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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.
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Brad / JUST CITIZENS. Not your Father's Political Party:
Nimrod of the Week — And now, for the Nimrod of the Week award. This week's award goes to a man named Jesse MacBeth. — Mr. MacBeth has done a print interview at the website SocialistAlternative.org in which he claims, among other things, that he was an Army "Special Forces Ranger" …
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
Israelis Capture Top Palestinian Militant
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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.
Arianna Huffington / Yahoo! News:
Al Gore Takes Cannes by Storm — Will the Oval Office Be Next? — Over the weekend, I flew from Washington to Cannes. In Washington, the talk was all about 2006. In Cannes, the talk is all about 2008. — That's because even with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Penelope Cruz, Jamie Foxx …
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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.
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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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 …
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New York Times:
Vast Data Cache About Veterans Is Stolen — WASHINGTON, May 22 — Personal electronic information on up to 26.5 million military veterans, including their Social Security numbers and birth dates, was stolen from the residence of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee who had taken …
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Peter Wehner / Opinion Journal:
Revisionist History — Antiwar myths about Iraq, debunked. — Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters.
White House:
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror — Arie Crown Theater at Lakeside Center — McCormick Place — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's great to be back in Chicago, home of the mighty Chicago White Sox. (Applause.) World champs.
ABCNEWS:
Charles Gibson Named Sole Anchor of 'World News Tonight' — Elizabeth Vargas to Step Down to Take Maternity Leave and Return to Co-Anchor '20/20' and Anchor ABC News Specials in the Fall — May 23, 2006 — ABC News has named Charles Gibson to be sole anchor of "World News Tonight."
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 …
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.
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 …
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Architect of New War on the West — Writings Lay Out Post-9/11 Strategy of Isolated Cells Joined in Jihad — MADRID — From secret hideouts in South Asia, the Spanish-Syrian al-Qaeda strategist published thousands of pages of Internet tracts on how small teams of Islamic extremists …
Lou Dolinar / Real Clear Politics:
Katrina: What the Media Missed — Remember the dozens, maybe hundreds, of rapes, murders, stabbings and deaths resulting from official neglect at the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina? The ones that never happened, as even the national media later admitted?