Filing: Tape Shows Lawmaker Taking Money  —  A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday.

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE WORKED TO DEFEAT NAGIN  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) secretly placed political operatives in the city of New Orleans to work against the reelection efforts of incumbent Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Prosecution of Journalists Is Possible in NSA Leaks  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales raised the possibility yesterday that New York Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks …

Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs  —  MEXICO CITY - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor.  If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.

Truthout vs. Team Rove: Round Two  —  Marc Ash, editor of Truthout, the publication for which Jason Leopold writes, has a detailed new article about what their sources told them regarding Karl Rove's purported Indictment and about activity Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, lawyers for Karl Rove.

Judge Revokes Bail For Saudi Bus Riders  —  TAMPA - A judge revoked bail for two Saudi men arrested Friday for boarding a school bus and riding to Wharton High.  —  Initially, Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were held in Orient Road Jail on bails of $250 each on misdemeanor trespassing charges.

Elections Are Crux Of GOP's Strategy  —  Bush Aides Look to Midterm Vote as Way to Reverse Slide  —  Confronting the worst poll numbers seen in the West Wing since his father went down to defeat, President Bush and his team are focusing on the fall midterm elections as the best chance …

Not just immigration: It's societal transformation  —  From the Washington Times: "The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment."  —  Well, I think that's the kind of moderate compromise "comprehensive immigration reform" …

Bush's Base Betrayal  —  As a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush was a Rorschach test.  Country Club Republicans saw him as another George H.W. Bush; some conservatives, thinking wishfully, saw him as another Ronald Reagan.  He called himself a "compassionate conservative," which meant whatever one wanted it to mean.

Surprise.  Hussein Acts as if He's on Trial.  —  STILL UNBOWED?  After hearing he might actually face the hangman, Saddam Hussein seemed to take a more sober approach in court.  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq  —  AS Saddam Hussein entered the courtroom last Monday after a three-week recess …

Edwards: Bush Worse than Nixon  —  2004 Vice Presidential Contender Blasts Bush and Readies to Run Again  —  May 21, 2006 — Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., says George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime," and "absolutely" worse than Watergate-tainted President Richard M. Nixon.

Heard the Good News?  —  Things are better than you think.  Yes, I know, most Americans are in a sour mood these days, convinced that the struggle in Iraq is an endless cycle of bloodshed, certain that our economy is in dismal shape, lamenting that the nation and the world are off on the wrong track.

'Shortbus' sex bonanza a slap to Bush, Cannes director says  —  A US film featuring actors performing real sex is a "call to arms" against President George W. Bush, the director told journalists at the Cannes film festival.  —  "Shortbus," an explicit, largely improvised arthouse flick …