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11:45 PM ET, April 30, 2006

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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking  —  (updated below)  —  On March 24, 2006, The Boston Globe published an article by Charlie Savage reporting that the President, after signing into law the bill which renewed the Patriot Act, issued a "signing statement" …
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media's Power to Choose the News  —  The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was televised on C-Span Saturday evening.  Featured entertainer Stephen Colbert delivered a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps.
Boston Globe:
Examples of the president's signing statements  —  Since taking office in 2001, President Bush has issued signing statements on more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the laws when they conflict with his legal interpretation of the Constitution.
Discussion: The Liberal Avenger
Bloggle / Bloggledygook:
Beyond Satire.  —  By now it should be evident that those who portray themselves, or allow themselves to be portrayed as courageous for pointing at pointy-heads in the government or media are actually those who are most worthy of ridicule.  —  I have taken a moratorium from political blogging …
Frederick / dailykos.com:
Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!)  —  I've taken the existing transcripts I've seen of Stephen Colbert's brilliant monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and the actual footage (complete video available at Democratic Underground) …
Discussion: Dohiyi Mir and Unfogged
Lisa Lambert / Reuters:
Bush skewers self at correspondents' dinner  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush shared the stage at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night with someone else: himself.  —  Bush impersonator Steve Bridges stood at an identical podium as the president …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
COMEDY CRITICISM  —  The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner …
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Bush challenges hundreds of laws
USA Today:
Bush, celebrities attend press corps dinner
Discussion: US Politics and Left I on the News
Teresa Wiltz / Washington Post:
All Georges  —  At the White House Correspondents' Dinner …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
John Kenneth Galbraith  —  What I wrote about John Kenneth Galbraith last year: … And here's a genuinely bad passage from Holcomb Noble and Douglas Martin's obituary of John Kenneth Galbraith.  Embarrassing: … Other economists, like Gary S. Becker and George J. Stigler …
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Henry / Crooked Timber:
Galbraith dies  —  John Kenneth Galbraith died yesterday.
Discussion: Lean Left
Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith Dies at 97
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Did Gary Becker prove that advertising is informative?
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
From Senator Clinton, a Lesson in Tactical Bipartisanship  —  WASHINGTON, April 29 — Only eight years have passed since Lindsey Graham, then an ambitious Republican member of the House, paraded over to the Senate each day to argue the impeachment case against President Bill Clinton.
Discussion: Sirotablog
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Divisions Cast Aside in Cry for Darfur  —  Clutching signs that read "Never Again," thousands of protesters from across religious and political divides descended on the Mall yesterday along with celebrities and politicians to urge President Bush to take stronger measures to end the violence …
Discussion: OxBlog, Don Surber and The Big Pharaoh
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Merits of Partitioning Iraq or Allowing Civil War Weighed  —  As the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Washington Post:
Polls Suggest Ethics Issues Could Haunt GOP  —  The day before the Republican House leadership struggled for five hours to bring lobby reform legislation to the floor, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) declared that voters have little or no interest in ethics legislation.  —  "Do I think they care about it?
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
G.O.P. Moderates Rebuff Lobbyists, Then Woo Them  —  WASHINGTON, April 29 — After appearing to falter Thursday, the House of Representatives is once again poised to pass a new package of lobbying restrictions, thanks largely to the efforts of an alliance of Republican moderates.
Discussion: MyDD and Daily Kos
Peter Beinart / New York Times:
The Rehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal  —  This fall, for the third time since 9/11, American voters will choose between Democrats and Republicans while knowing what only one party believes about national security.  In 2002, Democratic candidates tried to change the subject, focusing on Social Security and health care instead.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
CORRECTING WHERE IT COUNTS  —  The New York Times is exquisitely sensitive to the possibility that its reporters could have conflicts of interest, or undisclosed angles on the stories they report.  When such possible conficts are sniffed out, the Times takes a rigorous, Caesar's wife approach.
David Smith / Times of London:
Dollar starts the big slide against major currencies  —  THE dollar has embarked on a big decline that will see it fall against all leading currencies, according to analysts.  —  The plunge is being prompted by America's $800 billion (£438 billion) current-account deficit, they say.
Discussion: Cannonfire
 
 
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