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11:35 AM ET, April 24, 2007

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Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Low-key office launches high-profile inquiry  —  The Office of Special Counsel will investigate U.S. attorney firings and other political activities led by Karl Rove.  —  WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself …
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Tbogg / tbogg.blogspot.com:
I did it all for the nookie...and some sweet sweet Soros cash  —  Ian at Hot Air (he's the Baby Huey-looking one on the right, next to that chick and the bad-ass mofo in the disco shirt) breathlessly relays what Bill O'Reilly said on TV about that Jew bastard George Soros:
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Ian / Hot Air:
Video: O'Reilly names those who recycle Media Matters' garbage
Discussion: Wizbang
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
George Soros rules the world! Bill O'Reilly loses it...
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Impolitic
Oliver Willis:
WE ARE THE NEXUS. THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.
Discussion: News Hounds
MSNBC:
Suicide blast kills 9 U.S. soldiers  —  Attack in Diyala province comes same day 5 other explosions kill 46  —  Demonstrators in Baghdad's Adhamiya district protest Monday against the construction of concrete walls in the area.  —  NBC video  —  Walling off neighborhoods
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CNN:
U.S. military: Suicide bombers kill 9 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
my.barackobama.com:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs  —  Good morning.  We all know that these are not the best of times for America's reputation in the world.  We know what the war in Iraq has cost us in lives and treasure, in influence and respect.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Sheryl Crow's War Against Toilet Paper (UPDATED)
Discussion: Spiegel Online and Instapundit.com
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Obama's Rise Strains Loyalty on Clinton Turf  —  Only a few months ago, the vast majority of black elected officials in New York were expected to support the presidential candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.  But no longer.  —  In a series of interviews, a significant number …
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
David Halberstam, 73, War Reporter and Author, Is Killed in a Car Crash  —  David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America's military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world …
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City Journal:
The Big White Lie  —  The thing I like best about being a conservative is that I don't have to lie.  I don't have to pretend that men and women are the same.  I don't have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine.  I don't have to say that everyone's special …
Discussion: QandO
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Speak No Truth  —  The thing I like best about being a conservative …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
At Least the Boss Was Satisfied by Gonzales's Answers  —  President Bush said Monday that the Congressional testimony of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales last week, roundly panned by members of both parties, had "increased my confidence in his ability to do the job."
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Why Boycott Israel?  —  In Iran, the government overturned the convictions of six men who, among other things, killed a young couple because they were walking together in public.  In China, local authorities seized about 60 women and forcibly aborted their pregnancies.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Gingrich hires pollster  —  Newt Gingrich has hired a pollster and a fundraiser, but not for a presidential campaign - at least not yet.  —  Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and leader of the 1994 Republican revolution, has not discouraged speculation he'll add his name to the list …
Discussion: TIME, race42008.com and The Caucus
Washington Post:
Negotiators Agree on War-Funding Package  —  House-Senate Bill, Which Sets Timetable for Troop Withdrawal, Likely to Face Veto  —  House and Senate negotiators reached agreement yesterday on war-funding legislation that would begin bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq as early as July …
Alexei Barrionuevo / New York Times:
Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons  —  What is happening to the bees?  —  More than a quarter of the country's 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping.
Watertiger / Dependable Renegade:
The Manhattan Project.  —  Carmela returns:  —  Meet Ann Altmouse:  —  Special thanks to dan at A Blog Named Sue for his camera and editing.  You rule, Dan.
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Wolfowitz Hires Prominent Lawyer in Fight to Stay at World Bank  —  Paul D. Wolfowitz, signaling anew that he will fight for his job as World Bank president, has enlisted a prominent lawyer who defended President Bill Clinton against accusations of sexual misconduct to help convince …
 
 
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Fred Thompson / Redstate:
My Retort on Torts  —  "Adhering to the principles of Federalism is not easy.
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Minimum-Wage Accord Produces Protests
USA Today:
Al-Maliki support eroding in Iraq
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Miers weighed Yang's firing according to Sen. Feinstein
Discussion: War and Piece
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Command Shortens Life of 'Long War' as a Reference
Discussion: The Heretik
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Hot Air turns one
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WSLS.com:
'He was Creeping me Out'
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Henry M. Paulson, Jr / ssa.gov:
A MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC:  —  Each year the Trustees …
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Boris Yeltsin, Russia's First Post-Soviet Leader, Is Dead
Tim Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama and his Rezko ties