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3:00 PM ET, May 29, 2007

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CBS News:
Cindy Sheehan Calls It Quits  —  Anti-War Activist And Mom Of Killed G.I. In Iraq Resigns Role As "Face" Of Movement  —  (CBS/AP) Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced Monday she is giving up her role as the "face" of the American anti-war movement.  —  "I've been wondering …
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David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
It's Something About Those Orange Backgrounds...
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM) and Flopping Aces
Angela K. Brown / Associated Press:
'It's up to you now': Sheehan quits
Discussion: In From the Cold and All Spin Zone
Mike Glover / Obama'08:
Obama Offers Universal Health Care Plan  —  Democrat Barack Obama is offering a sweeping plan that would provide every citizen a means to have health coverage and calls on government, businesses and consumers to share the costs of the program.  —  Obama said his plan could save …
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Ezra Klein:
Preventive Care vs. Health Care?
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Unfogged
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Romney to donate salary if elected
Discussion: Townhall.com and The American Mind
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Progress in Iraq likely to miss target  —  Military officers doubt any of the three top goals will be achieved before the September assessment.  —  BAGHDAD — U.S. military leaders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that most of the broad political goals President Bush laid out early this year …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush the Neoliberal  —  Years ago, someone coined the term "neoliberal."  I was never sure what it meant, and it has since fallen into disuse, but whatever the case, I'd like to revive (and mangle) the term and apply it — brace yourself — to George W. Bush.  He's more liberal than you might think.
Rafael Noboa / Agence France Presse:
Venezuela protests TV clampdown by Chavez  —  CARACAS (AFP) - President Hugo Chavez's clampdown on opposition television stations widened Monday as police used rubber bullets and tear gas on demonstrators protesting what they called an attack on free speech.
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Social conservatives bite bullet, back Rudy  —  Rudy Giuliani, whose positions on abortion and homosexuality mark him as the most socially liberal Republican presidential candidate in more than a generation, is so far winning the contest for the support of social conservatives, according to a new analysis of recent polls.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Campaign Puts New Strain on Secret Service  —  Big Field and Early Start Force Cuts in Other Efforts  —  The U.S. Secret Service expects to borrow more than 2,000 immigration officers and federal airport screeners next year to help guard an ever-expanding field of presidential candidates …
Discussion: Don Surber and This ain't Hell …
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Sooner Rather Than Later  —  COBURN OK  —  Sen. Tom Coburn is mulling an entry into the Republican presidential primary, according to sources inside and outside the Senate.  Coburn, a senator from Oklahoma, is believed to be receiving encouragement from a small group of wealthy businessmen …
Michael Powell / New York Times:
TO TEMPER IMAGE, GIULIANI TRADES GROWL FOR SMILE  —  ATLANTA — Oh, baby, here it comes.  The gray-haired woman raises her hand and compliments His Honor for his Sept. 11 bravery.  Then she asks him:  —  Why does so much of the world hate us?  Haven't we failed to understand Arab grievances?
Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Black Helped Frum Stay in the Black  —  I recently obtained financial records that showed that in late 2000 David Frum, the former speechwriter for President Bush, received monthly payments of $16,667 from Conrad Black's Hollinger International.  Black, the media magnate, is currently on trial for fraud and racketeering in Chicago.
Discussion: Norwegianity and Think Progress
Peter Berkowitz / Opinion Journal:
The Conservative Mind  —  The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't.  —  The left prides itself on, and frequently boasts of, its superior appreciation of the complexity and depth of moral and political life.  But political debate in America today tells a different story.
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Rules 'hiding' trillions in debt  —  Liability $516,348 per U.S. household  —  The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
"Verschärfte Vernehmung"  —  The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation".  Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation".  It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture …
BBC:
Outcry over TV kidney prize  —  A Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.  —  Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors.
Discussion: Althouse, On Deadline and Truthdig
David A. Patten / Middle East Quarterly:
Is Iraq in a Civil War?  —  Many politicians have determined Iraq to be in a civil war.  "We're not fighting terrorism in Iraq," Rep. John Murtha (Democrat-Penn.) said on January 27, 2006, "We're fighting a civil war in Iraq."  [1] He is not alone.  On November 27, 2006 …
David Barboza / New York Times:
China Sentences Former Drug Regulator to Death  —  The former head of China's top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.  —  Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as director …
New York Times:
Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia  —  When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
 
 
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Andrew Bolt:
Shut up about Islam, and be safe
Amanda / Think Progress:
PHOTOS: The $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq
Discussion: TomDispatch
National Review:
Texas is a Better Place
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Thunderous boos for Miss USA at Miss Universe pageant …
New York Times:
Editorial: Forget Ethics, Remember Politics
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
After everything we did for them  —  Tony Blair, in The Sunday Times this weekend:
White House:
President Bush Discusses Genocide in Darfur, Implements Sanctions
Darrell Issa / Washington Post:
The Case for Talking to Syria
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Gunmen Abduct Westerners in Iraq, Officials Say
Discussion: IraqSlogger.com and Hot Air
Ron Haskins / Washington Post:
The Rise Of the Bottom Fifth
Nancy Cleeland / The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed:
Why I'm Leaving The L.A. Times
Jeffrey Goldberg / New Yorker:
PARTY UNFAITHFUL
New York Times:
Editorial: Make a Bad Bill Better
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
For Cloaked Saudi Women, Color Is the New Black
Katherine Zoepf / New York Times:
Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria