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7:20 PM ET, May 9, 2006

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HUD secretary's blunt warning  —  Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush  —  Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking government work may need to overcome the Bush barrier.  —  That's the message U.S. Housing …
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Judd / Think Progress:
Housing Sec. Canceled Contract Because Contractor Criticized Bush, Apparently Violating Law  —  Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson publicly admitted that he canceled a government contract with a business because the CEO was critical of President Bush.  From the Dallas Business Journal:
The Raw Story:
Senator demands resignation of Housing Secretary after 'don't like Bush' dispute  —  Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) called on President Bush to ask for the immediate resignation of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson if a report about government contracts being awarded based …
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Bull Moose:
Karl Rove Invented the Internet
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Lapfull of Dick  —  Richard Cohen got 2,000 mean e-mails and this signals the end of the Democratic party.  I'll leave you to figure out why that should follow.  In case Cohen hasn't noticed nobody on the f**king planet likes squishy faux liberal courtiers.  There's no political downside to hating Richard Cohen.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Rage Undo The Democrats?  —  Two items from prominent opinion journalists point to a meltdown in the Democratic base even as they close in on a vulnerable GOP in midterm elections.  Jonah Goldberg and Richard Cohen have one thing in common: irrational e-mail.
Tamara Traubman / Haaretz:
New U.K. attempt to boycott Israeli universities, professors  —  The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
Discussion: TigerHawk, OxBlog and Solomonia
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Jon Pike / engageonline.org.uk:   NATFHE: Chuck out 198C! - Jon Pike
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Bar Panel Downgrades Bush Nominee for Judiciary  —  WASHINGTON, May 8 — The American Bar Association said Monday that it had downgraded its rating of one of President Bush's judicial nominees.  —  The A.B.A. committee that evaluates judicial nominees said that the nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh …
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Mexican Handoff  —  Someone remind me: which country is the Border Patrol charged with protecting?  —  DailyBulletin.com: … I'll never support impeachment proceedings brought against President for going to war with Iraq based on flawed intelligence, not will I fault him overmuch …
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Iranian's Letter to Bush Emerges  —  In his letter to President Bush, Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared that Western-style democracy had failed and that the use of secret prisons in Europe and aspects of the war in Iraq could not be reconciled with Mr. Bush's Christian values.
Jeff Green / CNN:
U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says  —  Research: 2 million babies die in first 24 hours each year worldwide  —  (CNN) — An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate …
Discussion: The Mahablog and This Modern World
Molly Ivins / truthdig.com:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington  —  AUSTIN, Texas—Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.  So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey with the best: On my better days, I make David Broder look like Page Six.  —  I don't care what anyone smoked 20 years ago …
Michelle Roberts / Newhouse News:
Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Jared Guinther is 18.  Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June.  Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands there — silent.
Natalie Angier / New York Times:
One Thing They Aren't: Maternal  —  Oh, mothers!  Dear noble, selfless, tender and ferocious defenders of progeny all across nature's phylogeny: How well you deserve our admiration as Mother's Day draws near, and how photogenically you grace the greeting cards that we thrifty offspring will send in lieu of a proper gift.
Agence France Presse:
Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts  —  It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.  —  The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced …
James Glanz / New York Times:
Killings in Iraq Spawn Search for Missing Funds  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 8 — The killing of Fern Holland, a human rights worker from Oklahoma, remains unsolved and as mysterious as it was when her body was found riddled with bullets on a desolate stretch of road near one of Iraq's southern holy cities in March 2004.
 
 
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