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11:00 PM ET, April 25, 2006

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John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days; 18 cents a gallon  —  Mulling proposal to give feds more power to target price gougers  —  Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a "federal gas tax holiday" by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.
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White House:
President Discusses Energy Policy  —  Washington, D.C.  —  Fact Sheet: President Bush's Four-Part Plan to Confront High Gasoline Prices  —  In Focus: Energy  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Bob, thanks for the introduction.  It's always good to be introduced by somebody who is referred to as the "Promoter in Chief."
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump.  He also halted for the summer the purchase of crude oil for the government's emergency reserve.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Announces Short-Term Steps to Ease Oil Prices  —  WASHINGTON, April 25 — President Bush today announced a series of short-term steps that he said might slightly ease energy prices, including a suspension of government purchases to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and investigations …
Washington Post:   Bush Delivers Speech on Renewable Fuel Sources
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Fox News's Snow on Verge of Being White House Press Secretary  —  Fox News commentator Tony Snow has decided to accept the White House press secretary's job after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates …
Discussion: The Reaction
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Snow In May?  —  A week after White House press secretary Scott McClellan suddenly resigned, and — nothing.  —  Late last week, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten directly (firmly but politely) asked senior administration officials to stop unburdening themselves to the process-hungry Washington press corps.
Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
"TROUBLES" BEHIND THE ZARQAWI VIDEO?  —  Zarqawi's new videotape comes one day after the Sinai's attacks and two days after Bin Laden's "state of the world Jihad" audiotape aired on al Jazeera.  Many questions are fusing: Why now and is there a connection between the three events?
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Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:
Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated)  —  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News."  The tape is titled A Message to the People.  This is his first video without a mask …
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Iraq Terror Chief Dismisses New Government
Discussion: Attytood and Gateway Pundit
BBC:
'Zarqawi' shows face in new video
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Murray Waas / National Journal:
Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes?  —  When the CIA announced on Friday that it had fired an employee who the agency claims "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence" with a newspaper reporter, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Roberts seeks delay of Intel probe  —  Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel's inquiry into the Bush administration's handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off …
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Jane Jacobs, Urban Activist, Is Dead at 89  —  Jane Jacobs, the writer and thinker who brought penetrating eyes and ingenious insight to the sidewalk ballet of her own Greenwich Village street and came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities, died today in Toronto, where she lived.
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Sandra Martin / Globe and Mail:
Jane Jacobs dies
Discussion: Toronto Star and Jay Currie
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Ready to Transfer Nuclear Know-How  —  Iran's supreme leader said Tuesday that the country is ready to transfer its nuclear technology to other countries.  Meanwhile, Tehran threatened to halt all cooperation with the U.N. atomic energy agency if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions …
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strategypage.com:
Six Generals Shot Down By The Internet  —  April 25, 2006: The recent flap over six retired American generals publicly calling for the Secretary of Defense to resign, also brought out opinions, via the Internet, from lower ranking troops (active duty, reservists and retired.)
J. Patrick Coolican / Las Vegas Sun:
Home not so sweet  —  As Reid's power grows in D.C., his support slides in NV  —  Sen. Harry Reid, once a fairly obscure conservative Democrat from the small state of Nevada, is all the buzz inside the Beltway lately - unfortunately for him, it's the Washington and not the Las Vegas Beltway.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Tuesday: My beloved rests in peace  —  My precious and beautiful wife, Allie, passed away during the night.  I found her lifeless body on the floor of the bathroom at 3:30 a.m. The paramedics did everything they could, but she was already gone.  We have no idea what happened.  She was young (41).
Bee Photos / Sacramento Bee:
Jury finds Hamid Hayat guilty  —  By Bee staff and wire reports  —  [Updated 5:33 p.m. Tuesday] Hamid Hayat, the 23-year-old Lodi man on trial for terrorist-related activities in Sacramento federal court, was found guilty Tuesday, just hours after a mistrial was declared in the related trial of his father …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Ben Platt / MLB.com:
Monday's act heroic after 30 years  —  Outfielder recalls protecting country's honor from protesters  —  LOS ANGELES — It was 1976, a fun year for America.  It was the country's bicentennial, the war in Vietnam had ended a year earlier and everyone really wanted to put all the problems from the 1960s …
 
 
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Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times:
Leaks of Military Files Resume
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
I Blame Bush For [Fill In The Blank]
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Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Rage at Don  —  The war on Rumsfeld is really a bureaucratic turf battle.
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Kiko's House
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Consumer Confidence Highest in 4 Years
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, Outside The Beltway and Ace of Spades HQ
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
How Would a Patriot Act? — the release
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Interrogation Chief at Abu Ghraib to Face Charges
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Kim Chipman / Bloomberg:
Bush Faces Dissent From Republicans on Climate Change (Update1)
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Mike McCurry: Mouthpiece For Deception
Discussion: Sirotablog and Democrat Taylor Marsh …
 

 
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