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3:00 PM ET, May 17, 2006

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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  —  I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life — which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.  As a second proposition I would argue that when in negotiations, if he with whom you are negotiating is moving in your direction, don't walk out of the room.
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
LOOKING FOR MIDDLE GROUND IN THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE
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
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 …
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
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 …
Claudia Parsons / Reuters:
INTERVIEW-US satirist Art Spiegelman tackles Danish cartoons  —  NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been reprinted in a U.S. magazine with commentary by leading U.S. cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who offers what he calls a "fatwa bomb meter" to rate their offensiveness.
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Open Letter on Immigration  —  I have written an open letter on immigration reflecting the consensus opinion of economists on the major issues.  In cooperation with the Independent Institute I am looking for as many signatures as possible from economists and other social scientists.
Jennifer Lin / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Paris suburb names street for cop-killer Abu-Jamal  —  As Philadelphians cope with another police slaying, news comes that a suburb of Paris has named a street for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.  —  Hundreds of supporters of Abu-Jamal attended …
David Germain / Associated Press:
Albinos Condemn 'Da Vinci' Assassin  —  The notion of Christ as a family man is not the only raw nerve "The Da Vinci Code" has touched.  Albinos are bothered that one of their own has yet again been depicted as a villain.  —  Dan Brown's best seller begins its worldwide debut Wednesday …
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Sherwood Survives  —  Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA), his popularity weighed down by a messy extramartial affair, narrowly survived a primary challenge from a virtual unknown with a Democratic voting history.  —  With more than half of the vote counted, Sherwood led challenger Kathy Scott 56 percent to 44 percent.
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 …
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.
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 …
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Nathalie Malinarich / BBC:
Fighting US imperialism at City Hall  —  It was the second day of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's private visit to London, and his supporters were there outside City Hall to make sure he felt welcome.  —  Keenly awaiting his arrival after a meeting with trades unions …
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 …
Ward Churchill / counterpunch.org:
A Travesty of an "Investigation"  —  I have received the report of the Investigative Committee of the University of Colorado and consider it a travesty.  This "investigation" has all along been a pretext to punish me for engaging constitutionally-protected speech and, more generally …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Voters to Be Target of Radio Ads by Democrats  —  WASHINGTON, May 16 — House Democrats, trying to capitalize on conservative dissatisfaction with Republicans, are reaching out to Christian voters with radio advertisements critical of Republican proposals to overhaul Social Security.
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 …
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Aksa Brigades threatens US, Europe  —  The Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, on Monday threatened to strike at US and European interests in response to international sanctions on the Palestinian Authority.  —  The threat, the first of its kind, came as PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas …
 
 
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Lowell P. Weicker Jr / Hartford Courant:
Enough Of The War - And Enough Of Lieberman
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Will Dunham / Reuters:
US releases 9/11 video of Pentagon jet crash
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
GOP Official Faces Sentence in Phone-Jamming
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Judd / Think Progress:
New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director …
Judith Miller / Opinion Journal:
Gadhafi's Leap of Faith
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Libby Judge Is Allowed To View Reporters' Notes
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Jeff / Beautiful Atrocities:
MARRIED ... WITH CHILDREN … Muhammed: Eldest son by first wife who's 'out of favor'.
Lorie Byrd / Lorie Byrd.com:
Update  —  I am sorry that I have been MIA all day.
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John Hawkins / Human Events:
Tackling a Handful of Immigration Myths, Misnomers and Red Herrings
Greg Bluestein / Associated Press:
Judge Strikes Down Ga. Ban on Gay Marriage
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress may make ISPs snoop on you
Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
Basra carnage escalates as one person killed every hour
Roger Clegg / Opinion Journal:
Disinvited  —  The EEOC cancels a meeting rather than listen to criticism.
Daniel Enemark / Christian Science Monitor:
It's all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood
Patrick Yoest / public.cq.com:
DHS Does About-Face In Backing Use of National Guard to Seal Border
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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