Counterbalance: Thu. 1 June
THE BUZZ OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
LOCAL NEWS
About 170 Washington Post staff take buyouts
WASHINGTON (www.signonsandiego.com) -- About 70 reporters, editors, photographers and newsroom administrators have taken early retirement offers from The Washington Post Co. amid declining circulation at its flagship newspaper.
ECONOMY
Strong growth of economy no coincidence
(www.heritage.org) -- Almost lost in the clamor over illegal immigration, Americans got some good economic news last week when President Bush signed legislation that will extend the 15 percent tax rate on dividends and capital gains through 2010.
US POLITICS
No good arguments for Jefferson
(www.townhall.com) -- Some members of Congress are now accusing the White House of overstepping their authority in searching the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA).
Third Time
America may be ready for a new political party.
(WSJ) -- Something's happening. I have a feeling we're at some new beginning, that a big breakup's coming, and that though it isn't and will not be immediately apparent, we'll someday look back on this era as the time when a shift began.
GORE, HILLARY GO WHERE BUSH FEARS TO TREAD
May 31, 2006 (www.vote.com) -- Green isn’t what it used to be. It was once just the color of the trees and grass that the environmental movement tried to protect. But now it is also the color of the three dollar bills Americans must suddenly pay for a gallon of gas.
Time for some GOP obstructionism
(www.worldnetdaily.com) -- The prevailing mentality among Beltway Republicans is that passage of an imperfect immigration bill before the November elections is better than no bill at all. They might just find out how wrong they are when they experience the inevitable conservative backlash.
Blacking Out Speech
McCain-Feingold’s Assault on Freedom
(aei.org) -- In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson became president and swept his party into power due, in part, to the country’s overwhelming opposition to the Sedition Act of 1798. This act was a deliberate attempt by the Federalists in power to silence their political opponents.
IRAQ CONFLICT
The Truth About Haditha
(vdare.com) -- Democrat Rep. John "Cut and Run" Murtha thinks he knows the truth about Haditha—and he has been blabbing it to every last cable show host that will host him. The loose-lipped former Marine has accused troops of wantonly killing some two dozen civilians, including children, "in cold blood" in the terrorist stronghold in Iraq last November. There are two ongoing military investigations into the incident itself and the actions of higher-ups in the Haditha aftermath. Read more.
Haditha Allegations Aren't Typical of Our Military
The Haditha Story
(www.realclearpolitics.com) -- The accelerating media feeding frenzy over the alleged killings of twenty-four Iraqi civilians in Haditha by US Marines last November is about to overwhelm American politics. Propelled by their most irresponsible war critics, the left will try use Haditha as it used My Lai thirty years ago: as a political tool to take apart America's support for the war and to shatter the legitimacy of our cause and the morale of our troops.
Marine Captain: I'm a 'Political Casualty' of Haditha Killings Probe
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A Marine captain who was relieved of command after members of his battalion were accused of killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq, denied any role in the slayings and complained that he had become a "political casualty."
ILLEGAL ALIENS
Immigration agency head slams Senate's alien bill
(www.washingtontimes.com) -- The Senate immigration bill makes the same mistake as the 1986 amnesty by restricting the ability of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to share information on illegal alien guest-worker applicants who are criminals and terrorists, the agency's director said yesterday.
SE PUEDE GET TWO YEARS TAX-FREE!
(www.anncoulter.com) -- If Congress adopts the Bush plan and gives amnesty to illegal aliens, Senate Republicans will be asking President Cheney for a pardon.
Between a Rock and 'Reform'
No Immigration Bill Would Be No Tragedy
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- "Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky?" Lenin asked. "He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There is no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything." The immigration debate, which is mostly among, and dangerous primarily to, Republicans, is becoming like that.
IRAN NUCLEAR CRISIS
Condi's Iran Gambit
(WSJ) -- When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly released a long, insulting letter seeking direct talks with the U.S. last month, President Bush dismissed it as unworthy of reply. But yesterday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered the real U.S. answer: Yes.
ENTERTAINMENT
Review: An Inconvenient Truth
(www.spectator.org) -- It's true that I am a natural skeptic about prophecies of doom from scientists and other experts. And if the media buy into these prophecies and make them the subject of endless scare stories -- as they did about "the population explosion" some years ago, before it became clear that it would be population implosion we had to worry about -- I am even more likely to set my face against them. But the real clincher, I don't mind telling you, and the thing that is sure to persuade me there is nothing to worry about, is the presence of Al Gore as the pitchman for the apocalypse. Al has supposedly come out in a new and improved edition in his new film, directed by Davis Guggenheim, An Inconvenient Truth, and he naturally has the international media and even the beautiful people at Cannes cooing over him and it. Some are saying that he deserves another shot at the presidency in 2008 and citing the example of Richard Nixon, another two-term vice president who narrowly lost an election to succeed to the presidency and who then came back eight years later to win it. But, to me, Nixon never looked anywhere near as phony as Al Gore looks in An Inconvenient Truth.
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LOCAL NEWS
About 170 Washington Post staff take buyouts
WASHINGTON (www.signonsandiego.com) -- About 70 reporters, editors, photographers and newsroom administrators have taken early retirement offers from The Washington Post Co. amid declining circulation at its flagship newspaper.
ECONOMY
Strong growth of economy no coincidence
(www.heritage.org) -- Almost lost in the clamor over illegal immigration, Americans got some good economic news last week when President Bush signed legislation that will extend the 15 percent tax rate on dividends and capital gains through 2010.
US POLITICS
No good arguments for Jefferson
(www.townhall.com) -- Some members of Congress are now accusing the White House of overstepping their authority in searching the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA).
Third Time
America may be ready for a new political party.
(WSJ) -- Something's happening. I have a feeling we're at some new beginning, that a big breakup's coming, and that though it isn't and will not be immediately apparent, we'll someday look back on this era as the time when a shift began.
GORE, HILLARY GO WHERE BUSH FEARS TO TREAD
May 31, 2006 (www.vote.com) -- Green isn’t what it used to be. It was once just the color of the trees and grass that the environmental movement tried to protect. But now it is also the color of the three dollar bills Americans must suddenly pay for a gallon of gas.
Time for some GOP obstructionism
(www.worldnetdaily.com) -- The prevailing mentality among Beltway Republicans is that passage of an imperfect immigration bill before the November elections is better than no bill at all. They might just find out how wrong they are when they experience the inevitable conservative backlash.
Blacking Out Speech
McCain-Feingold’s Assault on Freedom
(aei.org) -- In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson became president and swept his party into power due, in part, to the country’s overwhelming opposition to the Sedition Act of 1798. This act was a deliberate attempt by the Federalists in power to silence their political opponents.
IRAQ CONFLICT
The Truth About Haditha
(vdare.com) -- Democrat Rep. John "Cut and Run" Murtha thinks he knows the truth about Haditha—and he has been blabbing it to every last cable show host that will host him. The loose-lipped former Marine has accused troops of wantonly killing some two dozen civilians, including children, "in cold blood" in the terrorist stronghold in Iraq last November. There are two ongoing military investigations into the incident itself and the actions of higher-ups in the Haditha aftermath. Read more.
Haditha Allegations Aren't Typical of Our Military
The Haditha Story
(www.realclearpolitics.com) -- The accelerating media feeding frenzy over the alleged killings of twenty-four Iraqi civilians in Haditha by US Marines last November is about to overwhelm American politics. Propelled by their most irresponsible war critics, the left will try use Haditha as it used My Lai thirty years ago: as a political tool to take apart America's support for the war and to shatter the legitimacy of our cause and the morale of our troops.
Marine Captain: I'm a 'Political Casualty' of Haditha Killings Probe
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A Marine captain who was relieved of command after members of his battalion were accused of killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq, denied any role in the slayings and complained that he had become a "political casualty."
ILLEGAL ALIENS
Immigration agency head slams Senate's alien bill
(www.washingtontimes.com) -- The Senate immigration bill makes the same mistake as the 1986 amnesty by restricting the ability of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to share information on illegal alien guest-worker applicants who are criminals and terrorists, the agency's director said yesterday.
SE PUEDE GET TWO YEARS TAX-FREE!
(www.anncoulter.com) -- If Congress adopts the Bush plan and gives amnesty to illegal aliens, Senate Republicans will be asking President Cheney for a pardon.
Between a Rock and 'Reform'
No Immigration Bill Would Be No Tragedy
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- "Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky?" Lenin asked. "He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There is no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything." The immigration debate, which is mostly among, and dangerous primarily to, Republicans, is becoming like that.
IRAN NUCLEAR CRISIS
Condi's Iran Gambit
(WSJ) -- When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly released a long, insulting letter seeking direct talks with the U.S. last month, President Bush dismissed it as unworthy of reply. But yesterday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered the real U.S. answer: Yes.
ENTERTAINMENT
Review: An Inconvenient Truth(www.spectator.org) -- It's true that I am a natural skeptic about prophecies of doom from scientists and other experts. And if the media buy into these prophecies and make them the subject of endless scare stories -- as they did about "the population explosion" some years ago, before it became clear that it would be population implosion we had to worry about -- I am even more likely to set my face against them. But the real clincher, I don't mind telling you, and the thing that is sure to persuade me there is nothing to worry about, is the presence of Al Gore as the pitchman for the apocalypse. Al has supposedly come out in a new and improved edition in his new film, directed by Davis Guggenheim, An Inconvenient Truth, and he naturally has the international media and even the beautiful people at Cannes cooing over him and it. Some are saying that he deserves another shot at the presidency in 2008 and citing the example of Richard Nixon, another two-term vice president who narrowly lost an election to succeed to the presidency and who then came back eight years later to win it. But, to me, Nixon never looked anywhere near as phony as Al Gore looks in An Inconvenient Truth.
Tags: Daily, terrorism, Middle East, Iran, IAEA, nuclear, Arab, Islam, Bush, UN, U.N., United Nations, United States, Iraq, War, Military, terrorism, Middle East, Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition, border wall, Immigration, Mexico, illegal, Aliens, Asia, economics, environment, Global Warming
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Tension
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