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New York Times:
Bush's Public Approval at New Low Point — Americans have a bleaker view of the country's direction than at any time in more than two decades, and sharp disapproval of President Bush's handling of gasoline prices has combined with intensified unhappiness about Iraq to create a grim political environment …
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CBS News:
Poll: Dim View Of Bush, GOP — Bush Disappoints On Key Issues; Democrats In Congress Trump GOP — (CBS) President Bush and the Republican Congress show nearly record low ratings while Democrats are viewed much more favorably in their performance on the issues that matter most to Americans …
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Nick Wadhams / Associated Press:
Letter Shows Iran's President Seeking Bond — UNITED NATIONS - With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered President Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ. — The document gives rare insight …
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Iranian Letter: Using Religion to Lecture Bush — CAIRO, May 9 — With the tone of a teacher and the certainty of a believer, the president of Iran wrote to President Bush that Western democracy had failed and that the invasion of Iraq, American treatment of prisoners and support for Israel …
Washington Post:
GOP Reaches Deal on Tax Cuts — $70 Billion Measure Would Extend Breaks — House and Senate Republican negotiators reached a final agreement yesterday on a five-year, nearly $70 billion tax package that extends President Bush's deep cuts to tax rates on dividends and capital gains …
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Washington Post:
A Tale of Two Judges — New skirmishes in the judicial nomination wars are brewing. But their merits aren't the same. — SENATE REPUBLICAN leaders have decided to reignite the judicial nomination wars. The reason is politics. Majority Leader Bill Frist's strategy, with elections coming …
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
GOP rips lowering of nominee's ABA rating
GOP rips lowering of nominee's ABA rating
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ksg.harvard.edu:
"Profiles in Leadership" with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Member, Dutch Parliament & Time Magazine's 2005 "World's Most Influential Leaders" — Description — The Center for Public Leadership and the Harvard Dutch Cultural Society invite you to join us for "PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP" …
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Maryehayes / Miss Kelly:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I Really Wonder What You Are Doing Here at Harvard" — After listening to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's talk at Harvard JFK's School of Government this afternoon, I went up to shake her hand and let her know much I admired her. She is physically a slight woman. How can it be that such a small woman is so feared?
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Washington Post:
The Year of the Black Republican? — GOP Targets Democratic Constituency in 3 High-Profile Races — COLUMBUS, Ohio — When J. Kenneth Blackwell took the stage here on May 2 to claim the Republican nomination for governor, he became something more than his party's standard-bearer in a bellwether state.
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Study: 7 of 10 Journalists Surveyed Accused of Bias in Past Year — NEW YORK More than half of newspaper journalists in a recent survey believe an unethical or unprofessional incident occurred in their newsroom within the past five years, while seven out of 10 said they had been accused …
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Cass R. Sunstein / Washington Post:
It's Only $300 Billion — For the United States, the cost of the Iraq war will soon exceed the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement designed to control greenhouse gases. For both, the cost is somewhere in excess of $300 billion.
Michelle Malkin:
DHS: DENY, HEDGE, SPIN — The Customs and Border Protection agency at DHS has issued a statement, much-ballyhooed by blind Bush supporters, which calls the Inland Valley Bulletin's story on the Border Patrol/Minutemen/Mexican government "inaccurate." Let's examine the full bluster:
Bloomberg:
Iraq War Is Drawing Less Support Than Vietnam Did at Same Stage — May 9 (Bloomberg) — Three years into major combat in Vietnam, 28,500 U.S. service members had perished, millions of families were anxious about the military draft and antiwar protests had spread to dozens of college campuses.
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Ex-NSA Chief Assails Bush Taps — NEW YORK — Former National Security Agency director Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps, making him one of the highest-ranking former intelligence officials to criticize the program in public, analysts say.
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
CUBA ON UN RIGHTS BOARD — Cuba has secured a spot on the new United Nations human rights council, the board that replaced a previous one, which was intended to keep countries like Zimbabwe and Burma off these boards. — Cuba is the biggest human rights violator in the hemisphere.