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2:15 PM ET, June 6, 2006

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George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP: U.S. to Give Iran Nuclear Technology  —  A package of incentives presented Tuesday to Iran includes a provision for the United States to supply Tehran with some nuclear technology if it stops enriching uranium _ a major concession by Washington, diplomats said.
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Washington Post:
A Legal Case Against Iran
Discussion: FP Passport and PrairiePundit
Opinion Journal:
Fitzgerald, Scooter and Us  —  The special prosecutor wants to use our editorial as evidence.  Sorry. … Those words appeared in this column on July 17, 2003, under the headline "Yellowcake Remix."  Three years later they show we were right about Joe Wilson and his false allegation …
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Clinton Is the Life of the Democratic Party  —  WASHINGTON, June 5 — In what promises to be his most intensive campaign season since he left office, former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to appear at more than two dozen fund-raisers for Democrats around the country …
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Catherine Dodge / Bloomberg:   Bush's Cash, Not His Company, Sought by Republican Candidates
Matthew Hickley / Daily Mail:
Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings'  —  Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.  —  The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes …
Amir Taheri / Commentary:
The Real Iraq  —  Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days.  Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from a recent visit, one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable.  It is created in several overlapping ways …
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Creating the Inevitable  —  The CIA visits Iraq in April 2002
BBC:
Peruvians elect Garcia president  —  With most of the votes counted in the second round of Peru's election, it has become clear that ex-president Alan Garcia has won a convincing victory.  —  Mr Garcia polled 53.1% of ballots to 46.9 % for nationalist rival Ollanta Humala, with 93% of votes counted.
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Ana Marie Cox / Time:
Inside the Cult of Kos  —  What makes the political blogger so mesmerizing to his followers?  —  "If I cared what commenters said, I'd kill myself."  In the high-octane non-stop flame war that is the political blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga knows how to get attention.  He's kidding, of course.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Privately Funded Trips Add Up on Capitol Hill  —  Over 5 1/2 years, Republican and Democratic lawmakers accepted nearly $50 million in trips, often to resorts and exclusive locales, from corporations and groups seeking legislative favors, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the subject of congressional travel.
Toronto Star:
The ties that bind 17 suspects?  —  SURYA BHATTACHARYA, NASREEN GULAMHUSEIN AND HEBA ALY  —  In investigators' offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall.
online.logcabin.org:
News & Views  —  An Open Letter to President Bush from Patrick Guerriero  —  On behalf of millions of gay and lesbian Americans, I write to denounce your decision to divide the American family by promoting an amendment that would insert discrimination into the United States Constitution.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls  —  WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on what measures, if any, public school systems may use to maintain racial balance in individual schools.  —  The eventual decision on whether they can take race into account …
Abigail Zuger, M.D. / New York Times:
AIDS, at 25, Offers No Easy Answers  —  Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it is going to kill us.  As the Talmud says, pretty much all the rest is commentary.  Twenty-five years ago, this was the only question about AIDS we could answer with any certainty …
David Braithwaite / Sydney Morning Herald:
666 sucks sucks sucks  —  With its devilish "666" date-stamp, today should be hell, but if you crunch the numbers it's apparently more about hugs than human sacrifice.  —  For those of an apocalyptic bent, the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year is the ideal date for an anti-Christ …
Discussion: Washington Times
Times of London:
The wrong target  —  Terrorism, not America, is a real and present threat to our freedoms  —  Al-Haditha, a town on the Euphrates northwest of Baghdad, is still a place where fighters blend into the populace and literally use civilians as cover.  Coalition forces may shoot only when threatened …
CBS News:
Another Terrorist Attack Coming Soon?  —  CBS News: U.S. Officials Believe Recent Incidents Point To An Imminent Threat  —  (CBS) U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Base Assumptions  —  This month's offensive by President Bush and his allies in Congress against gay marriage and flag burning proves one thing: The Republican Party thinks its base of social conservatives is a nest of dummies who have no memories and respond like bulls whenever red flags are waved in their faces.
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Debate Over Wind Power Creates Environmental Rift  —  The 44 wind turbines near Thomas, W.Va., have been lethal to bats.  The turbines are owned FPL Energy, the wind industry's dominant player.  —  OAKLAND, Md. — Dan Boone has no doubt that his crusade against wind energy is the right way to protect the Allegheny highlands he loves.
Discussion: A Blog For All
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Chill out over global warming  —  You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.  —  Why not give it a whirl?  —  Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a LoDo cocktail party and see what happens.  —  Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science.
Los Angeles Times:
No Escaping Iraq Violence  —  Gunmen abduct more than 50 at a bus zone in Baghdad, where daily life can be torn apart without warning.  —  BAGHDAD — Clad in camouflage uniforms, the gunmen came peeling through the thick morning heat in police trucks.  They stopped at a downtown strip …
 
 
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John / AMERICAblog:
Rick Santorum: It's all about sodomy
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On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberals Schemed
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Melanie Phillips / Times of London:
Come to Londonistan, our refuge for poor misunderstood Islamist victims
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Pejman Yousefzadeh / TCS Daily:
Legal Overkill  —  It is the duty of a lawyer to be zealous …
Patrick O'Connor / The Hill:
DeLay departure will be a deliberately low-key affair
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Joel Garreau / Washington Post:
Date With the Devil
Andrew Walden / hawaiireporter.com:
Haditha: Reasonable Doubt
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Ex-Official Testifies He Provided 'Insight and Advice' to Abramoff
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Somali Islamists Declare Victory; Warlords on Run
Discussion: AMERICAblog and The Plank
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Iraqis Believe Violence Will Abate, New Report Says
 

 
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