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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
1M Immigrants Skip Work for Demonstration — LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than 1 million mostly Hispanic immigrants and their supporters skipped work and took to the streets Monday, flexing their economic muscle in a nationwide boycott that succeeded in slowing or shutting many farms, factories, markets and restaurants.
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Lou Dobbs / CNN:
Radical groups taking control of immigrant movement — NEW YORK (CNN) — We all awoke to headlines in our nation's most important newspapers reminding us that this is "A Day Without Immigrants." Not illegal immigrants, mind you, but immigrants. — USA Today headlined today's demonstrations and boycott …
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Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Immigrants Take to U.S. Streets in Show of Strength — LOS ANGELES, May 1 — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters skipped work, school and shopping on Monday and marched in dozens of cities from coast to coast. — The demonstrations did not bring the nation to a halt …
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Immigrants Stage Protests Across U.S. — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters gathered in cities around the country today in demonstrations and an economic boycott intended to show the impact the workers have on the nation's economy as Congress grapples with new immigration legislation.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Sun Still Setting In The West — It appears that the nationwide strike by illegal immigrants and their supporters caused some headaches but little immediate economic impact, as outside of Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles most demonstrations attracted significantly fewer numbers than earlier rallies.
Jesus Sanchez / Los Angeles Times:Today's Protests Shutter L.A.'s Produce and Garment Districts
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The Raw Story:
MSNBC confirms: Outed CIA agent was working on Iran — On Chris Matthews' Hardball Monday evening, just moments ago, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster confirmed what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed.
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Crooks and Liars:
Valerie Plame worked on Iran: Cover blown when she was outed! — Valerie Plame worked on Iran: Cover blown when she was outed! — David Shuster reported on Hardball today that: — INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY VALERIE WILSON WAS PART OF AN OPERATION THREE YEARS AGO TRACKING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL INTO IRAN.
Jed Babbin / American Spectator:
CIA's Castra Praetoria — Rome's Praetorian Guards began as a small elite imperial guard that grew into a force unto themselves. Independent of the army and the Senate they were the emperor's own, and utterly loyal to him. Until they were not. Over three centuries …
CBS News:
Poll: Gas Prices, Iraq Weigh Down Bush — (CBS) With gas prices sky-high and no end of the Iraq war in sight, President George W. Bush's approval rating hits an all-time low in a new CBS News poll. — Only 33 percent approve of his job performance, Mr. Bush's lowest approval rating yet in CBS News polls.
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USA Today:
Sour news for GOP in poll — WASHINGTON — Six months before Republicans try to hold on to control of Congress in the fall elections, a new poll shows President Bush has slid to the lowest approval rating of his presidency, and a majority of voters say they'll vote for Democrats in November.
Mike McCurry / The Huffington Post:
Hostile Commentary and Net Neutrality — Reading lots of comments on my last post, I guess my point got made: the culture and discourse of the Internet is not what you would teach kids at the dinner table — unless you kept a bar of soap handy. — On net neutrality, I feel like screaming "puh-leeeze."
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Robert E. Litan / Washington Post:
Catching the Web in a Net of Neutrality — Imagine a world in which millions of senior citizens and disabled Americans, among others, can have, if they want, their medical conditions monitored continuously by devices that communicate over high speed, broadband networks that can automatically alert …
Ian Fisher / New York Times:
Ideals Collide as Vatican Rethinks Condom Ban — ROME, May 1 — Even at the Vatican, not all sacred beliefs are absolute: Thou shalt not kill, but war can be just. Now, behind the quiet walls, a clash is shaping up involving two poles of near certainty: the church's long-held ban on condoms and its advocacy of human life.
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Michael Reynolds / Donklephant:
Love Beams Won't Do It. — I intended to write about the Save Darfur rally yesterday, but WiFi breakdowns at my hotel made that impossible. I don't want to trash the hotel by name, but if you'd like to know the name of the place just send me an email. Put "Tell me about the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City" in the subject line.
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The New Republic:
ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT...: — I'm a big Stephen Colbert fan, a huge Bush detractor, and I think the White House press corps has been out to lunch for much of the last five years. (Though, unlike many in the blogosphere, I don't think that's because White House reporters are lazy or stupid.)
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Funny Guy — Dan Froomkin has a very good column on the Colbert Moment and journalists like Elizabeth Bumiller who have decided just to ignore the entire thing. He also points to Special Ed, who found the whole event tasteless: … Two things. Number one, I talked to John A. at C&L …
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