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Michelle Malkin:
THE PICTURES YOU WON'T SEE — ***updated 5/2 940am EDT...*** — Compare the NYTimes' white-washed May Day photo section with these candid shots of yesterday's National Day to Hate the Yanquis: — Protest Warrior Chicago exposed ugly, American flag-trashing advocates...
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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 …
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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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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Day Without Immigrants: Political Success Or Political Provocation?
Day Without Immigrants: Political Success Or Political Provocation?
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.
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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.
New York Times:
Keeping a Democratic Web — "Net neutrality" is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else.
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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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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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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Not Credible — David Shuster set hearts fluttering when he confirmed a Raw Story report telling us that Valerie Plame was the only person standing between us and a nuclear Iran. — Please. — David Shuster was a clearly dishonest when he deliberately dropped a key qualifier …
Shelby Steele / Opinion Journal:
White Guilt and the Western Past — Why is America so delicate with the enemy? — There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II. — For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power …
Baltimore Examiner:
Arrogance defined by McCain — The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner — WASHINGTON - James Madison, the prime mover behind the U.S. Constitution, and his colleagues among the Founders rightly feared arrogant men like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., so they limited the central government to a few, well-defined powers.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Drop a Tax Plan After Businesses Protest — WASHINGTON, May 1 — Senate Republicans on Monday hurriedly abandoned a broad tax proposal opposed by the oil industry and business leaders, another sign of their struggle to come up with an acceptable political and legislative answer to high gasoline prices.
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Teenagers and Adults: The Emerging Anti-Netroots Narrative — These days, so much is written about the netroots it is hard to keep track. However, two very recent articles by Democratic insiders caught my eye. First, Mike McCurry: — You can see in blog commentary lots of great huffing …
Pajamas Media:
A Day of Images : UPDATE 2 — Under the auspices of Pajamas Media, Roger Simon and I went out to one of the LA versions of "A Day without Immigrants" and took documentary-maker Andrew Marcus and cameraman/editor Jeff Koeglar along with us. — One of the fun things about being among …