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6:15 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
GOP Drove Dismissals / 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 …
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Nico / Think Progress:   BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: politico.com, TIME: Swampland and MSNBC
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.
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.
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
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
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 …
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.
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
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 …
 
 
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Gov. Mark Sanford / The Politico:
SC Governor slams GOP on eve of debate
Bryan / Hot Air:
To InstaPundit: No, they won't  —  I get the warning and humor …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
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:
Rosie Advances WTC 7 Conspiracy Theory Again
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Jennifer Loven / Washington Post:
Bush Set to Announce Air Pollution Rules
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Jared Bernstein / The Coffee House:
Follow-up from Last Week and A Few Related Tidbits
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In Civil Rights Division, Workers Claim Discrimination
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Bill Roggio / Daily Iraq Report:
Iraq Report: The search, Kurds attacked, SCIRI, Sunni moves
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Siun / Firedoglake:
Introducing ... Lew Koch!
John Wilen / Associated Press:
Gas Prices Set New Record at the Pump
Discussion: Think Progress
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Endgame at the World Bank
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Cutting the Grass  —  Congressional Democrats prepare another assault …
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