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3:35 AM ET, May 13, 2007

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New York Times:
Editorial: A Winning Deal on Trade  —  The Bush administration and Congressional Democrats have reached a broad understanding on trade that should benefit American workers, American businesses and global economic growth.  —  It is good to see that even in today's Washington …
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
The Democrats' Trade Troubles
Discussion: WorkingForChange
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Trade Details  —  Someone from the Hill who asked not to be …
Discussion: Eyes on Trade and Firedoglake
Doug Palmer / Reuters:   Top U.S. labor group wary of bipartisan trade deal
www.aflcio.org:   Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on U.S. Trade Policy Developments
ndol.org:
Idea of the Week: Reviving Trade Policy
Discussion: Eyes on Trade
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Open the Trade Deal
Discussion: Firedoglake
International Brotherhood of Teamsters:   Teamsters Oppose Trade Deal That Sells Out American Workers
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Football reference trips up GOP hopeful  —  LAKE GENEVA, Wis. - Note to Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record): In Packerland, it's not cool to diss Brett Favre.  —  The GOP presidential hopeful drew boos and groans Friday at the Wisconsin Republican Party convention when he used …
Jennifer Rubin / ABCNEWS:
No Disclosure: Presidential Candidates Defy Tradition, Refuse to Release Taxes  —  Since Watergate, Only Clinton Refused to Release Income Information  —  Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,worked for a hedge fund while heading a poverty center in between his presidential campaigns.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Should Candidates Release Their Tax Returns?  —  Ever since Watergate, presidential candidates have released their tax records in order to show that they have nothing to hide.  Only one major candidate refused to do so in the last twenty years, and Bill Clinton changed his mind for his re-election bid in 1996.
Telegraph:
Pakistan on brink of disaster as Karachi burns  —  Chaos gripped the streets of Karachi yesterday as gun battles left at least 31 people dead and hundreds more injured, threatening a complete breakdown of law and order in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city.
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Pakistan On Brink Of Disaster
Discussion: The Blue State
WRAL-TV:
Church's Sign Against Islam Sparks Controversy  —  SPRING HOPE — Words like "bomb" and "die" draw attention to the small sign in front of Good News Independent Baptist Church.  —  Rev. Gary Murrell put up the sign, which on one side claims the message of Islam is "submit, convert or die."
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Army Career Behind Him, General Speaks Out on Iraq  —  John Batiste has traveled a long way in the last four years, from commanding the First Infantry Division in Iraq to quitting the Army after three decades in uniform and, now, from his new life overseeing a steel factory here …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Thompson revises apology on gay comment  —  LAKE GENEVA, Wis. - Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom in explaining on Saturday why he said at a GOP presidential debate that an employer should be allowed to fire a gay worker.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
TO THE DNC: SUE US  —  A Free Republic poster writes that he's a regular reader who enjoys our views on a variety of issues.  He writes that he's enjoyed our posts in which we use our skills as lawyers to weigh in on legal issues.  He draws our attention to the cease-and-desist letter …
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Search ongoing for 3 missing U.S. troops  —  BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops searched house-to-house and combed fields with their bare hands Saturday after American troops and their Iraqi interpreter came under attack in the notorious "triangle of death" south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing.
Discussion: BBC and The Moderate Voice
canada.com:
The decline of motherhood  —  As we celebrate Mother's Day, we should pause to consider the social factors that keep more and more women from having children  —  Hiking along the northern reaches of British Columbia's Sunshine Coast last week, my sister and I passed by the home of a woman recently taken by cancer.
Michael Rey / CBS News:
Congressman McHenry's Campaign Aide Indicted  —  The CBS News Investigative Unit has learned a man who was a field coordinator in Congressman Patrick McHenry's (R-NC) 2004 campaign has been indicted for voter fraud in North Carolina.  —  The indictment charges that Michael Aaron Lay, 26 …
New York Times:
Religious Groups Granted Millions for Pet Projects  —  Saint Vincent College, a small Benedictine college southeast of Pittsburgh, wanted to realign a two-lane state road serving the campus.  But the state transportation department did not have the money.  —  So Saint Vincent tried Washington instead.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Cliff Schecter
The Politico:
Momentum builds against GOP candidates  —  The week had the feel of 1974.  Republican members of Congress marched to the White House to deliver a frank message to an embattled president: You are a liability.  —  Three decades ago, it was Watergate.  Now, it's Iraq.
Discussion: Pacific Views
Juan / Informed Comment:
SCIRI Adopts Sistani, emphasizes Iraqiness  —  Bombings kill 26, wound 60  —  The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq held its annual party convention on Thursday and Friday and, according to Mariam Karouny of Reuters has decided to make some significant changes.
Discussion: Reuters, TalkLeft and Liberty Street
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Ben Lando / UPI:   ANALYSIS: IRAQ FUNDING BILL TOO OILY
 
 
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