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GOP.com:
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS — The Facts About Border Security and Immigration Reform — Administration And Bipartisan Group Of Senators Reach Agreement On Comprehensive Immigration Reform — Today, Administration Officials And A Bipartisan Group Of Senators Reached Agreement On Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation.
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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Adversaries praise a relentless Kennedy — As clock ticked, senator pressed sides for a pact — Jubilant yesterday, Senators Mel Martinez (left), Lindsey O. Graham, and Edward M. Kennedy had spent hours in sometimes heated negotiations to craft a compromise bill on immigration.
Michelle Malkin:
The J. Wellington Wimpy immigration plan: Amnesty now, enforcement later — Republicans in Washington who are embracing the Bush-Kennedy amnesty will tell you the package is tough on enforcement because the millions of illegal aliens who are here now will be deported later if they fail to meet …
Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
Senators, administration craft immigration compromise — The bill, seen as last chance for reform before '08 election, creates a path to citizenship and temporary-worker program only after border security measures are in place. — WASHINGTON — After months of painstaking negotiations …
Media Matters for America: Politico article on White House-Senate immigration agreement quoted only Republicans
Allahpundit / Hot Air:Amnesty fallout: A permanent Democratic majority? …
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
How Battles at Bank Ended 'Second Chance' at a Career — Paul D. Wolfowitz was ready to move on from the Pentagon in early 2005. He had been thwarted in his effort to become defense secretary or national security adviser. And the war in Iraq had deteriorated.
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DownWithTyranny!, TAPPED, The Glittering Eye, The Washington Note, Prairie Weather, Obsidian Wings, Wonkette and Washington Post
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The Atlantic Online:Poor Paul... Steven Weisman offers us an all-too-sympathetic Paul Wolfowitz retrospective:
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Grasping Reality …
White House:
Press Gaggle by Tony Fratto — White House Conference Center Briefing Room — MR. FRATTO: Good morning, everyone. The President had his normal briefings this morning; taped the radio address — as you can imagine, it's on comprehensive immigration reform, so look forward to that.
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Capitol Briefing, Booman Tribune, Midtopia, The Carpetbagger Report, First Draft, The Heretik, The Impolitic and New York Times
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Jon Ward / Washington Times:
Gonzales faces Senate no-confidence vote — The U.S. Senate will take a "no-confidence" vote in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales next week, Democrats said yesterday, as calls for Mr. Gonzales to resign intensified among lawmakers in his own party. — "It seems the only person …
Editor and Publisher:
Reporters Demand Answers On 'Ashcroft Hospital Visit' — NEW YORK At a press briefing this morning at the White House, reporters peppered Bush spokesman Tony Fratto with questions about the growing intrigue surrounding the attempt to get a hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on domestic spying in xxx.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Talks Between White House And Congressional Dems Breaking Down — The meeting between Dem Congressional leaders and the White House over how to resolve the Iraq war spending standoff has just ended, and it looks like things are at a serious impasse. — Dem leaders just said at their post …
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Crooks and Liars
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Douglas W. Kmiec / Washington Post:
Testimony in a Teacup — What's Overlooked in Comey's Histrionics — James Comey's Senate testimony on Tuesday was staggeringly histrionic. It has, as Sen. Arlen Specter suggested, the dramatic flair of the Saturday Night Massacre. Presidential emissaries seeking the signature …
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todayskccr.com:
Two hurt, two arrested in stabbing — Two people were injured and two others arrested in a stabbing incident last night that Pierre Police are calling gang related. — A 22 year old man is facing two counts of aggravated assault and is in the Hughes County Jail.
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Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
House Democratic Leaders Write to President Bush on — Troop Pay Raises, Widows' Benefits — May 18th, 2007 by Jesse Lee — As noted yesterday, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy (pdf) declaring their opposition to a 3.5% pay raise for the troops …
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
In Rudy's heart & on payroll — Judith Giuliani got $125G to craft speeches — Being Mrs. Rudy Giuliani can't be easy, but at least it pays well - about $10,000 a month. — A day after the former mayor disclosed in federal filings that he considers his third wife, Judith, a salaried employee …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Don't Blame Bush — The president has done just what his party wants and expects.
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Firedoglake, Blog of the Moderate Left, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather, Brian Beutler and Norwegianity
Greenpeace:
Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers — So. The day of reckoning has come - when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil is still paying for. — This is the company which, apparently, has been "misunderstood" on global warming and has said it has dropped its funding of the deniers.
Brian Beutler:
Brooksian wrongism — I'm not sure what the point here is. Brooks leads his column with a pretty big claim: that the Iraq war will devastate international governments for years to come. But then, rather than backing up said claim, he proceeds to write a glowing review of a book called Brave …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read — It would be wrong to call the House ethics committee incompetent. Because, really, it ably strives to make itself as irrelevant and impotent as possible. — Please take a moment out of your day to appreciate its efforts. — From Roll Call (sub. req.):
Jerusalem Post:
Shin Bet foils plot to kill Olmert — A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who works for the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed on Thursday.
CNN:
Four arrested in Iraq 'honor killing' … BAGHDAD, IRAQ (CNN) — Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested four people in connection with the "honor killing" last month of a Kurdish teen — a startling, morbid pummeling caught on a mobile phone video camera and broadcast around the world.
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
Center of Attention … The Gun Toting Liberal: "Bush Amnesty For Illegal Aliens Bill Passes Senate As President Lures Border Agents To Iraq With Six-Figure Salary Offers" — Andrew Sullivan quotes a reader who describes todays republican right-wing as being fascist. Libby Spencer responds (and agrees with Andrew).
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