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3:25 AM ET, May 3, 2006

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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Time to stop feeling guilty and start really bombing  —  (updated below)  —  The Wall St. Journal's Opinion Journal today published an Op-Ed by Shelby Steele that advances one of the most truly incoherent and just plain inane arguments I have read in a long time.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Language, Intent, and the other Other  —  In today's WSJ Opinion Journal, Shelby Steele writes eloquently and forcefully on a subject familiar to regular protein wisdom readers: the dangers of undue (and artificial) deference to Otherness, particularly its tangible effects on protecting the security of the US.
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Adam Green / The Huffington Post:
Mike McCurry — Hurting The Internet, Hurting His Admirers  —  I feel sorry for Mike McCurry.  I really do.  —  As a George Washington University political communications student in the 1990's, I joined many in looking up to Mike McCurry as the best in our field.
Discussion: The Agonist
alternet.org:
Markey introduces Net Neutrality Act  —  The fight for the First Amendment of the Internet is on...  Blog Tools  —  Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) threw down the gauntlet just moments ago, introducing the Network Neutrality Act of 2006 [full text HERE], which "[offers a] choice between favoring …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Cole Report  —  When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide.  —  In some ways, the continuing row over his call for the complete destruction of Israel must baffle Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  All he did, after all, was to turn up at a routine anti-Zionist event and repeat …
The Raw Story:
MSNBC update: Cheney's office knew Plame's work was sensitive  —  On Chris Matthews' Hardball Tuesday evening, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster provided updates on what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed …
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Drudge Report:
MARY CHENEY SAYS HER FATHER SAID EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED TO HEAR WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS GAY  —  Vice president tells VANITY FAIR his image might be better if he spent more time trying to improve it, "but that's not why I'm here"  —  New York, N.Y. - In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
In the Roberts Court, More Room for Argument  —  WASHINGTON, May 2 — This is the week that the Supreme Court, done with its regular argument sessions, enters the stretch run.  —  While it is too soon for substantive appraisals of the first year of the Roberts court, it is not too soon …
Discussion: Althouse
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Gina Holland / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Supreme Court rejects abortion poster case
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Bush, Hill Republicans Agree To Extend Expiring Tax Cuts  —  Democrats Point to Deficit and Benefits for the Rich  —  President Bush and congressional Republicans agreed yesterday on a $70 billion package of tax-cut extensions that they hope will help halt the deterioration of their political fortunes.
Hugh Hewitt:
NYT Editor Bill Keller: Slayer of Straw Men; Inventor of Privileges  —  Like most Americans, the Wall Street Journal's editors have a low opinion of leakers passing top secret material to "reporters" who in fact act as fax machines to the front page.  —  New York Times' editor Bill Keller responds …
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Hugh Hewitt:
The Privileges and Arrogance of the New York Times
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and TBogg
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran  —  PARIS, May 2 — The United States, Britain and France have drafted a binding Security Council resolution requiring Iran to stop key nuclear activities, but Russia and China are already resisting, officials involved in the negotiations said today.
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South  —  TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan, April 27 — Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear to be moving their insurgency into a new phase …
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
After reports, New Jersey senator calls on CIA director to conduct Plame damage assessment  —  In light of reports that CIA Agent Valerie Plame was working to track Iran's effort to obtain nuclear weapons when her identity was leaked, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today called …
Think Progress:
UPDATE: The National Anthem At Bush's First Inaugural  —  UPDATE: Contemporaneous media accounts (see here for example) report that Secada was singing "America the Beautiful," not the national anthem.  The story from Cox News below, reporting that Secada sang the national anthem in Spanish, appears to be in error.
Washington Post:
Voters Oust Backers of Immigrants In Herndon  —  Three Incumbents Lose Who Supported Center  —  Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum …
Discussion: Wizbang and Lonewacko
Digby / Hullabaloo:
I Gotcher Bad Taste For Ya Rite-chia  —  I'm listening to Scarborough dissect Colbert's performance with Ana Marie Cox and Michael Sherer from Salon and I can't believe how vapid it is.  They all agree that Colbert is usually hilarious but he wasn't entirely successful at the white house …
 
 
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