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10:55 AM ET, May 9, 2007

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Giuliani gave to Planned Parenthood  —  Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani in his campaign appearances this year has stated that he personally abhors abortion, even though he supports keeping a legal right to choose.  But records show that in the '90s he contributed money …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Politico Playbook: Mitt's moment  —  SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Good morning.  From the Spin Room to the Carl's Jr. near the headquarters hotel, The Politico's informal read of the consensus order of finish for last night's GOP Presidential Candidates Debate in the Air Force One Pavilion of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library:
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Call me irresponsible: I say Romney won  —  SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — It would be terribly irresponsible to pick a winner of Thursday night's Republican debate.  So I will.  —  I think Mitt Romney won.  And I think John McCain came in second and Rudy Giuliani came in third.
Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Obama overstates Kansas tornado deaths  —  RICHMOND, Va. - Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died.  The death toll was 12.  —  "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
White House rebuts Guard shortage claim  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and Kansas' governor started Tuesday pointing fingers at each other over the response to last week's devastating tornado.  By lunchtime, both sides had backed down.  —  With President Bush set to travel …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08  —  Pentagon to Deploy 35,000 Replacement Troops  —  The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until at least the end of this year.
The Hill:
Pelosi threat to sue Bush over Iraq bill  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.  —  Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers …
David Weigel / Reason:
The Lonely Guy  —  Anti-war Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrest on Iraq, the Bush administration, and the "dissolving" GOP  —  "Here," says Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.).  "Have some cornbread."  —  The Republican from Maryland's Eastern Shore putters around his office in black sneakers …
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David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
"FRANCE WILL NOT ABANDON THE WOMEN WHO ARE CONDEMNED TO THE BURQA" President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy's first speech to the French nation concluded with a wonderful endorsement of human rights.  (Video here.)  —  Sarkozy spoke from a prepared text , which appears on his official campaign websites.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
DeLay: FBI 'running amok'  —  Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) is calling on the Justice Department either to drop its investigation of his wife and former political associates or else to bring charges quickly.  —  DeLay said he has given the FBI documents exonerating his wife …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
The Huffington Post:
Dave Johnson and James Boyce: Smoking Politics  —  There was a time when this country worked to solve its problems.  —  There was a time in this country when political campaigns were about issues and solutions and ideas.  —  There was a time when our legislators honestly debated …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Opinion Journal:
Axis of Soros  —  The men and motives behind the World Bank coup attempt.  —  Mark Malloch Brown spoke Monday to a crowded auditorium at the World Bank's headquarters, warning that the bank's mission was "hugely at risk" as long as Paul Wolfowitz remained its president.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Washington Post:
House Bill Ties War Funding to Iraq Benchmarks  —  Measure Would Free Half the Money Now, Require a Second Vote for Approval in July  —  A House Democratic proposal introduced yesterday that would give President Bush half of the money he has requested for the war effort …
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Outrage in a Can  —  Well, after weeks of trying to pin every car-backfire, school massacre, and kid with a cherry bomb on phony cabals of Muslim Fanatic Terrorists, Righty Blogistan and the Em Ess Em have finally got themselves a group of real live jihadi.  In Jersey.  (Where else, really?)
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Wonkette:
LOST THE PLOT DEPT.  —  Feds Nix Dix Six  —  The FBI has …
Andrew Glass / The Politico:
Justice Dept. diversity under fire  —  The House Judiciary Committee will summon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to answer fresh charges stemming from the failure of the Justice Department's civil rights division to hire more minorities.  —  Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Reed Hundt / The Coffee House:
Sally Quinn Expresses Beltway Zeitgeist Again  —  I'm not giving you the link because I don't want you to read it in full.  Take my precis:  —  Sally Quinn writes in the Washington Post that she is from Savannah, Ga., and typically notices people's skin color but in the case of Barack Obama she doesn't …
Bill Schneider / CNN:
Poll: Most back Congress over Bush in war funding fight … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Most Americans disagree with President Bush's decision last week to veto the war funding bill that contained a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.  —  What do they think Congress should do now?
 
 
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Anne Applebaum / Slate:
So, Farewell Then, Jacques Chirac
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Diaa Hadid / Yahoo! News:
Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' wants Islam takeover
Matt Towery / Human Events:
Special Report: Bush-Cheney Impeachment Might Be Idle Talk …
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
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