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12:50 PM 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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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.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Air America Radio
Rep. Tom Tancredo / Human Events:   Come Home, Mr. President
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BUSH: WE CAN'T BOOT 11M ILLEGALS
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban
Discussion: The Green Knight
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Conservatives debate Bush impeachment over immigration
Discussion: Rook's Rant
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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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:
Michaelgalien / Liberty and Justice:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Heading To The US  —  Breaking News  —  NOS Journaal reports: … According to De Volkskrant she will she will leave to the US September 1, 2006.  —  Exactly what I was afraid of.  She will be welcomed into the US and she will get the respect she deserves there …
Discussion: lgf, Mark in Mexico and Daimnation!
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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.
expatica.com:
Hirsi Ali to leave Netherlands for job with US think tank
Discussion: Hot Air, Hit and Run and Peaktalk
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 …
Discussion: Debbie Schlussel and 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.
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 …
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
Discussion: Right Wing News
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Althouse, The Agonist and SIVACRACY.NET
 
 
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Steven Walters / JSOnline:
Thompson will not run for governor
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Come Again?  —  Tony Snow Is Back at the White House …
Front Page Magazine:
Noam Chomsky's Love Affair with Nazis
Richard A. Posner / Opinion Journal:
A Domestic CIA  —  We need a spy agency that operates inside the U.S.
CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER
Fox News:
Transcript: First Lady Laura Bush on 'FNS'
BBC:
Chad leader's victory confirmed
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Gregory / belgraviadispatch.com:
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IRAN?  —  We find ourselves locked in something of a deadlock with Iran.
time.blogs.com:
It'll Be Gore?
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Par for the Corps
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Reform bill to double immigration
Discussion: Small Town Veteran
Beth Landman / New York Times:
Wagging the Dog, and a Finger
Gene / Harry's Place:
Questions for Chavez  —  I suspect Hugo Chavez will be surrounded …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Cheney Penned Note About Plame, Filing Shows
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Only the Beginning?  —  The NSA has our phone records …
 

 
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