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10:50 AM 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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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 …
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.
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban  —  WASHINGTON - Some election-year advice to Republicans from a high-ranking source who has the president's ear: Don't use a proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage as a campaign tool.  —  Just who is that political strategist?  Laura Bush.
Discussion: The Green Knight
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
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
Rep. Tom Tancredo / Human Events:   Come Home, Mr. President
Bull Moose:   Defend the Majority!  —  The Moose observes that the President …
Rep. Charlie Norwood / Human Events:
It Will Take 36,000 Troops for Border  —  Earlier this year Arizona …
Discussion: ParaPundit
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Cheney Penned Note About Plame, Filing Shows  —  After former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV publicly criticized a key rationale for the war in Iraq, Vice President Cheney wrote a note on a newspaper clipping raising the possibility that the critique resulted from a CIA-sponsored "junket" …
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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 …
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 …
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
A Tale of Two Surveys  —  Or, Creatively Crafting Crafty Questions For Fun and Profit.  —  Two recent surveys asked respondents about the National Security Agency and the "recent" revelations — actually four and a half months stale — that they have collected data from various phone companies …
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USA Today:
51% oppose NSA database
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 …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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).
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 and The Agonist
Daily Mail:
The BBC's latest star - a baffled cabbie  —  A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC's 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver - in the mistaken belief it was him.  —  Guy Kewney - a white, bearded technology expert - was astonished to see himself appear …
Discussion: The Sideshow
 
 
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Par for the Corps
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Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Only the Beginning?  —  The NSA has our phone records …
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GOP brews suburban blend for 'Starbucks Republicans'
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Mark Hosenball / Newsweek:
The CIA: Dusty's Troubled Trails
Sami Yousafzai / Newsweek:
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Discussion: NO QUARTER
Bloomberg:
Dollar Falls for Fifth Week Amid Waning Support From U.S. Rates
Frank Rich / truthout.org:
Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?