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Dallas Protest AAR: No pics, I'm afraid, since the prostestors smashed my camera. — I decided last night to sleep on it before writing this. If I had written about yesterday last night, my post would have been filled with epithets and not very coherent. — My camera is now scattered bits …
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Michelle Malkin:
ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTER RECRUITMENT — Photographed at the Dallas illegal alien demonstration yesterday: — Kim Priestap at Wizbang: … Sen. Ted Kennedy is scheduled to address the crowd—future constituents—in Washington, D.C., today around 4:30pm EST. — As they say: "Today they march, tomorrow they vote."
Kim Priestap / Wizbang:
DEMOCRATS RECRUITING AT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PROTESTS — Updated — Scroll to read updates. — A number of photos were taken at yesterday's Dallas illegal immigrant protest, including this one of a Democrat recruitment flyer encouraging Mexican immigrants to vote for Democrats in 2006.
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France to replace youth job law — French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the new youth employment law that sparked weeks of sometimes violent protests will be scrapped. — He said it would be replaced by other measures to tackle youth unemployment.
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EU Referendum, Hyscience, Jay Currie, dartblog.com, Dr. Sanity and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
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Gateway Pundit:
France Surrenders! — It was only a matter of time... The kids did not care for the new plan... It had to go. They were forced to take their fight to the streets. (France-Echos) — After putting up a brave fight, France surrendered today to the young socialist thugs on the street.
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A Blog For All, Riehl World View, Publius Pundit, France-Echos, Hyscience and Blue Crab Boulevard
Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters:
France to scrap disputed youth job contract — PARIS (Reuters) - France will scrap a planned youth job contract that has provoked weeks of protests and a political crisis, President Jacques Chirac said on Monday. — Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who has championed the job law …
William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
Goldilocks and Iran — I've been stewing over two articles this weekend that purport to be about U.S. government planning for a potential war with Iran, one a front page article in this newspaper yesterday and the other a long New Yorker piece by Seymour Hersh.
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Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Bush and Cheney Discussed Plame Prior to Leak — In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding mission …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THREE YEARS LATER: IT'S STILL NEWS! — Today's New York Times page-one, joint-byline story by David Sanger and David Johnston is "Bush ordered declassification, official says." The story of course refers to the declassification and release of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimage consensus "key judgments" in July 2003.
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Bush's Job Approval Rating Continues to Swoon — Forty-Seven Percent of Americans 'Strongly' Disapprove of Handling of the Presidency — Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low and boosted Democratic chances …
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USA Today:
Army surpassing year's retention goal by 15% — WASHINGTON — Two of every three eligible soldiers continue to re-enlist, putting the Army, which has endured most of the fighting in Iraq, ahead of its annual goal. — The Army was 15% ahead of its re-enlistment goal of 34,668 …
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MSNBC:
Polls: Berlusconi trailing challenger in Italy vote — Conservative premier is seeking third term; leftist Prodi is ex-ECU president — ROME - Center-left leader Romano Prodi looks set to beat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's general election, winning a majority in both houses of parliament …
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Sebastian Mallaby:
Political Crackups — What Happens When Governments Don't Work — In the fall of 1992, when a different Bush administration was unraveling, Shin Kanemaru ran into a little trouble. Kanemaru was the Tom DeLay of politics in Japan; he was the gruff son of a rural sake maker who became …
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Behind Gossip, There's Often a Relationship — Jared Paul Stern has been in New York newspapers for 12 years, most of them working for Richard Johnson, the editor of the Page Six gossip column at The New York Post. While Mr. Johnson has never been accused of anything like trying to shake …
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USA Today:
CEO pay soars in 2005 as a select group break the $100 million mark — Even after a decade of sharply rising CEO pay, 2005 proved a watershed for a select group of executives. Their paydays — or potential paydays — broke $100 million. — Led by Capital One Financial's Richard Fairbank …
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Bob Carter / Telegraph:
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 — For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco.
Neil Munro / nationaljournal.com:
Real Or Fake? … Thanks to digital technology, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the most photographed in history. Photographers with digital cameras have provided, almost instantaneously, an enormous flood of accurate, dramatic, and even shocking images to people around the world.
Washington Post:
Christian Coalition Shrinks as Debt Grows — In an era when conservative Christians enjoy access and influence throughout the federal government, the organization that fueled their rise has fallen on hard times. — The once-mighty Christian Coalition, founded 17 years ago by the Rev. Pat Robertson …
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Stephanie Simon / Los Angeles Times:
Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies — Many codes intended to protect gays from harassment are illegal, conservatives argue. — ATLANTA — Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant. — Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality.
Michelle Malkin:
MUSLIMS FOR OPEN BORDERS — Illegal alien protest in Detroit. Sunday, April 9, 2006. Second from right is guest speaker Dawud Walid, 34, of Detroit, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan. — March 27 illegal alien protest in Detroit.
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Democracy in the Arab World, a U.S. Goal, Falters — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 9 — Steps toward democracy in the Arab world, a crucial American goal that just months ago was cause for optimism — with elections held in Iraq, Egypt and the Palestinian areas — are slowing …
Paul Horwitz / PrawfsBlawg:
Balkin on Wills on JC — An interesting post by Jack Balkin today, itself referring to an op-ed by Garry Wills in the New York Times. Wills argues against the institutionalization of Jesus in politics — against the tendency to recruit him as "a campaign aide."
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