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3:25 AM ET, May 22, 2006

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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 …
Gateway Pundit:
Video Captures Democrat Jefferson Taking $100,000 Bribe
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 …
Discussion: Pacific Views
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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.
Discussion: THE CUNNING REALIST
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Mark Kilmer / RedState:
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows (a review)
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How
Discussion: Eschaton
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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Jane Galt / Asymmetrical Information:
Are those burning trousers I smell?
Discussion: Eric Umansky and Hot Air
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.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Give and take across the border
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 …
Discussion: Decision '08 and AMERICAblog
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" …
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" …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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.
Discussion: Pekin Prattles
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Michelle Malkin:
SOMETHING DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT...
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
The Coming Deluge  —  The GOP likely will take a big beating in 2006 and they're going to blame what Hugh Hewitt is calling "the Tapscottian Caucus and their even more radical Bainbridgist revos."  As Mark observed: … Yet, as Livy taught: "Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Who Will They Blame For the GOP's November Loss?
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.
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.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and RedState
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.
 
 
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David Leppard / Times of London:
More than 230 terror suspects free to stay in Britain
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Surprise. Hussein Acts as if He's on Trial.
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Reading Novak  —  I got into a rather unproductive discussion …
Discussion: Needlenose and Firedoglake
DarkSyde / Daily Kos:
Religious Left
John F. Burns / New York Times:
For Some, a Last, Best Hope for U.S. Efforts in Iraq
Michael Massing / New York Review of Books:
The Storm over the Israel Lobby
Discussion: Informed Comment
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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