51% oppose NSA database  —  WASHINGTON — The majority of Americans disapprove of a massive Pentagon database containing the records of billions of phone calls made by ordinary citizens, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.  About two-thirds are concerned that the program may signal other …

Border troops would be temporary, US tells Mexico  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush assured Mexican President Vicente Fox on Sunday he did not intend to militarize their countries' mutual border, but was considering sending National Guard troops there to temporarily support border control efforts.

Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring  —  Administration Won't Comment on NSA Logs  —  When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was …

Cheney Penned Note About Plame, Filing Shows  —  After former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV publicly criticized a key rationale for the war in Iraq, Vice President Cheney wrote a note on a newspaper clipping raising the possibility that the critique resulted from a CIA-sponsored "junket" …

Feds raid ex-CIA official's home  —  Foggo's office also searched in probe tied to Cunningham case  —  VIENNA, Va. - Federal agents raided the home and office of former CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo yesterday in the widening investigation of his ties to a defense contractor linked …

Conservative Christians Warn Republicans Against Inaction  —  WASHINGTON, May 13 — Some of President Bush's most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning that they will withhold their support …

The Return Of Voodoo Economics  —  Republicans Ignore Their Experts on The Cost of Tax Cuts  —  Nobody serious believes that tax cuts pay for themselves, as I noted last week.  But most senior Republicans flunk this test of seriousness.  —  In January, George W. Bush declared that …

Leopold Responds to Corallo's Denial of Fitzgerald - Luskin Meeting  —  Last night, I spoke to Jason Leopold on the phone for a half hour or so.  Here's what he had to say about Byron York's article stating that Karl Rove's spokesman Mark Corallo told him that Jason's article Saturday reporting sources told …

LET'S PLAY "WOULD'JA RATHER"  —  There's an old game, usually played by drinking buddies after a few beers, called "Would'ja Rather".  It's a simple game.  Everyone takes turns proposing a set of two horrific hypotheticals, and the other players then have to choose the hypothetical they prefer.

Reform bill to double immigration  —  The immigration reform bill that the Senate takes up today would more than double the flow of legal immigration into the United States each year and dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants.  —  The number of extended family members …

Questions for Chavez  —  I suspect Hugo Chavez will be surrounded mostly by uncritical sycophants during his visit to London.  But in case any of our readers get close enough to ask questions of the president, here are a few suggestions.  (Hat tip to Venezuelan blogger Daniel Duquenal …

GOP brews suburban blend for 'Starbucks Republicans'  —  WASHINGTON - First it was "soccer moms" — flooding the roadways of suburbia Saturday mornings in their minivans and SUVs with their kids in tow — who were targeted as the swing voters who could decide an election.

Only the Beginning?  —  The NSA has our phone records-but it may need a lot more to connect the dots.  —  Photo illustration by Viktor Koen For Newsweek  —  May 22, 2006 issue - To understand why the NSA wants to look at your phone bills, check out the work of Valdis Krebs, an expert on "social-network analysis."

Islamic Jihad: Peretz worse than Mofaz  —  The Islamic Jihad condemned on Monday morning the previous day's IDF operation in which special forces operating in the Jenin area shot dead seven Palestinians - among them Israel's most-wanted terrorist, believed to have been behind …