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3:15 PM ET, July 6, 2006

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Washington Post:
A Driven President Faces a World of Crises  —  From deteriorating security in Afghanistan and Somalia to mayhem in the Middle East, confrontation with Iran and eroding relations with Russia, the White House suddenly sees crisis in every direction.  —  North Korea's long-range missile test Tuesday …
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Examiner:
Where are 'Star Wars' critics now?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - North Korea's threatening spate of missile launches — including an unsuccessful try with an advanced version of its Taepodong 2 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that is capable …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Few Good Choices in North Korean Standoff  —  The Bush administration has tried to ignore North Korea, then, reluctantly, to engage it, and then to squeeze its bankers in a manner intended to make the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, personally feel the pinch.  —  Yet none of these steps in the past six years has worked.
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Behind the Iron Curtain
Discussion: TigerHawk and Dean's World
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Six-Party Talks — and Half a Dozen Doughnuts
Discussion: FP Passport
Henry Allen / Washington Post:
Ken Lay's Last Evasion  —  To Some, CEO Is Cheating Them One More Time  —  Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
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Matt Daily / Reuters:
Enron founder Ken Lay dies of heart disease  —  HOUSTON (Reuters) - Enron Corp.'s founder Ken Lay died of heart disease on Wednesday while vacationing near Aspen, Colo., six weeks after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the financial scandal that brought down the once-mighty energy conglomerate.
Scott Adams / The Dilbert Blog:
Ken Lay  —  Does it seem suspicious to you that ex-Enron CEO …
Discussion: Begging to Differ and TPMCafe
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Lay's Death Complicates Efforts to Seize Assets
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Newsday:
NY court rules against gay marriage
Mark Johnson / Associated Press:
2 Top Courts Rule Against Gay Marriage
Discussion: protein wisdom and Instapundit.com
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Judge's ruling keeps DeLay on ballot  —  AUSTIN - A federal judge ruled today that Republicans cannot replace former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the ballot for the 22nd Congressional District race.  —  U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, a Republican appointee, ruled that DeLay must appear …
Alan Finder / New York Times:
A Taliban Past, and a Cloudy Yale Future  —  A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student's financial supporters said yesterday.
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Washington Post:
Splits Over Immigration Reform On Display From Coast to Coast  —  PHILADELPHIA, July 5 — House and Senate Republicans sparred over immigration in hearings on opposite coasts Wednesday, holding firm to their starkly different viewpoints on what has become one of the most intractable and divisive issues to confront the GOP in years.
Discussion: PostWatch and Daily Pundit
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Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Why Economists Like Immigration
Michael M. Grynbaum / Boston Globe:
Bloggers battle old-school media for political clout  —  Online journals gaining greater influence, scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON — When a writer for The New Republic, the 92-year-old doyen of elite Washington opinion journals, accused the nation's most prominent political blogger of using …
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Unlike some peers, Kerry not endorsing Lieberman in primary  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry announced yesterday that he will support whoever wins next month's Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut, despite the decision by incumbent Senator Joseph I. Lieberman to run as an independent candidate if he loses the primary.
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Fallen Soldier Gets a Bronze Star but No Pagan Star  —  At the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the small town of Fernley, Nev., there is a wall of brass plaques for local heroes.  But one space is blank.  There is no memorial for Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart.  —  That's because Stewart was a Wiccan …
Ray Robison / Fox News:
Iraq How-to Manual Directed Arab Military Operatives In Afghanistan  —  An Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.  —  That's the most likely conclusion drawn …
Eric M. Weiss / Washington Post:
Consultant Breached FBI's Computers  —  Frustrated by Bureaucracy, Hacker Says Agents Approved and Aided Break-Ins  —  A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees …
 
 
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