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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Don't Run for the Border — America needs comprehensive immigration reform, but not a law enacted in haste. — It's understandable that the White House and its Senate negotiating partners want to rush through the compromise immigration bill they agreed to Thursday.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
AFTER AIDING BILL ON IMMIGRATION, EMPLOYERS BALK — Employers, who helped shape a major immigration bill over the last three months, said on Sunday that they were unhappy with the result because it would not cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.
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Washington Times:
Few senators support the illegals bill — Fewer than 20 senators are publicly committed to supporting the immigration deal that hits the Senate floor today while nearly 40 are already opposed or have serious concerns, underscoring how difficult it will be for President Bush and his allies to craft a coalition that can pass the bill.
Chitra Ragavan / US News:
Getting in Deeper... Another week reveals more lapses in judgment by the Bush team — For months, congressional Democrats have tried to force embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales out of his job by using what one congressional source called "conventional weapons"-incriminating E-mails …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Gingrich Cites 'Opportunity' To 'Convert All Of America' To Fundamentalism — Newt Gingrich delivered the commencement address at Liberty University this weekend, decrying what he called the "growing culture of radical secularism" and lavishing praise on the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Interviews, Going the Way of the Linotype? — The humble interview, the linchpin of journalism for centuries, is under assault. — It is a transaction that clearly favors the person asking the questions. A print reporter writes down someone's answers, then picks and chooses how much …
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Jonathan Spyer / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Why might Syria wish to sow chaos in Lebanon now? — Thirty eight people lost their lives on Sunday in fierce fighting between the Lebanese military and Sunni jihadist operatives near the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, close to the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Gay Britons Serve in Military With Little Fuss, as Predicted Discord Does Not Occur — The officer, a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force, felt he had no choice. So he stood up in front of his squad of 30 to 40 people. — "I said, 'Right, I've got something to tell you,' " he said.
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New York Times:
Emphasis Shifts for New Breed of Evangelicals — The evangelical Christian movement, which has been pivotal in reshaping the country's political landscape since the 1980s, has shifted in potentially momentous ways in recent years, broadening its agenda and exposing new fissures.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The administration's FISA falsehoods continue unabated — Mike McConnell, the Bush administration's Director of National Intelligence, has a remarkably dishonest Op-Ed in The Washington Post this morning, in which he argues for completely unspecified "updates" and "changes" to FISA in order to expand …
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Discord on the Immigration Accord — Groups on Both Sides Plan to Challenge Senate Compromise — There is little doubt about how grass-roots organizations feel about a bipartisan immigration compromise reached in the Senate: They don't like it. — The New York Immigration Coalition issued …
Ze'ev Schiff / Haaretz:
U.S. policy turnabout may enable Israel to enter talks with Syria — Washington has given Israel the green light to accept Syrian President Bashar Assad's call for peace talks, in a change of position accompanied by several preconditions. — The Bush administration has given Israel permission …
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Des Moines Register:
Mitt Romney leads Republicans — Mitt Romney has sprinted ahead of presidential competitors John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in a new Iowa Poll of likely Republican caucus participants. — The Des Moines Register poll shows Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, is the top choice of 30 percent …
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom — To cut costs and try to adapt to a changing media marketplace, The Chronicle will trim 25 percent of its newsroom staff by the end of the summer. — "This is one of the biggest one-time hits we've heard about anywhere in the country," …
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up — When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat. "Today our Revolution begins," he wrote. "Tomorrow we fight."
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Choices That Are Changing Lives in D.C. — If it were up to the children and their parents, there'd be no question that the District's five-year experiment with school vouchers would be renewed for an additional five years or more. — That's the most emphatic finding of an independent evaluation …
Bakersfield Californian:
FBI: agent was investigating vehicle when confronted by student — An FBI agent confronted by a Muslim student at the University of California, Irvine, earlier this month was trying to get a closer look at a "suspicious" truck at the time, federal authorities said Sunday.
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Little Green Footballs
The Atlantic Online:
Iraqi Civil War: Now With Better Drive Shafts — David Ignatius reaches a truly bizarre conclusion about Iraq: … This is a kind of awesomely topsy-turvey inversion of the dictum that war is politics by other means. Here, somehow, the political objectives can be screwed up and military objectives …
New York Times:
Editorial: Why This Scandal Matters — As Monica Goodling, a key player in the United States attorney scandal, prepares to testify before Congress on Wednesday, the administration's strategy is clear. It has offered up implausible excuses, hidden the most damaging evidence and feigned memory lapses …
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi leadership's failures raise pressure on U.S. — Congress may push for the premier's ouster in the coming months if no progress is made toward its 'benchmarks.' — WASHINGTON — As Iraq's government compiles a record of failure, the Bush administration is under growing pressure …
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