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1:10 PM ET, April 22, 2007

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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Gore campaign team assembles in secret  —  Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House.  —  Two members of Mr Gore's staff from his unsuccessful attempt in 2000 …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Gore To Run For 2008 Nomination  —  Al Gore has insisted that he has no interest in returning to electoral politics and wants to focus on his media interests and on solutions to global warming.  The former Vice President has shown no inclination to run against the wife of his former boss, at least not publicly.
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Obama Addresses Question of Experience  —  NEW YORK (AP) - Wooing black voters while tackling questions about his experience, Democrat Barack Obama said Saturday that his years as a community organizer and accomplishments in the Illinois state Senate have prepared him well for the presidency.
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Sheryl Crow Battles Karl Rove at D.C. Dinner: Strupp's Report  —  WASHINGTON President George Bush's choice not to make jokes, and comedian Rich Little's somewhat poor attempt to make them, resulted in an unusual White House Correspondent's Association Dinner Saturday as celebrities and politicians mixed, mingled and dined.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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The Huffington Post:
Laurie David and Sheryl Crow: Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus  —  Last night Thelma and Louise drove the bus off the cliff or at least into the White House Correspondents Dinner.  The "highlight" of the evening had to be when we were introduced to Karl Rove.
Discussion: The Caucus
Nico / Think Progress:
Kristol: Reid's Iraq Remark Is 'Much More Disgraceful Than Anything Trent Lott Said'  —  This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) remark that the Iraq war is lost is "much more disgraceful" than Sen. Trent Lott's …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Majority  —  Hey, Juan Williams let a little truth slip out.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Atrios / Eschaton:   More Truth  —  In fairness to CNN, they let a bit of truth slip out too.
Associated Press:
Suicide car bombers kill 13 in police station blasts … BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Two suicide car bombers attacked a police station Sunday in western Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 82, police said.  —  The bombs exploded as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Cairo …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Todd Pitman / Associated Press:
Insurgents battling al-Qaida outside Baghdad, U.S. says
Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Sunni struggle claims 4th Fallujah chief
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
After Iraqi Troops Do Dirty Work, 3 Detainees Talk  —  Out here in what the soldiers call Baghdad's wild west, sometimes the choices are all bad.  —  In one of the new joint American-Iraqi security stations in the capital this month, in the volatile Ghazaliya neighborhood …
Discussion: Hot Air and The RBC
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Good Cop, Really Bad Cop  —  The New York Times reports on the interrogation methods of the new Iraqi Army in an article that will likely renew the debate on torture.  Iraqi Army forces whipped a suspected terrorist with an electrical cord to get a confession — but that confession led …
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Angela Charlton / Associated Press:
High turnout seen in French election  —  PARIS - France began choosing a new president Sunday with millions of voters undecided and millions more voting for the first time, making the selection of two final candidates highly unpredictable.  —  The successor to Jacques Chirac …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and PoliBlog (TM)
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
French Style Politics
Discussion: The Reaction and The Belmont Club
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REMEMBERING ADMIRAL STOCKDALE  —  The disgrace of the British sailors and marines in Iranian captivity caused many to recall the heroics of Admiral James Stockdale.  The photo above depicts Admiral Stockdale's reunion with his family in 1973 after President Nixon secured his release.
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Lower Than Dirt  —  For some reason — don't ask — I was looking at Rush Limbaugh's web site, and I saw this headline: "Can Any Good Come from V Tech Horror?" followed by this blurb: "Maybe, just maybe, we'll face the hatred for American traditions and capitalism infesting our campuses."  No, I thought.
Michael Portillo / Times of London:
American psycho  —  When Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, the horrific slaughter revealed not only the poisons lurking in popular culture but the crisis of young males in a feminised society, says Sarah Baxter  —  Just before 5am on Monday, April 16, Cho Seung-hui got out of bed and walked to his computer.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Jack Kelly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Mishandling the massacre  —  To boost their ratings, the media encourage the next mass killer  —  For the sake of a few dollars more, NBC has brought closer the day of the next public mass killing in America.  —  "This was a sick business tonight, going on the air with this," …
 
 
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Moisés Naím / Washington Post:
Democracy's Dangerous Impostors
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Top U.S. Officers See Mixed Results From Iraq 'Surge'
Reuel Marc Gerecht / Weekly Standard:
On Democracy in Iraq  —  It's starting to take root.
CNN:
McCain fairs poorly, Huckabee well in S.C. straw poll
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
CIA VS. MPG
Discussion: contentions and TigerHawk
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Criminal Probe Opened in Pet Food Scare
Chicago Tribune:
Barack's rock  —  Obama calls wife Michelle 'an unbelievable …
Discussion: The Caucus
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Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
The Dutch Way or the Highway … Reuters has an interesting article …
Discussion: Reuters
Alaa / THE MESOPOTAMIAN:
Hi,  —  This is evidence of what I told you earlier …
N. R. Kleinfield / New York Times:
Before Deadly Rage, a Life Consumed by a Troubling Silence
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
U.S. Database Exposed Social Security Numbers
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio
Discussion: Armavirumque
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The New 5-to-4 Supreme Court
New York Times:
Candidate Giuliani Shifts His Tone on Immigration