 2005.  —  Eight months later, it paid off in a way she must always have prayed it would not, when she posted a terse item headlined: "My Son Has Been Injured."
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
A New Oslo Peace Process?  —  The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna.  —  Thorbjørn Jagland is a former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Norway from the Labor Party.  He is now President of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament …
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Watchdog groups blast House lobby reform bill  —  Government watchdog groups leading the charge for strong lobbying and ethics reform lashed out yesterday at Republican leadership for removing several new disclosure requirements from the package slated for a House vote this week.
 
 
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