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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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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 …
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.
Michelle Malkin:TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
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Unclaimed Territory, Associated Press, Hot Air, FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog, PoliPundit.com and Sadly, No!
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban
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The Green Knight
The Blotter:
Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling — Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: — A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
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In From the Cold, Macsmind, War and Piece, Think Progress, TalkLeft, Pam's House Blend and Talking Points Memo
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The Raw Story:
ABC News: Federal official says US tracking calls made by ABC News, New York Times, Washington Post — ABC News' press office just sent out this release to news organizations, RAW STORY has learned. The story has been posted at the ABC NEWS blog (Read here). — ABC's Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:
Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. to restore relations with Libya — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Libya and remove the North African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the State Department announced Monday. — The removal from the terrorism list …
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Solomonia
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George Gedda / Associated Press:
U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said Monday.
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Dutch lawmaker in asylum row to move to U.S. — AMSTERDAM - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician known for her criticism of Islam, will leave parliament and move to the United States after admitting she lied to win asylum in the Netherlands, media reported on Monday.
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Andrew Sullivan
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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 …
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Immigrant Supporters To Counter Bush Speech — New Alliance Ready To Make Itself Heard — As President Bush prepares to address the nation tonight about immigration, a newly formed network of groups that organized demonstrations for illegal immigrants is conference calling …
Gateway Pundit:
Take the Edge Off Tonight with the Open Border Drinking Game — Hola! — Take the edge off, amigo... The George Bush speech tonight will either ignite his conservative base or tank his approval rating to the teens in the next liberally lop-sided mainstream poll.
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:Live-Blogging Bush's Illegal Immigration Speech
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
FIRST MISLEAD, THEN POLL — I'm traveling on business, so the first thing I saw this morning was the USA Today that was delivered to my hotel room. It prominently features the USA Today/Gallup poll that finds respondents disapproving of the NSA's phone number database by 51% to 43%.
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 …
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 …
Daily Mail:
The BBC's latest star - a baffled cabbie — A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC's 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver - in the mistaken belief it was him. — Guy Kewney - a white, bearded technology expert - was astonished to see himself appear …
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The Sideshow
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.
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