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3:15 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 …
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New York Times:
Prosecutor Weighs Charges Against Rove in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, April 27 — Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case, is expected to decide in the next two to three weeks whether to bring perjury charges against Karl Rove, the powerful adviser to President Bush …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Tension Over Press Leaks  —  Government Has a Right to Keep Secrets — but Also a Duty to Be More Open  —  Two events in the past week have thrown the spotlight on the troubled relationship between the Bush administration and the news media, raising questions that are worrisome on both sides of the divide.
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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New York Times:
U.S. Economy Still Expanding at Rapid Pace  —  Gas prices are rising, as are mortgage rates.  House prices in many once-hot markets have started slipping.  The American automobile industry shows no sign of recovery.  And the paychecks of most workers have not even kept up with inflation over the last four years.
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Fed Signals Pause in Campaign to Raise Interest Rates
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.
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
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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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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Pamela McClintock / Variety:
'Atlas' pic mapped  —  Ayn Rand's most ambitious novel may finally be brought to the bigscreen after years of false starts.  —  Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to "Atlas Shrugged" from Howard and Karen Baldwin ("Ray"), who will produce with John Aglialoro.
Discussion: Crooked Timber and Hugh Hewitt
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 …
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: Rantingprofs, OPFOR and QandO
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
WHO YOU CALLIN' STUPID?  Methinks a lot of folks out there are too quick …
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State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me
Reuters:
Iran has missiles that put Europe in range: report
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Breaking: Wyden Leading Filibuster on Oil Tax Breaks
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Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French pride