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9:55 AM ET, May 15, 2006

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Set To Send Guard to Border  —  Assignment Would Be Temporary; Critics Cite Strain on Troops  —  President Bush tried to ease the worries of his Mexican counterpart yesterday as he prepared for a nationally televised address tonight unveiling a plan to send thousands of National Guard troops …
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Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
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.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico  —  WASHINGTON, May 14 — President Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the southern border of the United States has raised the concern of his longtime ally President Vicente Fox of Mexico, who called Mr. Bush on Sunday to express his worries.
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban  —  WASHINGTON - Some election-year advice to Republicans from a high-ranking source who has the president's ear: Don't use a proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage as a campaign tool.  —  Just who is that political strategist?  Laura Bush.
Discussion: The Green Knight
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
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 …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for May 14  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: In 1994 he led the Republican revolution, the GOP capturing both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades.  What does he think will happen in this year's midterm elections?  And how should his fellow Republicans deal …
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:   Bush Aide Defends Eavesdropping on Phone Calls
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
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 …
USA Today:
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 …
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
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 …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
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" …
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Mark Hosenball / Newsweek:
The CIA: Dusty's Troubled Trails  —  Days after his boss stepped down, the CIA's No. 3 exits under a cloud.  —  May 22, 2006 issue - Until a few days ago, Kyle (Dusty) Foggo was one of the most feared men at the CIA.  A hot-tempered former cop, Foggo was chosen by CIA Director Porter Goss …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
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Kevin Kelly / New York Times:
Scan This Book!  —  Correction Appended  —  In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths.  They are assembling the universal library page by page.
Discussion: Althouse and The Agonist
TalkLeft:
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 …
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
WashPost: Katie Couric Charged $110,000 for Oklahoma Commencement Speech  —  The front page of Saturday's Style section in the Washington Post carried an article on commencement addresses by Don Oldenburg.  But the really amazing nugget came about 25 paragraphs in:
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Par for the Corps  —  In 2000, when I was writing a 50,000-word Washington Post series about dysfunction at the Army Corps of Engineers, I highlighted a $65 million flood-control project in Missouri as Exhibit A. Corps documents showed that the project would drain more acres of wetlands …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
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 …
Discussion: Small Town Veteran
 
 
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Immigrant Supporters To Counter Bush Speech
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Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Only the Beginning?  —  The NSA has our phone records …
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GOP brews suburban blend for 'Starbucks Republicans'
Associated Press:
Sarandon Joins Vigil Against Iraq War
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Sami Yousafzai / Newsweek:
With Friends Like These...  Update: An Afghan who risked …
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The Family as Firing Offense
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Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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