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1:40 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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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 …
Michelle Malkin:
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE  —  Here we go again.  —  President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive "guest worker"/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby.  A few weeks ago, Bush's Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance …
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BUSH: WE CAN'T BOOT 11M ILLEGALS  —  TV SPEECH TO PITCH GUEST-WORKER PLAN  —  May 15, 2006 — WASHINGTON - In his live, nationally televised address tonight, President Bush will tell Americans that it's impossible to deport the estimated 11 million illegal aliens living here.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico
Rep. Tom Tancredo / Human Events:
Come Home, Mr. President
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Bush speech open thread: Hoy blogamos, mañana no votamos
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Conservatives debate Bush impeachment over immigration
Discussion: Rook's Rant and NewsHog
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Live-Blogging Bush's Illegal Immigration Speech
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Gateway Pundit:
Take the Edge Off Tonight with the Open Border Drinking Game
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:
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.
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Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. to restore relations with Libya  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Libya and remove the North African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the State Department announced Monday.  —  The removal from the terrorism list …
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.
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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 …
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John McIntyre / The RCP Blog:
'Intellectuals' Pining for Higher Tax Rates
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Conservative Christians Warn Republicans Against Inaction  —  WASHINGTON, May 13 — Some of President Bush's most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning that they will withhold their support …
TalkLeft:
Leopold Responds to Corallo's Denial of Fitzgerald - Luskin Meeting  —  Last night, I spoke to Jason Leopold on the phone for a half hour or so.  Here's what he had to say about Byron York's article stating that Karl Rove's spokesman Mark Corallo told him that Jason's article Saturday reporting sources told …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring  —  Administration Won't Comment on NSA Logs  —  When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was …
White House:
MR. McCLELLAN: Not necessarily.  —  Q — if a staffer is interviewed, is that staffer expected, have they been given guidance internally, to report that to the Counsel's Office, so the Counsel's Office knows?  —  MR. McCLELLAN: No. No.  —  Q On Cuba, the President mentioned trying to strengthen —
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
FIRST MISLEAD, THEN POLL
Tips / Philebrity:
The First Annual Philebrity 'Who Will Buy The Inky?' …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
GOP Is Not Law-and-Order Party On Immigration, Democrats Say
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Come Again?  —  Tony Snow Is Back at the White House …
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Noam Chomsky's Love Affair with Nazis
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
Fox News:
Transcript: First Lady Laura Bush on 'FNS'
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans
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Daily Mail:
The BBC's latest star - a baffled cabbie
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Kevin Kelly / New York Times:
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Reform bill to double immigration
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

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

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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