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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
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.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Caught Red-Handed (Update: Jefferson's National Guard Story Connected?) — Video killed the radio star, the song tells us, and it holds its dangers for politicians on the take as well. The AP reports that the FBI has video of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) taking bribes …
Mike Wells / TBO.com:
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.
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Pekin Prattles
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Drudge Report:
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.
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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Give and take across the border — 1 in 7 Mexican workers migrates — most send money home — Washington — The current migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States is one of the largest diasporas in modern history, experts say. — Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population …
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TalkLeft:
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.
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Associated Press:
Attorney Gen.: Reporters Can Be Prosecuted — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security. — The nation's top law enforcer also said the government …
Discussion:
Shakespeare's Sister, Blue Crab Boulevard, Perrspectives, War and Piece, Liberty Street and The Heretik
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Nina Shea / Washington Post:
This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.) — This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.) — S audi Arabia's public schools have long been cited for demonizing the West as well as Christians, Jews and other "unbelievers."
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Obsidian Wings, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Captain's Quarters, Daimnation!, The Democratic Daily, Secular Blasphemy, Blue Crab Boulevard, Daily Pundit, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Daniel W. Drezner, Rantingprofs, Dinocrat, The Volokh Conspiracy, Patterico's Pontifications, Dean's World, Running Scared, OPFOR, Samizdata.net and Crossroads Arabia
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
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" …
Michael Barone / US News:
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.
John F. Burns / New York Times:
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 …
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
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.
Richard A. Viguerie / Washington Post:
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.