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11:20 AM ET, May 10, 2006

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Nick Wadhams / Associated Press:
Letter Shows Iran's President Seeking Bond  —  UNITED NATIONS - With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered President Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ.  —  The document gives rare insight …
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Iranian Letter: Using Religion to Lecture Bush  —  CAIRO, May 9 — With the tone of a teacher and the certainty of a believer, the president of Iran wrote to President Bush that Western democracy had failed and that the invasion of Iraq, American treatment of prisoners and support for Israel …
Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
Europeans Work on New Anti-Nuclear Deal for Iran
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
05/09/06 FOX News Poll: Do Not Trust Iran
Discussion: TigerHawk and Daily Pundit
New York Times:
Bush's Public Approval at New Low Point  —  Americans have a bleaker view of the country's direction than at any time in more than two decades, and sharp disapproval of President Bush's handling of gasoline prices has combined with intensified unhappiness about Iraq to create a grim political environment …
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Washington Post:
GOP Reaches Deal on Tax Cuts  —  $70 Billion Measure Would Extend Breaks  —  House and Senate Republican negotiators reached a final agreement yesterday on a five-year, nearly $70 billion tax package that extends President Bush's deep cuts to tax rates on dividends and capital gains …
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:   G.O.P. Lawmakers Agree on Bill to Extend Tax Cuts
The Raw Story:
GOP House Speaker taps Cheney, Goss for Congressional Distinguished Service Awards  —  On Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. Capitol, Distinguished Service Awards will be bestowed upon Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA Director Porter Goss, two former House members selected …
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Paul Bedard / US News:
Bolten said to push Goss's exit
Discussion: TPM Muckraker and Kesher Talk
Washington Post:
The Year of the Black Republican?  —  GOP Targets Democratic Constituency in 3 High-Profile Races  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — When J. Kenneth Blackwell took the stage here on May 2 to claim the Republican nomination for governor, he became something more than his party's standard-bearer in a bellwether state.
Kenneth R. Bazinet / Mercury News:
Records will reveal Abramoff's White House visits  —  WASHINGTON - Secret Service logs set for release Wednesday should reveal some of convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's White House connections, according to conservative group Judicial Watch.  —  As part of a court-sanctioned deal …
Discussion: Think Progress and TPM Muckraker
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wusatv9.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Presidential Plans Found In Trash
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Wonkette
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Study: 7 of 10 Journalists Surveyed Accused of Bias in Past Year  —  NEW YORK More than half of newspaper journalists in a recent survey believe an unethical or unprofessional incident occurred in their newsroom within the past five years, while seven out of 10 said they had been accused …
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Washington Post:
A Tale of Two Judges  —  New skirmishes in the judicial nomination wars are brewing.  But their merits aren't the same.  —  SENATE REPUBLICAN leaders have decided to reignite the judicial nomination wars.  The reason is politics.  Majority Leader Bill Frist's strategy, with elections coming …
Amy Teibel / Associated Press:
Israel Gives Hamas Deadline to Negotiate  —  JERUSALEM - Israel will give the Palestinians until the end of the year to prove they are willing to negotiate a final peace deal, and will unilaterally set its final borders by 2008 if they don't, Israel's justice minister said Wednesday.
Bloomberg:
Iraq War Is Drawing Less Support Than Vietnam Did at Same Stage  —  May 9 (Bloomberg) — Three years into major combat in Vietnam, 28,500 U.S. service members had perished, millions of families were anxious about the military draft and antiwar protests had spread to dozens of college campuses.
Cass R. Sunstein / Washington Post:
It's Only $300 Billion  —  For the United States, the cost of the Iraq war will soon exceed the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement designed to control greenhouse gases.  For both, the cost is somewhere in excess of $300 billion.
ksg.harvard.edu:
"Profiles in Leadership" with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Member, Dutch Parliament & Time Magazine's 2005 "World's Most Influential Leaders"  —  Description  —  The Center for Public Leadership and the Harvard Dutch Cultural Society invite you to join us for "PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP" …
Discussion: sugiero and Hot Air
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Ex-NSA Chief Assails Bush Taps  —  NEW YORK — Former National Security Agency director Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps, making him one of the highest-ranking former intelligence officials to criticize the program in public, analysts say.
 
 
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