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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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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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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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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.
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Virginia Dem / Daily Kos:
Memo to Dem Caucus: Demand Jefferson's resignation
Memo to Dem Caucus: Demand Jefferson's resignation
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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.
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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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 …
Dr. Steven Taylor / PoliBlog:
The Politics of Scandal — Writes Mark Kleiman regarding the Rep. Jefferson situation: … The problem is, as I noted before in passing, the relative depth of a given scandal is not the most salient issue for determining its political impact. — The thing that the Jefferson scandal …
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.
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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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."