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10:50 AM 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to Americans: that Iraq and the administration's strategy there appear to be turning a corner, but troops will not be withdrawn anytime soon.
New York Times:
No Rove Charges Over Testimony on C.I.A. Leak
Discussion: TalkLeft
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Analysis: Telling FBI the truth saved Rove
Discussion: Think Progress
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Don't call it a comeback  —  News outlets are filled …
Discussion: The Grit
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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Bob Lewis / Associated Press:   Webb Wins Senate Primary Race in Va.
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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Hotline On Call:
Giuliani's Big Evening
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Giuliani Says Nation Lacks Energy Policy
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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
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 …
Associated Press:
Your congressman just got a raise  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.  —  The 2 percent cost-of-living raise would be the seventh straight for members of the House and Senate.
Discussion: Air America Radio and AMERICAblog
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Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
Hastert Deals Blow to Immigration Bill  —  Hopes for a quick compromise on immigration were dealt a blow Tuesday after House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he wanted to take a "long look" at a Senate bill offering possible citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants.
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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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
littlegreenfootballs.com:
Mainstream Media Disgrace of the Month: Hadji Girl  —  We've been watching this develop, as earlier today the Council on American Islamic Relations sent out one of their infamous email alerts about an amateur music video of a song about a Marine lured into an ambush by a "Hadji girl."
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Adam Brookes / BBC:
'Kill Iraqis marine song' probe
Discussion: ¡No Pasarán!
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.
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Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Rove Won't Be Charged in CIA Leak Case
Discussion: Attytood
Austin Bay / StrategyPage:
Bush's Suprise Visit to Baghdad  —  Seizing the political opportunity created by the death of terror kingpin Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, President George W. Bush flew to Baghdad on Tuesday.  —  Bush's trip surprised Iraqis, coalition troops and the international community.  It even surprised members of his staff.
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
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Editor and Publisher:
Surprise for Reporters: Bush to Baghdad
Discussion: FishBowlDC and NewsHog
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?
Gordon Nickel / National Post:
Islam: A religion of peace?  —  The problem of Muslim radicalization has been on the agenda of all nations since 9/11.  But Canada faces a unique dilemma because the doctrine of multiculturalism is seen as intrinsic to our national identity.  The recent disruption of an alleged homegrown Islamist terror plot …
 
 
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Mark Steyn / macleans.ca:
You can't believe your lyin' eyes
Mourad Benchellali / New York Times:
Detainees in Despair  —  I WAS released from the United States …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Jerry Springer, Randi Rhodes, Air America
Discussion: Shot In The Dark
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Fewer earmarks from House defense approps
Discussion: MyDD
Patrick O'Connor / The Hill:
Shadegg's memo stokes fight on pork
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Spending Cuts Even Democrats Can Support
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Indonesia releases Militant Islamic cleric
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Committee: Fire Churchill
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