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7:15 PM ET, May 22, 2006

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Michael Smith / The Raw Story:
Bush, Blair to announce 'phased withdrawal' from Iraq  —  Michael Smith, a reporter for the London Sunday Times, broke the Downing Street Minutes in 2004.  —  LONDON — Tony Blair and George Bush will announce that they are to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq at a summit in Washington as early as this week, RAW STORY has learned.
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Associated Press:
7 Police Officers Among 17 Killed in Iraq
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Bush Says Iraq War at 'Turning Point'
Philippe Naughton / Times of London:
British troops to start leaving Iraq 'in months'
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Anti-war video bogus?  —  I can't get this to load, but I'm putting the link out there anyway because someone sent me a long message this morning questioning its veracity.  Not just the claims that are made, either; I'm talking about mistakes in his uniform, etc.
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Uncle Jimbo / BLACKFIVE:
ANTI-WAR POSEUR FRONTED OUT AT HOT AIR  —  The mighty Allah at Hot Air asked if this anti-war video was fake, and the answer is OH YEAH!  —  This spindly little weasel wouldn't have made it through 10 seconds of RIP, let alone Ranger school or life in a Ranger Batt.
Ian Bishop / New York Post:
HILLARY IPODHAM CLINTON  —  POLITICAL PLAYER OFFERS PEEK AT HER SONG LIST  —  May 22, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't need "Respect" - she's already got it at the top of her iPod playlist.  —  The surprisingly tech-savvy Clinton mixes Aretha Franklin's 1967 landmark smash hit …
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Associated Press:
Clinton Reveals Her iPod Playlist
Discussion: Althouse and Dinocrat
Wired News:
Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut  —  Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
Jean Rohe / The Huffington Post:
Response to McCain's Aide Mark Salter  —  At the risk of turning this into a battle between Mark Salter, Senator John McCain's staff-member, and myself, I'd like to comment briefly on his comment on the Huffington Post.  I'm sad to see that Mr. Salter intentionally misinterpreted my writing …
Seattle Times:
FBI says it recorded lawmaker taking cash  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — 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.
Discussion: Hit and Run
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Reuters:
Bush's faith worries Albright  —  LONDON, England (Reuters) — U.S. President George W. Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.  —  "I worked for two presidents …
Bull Moose:
Netroots Lose, Again  —  The Moose observes that the McGovernites with Modems cannot do math.  —  By an overwhelming majority, Joe Lieberman is the officially endorsed candidate of the Connecticut Democratic Party.  No matter how you spin it, if you are on the short end of 67 to 33 - you lose.
NY Daily News:
Justice prays for a Prez in 'real trouble'  —  Just how bad are things for President Bush?  —  Pretty bad, I'd say, if even Clarence Thomas is worried about him.  —  The other night at a Washington book party for the President's sister, Doro Bush Koch, the Supreme Court justice arrived with his wife …
Brandie M. Jefferson / Associated Press:
Protests, Applause Greet Rice at BC  —  A few students turned their backs but more stood to applaud as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received an honorary degree and addressed graduates at Boston College on Monday.  —  After weeks of turmoil and anti-war protests over Rice's invitation …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Senate bill protects employers of illegal aliens from penalties  —  Among those who will be cleared of past crimes under the Senate's proposed immigration-reform bill would be the businesses that have employed the estimated 10 million illegal aliens eligible for citizenship and that provided the very …
The American Thinker:
Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.  —  At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Rove Lawyer Has a Pet Peeve  —  Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, says he spent most of the day on May 12 taking his cat to the veterinarian and having a technician fix his computer at home.  —  He was stunned, therefore, when journalists started calling to ask about an online report …
Paul Kirby / dailyfreeman.com:
Graduates get an apology  —  NEW PALTZ - New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told about 900 SUNY New Paltz graduates Sunday that he was sorry.  —  It wasn't an apology for anything Sulzberger, who first joined the Times in 1978 as a Washington correspondent, specifically did.
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Reclaiming the Democratic Agenda  —  Though you'd never know it from surfing the Internet, there exists in the Democratic Party a substantial body of politicians and policymakers who believe the U.S. mission in Iraq must be sustained until it succeeds; who want to intensify American attempts …
dailyhowler.com:
Special report—Corps on Gore!  —  PART 1—STILL CRAZY: Al Gore was right about global warming—way back in the 1980s.  He was also right on internal combustion.  And oh yes, he was right on Iraq, in a prophetic speech in September 02—a speech Joe Klein praised at the time.
 
 
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John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Drudge 'retracts' story on Howard Dean after receiving letter from DNC lawyer
Discussion: The Sandbox
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Snubs Gore Film on Global Warming
New York Post:
DUBYA'S ROAD BACK  —  May 22, 2006 — ALL of Washington is asking …
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Krugman blasts Lieberman (unfairly)
Dan Mangan / New York Post:
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George S. McGovern / Los Angeles Times:
The end of 'more'  —  A Democratic stalwart warns that labor's …
MSNBC:
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Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
A Hard Bill to Love
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Reuters:
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
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