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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status — WASHINGTON, April 10 — Waving American flags and blue banners that read "We Are America," throngs of cheering, chanting immigrants and their supporters converged on the nation's capital and in scores of other cities on Monday calling …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Pressure, Frustration Mount — The immigrant demonstrators who flooded the streets of America's cities yesterday ratcheted up pressure on lawmakers to complete an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, while raising Republicans' frustration with President Bush for what they see as a muddled stand on the issue.
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Washington Post:
'We Decided Not to Be Invisible Anymore' — Pro-Immigration Rallies Are Held Across Country — Hundreds of thousands of pro-immigration demonstrators mobilized on the Mall and in scores of cities across the country yesterday in a powerful display of grass-roots muscle-flexing that organizers …
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Annex Mexico? — One difference between the demonstrations in France and the demonstrations in America: The French are demonstrating for the right not to work hard, while the demonstrators in America mostly want to work. — And most of them, I think, really want that.
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BBC:
Centre-left claims Italy victory — Italy's centre-left opposition has won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, official results say. — It won 49.8% of the vote against 49.7% for the centre-right, according to interior ministry figures. — The head of the centre-left coalition …
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Maria Sanminiatelli / Associated Press:
Prodi Declares Victory in Italian Election — ROME - Italy's parliamentary election hung in the balance Tuesday as the country counted ballots cast by Italians living abroad, including in the United States, for six new Senate seats. — Near final returns showed opposition leader Romano …
New York Times:
With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in Spotlight — WASHINGTON, April 10 — From the early days of the C.I.A. leak investigation in 2003, the Bush White House has insisted there was no effort to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man who emerged as the most damaging critic of the administration's case …
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wral.com:
DA Plans To Proceed With Case Despite No DNA Matches — Defense Attorneys Hope 'Community Healing' Can Begin — RALEIGH, N.C. — Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said he plans to move forward with his case against three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team despite DNA results …
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Mark Steyn / City Journal:
Facing Down Iran — Our lives depend on it. — Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Wowie Zahawie — Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger. — In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie.
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Rich Lowry / The Corner on National Review Online:
WHAT BUSH SHOULD DO — When I talk to people about the sad state of the Bush administration lately, we always ask ourselves, "Well, what can he do now?" And I never have an answer, nor does anyone I talk to. Which is a pretty good reason to give way to the kind of despair George Conway expressed today.
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House — WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
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Leaker in Chief can't answer the question — Leaker in Chief can't answer the question — In an outrageous attempt to avoid a very important question about the private military security that is running around in Iraq, President Bush-well starts panting out of desperation and then said he needed to ask Rumsfeld.
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Some Worries as San Francisco Goes Wireless — SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 — When Mayor Gavin Newsom announced 18 months ago that he intended to provide free wireless access to all of the city's 760,000 residents, Chris Vein said he felt sorry for the "poor guy" who would have to carry out the complex task.
Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO/PHOTO ESSAY: VIVA LA RAZA IN D.C. — So, my Sony Handycam and I attended the illegal alien demonstration in D.C. yesterday. Here are some of the more interesting moments captured on tape: — The goofy, out-of-place-looking, non-Spanish speaker on the right was standing on a street corner …
rawstory.com:
Rove thanks Republican lawyers for their work on 'clean elections' — In a speech to the Republican National Lawyers Association in Washington last Friday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove thanked its members for their "work on clean elections," RAW STORY has found.
opinionatedbastard.com:
It's that Time of the Month — It's time for me to do my update on Iraq based on the Iraq Index from the Brookings Report. I was on vacation last week, so its one week late. — First off, US soldiers killed in Iraq continues to fall. This is the 5th straight month:
William Yardley / New York Times:
Dean Is Mum, but Brother Backs a Lieberman Rival — HARTFORD, April 10 — At the Connecticut Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey fund-raising dinner last month, James H. Dean was among the guests invited to sit at the table of Ned Lamont, a Greenwich cable television executive …
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
Getting Numbers Right: An Essential Part of Good Reporting — Having escaped from ten years of doing the Economic Reporting Review (ERR), I'm beginning "Beat the Press," with the single topic that took up the most cyberspace in ERR — putting numbers in context.
TimChapman / Townhall.com:
Kingston talks politics...1994 — Congressman Jack Kingston this afternoon took questions from bloggers on a conference call. The most talked about issue was immigration reform. Kingston made it clear that the House of Representatives would hold the line against what he described as a …
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