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12:40 AM ET, April 28, 2006

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rawstory.com:
MSNBC reports Rove believes he is in legal jeopardy  —  Karl Rove has described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being prosecuted than ever, MSNBC is reporting.  —  RAW STORY has also learned that an MSNBC report tonight will reveal …
Hotline On Call:
Not A Good Sign For Snow: WH Reporter Complains About Fox On TV  —  From a gaggle with Scott McClellan today:  —  We're fairly sure "Q" is : Jim VandeHei  —  Q It's come to my attention that there's been requests — this is a serious question — to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied.
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Red Lights on Capitol Hill?  —  The Wall Street Journal reported today that indicted former California Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham may not have limited his good times to partying on a rented yacht.  It turns out the FBI is currently investigating two defense contractors …
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Jay Price / Raleigh News & Observer:
Two ROTC buildings vandalized  —  Vandals spray slogans and spread paint on N.C. State and UNC-CH structures  —  Vandals staged attacks early Wednesday on the buildings used by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, echoing similar assaults on three Triangle recruiting stations last month.
Discussion: OPFOR and QandO
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Ree-C Murphey / Lone Star Times:
BREAKING NEWS in the Andrea Clark Case  —  [Editor's Note- representatives of St. Luke's are being contacted and offered an opportunity to submit their perspective on this issue for publication on LST.]  —  UPDATE: I have received an email from Andrea's sister, Melanie, as well as talked with her on the phone.
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thewbalchannel.com:
Police: Hispanic Teen Nearly Killed For Trying To Kiss White Girl  —  Police Think Attack Was Racially Motivated  —  HOUSTON — Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party in Spring, Texas, authorities said.
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Associated Press:
2 Teens Charged in Attack at Texas Party
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French pride  —  The French president, Jacques Chirac, yesterday unveiled what he hopes will be his great legacy to France's struggle against the global dominance of the US: a series of technological projects including a European search engine to rival Google.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Anatomy of the "thought" process of Bush defenders  —  (updated below with Glenn Reynolds & Hugh Hewitt book figures - updated again)  —  As much as anything else, Bush defenders are characterized by an increasingly absolutist refusal to recognize any facts which conflict with their political desires …
Shane Harris / National Journal:
Silencing The Squeaky Wheels  —  The CIA has imposed new and tighter restrictions on the books, articles, and opinion pieces published by former employees who are still contractors with the intelligence agency.  According to several former CIA officials affected by the new policy …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Judge Embeds a Puzzle in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling  —  LONDON, April 26 — Justice Peter Smith's 71-page ruling in the recent "Da Vinci Code" copyright case here is notable for many things: the judge's occasional forays into literary criticism, his snippy remarks about witnesses on both sides …
Elizabeth Benjamin / Albany N.Y.:
Party Hearty  —  As The Daily Politics has noted, Union College's newspaper, The Concordiensis (affectionately known around campus as "The Concordy") reports on its front page today that U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-Clifton Park, attended a registered, on-campus frat party on April 22.
Ryan Lizza / The New Republic:
Pin Prick  —  Senator George Allen is the only person in Virginia who wears cowboy boots.  It's a warm and bright spring day in the swampy southeastern Virginia town of Wakefield, site of the annual Virginia political fest known as Shad Planking.  Once a whites-only event where state Democrats picked …
Karen Gutiérrez / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Prof, others charged in cross case  —  Jacobsen, students accused of trashing NKU lawn display  —  HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - A professor and six students at Northern Kentucky University were charged Wednesday with misdemeanors related to the April 12 destruction of an anti-abortion display on campus.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The Jesus cartoons  —  Another American university tackles free speech, and everyone involved embarrasses themselves — except the conservatives.  A parable for our times.  —  World Net Daily broke the news yesterday that a far-left student newspaper at the University of Oregon — called …
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind  —  Key lawmakers oppose his bid to block project  —  WASHINGTON — As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project …
Johanna Neuman / Los Angeles Times:
Panel Says to Scrap FEMA  —  A Senate probe urges that the agency be dismantled and then rebuilt to correct shortcomings revealed by its Katrina response.  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be dismantled and restructured to deal with the problems exposed …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Going a Short Way to Make a Point  —  Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.  —  Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it's time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.  —  "Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration's secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.
Mac Ranger / Macsmind:
Rockefeller did you "teller" - XVII - Profit under the Palms  —  The most excellent Douglas Hanson of American Thinker reinforces the theme of my previous post with an article that shows that the war against Bush isn't about just a difference of opinion.
Dana Bash / CNN:
Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks  —  Under proposal, every U.S. taxpayer would get one  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.
Lance / Maine Web Report:
State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me  —  Warren Kremer Paino Advertising has filed a 3 count multi-million dollar federal lawsuit against me for the reporting I've done in this blog.  They are claiming defamation, libel, and copyright infringement.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Join The 101st Fighting Keyboardists!  —  Our friends on the port side of the blogosphere have had quite a time tossing around funny little nicknames for those of us who support the war on terror and use our blogs to express our convictions about it.  We've seen the names here at CQ …
 
 
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