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 …

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 …

United 93  —  The filmmakers got it right.  —  The calendar says it's April 25, 2006.  At noon, my wife, Peggy, and I are walking around Battery Park—near the Tribeca area—in New York.  It is our first time.  The flowers are blooming; kids are fishing; people boarding the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

ONE LAST POINT ON TONY SNOW  —  I don't think many people have realized how the left blew it in its response to his appointment.  The Center for American Progress and others immediately dug up every negative thing Snow ever said about Bush.  This was precisely the stuff they should have downplayed.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Prosecutors May Widen Congressional-Bribe Case  —  Cunningham Is Suspected  —  Of Asking for Prostitutes;  —  Were Others Involved?  —  Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes …

MBA Member Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Federal Lawsuit  —  MBA Member Lance Dutson who blogs at Maine Web Report was recently served with a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Maine.  The lawsuit alleges copyright infringement and defamation for reporting and commentary written and published by Dutson on his blog.

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.

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.