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2:35 PM ET, May 30, 2006

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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Source: Paulson replaces Snow at Treasury  —  WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary John Snow has resigned and will be replaced by Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., a senior administration official said Tuesday, in another chapter of a White House shake-up to revive President Bush's troubled presidency.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton Is A Politician Not Easily Defined  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton has fashioned a political persona that generates intense passions but defies easy characterization.  She is viewed as a hawk on Iraq and national security, stamped as a big-government Democrat for her work on health care in the 1990s …
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Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Takeover of House, Senate not likely
Jeff Zeleny / Chicago Tribune:
OBAMA IN '08?  —  Can a promising politician go to Washington …
Discussion: Time and The Huffington Post
New York Times:
Justices, 5-4, Limit Whistleblower Suits  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for government employees to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated against for going public with allegations of official misconduct.  —  By a 5-4 vote, justices said the nation's 20 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Haditha: Marine eyewitnesses come forward (Update: Audio and video of the attack?)  —  There are two, according to the AP.  They weren't there during the incident but they took photos and helped carry out the bodies afterwards.  —  One of them, Lance Cpl. Ryan Briones, was interviewed by the LA Times:
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
AP: Reid Arguably Not Beyond Reproach  —  If at first you don't succeed...  Back in February, the AP's John Solomon ran a lengthy piece detailing alleged contacts between Jack Abramoff's team at Greenberg Traurig and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV).  As Josh pointed out, although the article concentrated …
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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Senate leader took free boxing tickets  —  Clutching his hands to his heart, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., center, calls for lawmakers, and especially Republicans, to clean up the tainted relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists, at a Democratic political event to outline …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker, TAPPED, Hot Air and Ezra Klein
New York Times:
Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists  —  By some reckonings, the death of two journalists working for CBS News on Monday firmly secured the Iraq war as the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times.  —  Since the start of the war in 2003, 71 journalists have been killed in Iraq …
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CBS News:
Wounded CBS Reporter 'Responsive'  —  Kimberly Dozier Now In Germany For Treatment; Colleagues Douglas, Brolan Are Mourned  —  (CBS/AP) CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier - critically wounded Monday by a bomb that killed cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan …
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, May 29 — The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge of violence linked …
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Associated Press:
"We Are Determined"  —  SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer.  Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the Iranian national team plays against Mexico in Germany?  —  Ahmadinejad: It depends.  Naturally, I'll be watching the game in any case.
Harriet Brown / New York Times:
Well-Intentioned Food Police May Create Havoc With Children's Diets  —  Earlier this year, our small Midwestern school district joined the food wars, proposing a new policy that would discourage all food in classrooms, ban nuts and sugary foods and do away with vending machines.
Brendan Murray / Bloomberg:
Rove May Find `It's the Economy, Stupid' Won't Work (Update1)  —  May 30 (Bloomberg) — Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser, laid out a plan to win the 2002 congressional elections by stressing national security.  For 2006, Rove is framing a strategy for Republicans to sell the U.S. economy.
Discussion: FP Passport
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
New Policy Adviser Admits Altering Text  —  Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's new domestic policy adviser, acknowledged he did something wrong when he took a newspaper profile of himself, altered quotes and text, and then posted it on a Web site without noting the changes.
Georgie Anne Geyer / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Is the tide finally turning in Mexico?  —  Funny thing about Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to the American West last week: It didn't turn out as one would have expected.  —  The tall, lanky, laconic "presidente," who seemed to offer such hope to Mexico when he was elected five years ago …
Washington Post:
Lead figure in phone jam to advise GOP contenders  —  Charles McGee back to work after prison  —  May 29.  —  major figure in the Election Day phone-jamming scandal that embarrassed and nearly bankrupted the New Hampshire GOP is out of prison and back in the political game.
 
 
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Dems say oil execs, Bush Admin set to gain from estate tax repeal
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
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The Purpose Driven Life Takers
Amba / Donklephant:
"Politics is at its most invigorating when it's cacophonous and chaotic."
Discussion: The Mahablog, Newsweek and The Fix
Kevin McCullough / Townhall.com:
Hillary asks gay activists for marriage amendment help
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Acting on Assumptions with Iran & Iraq
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USA Today:
Nation splits 4 ways on illegals
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