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10:45 AM ET, April 28, 2006

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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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Billmon:
Sex Pistols  —  I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the possibility (from Harper's via TPM Muckraker) that Porter Goss, director of the CIA, may be implicated in a hooker service for corrupt (and horny) congressmen paid for by defense contractors and run out of — you really gotta love this part — the Watergate Hotel.
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe?  —  Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal.  He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated.  Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them:
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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senators Hurry to Quell Furor Over Gas  —  WASHINGTON, April 27 — Senate Republicans tried on Thursday to get the upper hand in the escalating political battle over high gasoline prices by proposing a $100 rebate for taxpayers and by suggesting that they might increase taxes on oil-industry profits.
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H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
Congress Struggles to Act on Gas Prices  —  WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are walking a tightrope.  With gasoline prices soaring they want to appear tough on oil companies.  —  But apparently not too tough.  —  While congressional Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate promised …
Discussion: Donklephant
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
Say It With Me: Supply and Demand
Discussion: QandO, Betsy's Page and ShopFloor.org
cbs5.com:
State Senate Supports Immigrant Walkout On Monday  —  (AP) SACRAMENTO California's state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Join The 101st Fighting Keyboardists!  (Bumped)  —  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.
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Chief / freedomdogs.com:
101st Fighting Keyboadists: The Many, The Proud
Discussion: Prometheus 6
George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran 'Won't Give a Damn' About Resolution  —  VIENNA, Austria - Iran "won't give a damn" about any U.N. resolutions concerning its nuclear program, its president said Friday, hours before an expected finding that Tehran has failed to meet a Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment.
Discussion: Hot Air
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BREITBART.COM:
Australian research shows mobile phones affect brain function  —  Radiation from mobile phone phones affects the way the brain works, Australian researchers have found.  —  Scientists from Swinburne University of Technology's Brain Sciences Institute in Melbourne found people's response times slowed during …
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Jay Cost / Real Clear Politics:
Wilentz the Buff  —  Rolling Stone has a splashy cover story this week that asks if George W. Bush is the worst president in American history.  —  Smart rock fans, of course, ignore Rolling Stone.  A rock magazine that once wrote that Exile on Main Street shows the Stones …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Power Line
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
Thomas Joscelyn:
Guantanamo Detainee Caught At The Border  —  As the nation continues to debate what to do about our southern border, I thought I would point out a piece of informaton I found in a cache of documents released by the Pentagon in early March.  In connection with a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press …
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.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice, Rumsfeld Visit Highlights Tension  —  BAGHDAD, April 27—A full 10 seconds of silence passed after a reporter asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld what the intense secrecy and security surrounding their visit to Iraq signified about the stability …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Rockefeller, Joe Wilson and Niger Uranium  —  Mac Ranger let slip some new details on the coming storm regarding the rogue ex-CIA types, Joe Wilson and one Senator Jay Rockefeller.  I have written many times the under reported, unappreciated fact surrounding the Plame Game was Joe Wilson's 2002 trip …
Docweasel / New England Republican:
"It ain't legal, and by God, it ain't right"  —  I was watching the DVD Absence of Malice for the twelve-dozenth time the other day.  Its the story of a reporter, played by Sally Fields, who reports some government leaks, which were released by bureaucrats for their own purposes, illegally.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and PoliPundit.com
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
A Day in Court  —  Scalia floats and Breyer rocks.  —  On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Roe v. Wade, creating the right to an abortion.  This column is not about abortion.  It is about the Supreme Court.  —  The preceding two sentences would strike some as a contradiction.
 
 
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