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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Ideologue Leftist Judge Rules NSA Program Unconstitutional — As I predicted last month, the NSA's controversial surveillance program has been ruled unconstitutional by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, an ideologue Carter-appointed judge who has a documented history of bending the rules to obtain the leftist result.
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Lower Court Opinions Are Briefs to Higher Courts: — If you're a judge, your first responsibility is of course to reach the conclusion that you think is legally right, and to explain it using those arguments that you think are most sound. But once you have that figured out …
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Washington Post:
A Judicial Misfire — THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency's program of warrantless surveillance. The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; it is at least in considerable tension with federal law and the Bill of Rights.
CBS News:
Explosive Liquids Scare In W. Virginia — Air Terminal Evacuated, But 2 Bottles Thought To Be Explosives Were Cosmetics — (CBS/AP) A terminal at the Tri-State Airport was evacuated Thursday morning after two containers in a female passenger's bag tested positive for liquid explosives …
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Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
France Throws U.N Peacekeeping Plans Into Disarray — Chirac Rebuffs Pleas to Make Major Contribution to Mission — France has rebuffed U.N. pleas to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back international efforts to send a credible military force …
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Joe's Dartblog:
CLAIMS OF CENSORSHIP AND INTIMIDATION AT DARTMOUTH — This morning's edition of The Dartmouth carries a worrisome story by reporter Rebekah Rombom. Here is a significant portion of it, but please click here to read the whole thing. … For reference, Nick's entire statement is posted on this website …
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Rebekah Rombom / The Dartmouth Online:
Alumni debate reaches students — As the Association of Alumni prepares to vote on a new proposed constitution this fall, heated debate has persisted throughout many sectors of the Dartmouth community. Factions on both sides participate, with weblogs becoming an important media for political dialogue.
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
N. Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test — U.S. Officials Tell ABC News Evidence Show Signs an Underground Test is in the Works — There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials tell ABC News.
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Republicans Losing The 'Security Moms' — Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost …
Guardian:
Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontier — Michael Howard in Qandil Mountain — Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings — A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense Department officials briefed on the case.
Pew Research Center:
American Attitudes Hold Steady in Face of Foreign Crises — Strong Support for Israel - No Surge in Terror Concerns or Boost for Bush — Summary of Findings — The public is paying a great deal of attention to major overseas events - the reported terrorist plot against U.S. trans-Atlantic jet liners …
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
Hatch says Demo win could help terrorists — Sen. Orrin Hatch, who continuously decries the bitter partisanship in Washington, implied this week that Democratic success in November's election could result in terrorist attacks on America. — Hatch was quoted in Tuesday's Tooele Transcript Bulletin …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
It sounded so good to start with. But where did it all go wrong, George? — "HOW'M I DOIN'?" was the question the quixotic Ed Koch used to ask New York's voters during Hizzoner's eleven turbulent years as the city's mayor. For a man who governed the globe's most neurotic metropolis …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Cafferty on the NSA Ruling: Bush is breaking the Law! — Jack Cafferty ripped into the Republican leadership today over the recent ruling that the NSA warrantless program is illegal. For all the wingers that say the NSA helped in the UK terror plot, they should turn to their good pal O'Reilly …
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