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12:30 PM ET, May 24, 2006

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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House  —  WASHINGTON, May 23 — After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration's assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend.  —  Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second …
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
House speaker protests to Bush over raid  —  WASHINGTON - The FBI's raid on a congressman's office is rippling through Capitol Hill, with majority Republicans in the House complaining to a GOP president and predicting a constitutional showdown in the Supreme Court.
Washington Post:
Officials Defend Raid on Lawmaker's Office  —  Amid Uproar on Capitol Hill, Gonzales Says Jefferson Search Was Done Carefully  —  Justice Department and FBI officials yesterday vigorously defended a weekend raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson (La.) …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Subpoenas Not Enough?  —  The corruption case of William Jefferson took a strange turn yesterday when several Republican members of Congress objected to the execution of a subpoena on the uncooperative subject of the investigation.  House Speaker Dennis Hastert questioned the constituionality …
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
Criminal, Schriminal - We're Talking PRIVILEGES Here!
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Edwin Meese Iii / New York Times:
An Amnesty by Any Other Name ...  IN the debate over immigration, "amnesty" has become something of a dirty word.  Some opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the Senate assert that it would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.  Supporters claim it would do no such thing.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House-Senate Battle On Immigration Likely  —  With the Senate marching toward completion of an immigration bill that is more generous to illegal immigrants than the House-passed version, House leaders said yesterday that it will be difficult to reach a compromise and enact a measure.
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:   Senate Backs Job Verification for Immigrants
New York Times:
West Bank Pullout Gets a Nod From Bush  —  WASHINGTON, May 23 — President Bush offered conditional support on Tuesday for Israeli ideas for a substantial withdrawal of settlers from the West Bank, but insisted that the new prime minister, Ehud Olmert, first exhaust all possibilities for a negotiated solution.
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Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board  —  The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization's policies and internal administration.  —  "Where an individual director disagrees with a board position …
Laura Blumenfeld / Washington Post:
Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart  —  The houses were dark on Bill Frist's street.  A morning bird chirped; the others were waiting for dawn.  But Frist was awake, and his bedroom light was on.  "I'm going to take a shower," the Senate majority leader said brightly.  Ten minutes later, the blow dryer roared.
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Insight:
First couple splits over constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
Discussion: BlondeSense
CBS News:
Fierce Fighting Kills Afghan Militants  —  U.S. Says 24 Killed After Rebels Attacked Afghan-Coalition Patrol  —  (CBS/AP) Fighting in southern Afghan mountains that involved U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least 24 militants, four Afghan soldiers and one policeman, the coalition said Wednesday.
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StrategyPage:
Taliban Offensive Shot to Pieces
Discussion: COUNTERCOLUMN
Bob Kerrey / The Huffington Post:
My Perspective on the New School Commencement  —  After following the exchange between Senator John McCain's Chief of Staff, Mark Salter, and one of The New School's graduating students Jean Sara Rohe, I am compelled to add my perspective and thoughts about the events, which took place at last Friday's New School commencement.
Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Armed Groups Propel Iraq Toward Chaos  —  Haider Hamid was arrested in Baghdad on April 15 by officers wearing Interior Ministry uniforms, according to Mr. Hamid's brother, Majid.  Majid Hamid found his brother's body, above, showing signs of torture, five days later in the city morgue.
Dania Saadi / Bloomberg:
Al-Zarqawi Aide, Arrested in Jordan, Confesses to Iraq Killings  —  May 23 (Bloomberg) — An aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, today appeared on state-run Jordanian television and confessed to involvement in the killings of Iraqis and other Arabs.
Martin Samuel / Times of London:
Turn 9/11 rubble into a killing machine?  Hello?  —  Whoever said that irony was dead in America clearly hadn't heard about the assault ship USS New York  —  THE CLICHÉ goes that Americans do not understand irony.  Not true.  Seinfeld ran for 181 episodes and TV Guide rated it the best comedy show ever.
Discussion: Samizdata.net, normblog and lgf
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Phone-Data Collection  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday that the government can obtain domestic telephone records without court approval under a 1979 Supreme Court ruling that authorized the collection of business records.
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Senate Panel Endorses C.I.A. Nominee  —  WASHINGTON, May 23 — The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly endorsed Gen. Michael V. Hayden on Tuesday to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with all but three members, all Democrats, voting to send General Hayden's nomination to the Senate floor.
Washington Post:
Extremism Isn't Islamic Law  —  For a few days this year the world's media focused an intense spotlight on the drama of a modern-day inquisition.  Abdul Rahman, a Muslim convert to Christianity, narrowly escaped the death penalty for apostasy when the Afghan government …
 
 
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Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Senator McCain Worked Blue
Lou Dobbs / CNN:
Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
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Bloomberg:
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In need of moral clarity
CNN:
Blaze engulfs Istanbul airport
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Opinion Journal:
The Parent Trap  —  How safety fanatics help drive down birthrates.
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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Priorities of Earmarks Are Disputed
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. Urged to Stop Paying Iraqi Reporters
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Wall Street Journal:
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Ex-'Inky' Editor: New Ownership Of Philly Papers Could Be 'Dangerous'
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC News Experiment Ends With Return to Solo Anchor
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Demagogue
Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Another fake soldier tale debunked
Discussion: TBogg and Sadly, No!
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Avoiding Another 'Slam-Dunk'
Zogby:
U.S. Public Widely Distrusts Its Leaders
Dennis Prager / Real Clear Politics:
Harry Reid & The End of Liberal Thought
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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