Top Items:
New York Times:
Terror Attack Scenario Exposes Deep Differences Among G.O.P. Hopefuls — The scenario presented to the 10 Republican presidential candidates was chilling: Three American shopping malls had been bombed, producing huge casualties. Terrorists with detailed knowledge of another imminent …
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, The Politico, New York Post, The Atlantic Online, TIME, MSNBC, TAPPED, All Spin Zone, Unfogged, Washington Post and POLITOPICS
RELATED:
New York Times:
Republican Presidential Debate in South Carolina — The following is a transcript of the Republican presidential primary debate at the University of South Carolina on May 15, 2007, as recorded by the Federal News Service: — Participants: Senator Sam Brownback; former Virginia Governor James Gilmore …
Discussion:
Fox News, Think Progress, Arizona Republic, alicublog, The Carpetbagger Report, Democrats.com, Reason Magazine, The RBC and Latest Politics
Michelle Malkin:
Liveblogging: The South Carolina debate is on - Video links adds, post-mortem reax — The stage will still be crowded. Elephants soon to be in the room. — Hot buttons: Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Immigration, immigration, immigration. — What do you want to see asked tonight?
Discussion:
Townhall.com, TigerHawk, Sister Toldjah, Don Surber, CBN.com, Power Line, Reason Magazine, CBS News, Weekly Standard, Hot Air and Iowa Voice
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rudy blasts Ron Paul's apology for 9/11
Video: Rudy blasts Ron Paul's apology for 9/11
Discussion:
National Review, VodkaPundit, Right Wing Nut House, The American Mind, The Jawa Report, Macsmind, Bob Krumm, PoliPundit.com, Iowa Voice, The Impolitic and IMAO
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Palmetto Punditry — The debate took a while to gain any traction …
Palmetto Punditry — The debate took a while to gain any traction …
John Dickerson / Slate: Fox and Frienemies — REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTICAL CANDIDATES FINALLY JAB EACH OTHER.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Giuliani Wins, But Paul Threw The Game
Giuliani Wins, But Paul Threw The Game
Discussion:
Instapundit.com, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, Right Wing News, National Review and NewsBusters.org
Washington Post:
Mr. Comey's Tale — JAMES B. COMEY, the straight-as-an-arrow former No. 2 official at the Justice Department, yesterday offered the Senate Judiciary Committee an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source.
Discussion:
The Sideshow, NO QUARTER, The Strata-Sphere, About U.S. Politics, Think Progress and State of the Day
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Comey's testimony raises new and vital questions about the NSA scandal — The testimony yesterday from James Comey re-focuses attention on one of the long unresolved mysteries of the NSA scandal. And the new information Comey revealed, though not answering that question decisively, suggests some deeply troubling answers.
Discussion:
Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, Daily Kos, The Reaction, The Volokh Conspiracy, Power Line and War and Piece
David Johnston / New York Times:
President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping — President Bush intervened in March 2004 to avert a crisis over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program after Attorney General John Ashcroft, Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. and other senior Justice Department aides …
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Pentagon General to Be 'War Czar' — WASHINGTON — President Bush has chosen Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the Pentagon's director of operations, to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "war czar" after a long search for new leadership, administration officials said Tuesday.
RELATED:
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA....The Commonwealth Fund has released its latest comparison of healthcare performance among various countries, and you can read all about it here. However, since I know you're all busy people, I'll just cut to the chase: we suck. Despite the fact that we see doctors less often …
Discussion:
Angry Bear
RELATED:
commonwealthfund.org:
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care — Authors: … Overview — Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries.
Discussion:
TomPaine.com
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb — Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America's former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday. — John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to …
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Bush Opens Door to Wolfowitz's Resigning Voluntarily — The Bush administration, shifting strategy in the face of mounting opposition to Paul D. Wolfowitz, opened the door Tuesday to his resigning voluntarily as World Bank president if the bank board dropped its drive to declare him unfit to remain in office.
RELATED:
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Bush Pick Gets Extra Payment From Old Job — A senior lobbyist at the National Association of Manufacturers nominated by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission will receive a $150,000 departing payment from the association when he takes his new government job …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Norwegianity, Connecting.the.Dots, Prairie Weather and Brilliant at Breakfast
Bernard Lewis / Opinion Journal:
Was Osama Right? — Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak. Recent political trends won't change their view. — During the Cold War, two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival superpowers. If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire.
Michael Rubinkam / Associated Press:
Pa. mayor who targeted illegals on way to third term — ALLENTOWN, PA. —Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday - and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too.