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White House compares illegal immigration to speeding — WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday said a Senate bill that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants is analogous to a traffic law that allows a speeder to pay a fine and continue driving. — "If you had a traffic ticket …
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Top Bush Aide at Justice Dept. Was Set to Quit — WASHINGTON, May 26 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that they were prepared to quit if the White House directed them to relinquish evidence seized …
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Washington Post:
A Defiant Stance In Jefferson Probe — Justice Dept. Talked of Big Resignations If White House Agreed to Return Papers — The Justice Department signaled to the White House this week that the nation's top three law enforcement officials would resign or face firing rather than return documents seized …
Dennis Hastert / USA Today:
There's a right way — If the information we have read about the behavior of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., seems as obvious to a jury as it does to me, he deserves to be vigorously prosecuted. I do not want to do anything that will interfere with that prosecution.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:Suddenly, It's a Steel-Cage Match With the White House
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Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Probe Finds Marines Killed Unarmed Iraqi Civilians — SAN DIEGO — Marines from Camp Pendleton wantonly killed unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and then tried to cover up the slayings in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha, military investigations have found.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Haditha Makes Abu Ghraib Look Like A Picnic (Update) — When the story on Abu Ghraib broke, the coverage and hyperbole regarding the supposed "atrocities" at the notorious prison blew the abuses far out of proportion. As many remarked at the time, no one died from wearing panties on their heads …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:Military officials: Haditha might be another My Lai
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Associated Press:
Bush Aide Confirmed to U.S. Bench — Senate Vote Puts Kavanaugh on Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit — White House aide Brett M. Kavanaugh won Senate confirmation as an appeals judge yesterday after a three-year wait, a new victory for President Bush in a drive to place a more conservative stamp on the courts.
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New York Times:
Bush's C.I.A. Pick Confirmed by Senate — WASHINGTON, May 26 — The Senate handed President Bush a pair of victories this morning, easily confirming his nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency and giving more narrow approval to a judicial nomination that had been stalled for three years.
Washington Post:
Rayburn Reopens After Gunfire Report — Police Sources: Construction Caused the Noise of Shots — The Rayburn House Office Building was opened shortly after 3 p.m. after being locked down for more than four hours following a report—unconfirmed by police—of gunfire in the building's garage.
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mudvillegazette.com:
JESSE MACBETH'S DD-214 — Someone has posted a scanned copy of what appears to be a DD-214 for one Jesse Adam MacBeth. My initial read of it tells me that he most likely dropped out of boot camp. — Blocks 11 and 13 appear to have been crudely "modified" after the fact. — Block 11 reads as follows:
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Blair and Bush Are Duo Even in Descent — President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair once bestrode the globe as powerful leaders who spoke boldly of bringing democracy to the Middle East. Now, dragged down by popular discontent over their adventure in Iraq, both have reached the lowest point of their careers.
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Anne Gearan / Associated Press:Analysis: Euphoria gone for Bush and Blair
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Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection — The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. — The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles …
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michaelyon-online.com:
Memorial Day Weekend — Many people have become aware of a recent serious photo copyright infringement. The photo in question is that of Major Bieger holding a little Iraqi girl named Farah who was killed by a suicide car bomber in Mosul, Iraq. I first became aware of the infringement …
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Iraqi Minister Backs Iran on Nuclear Research — Iraq supports Iran's right to pursue nuclear research, its new foreign minister said today, taking a position at odds with that of the Bush administration. — The foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, spoke during a visit to Baghdad by Iran's foreign minister …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Goose? Meet Gander. — Goose: … Meet Gander: … I found this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial via Atrios (And read the whole editorial — it's from what I would consider to be a conservative newspaper and they let Santorum have it. Priceless.). Atrios also has a weird clip …
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Dying 'Dr. Death' Has Second Thoughts About Assisting Suicides — Jack Kevorkian Still Supports Movement, but Has Misgivings About His Methods — May 26, 2006 — Today, on his 78th birthday, Jack Kevorkian, the man known as "Dr. Death," is slowly dying in prison.
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