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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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Washington Post:
Personal Data on Veterans Is Stolen — Burglary Leaves Millions at Risk Of Identity Theft — As many as 26.5 million veterans were placed at risk of identity theft after an intruder stole an electronic data file this month containing their names, birth dates and Social Security numbers …
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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.
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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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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State of the Day, Shakespeare's Sister, Carol Platt Liebau, Blue Crab Boulevard and Daily Pundit
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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.
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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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.
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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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The New Temptation Of Democrats — When mega-pastor Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church opened last year in its new Houston home, the city's former professional basketball arena, a most unlikely guest was on hand for the celebration: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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 …
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.
Maamoun Youssef / Associated Press:
Bin Laden: Moussaoui Not Linked to 9/11 — CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden purportedly said in an audio tape Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui — the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks — had nothing to do with the operation. — "He had no connection at all with Sept. 11 …
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 …
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
FBI's Raid on Jefferson's Office: The Shot Heard 'Round the Hill — So in the wake of the FBI's Saturday night raid on the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), Democrat and Republican members have united in a spirit of bipartisanship to defend the Constitution.