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12:30 PM ET, May 3, 2006

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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.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Plan for $100 Gas Rebate Appears to Be Dead  —  WASHINGTON, May 2 — A Republican proposal to provide taxpayers with $100 rebates to compensate for higher fuel prices appeared all but dead on Tuesday, with leading Congressional Republicans saying that it had quickly fallen flat.
Discussion: The Rude Pundit
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Democrats Push Fight for House in the Northeast  —  George Ruhe for The New York Times, left; Steven Lee Miller for The New York Times, right  —  Nancy L. Johnson, center, a 12-term Republican congresswoman in Connecticut, discussed issues recently with two constituents, Leo McIlrath and Alice Neville.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Man Who Won't Sell His Soul  —  BRUSSELS — Sen. John McCain likes the moral high ground, and he takes palpable pleasure in delivering zingers to errant Russians, Iranians and Europeans, as he did at a conference here last weekend.  But as the apparent front-runner in the 2008 presidential race …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Administration Is Singing More Than One Tune on Spanish Version of Anthem  —  President Bush declared last week that the national anthem should be sung in English not Spanish, but he evidently never told his own government or campaign organizations.  —  The State Department posts four Spanish versions of …
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming  —  A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded yesterday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that there was "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system."  —  The finding eliminates a significant area …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Study Reconciles Data in Measuring Climate Change
Discussion: Hit and Run and Think Progress
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Filling tanks, funding dictators  —  FREE-MARKET purists are getting a lot of mileage out of scoffing at all the hysteria about rising oil prices.  From a strictly economic point of view, they've got a point.  Even with crude selling at more than $71 a barrel and gasoline at about $3 a gallon, the U.S. economy continues to expand.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Acrimony Over Bush Judicial Nominations Resurfaces  —  Senate Democrats Threaten To Filibuster Conservative Duo  —  After months of relative quiet, senators raised the prospect yesterday of a return to bitter battles and a possible filibuster over judicial nominations …
Sam Enriquez / Los Angeles Times:
Mexico to Allow Use of Drugs  —  Fox will sign the bill, one of the world's most permissive policies, in a bid to curb trafficking.  U.S. officials say it will lead to more addiction.  —  MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug …
Discussion: Amygdala
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 …
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 …
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Court Backs Experimental Drugs for Dying Patients  —  Terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to obtain experimental drugs before the Food and Drug Administration has decided whether to approve them, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.  —  Saying that dying patients have a basic …
Discussion: Hit and Run and How Appealing
 
 
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Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
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Sheriff to Start Posse Patrols to Curb Illegal Immigration Flow
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Special report—Punditry lost!
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OH 18: Ney Takes Primary, But Cracks in GOP Base Are Clear
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Kenneth Pollack, Iran Expert Who's Never Been There
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
After Protests, Backlash Grows
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Bush, Hill Republicans Agree To Extend Expiring Tax Cuts