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9:00 PM ET, April 21, 2007

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NewsMax.com:
Rep. Adam Putnam: Time for Gonzales to Go  —  A congressional Republican leader on Friday joined bipartisan calls for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign but the White House reaffirmed its confidence in President George W. Bush's long-time friend.
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Washington Post:
Bush Rebuffs GOP Pressure For Gonzales to Step Down  —  After Testimony, Attorney General Loses Lawmakers' Support  —  President Bush yesterday stood by his embattled friend, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, defying the broad bipartisan consensus emerging in Washington …
New York Times:
U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart  —  American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.
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Washington Post:
Gates Coaxes Iraq on Political Front  —  Defense Secretary, in Baghdad, Reiterates That U.S. Street Patrols Aren't Indefinite  —  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, unsatisfied with the pace of political reconciliation in Iraq, laid down an implicit deadline Friday by urging Iraqi leaders …
Tristero / Hullabaloo:   And Nothing Else.  —  The NY Times: … In other words …
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Deliver us from evil  —  According to the AP.  Iraqi insurgents are now fighting each other, as "moderate" Sunni terrorists tangle with "extremist" al-Qaeda whose brand of Islam is so radical that it prohibits placing cucumbers beside tomatoes because these vegetables have different genders.
Discussion: Middle East Times
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Todd Pitman / Associated Press:
Iraqi insurgents now fighting each other  —  MUQDADIYAH, Iraq — At least two major insurgent groups are battling al-Qaida in provinces outside Baghdad, American military commanders said Friday, an indication of a deepening rift between Sunni guerrilla groups in Iraq.
Discussion: Wake up America and QandO
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Matthew Yglesias rightly chastises the media for failing to ask whether Harry Reid is substantively right or wrong in his assertion that the war is "lost."  But perhaps we should be careful what we wish for.  —  Here, for instance, is CNN's Kyra Phillips explaining in a surprisingly cutting way that Reid is in fact wrong.
Discussion: TalkLeft and CNN
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Matthew Yglesias:
Freak Show  —  I caught some MSNBC earlier this afternoon …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons  —  All cartoons are posted with the artists' express permission to BobGeiger.com.  Please visit the following sites to see more work from these fine cartoonists:  —  Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle  —  Tony Auth, The Philadelphia Inquirer  —  Justin Bilicki, City Pulse
Discussion: Firedoglake
Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
World Bank steps up pressure on Wolfowitz  —  The World Bank's executive board on Friday ratcheted up the pressure on Paul Wolfowitz to step down as president by simultaneously promising swift action on the Shaha Riza controversy and broadening the scope of its investigations to include other issues as well.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Robert B. Holland III / Opinion Journal:
The Real World Bank Scandal
Discussion: Wizbang and SCSUScholars
Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting  —  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach — but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue.
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Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
From Clinton, Hip-Hop Hypocrisy
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Hillary Pandering To The Pimp Culture
CNN:
Blue Angels jet crashes during air show, killing aviator … (CNN) — A jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed into a Beaufort, South Carolina, neighborhood, causing an "enormous fireball" during an air show, authorities said.
Brad Wong / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Iraqi doctor who disputes official death tolls is denied visa to visit UW  —  An Iraqi doctor who made international headlines after stating that civilian deaths in the Iraq war far exceeded officially reported numbers is not being allowed to travel to North America to meet other academics.
Townhall.com:
Bill Bennett  • Mike Gallagher  • Dennis Prager  • Michael Medved  • Hugh Hewitt  —  MKH: Thanks, Gov. Romney, for taking some time to hang out with us at Townhall today.  I'm in D.C. Where are you today?  —  MR: I'm in Iowa City, IA, which is the home of the University of Iowa …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Kagro X / Daily Kos:
Regarding Obey: I was wrong.  —  Yesterday, I singled out House Appropriations Chairman David Obey as having a special obligation to defend the mandatory redeployment timelines in the House version of the "Iraq Accountability Act."  —  I felt that this special responsibility fell on Obey …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Needlenose
John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
Land-Swap Plan Causes Trouble For Congressman  —  Mr. Renzi Offers Field  —  To Mining Companies;  —  Grand Jury Is Active  —  SUPERIOR, Ariz. — As they dig for nickel, copper and other commodities in the far corners of the earth, the world's largest mining companies …
Abdul Sattar / Associated Press:
Jihadist video shows boy beheading man  —  KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan - The boy with the knife looks barely 12.  In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy.  Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Hot new jihadi death porn: Prepubescent Taliban beheads man on tape
 
 
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David Weinberger / The Huffington Post:
Zero Tolerance for Humans
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Tainted pet food found in livestock feed
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MSNBC:
Beef recalled for E. coli in 5 states after illnesses
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: This Year, We Will Put A Doctor In the House — Victoria Wulsin
Discussion: CNN and DownWithTyranny!
Will / Attytood:
A new beginning...and a very short break
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Ted Nugent / CNN:
Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Key Initiative Of 'No Child' Under Federal Investigation
 Earlier Items: 
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Cold Standard  —  Virginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture.
Courtney Long / Yale Daily News:
Weapons to go offstage  —  Trachtenberg cites Virginia Tech attack
David Lightman / Connecticut News …:
Lieberman Scolds Reid For 'War Lost' Remark
Scott Lindlaw / Associated Press:
Army Clamped Down After Tillman's Death
Discussion: CorrenteWire and TalkLeft
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Mixed Reviews
Discussion: The Daily Dish, Gawker and Althouse
Aaron Brazell / Outside The Beltway:
Virginia Tech and What the Blogosphere is Doing
CNN:
Gunman knew engineer he killed at NASA, police say
Discussion: IMAO
Laura / War and Piece:
National Journal's Congress Daily: … One correspondent suggests …
 

 
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