(it's a few days old but i never saw it in LB)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is expected to bypass the Senate and appoint an outspoken Middle East scholar to a federal think tank over the objections of Democrats and others who say he is anti-Muslim.
According to sources close to the matter, Bush intends to appoint Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
The move would come just weeks after Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee raised strong objections to Pipes' nomination, forcing the panel to postpone a vote on the appointment.
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