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11:20 AM ET, May 17, 2006

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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 …
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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.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Spy Tools In Need Of a Law  —  Let's take a hypothetical problem: An al-Qaeda operative decides to switch cellphones to prevent the National Security Agency from monitoring his calls.  How does the NSA identify his new cellphone number?  How does it winnow down a haystack …
Anna Driver / Reuters:   BellSouth, AT&T added to $200 bln privacy lawsuit
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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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.
Discussion: Hit and Run and Called As Seen
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 …
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Marina Montemayor / Associated Press:
Mexico Threatens Suits Over Guard Patrols
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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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 …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
GOPers Find A New Political Horror Star In Pelosi  —  You can hear the music starting now.  That menacing cadence.  The numbing feeling that something could soon happen.  A small move that you see in the corner of your eye that makes your blood run cold.  And then it happens:
BillHobbs.com:
Ripley's Believe It Or Not  —  Amazing but true: … George W. Bush isn't at 29 percent because he's lost support among moderates and liberals - he's at 29 percent because he has been too willing to cave in to moderates and liberals.  —  The recipe for restoring his popularity to above 50 percent …
Roger Clegg / Opinion Journal:
Disinvited  —  The EEOC cancels a meeting rather than listen to criticism.  —  Last month, I received an invitation to testify before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about affirmative action and diversity in U.S. companies.  The testimony was scheduled for today …
Discussion: Power Line and QandO
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.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Senate readies vote on $70B tax cut  —  MAY. 11 1:13 P.M. ET President Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill anticipated a long-sought election year victory Thursday as senators debated a bill awarding tax relief to investors and 15 million taxpayers with above-average incomes.
Discussion: David Sirota
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 …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
We Will All Win, Eventually  —  Today, in just three divisions (precincts) available to me, Kevin and I pulled over 100 votes.  With only 27-01, 27-02, and 27-23 reporting, we have reached roughly 110 votes.  And that is only three divisions (precincts).  We won, and we won huge.
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.
Discussion: News Hounds and dartblog.com
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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Open Letter on Immigration
Discussion: Knowledge Problem and EconLog
Jeff / Beautiful Atrocities:
MARRIED ... WITH CHILDREN … Muhammed: Eldest son by first wife who's 'out of favor'.
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
CNN:
BellSouth, AT&T added to NSA lawsuit
John Hawkins / Human Events:
Tackling a Handful of Immigration Myths, Misnomers and Red Herrings
Washington Post:
U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia
Discussion: Air America Radio
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
At White House Briefing, Polish Replaces Testiness
Ward Churchill / counterpunch.org:
A Travesty of an "Investigation"
Nigel Bunyan / Telegraph:
Ferry passengers stranded after wartime bomb is found in Mersey
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Bluestein / Associated Press:
Judge Strikes Down Ga. Ban on Gay Marriage
Discussion: Feministe
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress may make ISPs snoop on you
Vaughn Ververs / News Blog:
A Story Slipping Away?
Jennifer Lin / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Paris suburb names street for cop-killer Abu-Jamal
Tom Kertscher / JSOnline:
The survey says what?  —  Sexual-orientation questions cause stir at Port high school
Discussion: RightWinged.com
Washington Post:
Congressional Child Care
Discussion: Feministing and TPMmuckraker
Daniel Enemark / Christian Science Monitor:
It's all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood
Eteraz / Unwilling Self-Negation:
The Problem Of Mecca  —  Mecca has always been our locus.
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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