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12:35 PM ET, June 14, 2006

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Spate of Good News Gives White House a Chance to Regroup  —  In a White House that had virtually forgotten what good news looks like, the past few weeks have been refreshing.  A Republican won a much-watched special congressional election.  President Bush recruited a Wall Street heavy hitter as Treasury secretary.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In Iraq Visit, Bush Seizes on a Step Forward  —  WASHINGTON, June 13 — In visiting Baghdad on Tuesday, President Bush was trying to deliver a carefully calibrated message to Americans: that Iraq and the administration's strategy there appear to be turning a corner, but troops will not be withdrawn anytime soon.
Austin Bay / StrategyPage:
Bush's Suprise Visit to Baghdad
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
Associated Press:
Bush upbeat about Iraqis securing country
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Don't call it a comeback  —  News outlets are filled …
Discussion: The Grit
U.S. Newswire:
CAIR: Pentagon Calls Online Song 'Insensitive,' 'Inappropriate'; Music Video 'Contrary to the High Standards Expected of All Marines'  —  Contact: Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726 or ihooper@cair-net.org
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and redorbit.com
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littlegreenfootballs.com:
Mainstream Media Disgrace of the Month: Hadji Girl
Chris Mazzolini / jdnews.com:
Humor attempt falls flat
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
New York Post:
RUDY GOES NUCLEAR  —  FORMULA FOR '08 SUCCESS  —  June 14, 2006 — A small gathering in Mid town yesterday got a sneak peek at Rudy Giuliani's formula as he gears up for a likely 2008 presidential run.  That formula: one-third leadership, one-third technocratic centrist and one-third radical conservative reformer.
Discussion: Hot Air and Decision '08
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Giuliani Says Nation Lacks Energy Policy  —  Challenging fellow Republicans in Washington, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that the Bush administration lacked an energy policy and that greater reliance on nuclear power, ethanol-based fuels and hybrid vehicles was more realistic …
Discussion: The RCP Blog and The Next Hurrah
Hotline On Call:
Giuliani's Big Evening
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Liberal Activists Boo Clinton  —  Rejection of Iraq Timetable Gets Cool Reception at Conference  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew boos and hisses from an audience of liberal activists yesterday as she defended her opposition to a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Clinton Seeks Middle Ground in Abortion Debate
Discussion: Balkinization and Big Brass Blog
Anna Schneider-Mayerson / New York Observer:
Robert Luskin Sends Bush's Brain Message on Plane: 'Case Over'; Attacks Blogosphere  —  The message reached Karl Rove on his BlackBerry: "FITZGERALD CALLED.  CASE OVER."  —  Strapped into his seat, his cell phone darkened in preparation for takeoff on a flight to New Hampshire …
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Analysis: Telling FBI the truth saved Rove
New York Times:
No Rove Charges Over Testimony on C.I.A. Leak
Discussion: TalkLeft
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can't recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that.  —  The $1,000 payment was just one example cited …
David Morgan / Reuters:
US officials seeing new home-grown terror cells  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities are discovering new home-grown cells of Islamist radicals in the United States that draw inspiration and moral support from al Qaeda, officials said on Tuesday.
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CNN:
Web site: Al Qaeda IDs 20th 9/11 hijacker
Discussion: Hot Air
Editor and Publisher:
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Orders U.S. Reporters to Exit Guantanamo  —  NEW YORK In the aftermath of the three suicides at the notorious Guantanamo prison facility in Cuba last Saturday, reporters with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald were ordered by the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the island today.
Discussion: Hit and Run and Poynter Online
Honest Reporting:
Gaza Beach Libel  —  Following Palestinian claims and the media reports of Israeli culpability in deaths on a Gaza beach, the real story emerges...  It is now becoming clear that, despite the claims of the Palestinians and the international media's rush to blame Israel …
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
RWN's Ann Coulter Interview #3  —  John Hawkins: Do you think teachers are underpaid?  —  Ann Coulter: The good ones are, that's why they deserve merit pay.  The bad ones are  —  overpaid.  Too bad their unions don't let us distinguish between the two.  —  John Hawkins: Is global warming occurring and caused by mankind?
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Could a 15-Year-Old With a Laptop Be the New Campaign Media Guru?  —  Daily Kos's convention — the in-person gathering of the nation's most-read online political blog — was practically carpeted with presidential candidates.  But perhaps the most notable presentation came from Ava Lowery …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Baltimore Examiner:
Lorie Byrd: Whatever happened to truth in politics?  —  WASHINGTON - Many have lamented the lack of civil discourse in the world of politics today.  It seems the "new tone" has too often fallen on deaf ears.  Civility in political debate is frequently missing and if the current controversy …
Tom Harris / canadafreepress.com:
Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe  —  "The Inconvenient Truth" is indeed inconvenient to alarmists  —  "Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth" …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Maybe Not Morning in America, but at Least Out of the Dark  —  Within hours of hearing yesterday morning that Karl Rove wouldn't be prosecuted in the CIA leak case, Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), the chief of the Democrats' campaign to retake the Senate, hurried to the press gallery to blunt the damage.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Webb Wins Democratic Nomination In Virginia  —  Ex-Republican to Face Allen for U.S. Senate  —  Virginia Democrats yesterday chose Vietnam War hero James Webb to challenge Sen. George Allen (R), siding with their party's national leadership, which had declared the former Republican …
 
 
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