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GOP.com:
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS — The Facts About Border Security and Immigration Reform — Administration And Bipartisan Group Of Senators Reach Agreement On Comprehensive Immigration Reform — Today, Administration Officials And A Bipartisan Group Of Senators Reached Agreement On Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation.
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Hot Air, Captain's Quarters, The Caucus, TAPPED, Taylor Marsh, The Atlantic Online, PoliPundit.com and Central Sanity
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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Adversaries praise a relentless Kennedy — As clock ticked, senator pressed sides for a pact — Jubilant yesterday, Senators Mel Martinez (left), Lindsey O. Graham, and Edward M. Kennedy had spent hours in sometimes heated negotiations to craft a compromise bill on immigration.
Michelle Malkin:
The J. Wellington Wimpy immigration plan: Amnesty now, enforcement later — Republicans in Washington who are embracing the Bush-Kennedy amnesty will tell you the package is tough on enforcement because the millions of illegal aliens who are here now will be deported later if they fail to meet …
Paul Kane / Capitol Briefing:
McCain, Cornyn Engage in Heated Exchange — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hasn't spent much time in the Capitol this year as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination. But one of his rare appearances this week provided a pretty salty exchange with a fellow Republican.
Media Matters for America: Politico article on White House-Senate immigration agreement quoted only Republicans
White House:
Press Gaggle by Tony Fratto — White House Conference Center Briefing Room — MR. FRATTO: Good morning, everyone. The President had his normal briefings this morning; taped the radio address — as you can imagine, it's on comprehensive immigration reform, so look forward to that.
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Capitol Briefing, Booman Tribune, The Carpetbagger Report, First Draft, Midtopia, The Heretik and The Impolitic
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Jon Ward / Washington Times:
Gonzales faces Senate no-confidence vote — The U.S. Senate will take a "no-confidence" vote in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales next week, Democrats said yesterday, as calls for Mr. Gonzales to resign intensified among lawmakers in his own party. — "It seems the only person …
Editor and Publisher:
Reporters Demand Answers On 'Ashcroft Hospital Visit' — NEW YORK At a press briefing this morning at the White House, reporters peppered Bush spokesman Tony Fratto with questions about the growing intrigue surrounding the attempt to get a hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on domestic spying in xxx.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Don't Blame Bush — The president has done just what his party wants and expects.
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Firedoglake, Blog of the Moderate Left, Daily Kos, TalkLeft, Prairie Weather, Brian Beutler and Norwegianity
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Brian Beutler:
Brooksian wrongism — I'm not sure what the point here is. Brooks leads his column with a pretty big claim: that the Iraq war will devastate international governments for years to come. But then, rather than backing up said claim, he proceeds to write a glowing review of a book called Brave …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Talks Between White House And Congressional Dems Breaking Down — The meeting between Dem Congressional leaders and the White House over how to resolve the Iraq war spending standoff has just ended, and it looks like things are at a serious impasse. — Dem leaders just said at their post …
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Crooks and Liars
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The Atlantic Online:
Poor Paul... Steven Weisman offers us an all-too-sympathetic Paul Wolfowitz retrospective: … Look, I have no doubt Wolfowitz was doomed from the state. But to comprehend his doomed-ness and what to make of it, one needs to step back. Why was he given the job in the first place?
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Greenpeace:
Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers — So. The day of reckoning has come - when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil is still paying for. — This is the company which, apparently, has been "misunderstood" on global warming and has said it has dropped its funding of the deniers.
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CNN:
Four arrested in Iraq 'honor killing' … BAGHDAD, IRAQ (CNN) — Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested four people in connection with the "honor killing" last month of a Kurdish teen — a startling, morbid pummeling caught on a mobile phone video camera and broadcast around the world.
todayskccr.com:
Two hurt, two arrested in stabbing — Two people were injured and two others arrested in a stabbing incident last night that Pierre Police are calling gang related. — A 22 year old man is facing two counts of aggravated assault and is in the Hughes County Jail.
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Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
House Democratic Leaders Write to President Bush on — Troop Pay Raises, Widows' Benefits — May 18th, 2007 by Jesse Lee — As noted yesterday, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy (pdf) declaring their opposition to a 3.5% pay raise for the troops …
ABCNEWS:
Two ABC News Journalists Killed in Iraq — Two Iraqi ABC News broadcast journalists were killed in Iraq, ABC News President David Westin announced this morning. — Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, were returning home from work at the ABC News Baghdad …
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
Center of Attention … The Gun Toting Liberal: "Bush Amnesty For Illegal Aliens Bill Passes Senate As President Lures Border Agents To Iraq With Six-Figure Salary Offers" — Andrew Sullivan quotes a reader who describes todays republican right-wing as being fascist. Libby Spencer responds (and agrees with Andrew).
Pete Moore / Salon:
The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found — With a couple of keystrokes, you too can read the hidden history of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's late, unlamented occupation government in Iraq. — Editor's note: The document discussed in this story can be viewed here, both with and without its hidden text.
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