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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 …
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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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
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 …
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CNN:
Israel: Iran 'months' from making nukes — Prime minister says unilateral action not being considered — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iran is only months away from joining the club of nations that can make a nuclear weapon, Israel's prime minister said in a recent interview.
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THE CUNNING REALIST
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Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How
Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How
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Eschaton
Mark Stevenson / Associated Press:
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.
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Washington Post:
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 …
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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Michelle Malkin:
SOMETHING DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT...
SOMETHING DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT...
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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.
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com: The Coming Deluge — The GOP likely will take a big beating …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Libby Prosecutor Focuses on CIA Officer's Status — Filings Say Ex-Cheney Aide Knew That Plame Was Classified, Giving Him Reason to Lie to Grand Jury — The classified status of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame will be a key element in any trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" …
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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.
Jessamy Brown / Dallas Star-Telegram:
Coin image omits 'In God We Trust' — A Keller school district parent said political correctness has run amok at her daughter's elementary school, where the principal chose to omit the words "In God We Trust" from an oversize coin depicted on the yearbook cover.
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" …
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.
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 …