Thursday Edition - May 4, 2006

• Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq AP

• Iraq Body Count

• 10 Iraqis killed outside Baghdad court USA Today

• Car Bombing in Baghdad Kills 8, Wounds 46 Washington Post

• Rumsfeld Not Expecting Troop Exit Too Soon AP

• Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion Guardian Unlimited, UK 

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President Bush says the national anthem should only be sung in English, but he was apparently singing a different tune during his first run for President and at his inaugural festivities.
On the campaign trail in 1999, Bush would often sing along as the national anthem was sung in Spanish during stops in Hispanic communities, GOP scholar Kevin Phillips wrote in his book "American Dynasty."
 

U.S. Senator Trent Lott left a phone message on a recent morning for new White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, telling him there was no need for a return call. He got one anyway.

Lott, a Mississippi Republican who complains that he had ``zero'' communication with Bolten's predecessor this year, said the gesture shows that President George W. Bush's White House is starting to get the message that it needs to reach out.
 

Rush Limbaugh is in his comfort zone: full spin mode. Even as the talk radio host is being held responsible for breaking the law by seeking multiple pain pill prescriptions, he used his radio pulpit to claim vindication after 21/2 years of fighting The Man.

Some vindication. He turned himself in to the Palm Beach County Jail on the felony, and was fingerprinted, photographed and released on $3,000 bail. This, he absurdly insists, is not an "arrest."
 

A British music composer has come out with a Spanish language version of our national anthem, which is great for Americans. Now we'll have two versions that we won't know the words to.-- Jay Leno
 

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Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project...Ms. Wilson has remained virtually silent throughout the leak investigation, though she did pose with her husband for a photograph in Vanity Fair. No details were available about the contents of her proposed book.
 

With eight months left in office, Gov. Jeb Bush is more helpless bystander than lame duck.

He waits for his final hurricane season in office with a worrisome new wrinkle: The potential for a Katrina-like flood disaster around Lake Okeechobee, with warnings about a weakened dike that could fail in a big storm and bring New Orleans-type misery to Belle Glade and Pahokee.
 

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006
 

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