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10:45 PM ET, May 23, 2006

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Bloomberg:
Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients (Update1)  —  May 23 (Bloomberg) — All seven people infected with bird flu in a cluster of Indonesian cases can be linked to other patients, according to disease trackers investigating possible human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus.
Pasadena Star News:
Bush-hatred a threat to national security  —  ENOUGH already!  It's harmful enough that ideological conflict and partisan politics are preventing this country from solving its long-term challenges on health care, fiscal policy and energy.  Now it's threatening our national survival.
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Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
For starters, build a wall
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan and TAPPED
Haaretz:
IDF arrests most-wanted Hamas bomb mastermind in West Bank  —  After an eight-year manhunt, Israeli security forces early Tuesday seized the Ramallah-area commander of Hamas' military wing, Israel's most wanted man in the West Bank.  —  Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed, 41, has been wanted since 1998 …
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Mohammed Daraghmeh / Associated Press:
Israelis Capture Top Palestinian Militant
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Judd / Think Progress:
Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist  —  Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.  This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore's movie …
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Eric Moskowitz / Concord Monitor:
McCain calls for more nukes  —  'We've got to get over it,' senator says  —  May 23.  —  he United States needs to overcome its fear of nuclear power and embrace the technology as a way to wean itself from fossil fuels, Sen. John McCain told an audience in Manchester yesterday.  —  Nuclear power "is safe.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Jesse Macbeth video goes viral (bumped)  —  Clarice Feldman marveled yesterday at how quickly nonsense gets debunked these days online.  Ah, Clarice: you haven't looked at the top of the Google Video charts lately, have you?  Despite the best efforts of some, nonsense thrives on the Internet.
Lina Das / Daily Mail:
Madonna concert review: 'Even the bouncers looked scared'  —  Video: Madonna rehearsing  —  Gallery: Pictures of Madonna in concert More: Madonna's mock crucifixion  —  Riding crop in hand, leather boots gripping her legs, equestrian-cum-bondage gear strapped across her body and, of course …
Discussion: Cold Fury and Ace of Spades HQ
James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak  —  WASHINGTON - Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors' charge that Vice President Cheney's chief aide lied to them, court papers show.  —  Prosecutors say disgraced Cheney chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby learned CIA spy Valerie Plame's identity from …
Jerusalem Post:
Iran test-fires long-range missile  —  Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported.  The test came hours before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met …
Discussion: NoisyRoom.net
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
VOA's Baghdad Bureau Still Closed After Six Months  —  The Voice of America's bureau in Baghdad has been closed for the past six months, ever since the government-funded agency withdrew its only reporter in Iraq after she was fired upon in an ambush and her security guard was later killed.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Divisive In Any Language  —  Yes, let's talk about the English language and how important it is that immigrants and their children learn it.  —  And please permit me to be personal about an issue that is equally personal to the tens of millions of Americans who remember their immigrant roots.
The Raw Story:
Lieberman withdraws from MoveOn.org 'primary'  —  Lieberman Declines Invitation—Stand-in Sought / MoveOn.org Statement on Connecticut Online Primary for U.S. Senate  —  From a MoveOn.org press release to RAW STORY.  —  After initially agreeing, Senator Lieberman has declined our invitation …
Cragg Hines / Houston Chronicle:
Former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen dies  —  Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr., a Texas patrician who made a sizable fortune in private business and an even bigger name in national government as a U.S. senator and Treasury secretary, has died, family members said today.  He was 85.
Scot Lehigh / Boston Globe:
John Kerry's encore  —  JOHN KERRY may just be charting his path back to the future.  —  The man who cast a vote he now acknowledges was a mistake on the Iraq war resolution, and then spent two years awkwardly confronting the fallout as he ran for president, has finally come to a position where he seems comfortable.
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Foes Clash Over Cash  —  Lieberman Plays Up Lamont's Fortune  —  Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman left no doubt Monday he will make anti-war challenger Ned Lamont's personal fortune an issue with voters, now that Lamont has upped his personal investment in the campaign to $1 million.
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
In Attack Mode, a Rightist Surges in Mexico  —  TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico, May 19 — Felipe Calderón loves to make allusions to Mexican folk songs.  These days, the conservative candidate for president is particularly fond of recalling a song about a nag named Relámpago …
Mike Allen / Time:
Exclusive: A Rising Star Offers His Own Immigration Plan  —  Leading House Conservative Mike Pence offers a "no amnesty" solution in an effort to get House Republicans on board  —  With the Senate headed toward a final vote on an immigration bill this week, a leader of House conservatives …
 
 
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Maamoun Youssef / Associated Press:
Bin Laden: Moussaoui Not Linked to 9/11
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US FCC chief says won't probe NSA call program
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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Vows New Look at Iraq Military Needs
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The Great Fellatio Scare
Agence France Presse:
China military upgrades a potential threat to US: Pentagon
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UPI:
Country radio nixes Dixie Chicks
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ClayNation: Pat Robertson's magical protein shake
New York Post:
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