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Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Costly Words: 'I Don't Like President Bush' — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson was back home in Dallas on April 28 giving a speech to minority real estate folks and offering a most interesting take on how business is done in Washington.
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lieberman.senate.gov:
Lieberman Seeks Probe into HUD Secretary's Cancellation of Contract to Man Who Disliked Bush — WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Tuesday asked the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
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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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.
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Miami Herald, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, RightWinged.com, A Blog For All, Fausta's blog, QandO, Blue Crab Boulevard, Elephants in Academia and IMAO
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wusatv9.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Presidential Plans Found In Trash — How much do you think Osama bin Laden would pay to know exactly when and where the President was traveling, and who was with him? Turns out, he wouldn't have had to pay a dime. All he had to do was go through the trash early Tuesday morning.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House — President Bush suggested Wednesday that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive. — The president said Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is well-suited for another office and would make "a great president."
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
J. Michael Luttig Resigns From Appeals Court — Appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a leading conservative jurist and a short-list Bush administration candidate for the Supreme Court, announced today that he is resigning from the bench to serve as senior vice president and general counsel of the Boeing Co.
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.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
FREE ADVICE FOR PRESIDENT BUSH — The President hasn't asked for my advice, but here it is anyway. — You know how the Democrats are always after you to admit that you made a mistake? You've wisely ignored them; they don't have your interests at heart, and the policies they're talking about weren't mistakes.
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Matthew Yglesias / American Prospect:
Is It Genocide? — Before we start dropping bombs, we should first ask whether the situation in Darfur is in fact a genocide. — As everyone knows by now, terrible atrocities have been and are continuing to be committed against the civilian population of Darfur in Sudan.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Sees Big Voting Bloc Flocking to Drug Program — SUN CITY CENTER, Fla., May 9 — A few months ago, President Bush's prescription drug plan seemed to be another White House initiative going wrong. The people it was intended to help complained that the plan was too complicated.
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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:
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Hot Air, La Shawn Barber's Corner, Minuteman Blog Central, Silflay Hraka, Right Wing News, Confederate Yankee, The Influence Peddler, Super Fun Power Hour, Diggers Realm, Tammy Bruce, Riehl World View, Stop The ACLU, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Knowledge Is Power, Daily Pundit, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and UNCoRRELATED
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.
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Outside The Beltway, PoliBlog, Today in Iraq, The Glittering Eye, Air America Radio and Mia Culpa
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 …
Amy Teibel / Associated Press:
Israel Gives Hamas Deadline to Negotiate — JERUSALEM - Israel will give the Palestinians until the end of the year to prove they are willing to negotiate a final peace deal, and will unilaterally set its final borders by 2008 if they don't, Israel's justice minister said Wednesday.
USA Today:
Democrats' own ethics trouble 'dulls the message' — WASHINGTON — For the past year, Democrats have been jockeying for the high ground on congressional ethics, hoping a largely Republican lobbying scandal would help propel them into the majority come November's elections.