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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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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.
The New / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator Says Gonzales Might Quit — Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales might resign rather than face a potential no-confidence vote in the Senate. — Senate Democrats have said they would bring …
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Chitra Ragavan / US News:Getting in Deeper... Another week reveals more lapses in judgment by the Bush team
David Wiessler / Reuters:Top Republican predicts Gonzales may resign
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Sen. John McCain / MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for May 20, 2007 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Should the United States set a firm deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq? Yes, says Democratic presidential candidate Senator Chris Dodd. No says possible Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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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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Shakesville
Mike McConnell / Washington Post:
A Law Terrorism Outran — In 1978, the first cellular mobile phone system was still being tested, a personal computer's memory had just been expanded to 16 kilobytes and our greatest threat was the largest nation-state on Earth, the Soviet Union. That same year, the framework governing …
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Gateway Pundit:
Death Toll at 65 in Lebanon- Wanted Terrorist Among Dead — One of the men killed in Sunday's fighting, Saddam El-Hajdib, was a suspect in a failed German train bombing a sign that Nahr al-Bared refugee camp had become a refuge for militants planning attacks outside of Lebanon.
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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 …
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.
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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The Atlantic Online
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 …
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.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Second Life for Study Group — After an initially tepid reception from policymakers, the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group are getting a second look from the White House and Congress, as officials continue to scour for bipartisan solutions to salvage the American engagement in Iraq.
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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," …
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 …
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
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 …
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