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...

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.

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.

Iran threatens Israel if US acts "evil"  —  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Tuesday to attack Israel in response to any "evil" act by the United States and said it had enriched uranium to a level close to the maximum compatible with civilian use in power stations.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Poll Shows Many Can't Find La. on Map  —  Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn't locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.  —  Americans between the ages of 18 …

Striking a Balance  —  The New York Times executive editor on leaks and partisanship.  —  Most American newspapers, including yours and mine, try hard to separate the curiosity-driven world of reporters and editors from the ideology-driven world of editorial writers and columnists.

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 …