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1:05 PM ET, May 17, 2006

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New York Times:
Verizon Denies Turning Over Local Phone Data  —  Verizon, the country's second-largest phone company, said yesterday that it had not provided local phone records to the National Security Agency as part of efforts to compile a database of calling records to track terrorist activities.
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Hatch: Court Briefed on Bush Surveillance  —  WASHINGTON - Two judges on the secretive court that approves warrants for intelligence surveillance were told of the broad monitoring programs that have raised recent controversy, a Republican senator said Tuesday, connecting a court to knowledge …
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Senate guest worker plan survives attack  —  Boxer, Alabama Republican fail to kill provision, but number of visas is reduced  —  Washington — Seldom do California's liberal Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Alabama's conservative Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions agree on anything.
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Tony Blankley / Washington Times:   The price of secure borders
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
LOOKING FOR MIDDLE GROUND IN THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE
Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Conservative Battle Fatique?  The "What If" Issue  —  More bad news for the GOP in today's edition of The Washington Post as 56 percent of the respondents to the latest Post/ABC News survey say they prefer Democrats in control of Congress.  —  There is a distinct, though not quite as deep …
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Washington Post:
Confidence In GOP Is At New Low in Poll
New York Times:
Divide Remains as Bush Pushes Immigration Plan  —  WASHINGTON, May 16 — President Bush pushed ahead on Tuesday with his effort to bring Republicans in the House and the Senate together on a plan to reduce illegal immigration.  But he ran into renewed resistance from conservatives …
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CBS News:
Bush Is Now A Lame Duck  —  CBS' Meyer: Forget November, Forget '08; President Is Done  —  (CBS) This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer.  —  The great impulse of the punditocracy right now is to look at President Bush's swelling problems with the public and his party …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
TCS Daily:
The Parent Trap  —  Not long ago we worried about baby booms and overpopulation.  Now some people are worrying about a "Global Baby Bust."  Writing in Foreign Affairs, Phillip Longman says it's mostly because of economics: … He's clearly right about the economics.
PittsburghLIVE.com:
'Earthquake in Pennsylvania'  —  TRIBUNE-REVIEW  —  Angry taxpayers on Tuesday tossed out the two Republican Senate leaders who helped engineer last year's legislative pay raise, an issue that apparently cost 15 House members their jobs, too.  —  Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Jubelirer of Altoona …
Associated Press:
Venezuela may sell U.S. jets to Iran, others  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's military is considering the possibility of selling its fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to another country, perhaps Iran, a Venezuelan military official said Tuesday.
Washington Post:
U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia  —  More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country …
Discussion: Air America Radio
Patrick Yoest / public.cq.com:
DHS Does About-Face In Backing Use of National Guard to Seal Border  —  In December of 2005, Fox News talking head Bill O'Reilly floated an unlikely — even brash — idea to the Homeland Security secretary to seal off the porous southwest border.  —  "Why don't you put the National Guard …
Kathy Matheson / Associated Press:
Foster Quotes Eminem at Penn Graduation  —  PHILADELPHIA - You can add rapping to the list of Jodie Foster's talents.  The Oscar-winning actress spoke Monday at the University of Pennsylvania's commencement ceremonies, ending her address with the chorus of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" from …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Still Dodging Immigration's Truths  —  President Bush's immigration speech mostly missed the true nature of the problem.  We face two interconnected population issues.  One is aging; the other is immigration.  We aren't dealing sensibly with either, and as a result we face a future …
John Hawkins / Human Events:
Tackling a Handful of Immigration Myths, Misnomers and Red Herrings  —  There's no topic hotter in the body politic right now than immigration.  —  Everywhere you turn, especially in the blogosphere, somebody has an opinion.  So, since illegal immigration is the topic du jour …
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
At White House Briefing, Polish Replaces Testiness  —  Tony Snow said he didn't want to "hug the tar baby," and then he did just that by using the expression in his first televised White House press briefing yesterday.  —  The tar-covered doll that Br'er Fox used to ensnare Br'er Rabbit …
Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
Basra carnage escalates as one person killed every hour  —  One person is being assassinated in Basra every hour, as order in Iraq's second city disintegrates, according to an Iraqi Defence Ministry official.  —  And a quarter of all Iraqi children suffer from malnutrition …
 
 
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Open Letter on Immigration
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Judge Strikes Down Ga. Ban on Gay Marriage
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Roger Clegg / Opinion Journal:
Disinvited  —  The EEOC cancels a meeting rather than listen to criticism.
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We Will All Win, Eventually  —  Today, in just three divisions …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Senate readies vote on $70B tax cut
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Tom Kertscher / JSOnline:
The survey says what?  —  Sexual-orientation questions cause stir at Port high school
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Aksa Brigades threatens US, Europe
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Bears eat monkey, visitors shocked
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Straight Talk Unexpressed
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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