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6:25 PM ET, May 14, 2007

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Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani's Legacy  —  Anyone who watched Rudolph W. Giuliani preside over ground zero in the days after 9/11 glimpsed elements of his strength: decisiveness, determination, self-confidence.  —  Those qualities were also on display over the months he directed …
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Kathleen Lucadamo / NY Daily News:
Bloomy tops Rudy in battle of the titans  —  Daily News poll shows overwhelming support for billionaire  —  Michael Bloomberg is not only a better mayor of New York than Rudy Giuliani - he'd make a better President, too.  —  That's the result of a Daily News poll released today that asked …
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Mayor Denies Political Bid but Fuels Talk With Actions
Nico / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign  —  The AP reports: … UPDATE: Last week, the New York Times suggested that McNulty was considering resigning, possibly over a growing divide between his supporters and those of Gonzales: … UPDATE II: Gonzales releases a statement …
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ABCNEWS:
Gingrich Says There Is a 'Great Possibility' He Will Run for President  —  The Former Speaker of the House Warns GOP Hillary Clinton Has a Good Chance of Becoming President  —  Newt Gingrich for president?  It could happen.  —  In an interview with Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America …
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Defense Skirts State in Reviving Iraqi Industry  —  Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq.  One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs.  The State Department has even taken the unusual step of enlisting …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon limits troops' Web access  —  WASHINGTON - Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home.  —  It just got tougher to do that for Zimmerman and a lot of other U.S. soldiers.
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Stars & Stripes:
DOD blocking YouTube, others
Discussion: First Draft and Redstate
Michael Scherer / Salon:
The Matt Drudge primary  —  How professional political operatives secretly control the news you read about the 2008 campaign.  Hint: It involves the Drudge Report.  —  Photo composite of Matt Drudge.  —  WASHINGTON — John McCain's "Bomb Iran" scandal almost never happened.
Tom Grubisich / Washington Post:
Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall  —  These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones.  There's one massive exception — the Internet.  It is, we are told, a giant town hall.  Indeed, it has millions of people speaking out in millions of online forums.
Charles Bremner / Times of London:
Shock as Sarkozy woos anti-US leftwinger  —  Nicolas Sarkozy, the right-wing reformer who becomes French President on Wednesday, upset both the United States and his opponents yesterday by offering the job of Foreign Minister to a Socialist veteran with anti-American credentials.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Lieberman Helps Collect Cash for Collins  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) is never going to win any popularity contests among his party's liberal base — a fact he seems decidedly unconcerned about despite his 2006 Democratic primary loss to Ned Lamont.  —  Not only has Lieberman endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.)
Discussion: Power Line and Daily Kos
David H. Petraeus / Michael Yon:
Values Message  —  One of the reasons I trust General Petraeus is he just comes right out and says what needs to be said.  The letter which he sent to our forces serving in Iraq (posted below) is a case in point.  The letter is more important than it might appear on first glance.
Timothy Garton Ash / New York Review of Books:
The Stasi on Our Minds  —  a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 216 pp., Ä8.50 (paper)  —  One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination …
Discussion: Spectator and Washington Monthly
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War  —  Good news for war foes: Harry Reid just spoke on the Senate floor, revealing that he'll allow a vote this week on the Feingold-Reid amendment, which would cut off funding for the war by March 31, 2008.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TalkLeft
Edward / Heading Right:
Norm Coleman Live Blog  —  Just preparing for the live blog of Norm Coleman's speech at the University of Minnesota.  Stay tuned!  —  10:05 CT - Larry Jacobs introduces the series of speakers, talking about the U's open-government projects.  This is one of a series of events, and I'm going to try to make a few of these.
Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Militants kill U.S. soldier in Pakistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants killed a U.S. soldier and a Pakistani on Monday after a meeting held in a Pakistani frontier town seeking to calm the worst clashes in years between Afghan and Pakistani troops policing a border crossed daily by Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents.
Bryan / Hot Air:
To InstaPundit: No, they won't  —  I get the warning and humor of this line, but frankly I'm tired of it.  Prof. Reynolds needs to hit the books. … He's right that the credible threat of violence drives people all over the world to bow to unreasonable Muslim demands …
Bill Roggio / Daily Iraq Report:
Iraq Report: The search, Kurds attacked, SCIRI, Sunni moves  —  The search is on for the 3 missing soldiers who are believed to have been captured after a complex assualt on a U.S. Army patrol on the outskirts of Mahmudiyah Saturday morning.  Over 4,000 troops, along with aerial and satellite surveillance …
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Media, Giuliani and Abortion; Sharpton's Standards  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): The abortion obsession.  The media target Rudy Giuliani as the only pro-choice Republican in the race.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
The Blotter:
U.S. Air Marshals Flooding German, British Flights  —  Richard Esposito and Rhonda Schwartz Report:  —  As many as five or six U.S. air marshals are now assigned to each U.S.-bound flight from airports in Frankfurt, London and Manchester, England, because of fears terrorists might attempt …
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Hot Air
Associated Press:
Teachers fake gunman attack on sixth graders … MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) — Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
Rick Popely / Chicago Tribune:
Long loans put dent in auto sales  —  Extended payments force more would-be buyers to delay trading up to new vehicles  —  VEHICLE; FINANCE; CONSUMER; ECONOMY; VEHICLE; SALE — John Guido, dealer principal of Arlington Heights Ford, thinks his sales have suffered from a combination …
 
 
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Defining Patriotism Down  —  Presidential wannabe John Edwards wants …
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Federal Loans for Coal Plants Clash With Carbon Cuts
Justin McCarthy / NewsBusters.org:
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Cutting the Grass  —  Congressional Democrats prepare another assault …
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