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11:30 AM ET, April 30, 2006

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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Colbert Does the White House Correspondence dinner  —  Was he snubbed?  —  Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas.  I used the second half of his performance because it included the Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:
Elizabeth White / Associated Press:
Bush Lampoons Self at Press Corp Dinner  —  WASHINGTON - It was twice the fun for members of the White House Correspondents' Association and guests Saturday night when President Bush and a look-alike, sound-alike sidekick poked fun at the president and fellow politicians.
Discussion: TigerHawk and AMERICAblog
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Bush Plays It For Laughs While Colbert Bombs  —  George Bush attended the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight, an annual event that encourages all parties to engage in some self-deprecating humor and relax in each other's company for an evening.  Fox News showed Bush's speech live …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and PSoTD
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
W.H. Correspondents Dinner: Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs  —  Turns out comedy is best left to the amateurs.  —  Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field.  Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for.
Discussion: RightWinged.com
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Colbert's White House Correspondent Dinner Performance Underscores Irony's Power And Delicacy  —  The scene: The White House Correspondent Dinner.  The time: right after President George W. Bush put in a boffo performance next to a top-notch Bush impersonator.  It was a hard act to follow.
Teresa Wiltz / Washington Post:
All Georges  —  At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, A High-Level Meeting of Multiple Personalities  —  There on the dais last night at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner stood the president and his id.  Now there are those nattering nabobs of negativity who would argue …
crooksandliars.com:   Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner:
Paul the Spud / Shakespeare's Sister:
Stephen Colbert has Balls as Big as Church Bells
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Dan / Riehl World View:   Colbert Should Have Phoned It In  —  Perhaps it actually might have been funny.
Michael Smith / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda leader plans an Iraq army  —  THE leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is attempting to set up his own mini-army and move away from individual suicide attacks to a more organised resistance movement, according to US intelligence sources.
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Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Bush challenges hundreds of laws  —  President cites powers of his office  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts …
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Of a Fire in a Field  —  A COUPLE OF FRIENDS asked me to go with them to see "United 93," but I declined both offers saying I wasn't sure that I needed any reminders other than what I saw in New York on that day.  In the end, though, I went to it as I went to the funerals, alone.
Discussion: annika's journal
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Where's the dissent about source of quote?  —  John Kerry announced this week's John Kerry Iraq Policy of the Week the other day: "Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to deal with these intransigent issues and at last put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military."
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Power Line
New York Times:
As Gas Prices Go Up, Impact Trickles Down  —  It is hard to watch the numbers flutter ever upward on the gas pump these days.  A look at the ripple effect of rising gas prices across the country:  —  The End of Fun and Games  —  Gas prices are not doing much for the love life of Fernanda Tapia.
Discussion: The Oil Drum
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Father of the Bush Doctrine  —  George Shultz on pre-emption and the Revolt of the Generals.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—George P. Shultz was the secretary of state of the United States during the years that the Soviet Union was led, successively, by Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
'At Some Point, Reality Has Its Day'  —  Al Gore on why America-and even George Bush-is close to a tipping point on global warming.  —  April 28, 2006 - Al Gore has launched his new campaign-this one to battle the effects of global warming.  At its center is a new film, "An Inconvenient Truth …
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Gore Redux  —  The former veep is refusing to play overt campaign politics.
Discussion: Draft Gore 2008
expatica.com:
Threatened MP ordered out of secure home  —  AMSTERDAM — Liberal Party MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been ordered to vacate the high-security home she is renting in The Hague within four months.  —  An appeal court sided with her neighbours who complained her presence put their own safety at risk and caused disruption to their lives.
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Reader Iam / Done With Mirrors:
Evicting Moral Courage
Gagdad Bob / One Cosmos:
United 93: No Heroic Deed Goes Unspoiled by the Left  —  I'm going to let you in on a little secret.  I know how to completely eliminate the left.  Well, maybe not completely.  But at least 75% of them.  —  Would it be through better education?  No, being that wackademia has been hijacked by the left, that wouldn't help at all.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Tough Primary Race Confronts Lieberman  —  Antiwar Democrat Mounts a Major Challenge to Connecticut's 3-Term Senator  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With his ruddy tan and dark gray suit, Ned Lamont is an antiwar liberal with a twist.  Rather than targeting a Republican, the millionaire Greenwich businessman …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Nedrenaline  —  Update: WaPo has a very good article up about Ned.
Discussion: MyDD
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
McCain: Trade The First Amendment For Clean Government  —  Mark Tapscott has a clip of John McCain's appearance on the Don Imus Show that demonstrates the truly frightening prospect of having the Senator from Arizona occupy the White House.  McCain told Imus that he would trade the First Amendment for "clean government":
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
McCain Says "Clean Government" More Important Than First Amendment
 
 
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