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12:00 PM ET, June 21, 2006

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Washington Post:
GOP Plans Hearings on Issue of Immigrants  —  In a move that could bury President Bush's high-profile effort to overhaul immigration law until after the midterm elections, House GOP leaders yesterday announced a series of field hearings during the August recess, pushing off final negotiations on a bill until fall at the earliest.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Plan May Delay Immigration Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON, June 20 — In a decision that puts an overhaul of immigration laws in serious doubt, House Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would hold summer hearings around the nation on the politically volatile subject before trying …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Settles for Less Than Full Repeal of Estate Tax
Discussion: MaxSpeak and ShopFloor.org
Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
GOP's Call for Hearings Puts Immigration Overhaul in Limbo
Discussion: ParaPundit
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Accuses Iran of Dragging Its Feet  —  President Bush on Wednesday accused Iran of dragging its feet on a Western incentive package aimed at getting Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment activity.  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier in the day that his country will respond …
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
U.S. weighs shootdown of N. Korea missile  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is weighing responses to a possible North Korean missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Pacific, defense officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
AKA GayPatriotWest / Gay Patriot:
Murder & Media Manipulation: Al-Qaeda's Strategy in Iraq  —  Since I first learned of the murder of the two U.S. soldiers whose booby-trapped bodies were recovered earlier today, I've ben trying to find words to express my outrage at this atrocity.  Simply put, it shows the barbarity of our adversary …
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Agence France Presse:
US troops kill Zarqawi's 'right-hand man'  —  The US military says it has killed the "right-hand man" of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  —  Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Lieberman Vs. the Democrats  —  Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman is as seasoned a pol as anyone can find, but he seems to have forgotten the very purpose of elections.  —  In a remarkable interview he recently gave to The Post's David S. Broder [op-ed, June 18], the Democrats' 2000 vice …
Adam Sage / Times of London:
Soldiers of fortune go free as judge denounces Chirac over island coup  —  COVERT attempts by President Chirac to exert influence over Africa were exposed by a French court yesterday, when it denounced his secret services for conniving with a band of mercenaries in a coup in the tiny Comoros Islands.
Kim Zetter / Salon:
Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?  —  Salon exclusive: Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002.  Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Cheney Stands by His 'Last Throes' Remark  —  Vice President Cheney yesterday defended his much-criticized claim a year ago that the Iraq insurgency was in its "last throes" and said he believes that Iraq "turned a corner" last year when its people held elections creating a constitution and a government.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Lawyer Representing Saddam Hussein Killed  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - One of Saddam Hussein's lawyers was shot to death Wednesday after he was abducted from his home by men wearing police uniforms in Baghdad, court and police officials said.  —  Khamis al-Obeidi, who represented Saddam …
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich / Jerusalem Post:
'PA doctors cut victim needlessly'  —  Representatives of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) said on Tuesday that Ralia Niham, a 21-year-old woman who was seriously wounded in the Gaza beach explosion on June 9 that is at the center of a continuing controversy over who is to blame …
Discussion: Adloyada and lgf
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida video shows alleged 20th hijacker  —  WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida has identified a would-be 20th hijacker for the Sept. 11 attacks as a Saudi operative who was killed in a 2004 shootout with his country's security forces.  —  In a statement accompanying a new video …
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
An A-to-Z Book of Conservatism Now Weighs In  —  WASHINGTON, June 20 — It has red states and blond pundits; home schoolers and The Human Life Review; originalists, monetarists, federalists and evangelists; and no shortage of people named Kristol.  —  Now American conservatism can claim another mark …
Discussion: culturekitchen and NewsBusters.org
Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
Troops echo frustration over war in Iraq  —  JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - While Staff Sgt. Randy Myers was dodging roadside bombs in Iraq, his congressman was calling the war a lost cause.  —  Sixteen-term Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), a decorated Vietnam veteran and military hawk …
Eric Boehlert / Washington Monthly:
Shill Wind  —  All of Washington's political reporters read ABC's The Note.  That's why they keep missing the story.  —  In the spring of 2005, a story came along that was so important, so history-altering that it threatened to revive a killer press instinct that had been dormant for the previous four years.
 
 
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Jeff Emanuel / Townhall.com:
Human rights groups silent on death of Americans
Discussion: Blogs of War and Right Voices
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Defendant expected to take stand in sexual harassment case
Discussion: Hit and Run
Weekly Standard:
Passing on Zarqawi  —  BEFORE THE DUST SETTLED on the rubble …
DarkSyde / Daily Kos:
Slogan  —  In a diary on Monday I asked for simple slogans …
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Daniel McGrory / Times of London:
British suicide bomber 'in link to New York mosque'
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Ex-Aide To Bush Found Guilty
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Pew Research Center:
Iraq Views Improve, Small Bounce for Bush
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FBI Shadowed Playwright Arthur Miller
Guardian:
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The NBA is rigged ? Please..
Eric Rich / Washington Post:
Merrill Apparently Shot Himself On the Bay
Discussion: FishBowlDC and Poynter Online
Christine Olley / Philadelphia Daily News:
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Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and TalkLeft
White House:
Vice President's Remarks at the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize …
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