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1:40 PM ET, June 19, 2006

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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Democrats set to call for phased pullout  —  Congressional debate on war enters 2d week  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, seizing on public discontent over the war in Iraq, will offer legislation this week calling for a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq and a shifting of forces …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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Associated Press:
Snow: Polls won't influence Iraq strategy  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday.  —  "The president understands how a war can wear on a nation …
Discussion: Say Anything, Eschaton and AMERICAblog
Time:
Why Bush Is (Still) Winning the War at Home  —  "I was up there in the cockpit of that airplane coming into Baghdad," the President told the press corps assembled on the White House lawn after his dash into and out of the war zone last week.  "It was an unbelievable, unbelievable feeling."
CNN:
Senators spar over U.S. commitment in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Pat Roberts says setting a timetable to pull U.S. troops from Iraq would show American resolve to be "very shaky," but Sen. Dianne Feinstein says the U.S. commitment is unsustainable.  —  Roberts, a Kansas Republican …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Bush's Abuse of History  —  Snow's Battle of Bilge
CNN:
Al Qaeda-linked group claims it kidnapped 2 U.S. soldiers  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An al Qaeda-affiliated group on Monday claimed it kidnapped two U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad, although the captives were not named.  —  The group — Mujahedeen Shura Council — made the unverified claim in a statement posted on a Web site.
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Associated Press:
Group Claims It Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Associated Press:   7 U.S. Troops Wounded Looking for Comrades
Newsweek:
Doubts About Duke  —  The prosecutor insists his rape case is strong.  One big problem: the facts thus far.  —  June 29, 2006 issue - The order had come, signed by a judge, requiring that the Duke lacrosse team give DNA samples.  The prosecutor was trying to identify the three players …
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ABCNEWS:
ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Durham Republicans to Challenge District Attorney Over Duke Case  —  Frustration Over Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Investigation Weighs Heavily in GOP Challenge  —  June 19, 2006 — The Durham Republican Party will field a candidate to run against the district attorney leading …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Warned on Plan to Limit Members' Speech  —  A lawyer in the New York state attorney general's office informally warned the American Civil Liberties Union that his office had concerns about proposed standards that would limit the group's board members from speaking publicly about policies …
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Stephanie Strom / New York Times:   A.C.L.U. Board Members Debate Limits on Their Own Speech
USA Today:
NBC's chief confident on 'Today,' Brian Williams vs. Couric  —  E-mail Peter Johnson at pjohnson@usatoday.com  —  Just two weeks after CBS Evening News-bound Katie Couric said a tearful goodbye to NBC's Today, her old boss now sings the praises of her successor, Meredith Vieira …
Discussion: The Heretik and First Draft
Reuters:
Louisiana gov. signs law that would ban abortions  —  NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law a ban on most abortions, which would be triggered if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 ruling legalizing the procedure, a spokesman said on Saturday.
Discussion: Feministe
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Mideast Analysis, Fast and Furious  —  WHEN an Iraqi insurgent group releases a new videotape or claims responsibility for an attack, Western reporters in Baghdad rarely hear about it firsthand.  Nor do they usually get the news from their in-house Iraqi translators.
Washington Post:
Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized  —  Politics, 9/11 Cited in Lax Enforcement  —  The Bush administration, which is vowing to crack down on U.S. companies that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer sanctions before it began pushing to overhaul U.S. immigration laws last year, government statistics show.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Decisions: Clean Water Act reach limited  —  A pluarlity of the Supreme Court concluded on Monday that the Clean Water Act's protection of "waters of the United States" is limited to those bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continously flowing," and thus does not embrace channels through …
Discussion: How Appealing
Philip McKenna / Boston Globe:
Can this spread be stopped?  —  Lawmaker wants schools to put a lid on Fluff  —  The escalating war on junk food in schools has targeted a new enemy — that gooey, sugary, and often irresistible sandwich spread known to children everywhere as Fluff.  —  Outraged that his son …
Discussion: TAPPED and Hit and Run
Carol Vogel / New York Times:
Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait  —  A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting.
Discussion: The Heretik and Althouse
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Coverage of Rove's Role in Plame Leak Investigation; Interview With Jim Lehrer  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Rove's reprieve.  After years of media speculation …
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
What's Really Happening At Gitmo?
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Murtha's Fuzzy Math
Jay Rosen / Washington Post:
Web Users Open the Gates
Discussion: The Horse's Mouth
Tkarr / Save the Internet:
Telco Argument Implodes During DC Debate
Discussion: Eschaton
James Glanz / New York Times:
Waste Oil Dumps Threaten Towns in Northern Iraq
Janine Zacharia / Bloomberg:
Zoellick Leaving State Department, to Join Goldman (Update1)
Discussion: TAPPED
Noam Chomsky / Observer:
A noxious form of argument
Discussion: BuzzMachine and Daimnation!
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Anti-Americanism's Deep Roots
Discussion: FP Passport and ¡No Pasarán!
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Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
In 'The Devil Wears Prada,' It's Not Couture, It's Business (With Accessories)
Discussion: TAPPED
Sweetness & Light:
Does The Chairman Of Hammurabi Write Poetry?
Ginger Thompson / New York Times:
Mexico Worries About Its Own Southern Border
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
U.S. Competes With China for Vietnam's Allegiance
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Trying to Get Even  —  Democrats keep betting on failure in Iraq.
Los Angeles Times:
Inland Empire Pays Firm for D.C. Clout
Examiner:
Freedom of speech and thought R.I.P.
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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