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Hardball airs on MSNBC at 7p, 11p & 4a ET & 4p, 8p & 1a PT Find MSNBC on your TV http://www.msnbc.com/CableOperator.asp MSNBC also is on your XM satellite radio on channel 130 Russert's book about his dad is out in paperback so we'll celebrate that in the front half of the show...We'll do the "Big Russ-Little Russ" thing and also hit a number of au courant topics with two of the smartest political analysts in the business... Later in the show former CIA agent Gary Schroen will give us his take on how the U.S. is faring in the Global War on Terror (GWOT)...He was the man after September 11th who was charged with going into Afghanistan to find and kill Bin Laden... Also around town, former first lady Nancy Reagan is being honored tonight at, where else?, The Ronald Reagan building, at a big gala dinner...We're sending Shuster and a producer to cover the red carpet and will dip in with live coverage...Cheney is expected to speak and Tony Bennett will provide entertainment...Andrea Mitchell will "anchor buddy" the coverage... Please join us...Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC Five blasts leave 61 dead in Iraq...Attacks now average 70 a day, double earlier months (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7777352/ Chronology- Blitz of Iraq bomb attacks (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8456340 The Pentagon said on Tuesday the main body of insurgents in Iraq has shifted west from their former bastions in Falluja and Ramadi as U.S. troops pressed an offensive there along the Syrian border. (Reuters) http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10376120.htm Insurgents in western Iraq fight to finish...'They came here to die,' Marine sergeant says (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7809867/ Congress OKs $82 billion for wars...Iraq cost to top $200 billion; Army to ask for more (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7809208/ 2 Afghans killed in anti-U.S. protests...U.S., Afghan forces open fire on rioting students in Jalalabad (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7810656/ 'Inactive' grenade found near Bush speech site...Georgian official denies device thrown during appearance in Tbilisi (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7781473/ Critics of the USA Patriot Act on Tuesday called for the Senate to temper the anti-terrorism law's provisions that let police conduct secret searches of people's homes or businesses, but defenders say since no abuses have been documented the law should be renewed. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050511/D8A0V8U00.html McCain urges GOP compromise on filibusters...Sen. John McCain has urged the Senate's GOP majority to cut a deal with Democrats over President Bush's judicial nominees even as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist warns that a confrontation over judicial filibusters could come next week. (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7810709/ The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-10-ridge-alerts_x.htm Conservatives rally around DeLay...Heading into tomorrow night's celebration banquet for Tom DeLay, conservatives say the House majority leader is in better shape to weather ethics accusations now than he was six weeks ago when they began to plan a defense strategy. (The Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050510-113801-2891r.htm A top aide to John Bolton, President Bush's embattled nominee as U.N. envoy, threatened to diminish the role of the State Department's intelligence bureau because of a dispute over analyzing China's missile export controls, according to declassified e-mails. (Reuters) http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-05-10T230924Z_01_N10125405_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-BUSH-BOLTON-DC.XML Big rulings due from Supreme Court...Justices to weigh in on medical pot, Commandments displays, more (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7805638/ The U.S. Army said on Tuesday it had awarded $72 million in bonuses to Halliburton Co. for logistics work in Iraq but had not decided whether to give the Texas company bonuses for disputed dining services to troops. (Reuters) http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-05-10T225759Z_01_N10123920_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-IRAQ-HALLIBURTON-DC.XML The son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon plans to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for her senate seat next year, a source told The Post yesterday (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/46352.htm\ Opinion/Editorial Tony: An awkward GOP spring...Republicans have regained their fighting spirit http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050510-084731-1042r.htm Mondo Washington: Two Wars Too Many...Neocons hunt for the right surrogate at the right time to take on Iran http://villagevoice.com/news/0519,mondo1,63824,6.html Conason: And You Thought World War II Was Over? http://nyobserver.com/pages/conason.asp Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/ ========================================= This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. 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