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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Captured AQ Documents: "Every Year Is Worse Than The Previous Year" — CENTCOM announced today that they had captured al-Qaeda correspondence in Iraq that discusses the state of the insurgency, especially around Baghdad but also around the entire country. Far from optimistic …
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Tarek El-Tablawy / Associated Press:
Disorganization Worries al-Qaida in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Qaida in Iraq is concerned about disorganization within its cells in the Baghdad area, with one extremist describing them as simply a "daily annoyance" to the Iraqi government, according to documents released Monday by the U.S. military.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHO'S WINNING? THEY SAY WE ARE — I missed this when it was released by Centcom, but our friend Ed Morrissey is on top of it: … This quote from a captured document, for example, supports Ed's characterization: … So the terrorists say we're winning in Iraq. Why is this fact so little recognized in America?
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Digital Lynch Mob — Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore's new movie on global warming. I liked the film. In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was.
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Nedra Pickler / ABCNEWS:
White House to Name Hayden for CIA Job — White House to Name Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden As Pick to Be Next Director of CIA — WASHINGTON May 8, 2006 (AP)— Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden will be named as the next chief of the CIA, President Bush's national security adviser said Monday …
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA Shuffle — General May Help Intelligence Chief Rein In Rumsfeld and His Military Spy Plans — Gen. Michael V. Hayden isn't the first active-duty military officer tapped to lead the CIA — he is in fact the fifth — but many intelligence experts and officers …
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Associated Press:
Iran Letter to Bush Criticizes U.S. Govt — NEW YORK - Iran's president declared in a letter to President Bush that democracy had failed worldwide and lamented "an ever-increasing global hatred" of the U.S. government. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice swiftly rejected the letter …
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Haaretz:
Ahead of UN vote, Peres warns that Iran, too, can be 'wiped out' — NEW YORK - Vice Premier Shimon Peres, speaking ahead of UN Security Council deliberations over sanctions for Iran, has cautioned that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map …
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Iranian Writes to Bush; No R.S.V.P. Is Likely
Iranian Writes to Bush; No R.S.V.P. Is Likely
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Atrios / Eschaton:
We're the Decider — Drum provides the regular lament that there ain't enough wonk talk in the blogosphere. There's more than he gives credit for - there's certainly a lot of reacting to the atrocity-in-Congress-of-the- day - and as Stoller points out it is to a great degree a waste of time.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
RADICALISM AND THE BLOGOSPHERE....We have two interesting entries …
RADICALISM AND THE BLOGOSPHERE....We have two interesting entries …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
STYLE POINTS: — Over at Tapped, Greg Sargent has an interesting …
STYLE POINTS: — Over at Tapped, Greg Sargent has an interesting …
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Optimistic, Democrats Debate the Party's Vision — WASHINGTON, May 8 — With Democrats increasingly optimistic about this year's midterm elections and the landscape for 2008, intellectuals in the center and on the left are debating how to sharpen the party's identity and present a clear alternative …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senators to Renew Debate on Court Nominee — Senate Democrats today will try to make the case that Brett M. Kavanaugh is too much a conservative activist to deserve a federal appellate judgeship. In the process, they may experience some unsettling flashbacks to the Supreme Court confirmation …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rove prepares 20 judges
Rove prepares 20 judges
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Caroline Daniel / MSNBC:
Murdoch to host fundraiser for Hillary Clinton campaign — Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul whose New York Post tabloid savaged Hillary Clinton's initial aspirations to become a US senator for New York, has agreed to host a political fundraiser for her re-election campaign.
Washington Post:
Another Possible Bump to the Debt Ceiling — A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government's borrowing limit. — The provision — buried on page 121 …
Jennifer Frey / Washington Post:
Out and About — The Vice President's Daughter Tells The Inside Story in Her New Book. But the Subject Is Politics. — NEW YORK — "Are the eyes too much?" — Mary Cheney is peering into the makeup artist's mirror in the early hours of the morning, getting "done" for her appearance on …
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Agence France Presse:
Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts — It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts. — The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced …
Manal / Manal and Alaa's bit bucket:
Egyptians in the states protest demanding release of jailed egyptians — Location: — Egyptian embassy and consulates Egyptian embassy and consulates in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and San Francisco — Organizer: — Activists in the U.S — Description: — From Shehab Fakhry
bizjournals:
HUD secretary's blunt warning — Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush — Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking government work may need to overcome the Bush barrier. — That's the message U.S. Housing …
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Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
Lesbians' brains respond differently from those of heterosexual women — WASHINGTON — Homosexuals' brains respond differently from those of straight men and women when exposed to sex hormones, but researchers now say the difference is less pronounced in lesbians than in gay men.
Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Feingold: Democrats Must Stand Up to Bush — WASHINGTON - Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), a potential anti-war candidate in the 2008 presidential field, urged fellow Democrats on Monday to show more backbone in challenging President Bush on Iraq.
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