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7:40 AM ET, May 3, 2006

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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Cole Report  —  When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide.  —  In some ways, the continuing row over his call for the complete destruction of Israel must baffle Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  All he did, after all, was to turn up at a routine anti-Zionist event and repeat …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist  —  And, "We don't Want Your Stinking War!  —  Christopher Hitchens owes me a big apology.  —  I belong to a private email discussion group called Gulf2000.  It has academics, journalists and policy makers on it.
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Threatens Israel if U.S. Attacks
Discussion: Bloggledygook
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David Neiwert / Orcinus:   The end of the end of racism … If you turn on your cable tonight …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Language, Intent, and the other Other  —  In today's WSJ Opinion …
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Greenwald on Steele  —  Damn, Glenn Greenwald is a good blogger.
Discussion: TBogg
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Congress Set to Drop Fuel Price Rebate Plan  —  WASHINGTON, May 2 — A Republican proposal to provide taxpayers with a $100 rebate to compensate for higher fuel prices appeared all but dead today as leading congressional Republicans said it had quickly run out of gas.
Discussion: BlondeSense
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Democrats Push Fight for House in the Northeast
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter  —  Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents' Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked …
Discussion: Washington Post, PSoTD and TalkLeft
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
I Gotcher Bad Taste For Ya Rite-chia  —  I'm listening to Scarborough dissect Colbert's performance with Ana Marie Cox and Michael Sherer from Salon and I can't believe how vapid it is.  They all agree that Colbert is usually hilarious but he wasn't entirely successful at the white house …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Bush, Hill Republicans Agree To Extend Expiring Tax Cuts  —  Democrats Point to Deficit and Benefits for the Rich  —  President Bush and congressional Republicans agreed yesterday on a $70 billion package of tax-cut extensions that they hope will help halt the deterioration of their political fortunes.
Drudge Report:
MARY CHENEY SAYS HER FATHER SAID EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED TO HEAR WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS GAY  —  Vice president tells VANITY FAIR his image might be better if he spent more time trying to improve it, "but that's not why I'm here"  —  New York, N.Y. - In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN …
Washington Post:
Voters Oust Backers of Immigrants In Herndon  —  Three Incumbents Lose Who Supported Center  —  Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum …
Discussion: Right Wing News, Wizbang and Lonewacko
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
In the Roberts Court, More Room for Argument  —  WASHINGTON, May 2 — This is the week that the Supreme Court, done with its regular argument sessions, enters the stretch run.  —  While it is too soon for substantive appraisals of the first year of the Roberts court, it is not too soon …
Discussion: Althouse
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
After Protests, Backlash Grows  —  Opponents of Illegal Immigration Are Increasingly Vocal  —  While a series of marches focused much of the nation's attention on the plight of illegal immigrants, scores of other Americans quietly seethed.  Now, with the same full-throated cry expressed …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Gay Patriot
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South  —  TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan, April 27 — Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear to be moving their insurgency into a new phase …
Sports Illustrated:
Keeping perspective on draft week  —  Readers e-mails on draft, the truth about New Orleans … I sense that we in this country have Katrina fatigue.  The New York Times reported as much recently, saying that people in some of the areas that welcomed Katrina evacuees last September are sick …
Discussion: Mathew Gross
Raleigh News & Observer:
Nifong to remain Durham's DA  —  FROM STAFF REPORTS  —  DURHAM - District Attorney Mike Nifong kept his job as the county's top prosecutor in a heated election that featured Nifong's handling of the Duke lacrosse rape investigation as its central issue.  —  Nifong received 45.17 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff.
 
 
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Hill Impasse Spurs States to Tackle Illegal Immigration
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Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran