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Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press:
Japan considers strike against N. Korea — TOKYO - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.
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New York Times:
The U.N. Sideshow on Korea — The United Nations Security Council certainly should register international condemnation of last week's North Korean missile launches. But if any serious progress is going to be made on this and the related North Korean nuclear issue, it will not be through Security Council resolutions or sanctions.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Gray Lady's Editors Continue Spinning For North Korea
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Kos Campaign — Liberal blogs like Daily Kos have made Joe Lieberman their first domino. But without a bigger vision, they may be the ones who fall. — M — arkos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder and chief firebrand of the liberal blog Daily Kos, sounded weary in a post …
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Marc Danziger / Examiner:
Democrats would be weaker without Lieberman — WASHINGTON - The week's big news is the decision by Joe Lieberman to hedge his bets and gather the signatures he will need to run — and most likely win — as an independent. — I've not been a big fan of Lieberman's; he's one of the key votes …
Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Judge: FBI raid on lawmaker's office legal — WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday upheld the FBI's unprecedented raid of a congressional office, saying that barring searches of lawmakers' offices would turn Capitol Hill into "a taxpayer-subsidized sanctuary for crime."
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John Aloysius Farrell / Denver Post:
Rove: Bush to veto DeGette bill — President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said today. — "The president is emphatic about this," …
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Susan Haigh / Newsday:
Lieberman campaign files forms to run as petitioning candidate — HARTFORD, Conn. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman filed paperwork Monday that will allow him to collect signatures to petition his way onto the November ballot if he loses an August primary. — Lieberman's campaign announced the move in an e-mail to reporters.
CNN.com International:
Russia kills most-wanted warlord — MOSCOW, Russia — Russia's most wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed in an operation by special forces, the state security chief told President Vladimir Putin on Monday. — FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said Basayev …
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CNN:
New York building collapses, burns — Eleven injured; gas explosion appears to be cause — NEW YORK (CNN) — An explosion and fire leveled a residential building on New York's Upper East Side Monday morning, fire officials told CNN. Eleven people were injured.
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John Holusha / New York Times:Gas Explosion Blamed for N.Y. Building Collapse
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Tice May Not Be Hoekstra's Whistleblower — Who got House Intel Chair Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) hot and bothered over secret intelligence programs? — Earlier, I guessed it may be Russ Tice. But I've been doing some thinking — and I just talked with Tice. Now, frankly, I'm not so sure.
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Dave Astor / Editor and Publisher:
Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized — NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate said today that it doesn't think controversial columnist Ann Coulter is guilty of plagiarism. — When reached for reaction to Universal's statement, the head of the company the New York Post asked …
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Los Angeles Times:
Wake up, Democrats: Ideas and vision do matter — Just waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct is a losing strategy. — SOMETHING HAPPENS to a political party when it is not just out of power but has had to play on the home field of its opponents for a generation: It loses faith in itself and becomes scared.
Associated Press:
GOP Husband, Democratic Wife Vie for Seat — The candidates say they offer legitimate political differences. Their conservative critics say it's a campaign dirty trick. — Jeff Ippel is a Republican, involved in a three-way primary race for a seat in the Kansas House.
Harvey Rice / Houston Chronicle:
HPD, airport security at odds over incident — Man allowed to board aircraft appeared to have bomb components — Houston police and the federal Transportation Security Administration disagree over who is responsible for allowing a man with what appeared to be bomb components board an aircraft at Hobby Airport last week.
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Running Hard, Senate Power Seeks a New Image — PITTSBURGH, July 6 — The conservative glory days of 1994, when Rick Santorum roared into the Senate at the age of 36, seem a long time ago as he fights for his political life this year, trying to convince Pennsylvania voters that he has not gone Washington.
Jennifer Brooks / delawareonline:
Biden says new Iraq leadership is shaky — Senator, just back from visit, concerned about stability — WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Biden returned from his seventh trip to Iraq on Saturday with serious misgivings about the new civilian government's ability to keep the country running once U.S. troops begin to withdraw.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Inside Higher Ed: "We are as fair as we can bring ourselves to be" — For those of you who haven't seen this Inside Higher Ed piece, take a look. Then blink, and look again. — Does the story as it appears at Inside Higher Ed match the version of events we all watched unfold over the last few days?
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
$2 Million Payment to Former Lobbyist Raises Eyebrows — You've probably never heard of Jeffrey S. Shockey. So, for simplicity's sake, think of him as the Two Million Dollar Man. — The 40-year-old congressional staffer last year collected nearly $2 million in severance payments …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
A Matter of Ethics... I am an attorney by training and by my professional practice of the law for a number of years. Although I am no longer practicing (this blog and motherhood taking up a substantial amount of my time), I do keep my mind in the game by reading a lot of the newer opinions …
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