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2:00 PM ET, May 14, 2007

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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.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Truthdig
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Associated Press:
Parents Outraged After Elementary School Teachers Stage Fake Gunman Attack  —  MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Staff members of a Murfreesboro elementary school staged a fake gunman attack during a school trip, telling them it was not a drill as children cried and hid under tables.
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
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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Club for Growth:
Rudy Giuliani's Economic Record … Rudy Giuliani Enacted Pro-Growth Policies Despite Liberal New York Environment  —  Taxes  —  The Club for Growth is committed to lower taxes-especially lower tax rates- across the board.  Lower taxes on work, savings, and investments lead to greater levels …
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Transcript: Rudy Giuliani on 'FNS'
Discussion: Lonewacko
Observer:
What I learnt from my stay with a Muslim family  —  Last week, Tory leader David Cameron spent two days in Birmingham with the Rehmans  —  The challenges of cohesion and integration are among the greatest we face.  I wrote in these pages in January that we cannot bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them.
Discussion: Daimnation!
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Melanie Phillips / Melanie Phillips's Diary:
The soft brainlessness of denying 'Islamist terror'  —  The Tory leader David Cameron says in today's Observer, after his stunt spending two days with a Muslim family in Birmingham, that the term 'Islamic' or 'Islamist' terrorism is a form of 'racism or soft bigotry' and that those who employ such terms
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Al Qaeda Claim: We Have Captured US Troops  —  UPDATE: And We Will Coordinate With The Democratic Party For Maximum Political Impact  —  Above the Fold Update: Al Qaeda knows who its allies are. … Notice Al Qaeda is not pressuring us to stay, which is odd, because I keep being told …
Discussion: Power Line and Los Angeles Times
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Musharraf Beset On All Sides  —  A dangerous life for a military dictator has grown even more precarious this weekend.  Pervez Musharraf, who has fought Islamist extremists looking to assassinate him, now faces a burgeoning battle with democractization activists angered by his suspension …
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Griff Witte / Washington Post:   Toll Mounts in Pakistan On Second Day of Clashes
Faisal Aziz / Reuters:
Pakistani troops told to shoot rioters
Discussion: The Agonist
PLS / whirledview.typepad.com:   Someone's Got Pervez Musharraf Worried (and It Isn't the Taliban)
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
High Stakes In Pakistan
Discussion: Shakesville
Washington Post:
Voter-Fraud Complaints by GOP Drove Dismissals  —  Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove to encourage more prosecutions …
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.
Discussion: Angry Bear, Hot Air and Rising Hegemon
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Blog's campaign against Calvert to intensify  —  A popular conservative blog will step up its efforts this week to force Republican leaders to pull Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) from the powerful Appropriations Committee.  In addition, the website will begin a coordinated effort to target members …
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.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Is It the Woman Thing, or Is It Katie Couric?  —  The numbers are stark.  Eight months into Katie Couric's job as the first woman to anchor a network newscast on her own, her "CBS Evening News" has not only settled back into its long-held position of last among the evening news broadcasts …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com ®:
Haven't We had Enough Good ol' Boys For a While?  —  Dean Barnett conjures up a terrifying picture (albeit not one that scares him): … That's not pop culture.  That's rural Southern culture.  Nascar.  The opiate of the good ol' boy masses.  Gary Cooper.  A great movie, but hardly au courant.
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Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
Battlefield Earth and Other Faves
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Carol J. Williams / Los Angeles Times:
Padilla case has changed a lot in 5 years  —  The trial of the onetime 'dirty bomb' suspect is opening.  An alleged jihad application may be key.  —  MIAMI — When federal prosecutors begin to present evidence Monday against terrorism suspect Jose Padilla, their case is expected to rest heavily …
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Vanessa Blum / Sun-Sentinel:
Judge in Padilla case comes under pressure
Discussion: TalkLeft
 
 
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Reuters:
Republican senator slams Iraqi government
Thomas Korosec / Houston Chronicle:
Voters welcome ban on illegal immigrant leases
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Turks rally against pro-Islamic leaders
Discussion: Jihad Watch
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Conserva-bible  —  I can't resist following Conservapedia …
Discussion: Shrillblog
ABCNEWS:
Obama Seeks War-Funding Compromise
Matt / Think Progress:
Tucker: Active-Duty Generals Will 'Revolt' Against Bush If He …
Townhall.com:
Bush Is No Reagan  —  I recently discovered that Strategic Vision …
Washington Post:
U.S., Iran Plan Talks on Pacifying Iraq
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
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CBS News:
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Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:
Shaping the future
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Vox Popoli
Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
FRANK RICH: Earth to G.O.P.: The Gipper Is Dead
Peter Beaumont / Observer:
'More troops' call as Iraq murders soar
Hindrocket / Power Line:
More Pageantry  —  It's that time of year again: the Miss …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Sonja Barisic / Associated Press:
Bush playfully conducts orchestra in Va.
Jana Winter / New York Post:
CLERK RINGS UP N.J. JIHAD JERKS
Ezra Klein / Los Angeles Times:
Give bigger government a chance
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