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12:25 PM ET, May 15, 2006

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Set To Send Guard to Border  —  Assignment Would Be Temporary; Critics Cite Strain on Troops  —  President Bush tried to ease the worries of his Mexican counterpart yesterday as he prepared for a nationally televised address tonight unveiling a plan to send thousands of National Guard troops …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico  —  WASHINGTON, May 14 — President Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the southern border of the United States has raised the concern of his longtime ally President Vicente Fox of Mexico, who called Mr. Bush on Sunday to express his worries.
Rep. Tom Tancredo / Human Events:   Come Home, Mr. President
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BUSH: WE CAN'T BOOT 11M ILLEGALS
The Blotter:
Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling  —  Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:  —  A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
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The Raw Story:
ABC News: Federal official says US tracking calls made by ABC News, New York Times, Washington Post  —  ABC News' press office just sent out this release to news organizations, RAW STORY has learned.  The story has been posted at the ABC NEWS blog (Read here).  —  ABC's Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Dutch lawmaker in asylum row to move to U.S.  —  AMSTERDAM - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician known for her criticism of Islam, will leave parliament and move to the United States after admitting she lied to win asylum in the Netherlands, media reported on Monday.
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
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expatica.com:
Hirsi Ali to leave Netherlands for job with US think tank
Discussion: Hit and Run and Peaktalk
Michaelgalien / Liberty and Justice:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Heading To The US
Discussion: Hot Air, lgf, Mark in Mexico and Daimnation!
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans  —  From immigration policy to energy to emergency spending, House Republican leaders are publicly breaking rank with their counterparts in the Senate, fearing that Senate efforts at compromise are jeopardizing the party's standing with conservative voters.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Air America Radio
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban
Discussion: The Green Knight
Clarice Feldman / The American Thinker:
While the media focuses on handwritten notations by the Vice President on a newspaper article, there is much more to be gleaned from late Friday's court filings in the Libby case.  The spin says that damaging new evidence has surfaced.  But the filings by Fitzgerald reveal how rapidly his case is sinking.
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Immigrant Supporters To Counter Bush Speech  —  New Alliance Ready To Make Itself Heard  —  As President Bush prepares to address the nation tonight about immigration, a newly formed network of groups that organized demonstrations for illegal immigrants is conference calling …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
FIRST MISLEAD, THEN POLL  —  I'm traveling on business, so the first thing I saw this morning was the USA Today that was delivered to my hotel room.  It prominently features the USA Today/Gallup poll that finds respondents disapproving of the NSA's phone number database by 51% to 43%.
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
The Return Of Voodoo Economics  —  Republicans Ignore Their Experts on The Cost of Tax Cuts  —  Nobody serious believes that tax cuts pay for themselves, as I noted last week.  But most senior Republicans flunk this test of seriousness.  —  In January, George W. Bush declared that …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Reform bill to double immigration  —  The immigration reform bill that the Senate takes up today would more than double the flow of legal immigration into the United States each year and dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants.  —  The number of extended family members …
Discussion: Small Town Veteran
George Gedda / Associated Press:
U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said Monday.
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog and lgf
Kevin Kelly / New York Times:
Scan This Book!  —  Correction Appended  —  In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths.  They are assembling the universal library page by page.
Discussion: Althouse, The Agonist and SIVACRACY.NET
time.blogs.com:
It'll Be Gore?  —  A reader predicts: … I'd dismiss this if a very canny Republican hadn't said exactly the same thing to me the other night.  I still cannot see it.  But in politics, anything can happen, I suppose.  —  (Photo: Frederick M Brown/Getty).
Fox News:
Transcript: First Lady Laura Bush on 'FNS'  —  The following is a partial transcript of the May 14, 2006, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, these are tough times for the Bush White House, and who better to discuss …
 
 
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Come Again?  —  Tony Snow Is Back at the White House …
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Richard A. Posner / Opinion Journal:
A Domestic CIA  —  We need a spy agency that operates inside the U.S.
CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER
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BBC:
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Gregory / belgraviadispatch.com:
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IRAN?  —  We find ourselves locked in something of a deadlock with Iran.
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Par for the Corps
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Wagging the Dog, and a Finger
Gene / Harry's Place:
Questions for Chavez  —  I suspect Hugo Chavez will be surrounded …
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Only the Beginning?  —  The NSA has our phone records …
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The CIA: Dusty's Troubled Trails
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue

 
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