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7:50 AM ET, June 25, 2006

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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts  —  WASHINGTON, June 24 — The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say.
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Michelle Malkin:
HOW ABOUT A NICE BIG GLASS OF...  The New York Times and their traitorous, leaking sources have done it again.  (Hat tip: LGF) This time they're broadcasting classified information on troop levels.  Hey, Bill Keller—al Qaeda thanks you: … "Closely held secret."  Not.  Anymore.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
NYT Reveals Secret Briefing On The Painfully Obvious  —  The New York Times has revealed yet another war secret, this time publishing details of negotiations between CENTCOM and the Iraqi government on troop reductions in Iraq.  Michael Gordon reveals that General George Casey has briefed …
Discussion: Wizbang
Associated Press:
FBI: Suspects Sought Help From al - Qaida  —  MIAMI (AP) — A plan hatched by seven men to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings was ''more aspirational than operational,'' FBI officials said.  —  The group of men, who were arrested Thursday when authorities busted their alleged hide …
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Sweetness & Light:   Media Portrays Sears "Plotters" As Harmless Cranks
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
Bagging The Sheep, Not The Shepherds
Times of London:
Key insurgents vow to reject Iraq peace plan  —  IRAQ'S main insurgent groups intend to reject a peace plan that Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, will present today in an attempt to halt the country's spiral of violence.  —  Maliki is expected to go before parliament with a 28- point plan …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
"A BROAD, CONDITIONS-BASED TIMETABLE"....The fine folks at Newsweek …
Discussion: The Horse's Mouth
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Warnings on WMD 'Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says  —  In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration's case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell's speech to look for errors.
PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
'Brights'  —  Since it was brought up in the comments, I thought I'd bring back my statement on the "Brights."  —  There's a lot of noise on the net right now about The Brights, the idea that we can invent a pleasant new name for godless atheists and thereby improve our image.
Discussion: Majikthise and Pandagon
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Another Kennedy Living Dangerously  —  ONE of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family mementos is a boyhood photo of himself in the Oval Office with his uncle President John F. Kennedy.  Then 9, Mr. Kennedy — who is still known as Bobby — had just given the president a spotted salamander in a small vase.
Investor's Business Daily:
Issues & Insights  —  And This Guy Was Almost President?  —  Politics: Sen. John Kerry has spent a career taking the side of America's enemies.  His call last week for a pullout from Iraq was the latest evidence he is unfit to serve in the Senate — never mind the White House.
Discussion: Instapundit.com and PrairiePundit
Associated Press:
Dean repeats call for Iraq troop drawdown  —  WASHINGTON - The head of the Democratic Party blamed the Bush administration's "failed political leadership and lack of foresight and planning" for turning U.S. soldiers into targets for the Iraqi insurgency.  —  In his party's weekly radio …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Who's This 'We,' Non-Soldier Boy?  —  REPRESENTATIVE Patrick McHenry, a 30-year-old Republican from North Carolina, rose during the recent debate over Iraq in Congress and declared that the struggle against "Islamic extremists" was his generation's great challenge.
New York Times:
Bush's Immigration Plan Stalled as House G.O.P. Grew More Anxious  —  WASHINGTON, June 24 — For the White House, the Congressional picnic last week seemed like the perfect setting to mend strained relations with Republican allies on Capitol Hill: President Bush and his advisers eating taquitos …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Andrew Sullivan / Time:
How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business  —  Andrew Sullivan on the harrowing new book "Oath Betrayed", in which a medical ethicist documents how members of his profession got caught up in the abuse of prisoners  —  Soldiers are trained to kill and doctors to heal.
Kerry B / Biased BBC:
Cheney miffed, Beeb chuffed.  The BBC reports on the undermining of what it refers to as "the 'so-called war on terror'" in this story which flowed from this one based on a New York Times Pulitzer-hunting, terrorist-helping sellout.  [My opinion on the behavior of the NYT.]
Discussion: Radio Blogger and Hot Air
Independent:
British 'helpless' as violence rises in southern Iraq  —  British forces are facing rising violence among Shia Muslim factions in southern Iraq, but are powerless to contain it, military and diplomatic sources have told The Independent on Sunday.  Both British and Iraqi authorities were seeking to play down the situation, they added.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Kate Holton / Reuters:
England, Germany fans clash in Stuttgart  —  STUTTGART (Reuters) - English and jubilant soccer German fans, celebrating after their team's second-round victory over Sweden, clashed in Stuttgart on Saturday before riot police moved in to separate them in the city center.
Robert Alter / New York Times:
Neocon or Not?  —  FOR a scholar who addressed what the general public would regard as abstruse topics in a dry academic fashion, Leo Strauss has become a name that reverberates widely — and, for many, ominously.  He is seen as the seminal thinker behind neoconservatism, its intellectual father.
Discussion: Power Line
The Raw Story:
NY Times columnist Brooks attacks 'Kingpin' of Daily Kos  —  In Sunday's paper, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks attacks the founder of Daily Kos for acting like a "Kingpin" who "commands his followers" to "unleash their venom on those who stand in the way," RAW STORY has found.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Putting The 'Moon' In "Moonbat"
 
 
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