Required Reading: April 14, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 6, 2010

Thanks to Passover and Easter, these are s l o w news days! And BL blogger has been getting slow (we did have a guest host, the precocious, baritone Errol Cockfield) in getting up this motley assortment of leftovers, one-weres, and finally-rans, in which Bloomy grumbles about crime in schools, Hillary rakes in campaign cash, white Republicans gravitate towards white Democrats over black Republicans, Teresa Heinz Kerry tries to literally upstage John Edwards at the '04 DNC, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flips out over a text message.

"Bloomberg: 'The Days of Anything Goes Are Over'" (NY Sun)

"$19.7 mil for Hil stuffs war chest" (NY Daily News)

"Whites Take Flight on Election Day" (Washington Post)

"Past Heinz sights are revealing" (NY Daily News)

"Heard the one about the president?" (The Guardian)

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