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5:55 PM ET, April 20, 2007

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Michelle Malkin:
More letters for Harry "Lost It" Reid  —  Here's a second batch of messages from my military readers for Harry Reid and the White Flag Dems:  —  From COB Speicher: … Reader Randy in Iraq: … LT Nichols also in Baghdad: … Reader Lee:
Horses Mouth:
One thing that's been completely missing from all the media attention being lavished on Harry Reid's assertion that the "war is lost" is that much of the American public basically agrees with Reid here.  —  The GOP and the wingers are out in full force denouncing Reid as "treacherous" and so forth.
Discussion: The Swamp and Needlenose
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
No Surrender  —  [Ross] So Harry Reid announced that he thinks …
Discussion: Centerfield
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill  —  Alberto Gonzales's tenure as attorney general was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m. yesterday by Tom Coburn, M.D.  —  The good doctor, who also happens to be a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made this clinical judgment …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Number Of White House Officials Allowed To Intervene In DoJ Cases …
Nancy A. Youssef / Real Cities:
Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy  —  WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Gates Warns Iraq Leaders That 'Clock Is Ticking' on U.S. Presence
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Pajamas Media:
A HERO IS LAID TO REST  —  The funeral of Professor Liviu Librescu, who gave his life to save his students at VA Tech, took place this morning.  PJM Tel Aviv editor Allison Kaplan Sommer was there.  —  The Middle Eastern sun shone bright in the cemetery where Professor Liviu Librescu …
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Martin C. Evans / Newsday:   Witness tells a hero's story
James Q. Wilson / Los Angeles Times:   Gun control isn't the answer
Kate / small dead animals:
CBC: Hues Of The News  —  Set aside for a moment the journalistic misrepresentation on display in using a photo depicting air pollution to illustrate a story on the costs of meeting Kyoto mandated C02 reductions...  There's a little more than lack of scientific accuracy going on here.
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Fauxtography at CBC: Global Warming
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and The Mahablog
Media Matters for America:
Radio host Michael Smerconish to be simulcast on MSNBC in place of Imus  —  According to an April 20 article on Philly.com, the website of The Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Big Talker 1210 AM morning show of Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish is to be simulcast Monday through Wednesday on MSNBC."
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Melanie Phillips / Spectator:
'I found Saddam's WMD bunkers'  —  It's a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz.  It's also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmes …
Discussion: Confederate Yankee and Power Line
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Three days after guilty plea, Griles ties the knot  —  Two Bush administration officials who have been linked in scandal are now linked in wedlock.  —  The union of former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles and Sue Ellen Wooldridge could have implications for the investigation into Griles's ties to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Discussion: WSJ.com and The Next Hurrah
Dana Perino / White House:
PRESS GAGGLE  —  MS. PERINO: I have a few things to announce, and I also have the week ahead, which is kind of lengthy, so we'll do that at the end, okay?  —  This morning — the President taped his radio address this morning.  This topic is the tragic shootings that occurred at Virginia Tech this week.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and First Draft
Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times:
Times Co., Gannett and Tribune Co. Report Declines  —  Buffeted by an ongoing advertising recession, The New York Times Company and the Gannett Company announced yesterday that their first-quarter profits declined while the Tribune Company reported a loss.  —  The disappointing results underscored …
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
MONOPOLY ON THE USE OF FORCE: I was corresponding with a friend of mine — a very smart fellow, and a lawyer and a journalist — about concealed carry for university professors.  He disagreed with my view, and as best I can tell in general was skeptical about laws allowing concealed carry in public.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Adjudging a Moral Harm to Women From Abortions  —  That abortion is bad for fetuses is a statement of the obvious.  That it is bad for women, too, is a contested premise that nonetheless got five votes at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.  —  It was a development that stunned abortion rights advocates …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Impeachment Fever Rises  —  When Nancy Pelosi announced last fall that impeachment was "off the table," official Washington accepted that the primary avenue for holding lawless Presidents to account had been closed off by the new Speaker of the House.  But the Republic's citizenry has not been so inclined.
 
 
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