Barack Obama on Thursday did not rule out selecting rival Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate if he ultimately defeats her in a race in which he has an almost insurmountable lead. 5-9
McCain sponsored a landswap bill that resulted in free land for one of his donors, and the largest real estate development contract in Arizona history for another donor. 5-9
Government
More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. 5-8
A Hillary Clinton supporter who sits on the DNC Rules Committee plans to object if Hillary tries to get Michigan and Florida delegates seated 5-8
Democratic leaders in Congress unveiled energy legislation yesterday targeting big oil companies and members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The package drew sharp criticism from Republicans, oil firms and foreign policy experts. 5-8
Republican congressman admits affair. With a woman 5-8
George McGovern switches from Clinton to Obama. 5-8
It's Really Over No, seriously you guys, it's over. Someone tell Hillary. 5-8
Do the math yourself: interactive delegate counter dares you to come up with a realistic scenario in which Hillary wins 5-8
Former single-term governor and presidential candidate Romney on Obama: "... he has not accomplished anything during his life ... He really has very little experience." 5-8
Congressman proposes a ban on the sale of explicit magazines on military bases, because the sight of women's breasts promotes violence or something 5-8
Clinton lends her campaign $6.4 million 5-8
After a month solid of telling voters what they should be concerned about, the media finds out that voters care about John McCain's relationship with George W. Bush more than Obama and Wright 5-8
Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless they seat Florida & Michigan 5-8
Clinton: Obama Not Winning Over "Hard-Working Americans, White Americans" 5-8
Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Ends Campaign Now 5-8
McCain’s other pastor problem: Rod Parsley. 5-8
Hagee Reneges On Retraction Of His Katrina Comments: ‘God Always Punishes Unconfessed Sin’ 5-8  OK, so to recap those last two stories: If a pastor says that a catastrophic terrorist attack is in retaliation to our foreign policy... that's crazy. If a pastor says a catastrophic hurricane and the federal bungling of the response is punishment from god for an upcoming gay parade... that's totally OK.
McCain’s Big Idea: Create A Human Trafficking Task Force (That Already Exists) 5-8
Embattled Special Counsel Scott Bloch defends spending taxpayer money on custom-made hand towels. 5-8
Get Your Facts Right, Karl Rove 5-8
The videos that could pose a problem for McCain 5-8
Iraq
Ex-Gitmo detainee blows himself up in suicide attack. Conservatives say "told ya so," reality says "maybe being denied basic human rights for a few years breeds resentment" 5-8
Security developments in Iraq, May 8
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Max Boot Compares Walled Baghdad Neighborhoods To American Gated Communities 5-8
Iraq, U.S. move to avert Baghdad water shortage 5-8
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 7 May
Iraqi government prepares for 'big push' into Shiite enclave 5-8
Afghanistan
Taliban governor killed in raid-Afghan ministry 5-8
Six Taliban including two commanders killed in occupied Afghanistan 5-8
Iran
Bolton on whether Bush might bomb Iran before he leaves office: ‘I think so, definitely.’ 5-8
Iran said on Wednesday that a blast in a mosque that killed 13 people in the southern city of Shiraz last month was indeed a bombing and that the suspected mastermind had been arrested. 5-8
Iran Blames U.S., Britain for Mosque Explosion That Killed 12: "The blast ... was caused by a bombing by a terrorist group with links to Western countries, especially Britain and America," the ISNA news agency quoted Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei. 5-8
Israel and Palestine
Aqsa foundation deplores Israeli diggings in an Islamic cemetery in Abbasiya 5-8
A Human Rights Crime By Jimmy Carter: The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty. 5-8
Foreign Affairs
Chinese ship with seventy-seven tons of weapons bound for Zimbabwe offloads in Angola. What could possibly go wrong? 5-8
George Bush, the US president, has said he is extending sanctions against Syria following Washington's charge that Damascus has been building a nuclear reactor with North Korea's help. 5-8
Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the United States of mounting an imperialist conspiracy against Russia that could push the world into a new Cold War 5-8
Ecuador says Colombia committed 'crimes against humanity' in raid on rebel camp 5-8
Venezuela proposes oil-for-food fund 5-8
Human Rights
In Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge. 5-8
The Pentagon took its new $12 million war court complex out for a test run Wednesday with the arraignment of an alleged al Qaeda propagandist - and the state-of-the-art facility failed. 5-8
Civil Liberties
The Rev. Al Sharpton and dozens of others were arrested Wednesday amid a series of protests throughout the city, part of a response to the acquittals of three New York City undercover detectives in the killing of an unarmed groom on his wedding day. 5-8
Telecom companies have “presented congressional Democrats with a set of proposals on how to provide immunity to the businesses that participated in a controversial government electronic surveillance program.” 5-8
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter: Gag Order Lifted on Internet Archive, Allowing Founder to Speak Out for First Time 5-8
Michigan Supreme Court ruled “that a 2004 ban against gay marriage also blocks governments and state universities from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers. 5-8
McCain on equal pay: ‘I don’t think you’re doing anything to help the rights of women.’ 5-8
McCain has a long record of failure on women’s issues, earning him a 0 percent rating from NARAL ProChoice America six years in a row, from 2001-2007. 5-8
Environment
Americans rank last in a new National Geographic-sponsored survey released Wednesday that compares environmental consumption habits in 14 countries 5-8
All those scientists who supposedly question the science behind global warming? Yeah, not so much 5-8
Bush signs Wild Sky wilderness bill. Fishing accomplished 5-8
All those scientists who supposedly question the science behind global warming? Yeah, not so much 5-8
Media
"Experts" on public radio show say worries about antidepressants causing suicide are "overblown." By the way, the show gets grants from Eli Lilly, makers of Prozac. 5-8
Memo to the media: Have you hosted on air the person who told Rumsfeld at military analyst meeting, "You are the leader. You are our guy"? 5-8
Neocons and the Truth: Bitter Enemies to the End 5-8
Corporate America
Telecom companies have “presented congressional Democrats with a set of proposals on how to provide immunity to the businesses that participated in a controversial government electronic surveillance program.” 5-8
Vote Fraud
Isn’t that just like the GOP?  Others hear about not letting 80 and 90 year old nuns vote and they shake their heads and say, “that’s awful.”  But the GOP–in this case the Oklahoma State Senate GOP majority–see it as opportunity. 5-8
Economy
Consumers increase their borrowing in March at the fastest pace in 4 months 5-8
Editor's Picks
6 Tips For Getting Yourself To Do Something You Don't Want To Do 5-8
"The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty." 5-8
Investigate the Pentagon Pundit Project - and the New York Times - Yourself, Online (Updated) 5-8
Refresher: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand 5-8

Government
Bush admits that he's broken another Federal law, but since no one's going to arrest him, it doesn't matter. 5-7
Wesley Clark reportedly called Hillary last night, urging her to drop out 5-7
Hillary Clinton cancels all public appearances 5-7
A quote Hillary probably would like to take back: "This primary election on Tuesday is a game changer...The entire country -- probably even a lot of the world -- is looking to see what North Carolina decides," 5-7
EPA Associate Deputy Administrator Jason Burnett – dubbed “the John Yoo of the EPA” — announced his departure from the agency. Burnett had been responsible for crafting legal arguments that promoted arsenic in drinking water, catered to industry on mercury regulations, overruled scientists on soot health standards, and defied the Supreme Court’s decision on global warming. 5-7
Ledeen one-ups Bolton: It’s ‘time to attack’ Iranian AND Syrian terror camps. 5-7
More on Ledeen 5-7
Desperate Clinton camp to step up efforts to states where Obama either wasn't on the ballot or didn't campaign 5-7
MSNBC confirms Hillary Clinton loaned herself $6.4 million last month to fund her campaign 5-7
Republicans fear harvest after reaping what they sowed 5-7
Just like Bush: McCain cited Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito as models of the kind of jurists he would nominate as president. 5-7
Did Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" win Indiana for Hillary? 5-7
Exit Polls Confirm: “Operation Chaos” Abject Failure 5-7
Missouri GOP specifically targeting Ron Paul's delegates, forcing them to attend a "credentials meeting" to prove they're bona-fide Republicans. 5-7
Just like Bush again: John McCain wants us to set up a missile defense system in Czechoslovakia. You know, that country that hasn't existed in decades 5-7
Beyond Bush: Apparently unaware that it is no longer 1918, John McCain proposes "a League of Nations" to combat world problems 5-7
"Crude oil could rise to as much as $200 per barrel within the next 2 years. Where are Clinton and McCain on that? The answer is: nowhere. They’re trying to buy your vote for 18 cents a gallon for three months" 5-7
Bush issues veto threat of Dem housing bill 5-7
Courts and Justice
Kyl Shackles Justice Department Watchdog To Bush Administration’s Whims 5-6
NY appeals court weighs IDs of abused Guantanamo detainees 5-6
Iraq
Security developments in Iraq, May 7
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 6 May 2008
German air mission pre-Iraq war was unlawful-court 5-7
"Battle for Haditha" dramatizes one of the most controversial incidents of the Iraq war -- the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines 5-7
Kurdistan bracing for possible cholera outbreak 5-7
Iraq Oil Ministry extends deadline for pipeline to and from Iran 5-7
A new war spending bill proposed by House Democrats would prohibit using U.S. aid to rebuild towns or equip security forces in Iraq unless Baghdad matches every dollar spent, lawmakers said Tuesday. 5-7
Iraq yesterday signed two deals worth US$5 billion ($6.37 billion) to buy 40 planes from Boeing and 10 planes from Canada's Bombardier to upgrade Iraqi Airways' ageing fleet, the finance minister said. 5-7
Afghanistan
Blast kills 2 soldiers of Afghan NATO-led force 5-7
Security developments in Iraq, May 7
AFGHANISTAN: Agriculture Ministry calls for US$2.5 billion aid programme 5-7
Drugs undermine Afghanistan's efforts to rebuild 5-7
Iran
Afghans escape poverty via cheap U.S. labour: Said Mohammed spends eight hours a day six days a week cementing walls with his bare hands, earning just $3 a day. 5-7
Iraq urges Iran, U.S. to talk 5-7
Iran accused NATO on Wednesday of being indifferent towards Afghanistan's growing drugs problem and called on European states to help Tehran fight smuggling of heroin and other narcotics from its neighbour. 5-7
Iraq Oil Ministry extends deadline for pipeline to and from Iran 5-7
For years, U.S. officials have aired accusations against Iran, insisting that Tehran is stoking Iraq's violence by keeping up a flow of money, weapons and trained fighters into the country. The Iraqi government, however, remains unconvinced - with good reason. 5-7
Iran says U.S. aids rebels at its borders 5-7
Israel and Palestine
Israeli siege contaminates potable water in Gaza Strip 5-7
Israeli President: Nuclear Iran would be 'nightmare'; Israel must remain sole Mideast nuclear power 5-7
Foreign Affairs
Two killed in Somalia riot over food 5-7
Human Rights
Gore: It Is ‘Obscene’ That Bush Has Dismissed ‘George Washington’s 200-Plus Year Prohibition On Torture’ 5-7
Iraqi Citizen Sues U.S. Contractors Over Abu Ghraib Torture 5-7
Al-Hajj says US wanted him to spy 5-7
Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal: Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes 5-7
Environment
EPA Associate Deputy Administrator Jason Burnett – dubbed “the John Yoo of the EPA” — announced his departure from the agency. Burnett had been responsible for crafting legal arguments that promoted arsenic in drinking water, catered to industry on mercury regulations, overruled scientists on soot health standards, and defied the Supreme Court’s decision on global warming. 5-7
Politicians rethink food-based ethanol 5-7
Veterans' Issues
House Veterans Committee chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) “lashed out” at Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake yesterday during a hearing for having previously attempted to “cover up” veterans suicide data. 5-7
Media
Chris Matthews Admits: MSNBC Bosses Were "Basically Pro-War" 5-7
Matthews, Russert Admit They’ve Given John McCain A Free Pass 5-7
FoxNews jumps the shark while discussing class in America (video) 5-7
The "liberal media" that begged for the tax return of Kerry's wife isn't doing the same for McCain's 5-7
William Kristol (R-PNAC), now suggests that John McCain name 36-year-old Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as his running mate due to Jindal's age and Indian heritage 5-7
Glenn Beck Brings On Caller ‘Honky Whitesville’ For Attack On Michelle Obama. That's Klassy with three Ks 5-7
Hispanic media coalition calls Limbaugh’s comment ‘nasty, bigoted, racist.’ 5-7
Axis of Logic Cut Off From Google News 5-7
URUKNET CUT OFF FROM GOOGLE NEWS AGAIN! 5-7
Economy
Surging prices for copper and nickel have some in Congress pushing for steel-made pennies and nickels, which cost 1.26¢ and 7.7¢ to produce 5-7
Editor's Picks
Nuns in their 80s and 90s turned away from polls for not having IDs, by a fellow nun 5-7

Government
Hillary Clinton cancels her scheduled appearances on Wednesday's morning talk shows. All of them 5-6
Obama takes NC, Hillary takes IN, Limbaugh takes credit.  5-6
FBI agents raid Office of Special Counsel offices. Looking into whether man investigating Karl Rove's use of his office for political gain has used his office for political gain. 5-6
There Is No 'Nuclear Option' for Hillary to Seize the Nomination at the Dem Convention. The speculation that Hillary's campaign might try to override the voting process to get the nomination ignores DNC rules. 5-6
Rebels who have stepped up attacks on Nigeria's oil industry in the last month said on Sunday they were considering a ceasefire appeal by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama. 5-6
Laura Bush Discusses Jenna's Wedding During Myanmar Press Conference 5-6
Primary day conventional wisdom: Obama will take NC, Clinton will win Indiana, the voters will endure the torture of six more primaries, the party is torn further apart, McCain continues to avoid scrutiny, and Rush Limbaugh will try to take credit for it all. 5-6
A high ranking Pentagon officer has been quoted talking about the "strategic political value" of starting 9/11 trials before November. 5-6
Hopes for an Obama come-from-behind victory in Indiana are dashed because he is "too much Islamic." 5-6
Republicans going Democrat in Indiana 5-6
Gov. Matt Blunt or his top deputies ordered Missouri’s backup e-mail tapes to be destroyed to avoid complying with an open-records request from The Associated Press 5-6
House Judiciary Committee voted to subpoena David Addington, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, to compel him to testify about the administration’s interrogation programs. 5-6
Hillary Clinton, who has resided in a chauffeur-driven bubble for the past 20 years, portrays herself as a woman of the people. Barack Obama, raised by a single mother and who paid off his college loans just a few years ago, is the elite snob 5-6
Obama picks up three superdelegates in Illinois 5-6
Bush builds limestone altar for daughter's wedding. Because with the dollar in the dumper, half the country in foreclosure and Al-Qaeda at pre-9/11 strength, that's a really good use of his time 5-6
Courts and Justice
Kyl Shackles Justice Department Watchdog To Bush Administration’s Whims 5-6
NY appeals court weighs IDs of abused Guantanamo detainees 5-6
Iraq
You know those IED-proof armored vehicles we've shipped to Iraq? 5-6
The former top U.S. commander in Iraq, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, said former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik’s efforts to train Iraqi police in 2003 were “a waste of time and effort. 5-6
Baghdad Disneyland financier tells Iraqis: ‘I’m not here because I think you’re nice people.’ 5-6
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 5 May 2008 5-6
Security developments in Iraq, May 6
U.S. withdrawing third "surge" brigade from Iraq 5-6
Afghanistan
The Pentagon has concluded it can’t send additional troops to Afghanistan until sizable numbers of forces withdraw from Iraq 5-6
Iran
N.Y. Times's coverage on Iran's link to Iraqi insurgents is alot like Aluminum tubes 2 5-6
Bolton: Striking Iran ‘Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do’ 5-6
Israel and Palestine
Gaza: Agriculture ministry: Poultry sector collapses after depletion of natural gas 5-6
Foreign Affairs
Heavy weapons, including tanks and missiles, returning to Red Square for this year's victory parade 5-6
Sudanese air force bombs Darfur school, killing 7 children. 5-6
Human Rights
A black man is “11.8 times more likely than a white man to be sent to prison” on drug charges, and a black woman is 4.8 times more likely than a white woman, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. 5-6
New Abu Ghraib Torture Claims Filed Against Military Contractors, According to Legal Team for Former 'Ghost' Detainee 5-6
Documents Confirm Psychologists Collaborated with “War on Terror” Torture Program 5-6
Civil Liberties
Looking Muslim or Middle Eastern, taking pictures and showing curiosity about a car ferry while on vacation in the US? You win a global manhunt by the FBI 5-6
Veterans' Issues
Suicides of Afghanistan and Iraq war vets may exceed combat deaths, due to poor health care 5-6
WWII veteran commits suicide outside of VA. "No matter what I apply for at the VA, they turn me down" 5-6
House Democrats are preparing “a war spending measure that would include extended unemployment assistance and new educational benefits for returning veterans. 5-6
Iraq and Vietnam veterans find common ground 5-6
Media
Rush Limbaugh says Clinton-Obama race is proceeding precisely according to his plan. This is your brain on drugs. 5-6
N.Y. Times's coverage on Iran's link to Iraqi insurgents is alot like Aluminum tubes 2 5-6
Limbaugh openly encourages his listeners to break Indiana election law 5-6
Limbaugh on Hispanic mayor of LA: I thought he was either a ’shoe shine guy or a Secret Service agent.’ 5-6
Corporate America
Baghdad Disneyland financier tells Iraqis: ‘I’m not here because I think you’re nice people.’ 5-6
Church and State
The evangelical movement is re-discovering the values of helping the poor and being stewards of the Earth. 5-6
Vote Fraud
Indiana's Incredible Shrinking Voter List 5-6
Economy
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last night “endorsed the need for government intervention” in stemming home foreclosures, “saying that letting markets take their own course could ‘destabilize communities, reduce the property values of nearby homes and lower municipal tax revenues.’” 5-6
Editor's Picks
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi 5-6
Washington U. to honor anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly. 5-6

Government
Don't think Hillary will destroy the democratic party to get the nomination? Think again. 5-5
Why is Steny Hoyer working to REVERSE Democrat’s Victory on FISA? 5-5
Even the right wing newspapers get it. "[Hillary] is acting like one of our own" 5-5
Pro-Hillary group gets in trouble for robo-calling voters after the primary registration date, causing them to question their registration status. 5-5
When faced with quotes about Iraq being a paradise, tearing down the 9th ward, not understanding the economy and WMD, McCain has a clear strategy: Deny ever having said it 5-5
John McCain took a break from the campaign trail to watch the Arizona Diamondbacks take on the New York Mets. McCain was greeted with “subdued cheers and a smattering of boos” when he was shown on the stadium's big screen. 5-5
Hillary Clinton pre-2008: We need gun control. Hillary now: Obama hates guns and I'm Annie Oakley pew pew pew vote for me. Bonus: To prove it, she sends out a mailer depicting a rifle that couldn't possibly exist in real life 5-5
New Jersey feels buyer's remorse after voting for Clinton by 10 points on Super Tuesday, now supports Obama 45-38 5-5
After Hillary calls economists who disagree with her gas tax "elitists," she claims her donor base is responsible for the recession 5-5
After serving for just over a year as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, Carl J. Artman is leaving the Bush administration. His resignation comes as a surprise to many Indian leaders and U.S. government officials, but some who know him said increasing frustrations with the bureaucracy of the BIA played a role in his early exit. 5-5
The Defense Department has spent billions to fix its antiquated financial systems. So why does the Pentagon still have no idea where its money goes? 5-5
Iraq
The Pentagon wants to spend billions of dollars to transform the Baghdad green zone to a resort with fountains, luxury hotels, condos, and amusement parks. 5-5
Four marines killed by roadside bomb in Anbar. 5-5
Security developments in Iraq, May 5
Gunmen pull Iraqi journalist from taxi, kill her 5-5
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 3 May 2008
A US air strike damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital's violent Shia stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, injuring 20 people, as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militiamen. 5-5
Iraq Family Describes How US Occupation Forces Killed Their 2 Year Old Son: Hussein's mother recounted being buried in rubble and crawling around the home, looking for her children. 5-5
Afghanistan
Al Qaeda behind attack on Karzai - Afghan spy chief 5-5
Troops accused of passing captives to Afghan torturers 5-5
The United States is considering sending an extra 7,000 troops to Afghanistan next year to make up for a shortfall in contributions from NATO allies, The New York Times reported yesterday. 5-5
Iran
Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran 5-5
Militants from Hezbollah “have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to detainees who were only tortured for a few months 5-5
Iraq Backs Off Allegations That Iran Is Behind Violence 5-5
Iran calls new talks with U.S. on Iraq meaningless 5-5
Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against militants, the head of a delegation from Iraq's ruling Shi'ite alliance said on Saturday after returning from a visit to Tehran. 5-5
U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday 5-5
Central Asia
Turkmenistan's new ruler is working to undo the craziness of his predecessor, like renaming the days of the week after his family and the golden statue of himself that rotated to always face the sun 5-5
The coalition government of Pakistan has agreed to reinstate the country's chief justice and 60 other judges deposed last year under a controversial order by President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could threaten Musharraf's tenuous grip on political power. 5-5
Foreign Affairs
Conservative American lobby group sends 11,000 brochures and DVDs to Canadian schools, telling them that global warming is exaggerated 5-5
Bolivian province votes itself autonomy. 5-5
Turkey 'kills 150 Kurdish rebels' 5-5
A spokesman for the Kurdish rebel PKK said that none of its fighters were killed during the Turkish air strike in northern Iraq 5-5
Human Rights
The National Park Service is considering management changes that could give the Oglala Sioux Tribe control of the 208-square-mile South Unit of Badlands National Park. One option includes the complete return of the area to the tribe. 5-5
Indigenous journalists m