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10:10 AM ET, June 5, 2006

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Qais Al-Bashir / Associated Press:
Gunmen seize at least 50 at Iraq bus stops  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen in police uniforms raided bus stations Monday in central Baghdad, seizing at least 50 people, including drivers and passengers preparing to travel outside Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
NEWS.com.au:
Students gunned down  —  GUNMEN have dragged 24 people …
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Page 53  —  Twenty four people have been killed without provocation in Iraq.
Discussion: The Peking Duck
New York Times:
Details Emerge About Suspects in Canada Bomb Plot  —  MISSISSAUGA, Canada, June 4 — Several of the people arrested by Canadian authorities in a huge counterterrorism sweep over the weekend regularly attended the same storefront mosque in a middle-class neighborhood of modest brick rental townhouses and well-kept lawns.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Canadian Border Proves Difficult to Secure  —  Tighter border controls between the United States and Canada are likely to be less useful than better domestic intelligence and information-sharing in detecting homegrown terrorist plots in North America, terrorism experts said yesterday.
Discussion: Wonkette and Hugh Hewitt
Toronto Star:
Plot began in chat room
Debra Rosenberg / Newsweek:
Politics of the Altar  —  GOP leaders are putting gay marriage back on the agenda.  Will voters respond?  —  June 12, 2006 issue - Back in 2004, suburban Seattle pastor Alec Rowlands watched with dismay as gay couples in Massachusetts flocked to courthouses and churches, exchanged vows and walked away legally wed.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush expected to jump-start debate over same-sex marriage
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof and Hullabaloo
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Reward for the Hereditary Elite . . .  It doesn't matter if you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican.  There is no possible excuse for doing what Congress is poised to do this week: Abolish the estate tax.  —  The federal government faces a future of expanding deficits.
Discussion: TAPPED
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Jeff Sessions / Washington Post:
. . . Or Unfair Burden on Families?
Discussion: Decision '08
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule  —  The Pentagon's move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition.  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention …
Thomas Lipscomb / Real Clear Politics:
The Truth, John Kerry, and The New York Times  —  Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:   Kerry takes up the Swift Boat charges
Hartford Courant:
Paul Bass  —  Seasonal Memory Lapses  —  Medical researchers have identified a host of causes for amnesia, from encephalitis to traumatic brain injury.  —  I've discovered another cause: political campaigns.  —  Exhibit A: The current campaign in Connecticut for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:   Where is the establishment defense of Chafee and Akaka?
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Medical Privacy Law Nets No Fines  —  Lax Enforcement Puts Patients' Files At Risk, Critics Say  —  In the three years since Americans gained federal protection for their private medical information, the Bush administration has received thousands of complaints alleging violations …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Monica Davey / New York Times:
In State Races, Tough Questions About Abortion  —  IOWA CITY, June 2 — Even in a room of sixth graders sitting cross-legged on the floor, usually the safest of venues for political candidates, the question emerged from one sweet face: What is your position on abortion?
Discussion: Feministe
CBS News:
Florida: 'A Paradise Of Scandals'  —  Steve Kroft Talks To Columnist/Novelist Carl Hiaasen  —  (CBS) This story originally aired on April 17, 2005.  —  In a little less than a century, the state of Florida has been transformed from a largely uninhabited swamp to the fourth-largest state in the union.
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Bar group will review Bush's legal challenges  —  WASHINGTON — The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and BlondeSense
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Pluribus Sine Unum  —  Will the Senate impose race-based government on Hawaii?  —  America's motto is "E pluribus unum," Latin for "Out of many, one."  Some U.S. senators seem to be reading it backward.  This week the Senate will consider legislation that would create an independent, race-based government for Native Hawaiians.
Washington Post:
For Deals, Jefferson Built Web Of Firms  —  On May 12, 2005, over dinner with business partner and FBI informant Lori Mody, Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) furtively scrawled the letter "c" on a sheet of paper, and next to it wrote some numbers indicating that he was demanding …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Potentially Presidential Pols Pass in A Va. Night  —  RICHMOND — Two ex-governors with presidential dreams.  A constellation of groupies for each.  One hotel ballroom.  —  The orbits of former governor Mark R. Warner (D) and U.S. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) collided Saturday …
 
 
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Reuters:
PA workers withdraw wages from local banks after 3-month delay
Discussion: BBC and ThreatsWatch.Org
Matthew Chung / Toronto Star:
Police chief pleads for calm
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Cold Fury
Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
Newsroom Lessons From The Wen Ho Lee Fiasco
Discussion: War and Piece and Eschaton
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Bush Knows His History
Bob Kemper / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
McKinney probe enters 3rd month
Discussion: The RCP Blog
Daniel Gross / New York Times:
When Sweet Statistics Clash With a Sour Mood
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
The Political Mood  —  Brent Budowsky is guest blogging …
Washington Times:
Tehran's useful idiots?
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
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Jere Longman / New York Times:
The Americans, Seriously  —  In his polo shirt, pleated pants …
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Security Comes at a Cost in Iraq's South
Michael Pollan / New York Times:
Mass Natural  —  "Elitist" is just about the nastiest name …
BBC:
Tehran warns of fuel disruptions
Wayne Slater / Dallas Morning News:
GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves
David Horovitz / Jerusalem Post:
Palestinian support 'crashes' in Europe
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and GINA COBB
Mike McGarry / Rocky Mountain News:
State, U.S. would be far better off without flood of illegal immigrants
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The White House Without a Filter