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5:35 PM ET, May 20, 2007

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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics  —  NAJAF, Iraq — The movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has embarked on one of its most dramatic tactical shifts since the beginning of the war.  —  The 33-year-old populist is reaching out to a broad array of Sunni leaders, from politicians to insurgents …
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Military: 7 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday, and the country's Sunni vice president spoke out against a proposed oil law, clouding the future of a key benchmark for assuring continued U.S. support for the government.
Discussion: The Reaction and All Spin Zone
Frederick W. Kagan / Weekly Standard:
Don't Abandon the Iraqis  —  The high stakes of the war.
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Influx of Al Qaeda, money into Pakistan is seen  —  U.S. officials say the terrorist network's command base is increasingly being funded by cash coming out of Iraq.  —  WASHINGTON — A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts …
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Think Progress:
Specter: Gonzales Will Likely Resign Before No Confidence Vote  —  Last week, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) called on the Senate to hold a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.  —  The White House and its conservative allies quickly derided the vote …
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Richard Schickel / Los Angeles Times:
Not everybody's a critic  —  Sure, anyone with a blog can express an opinion about a book, but true criticism is more than just an opinion.  —  THE MOST grating words I've read in a newspaper recently were in a New York Times report on the shrinkage of book reviewing in many of the nation's leading newspapers.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   YOU HATE US, YOU REALLY HATE US!....Time's resident film reviewer …
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
Border agents hit illegals bill  —  The leadership of all 11,000 nonsupervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents yesterday criticized an immigration compromise by senators and the Bush administration as "piecemeal" legislation that invites future terrorist attacks and fails to secure the nation's borders.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Fred's watershed?  —  TRIBUNE-REVIEW  —  On the day of the first Southern-state Republican debate on the Fox News Channel, one undeclared GOP candidate performed a media leapfrog.  —  With the help of one 38-second video clip and a great sense of humor, Fred Thompson …
Bryan Burrough / New York Times:
Or No Conspiracy?  —  I have no idea what book wears the crown of longest nonfiction title ever published.  Whoever holds the record, it is about to be challenged by Vincent Bugliosi, whose new work, "Reclaiming History," a cellular-level re-examination of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, clocks in at 1,612 pages.
Discussion: Power Line and Ed Driscoll.com
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Gingrich Assails 'Radical Secularism'  —  In Speech, Ex-Speaker Praises Falwell, Offers No Hints About His Political Plans  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried a "growing culture of radical secularism" Saturday morning as he hailed the life of Liberty University's late founder …
Des Moines Register:
Mitt Romney leads Republicans  —  Mitt Romney has sprinted ahead of presidential competitors John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in a new Iowa Poll of likely Republican caucus participants.  —  The Des Moines Register poll shows Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, is the top choice of 30 percent …
Discussion: MyDD and Hotline On Call
Telegraph:
US surge is failing, says UK's Iraq envoy  —  The "troop surge" by American soldiers in Iraq is not working, one of Britain's senior military officials in Baghdad has said.  —  In a pessimistic assessment of the strategy designed to pull Iraq back from all-out civil war, Alastair Campbell …
Discussion: EU Referendum and The Newshoggers
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Re: Why doesn't this surprise me?  —  Mark, I always thought the requirement in last year's bill was pretty sweet: You had to pay two out of three years' back taxes.  Most legal Americans would love that deal: Pay any two years of tax and we'll give you the third for free!
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Western Allies In the Twilight  —  The two wounded warriors stood side by side in the sunshine of the White House Rose Garden.  Tony Blair and George Bush, partners in a transatlantic alliance that has come a cropper in Iraq, tried to shield each other from the slings and arrows of two nations' reporters.
Charles Ornstein / Los Angeles Times:
Tale of last 90 minutes of woman's life  —  County officials express dismay at the events surrounding the recent controversial death at King-Harbor hospital.  One nurse has resigned.  —  In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer.
Associated Press:
Pelosi backs Murtha in spending dispute  —  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) is defending a close Democratic ally whom Republicans want to reprimand for threatening a GOP lawmaker's spending projects.  —  Pelosi, D-Calif., said she had "no idea what actually happened" …
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
The Once and Future Pee-wee  —  IN the 1985 movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," the title character turns to a friend and murmurs darkly, "There are a lot of things about me, things you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand, things you shouldn't understand."
 
 
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Peter Howell / Toronto Star:
Canadians don't care for Sicko
Discussion: Don Surber and Prairie Weather
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Assessments Made in 2003 Foretold Situation in Iraq
Discussion: AMERICAblog and The Blue State
Associated Press:
Islamic militants, security forces battle in Lebanon
Washington Post:
Ashcroft's Complex Tenure At Justice
Irwin Stelzer / Times of London:
Afghan soldiers mass on border, ready and willing to take on old foe
Discussion: New York Times and Hot Air
Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
Beyond Saber Rattling
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Laura Flanders
Discussion: Orcinus
Larry Flynt / Los Angeles Times:
My friend, Jerry Falwell
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Channel NewsAsia:
Growing number of Hispanic Americans converting to Islam in the US
Molly Moore / Washington Post:
New Leadership Trio Could Put Europe Back on Political Map
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
Pope denounces attacks on Israeli border towns
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Decline and fall of the neocons
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Media Czech / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Selling Out  —  Well, as I watch Elvis Costello hawk Lexuses …
Discussion: Pandagon and Unfogged
Liz Garrigan / Washington Post:
He Sure Can Act the Part
New York Times:
Editorial: The Immigration Deal
 

 
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