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2:00 PM ET, May 31, 2007

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ABCNEWS:
NASA's Top Official Questions Global Warming  —  NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Questions Need to Combat Warming  —  NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming.
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NPR:
NASA Chief Questions Urgency of Global Warming  —  · NASA administrator Michael Griffin defends the space agency's programs, including plans for a permanent moon base and manned missions to Mars.  He also says that while NASA studies climate change, the agency has no authorization to …
sciencepolicy.colorado.edu:
Here comes the rain, kids. …
Discussion: The Intersection
Sam Brownback / New York Times:
What I Think About Evolution  —  IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves.  So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential debate …
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National Review:
Sam I Am  —  Here is Sam Brownback talking about evolutionary biology.  That's a bit like saying: "Here's Paris Hilton talking about partial differential equations"... from which you can deduce that I don't feel much inclined to offer a detailed critique of Brownback's position.
Michael Link / Democratic National Committee:
McCain Agrees We Need a Cap To Maintain "White, Christian, Male Power Structure"  —  John McCain's campaign posted this YouTube clip of the Senator on the O'Reilly Factor:  —  Near the end of the video, there was this exchange:  —  Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want?
Associated Press:
White House envisions "Korean model" in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush would like to see the U.S. military provide long-term stability in Iraq as it has in South Korea, where thousands of American troops have been based for more than half a century, the White House said Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Can the Iraq 'Surge' Be Salvaged?
Dallas Morning News:
A spreading terror  —  Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported, says GEORGIE ANNE GEYER  —  Anyone who knows anything about cancer knows that the danger point comes when the cancer suddenly and unexpectedly appears in another supposedly "clean" part of the body.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Case for Conservatism  —  Conservatism's recovery of its intellectual equilibrium requires a confident explanation of why America has two parties and why the conservative one is preferable.  Today's political argument involves perennial themes that give it more seriousness than many participants understand.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg a New Voice on Court  —  Whatever else may be said about the Supreme Court's current term, which ends in about a month, it will be remembered as the time when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found her voice, and used it.  —  Both in the abortion case the court decided …
Discussion: Althouse and k / o
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New York Times:
Injustice 5, Justice 4  —  The Supreme Court struck a blow …
Discussion: TalkLeft and QandO
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Big Disparities in Judging of Asylum Cases  —  Asylum seekers in the United States face broad disparities in the nation's 54 immigration courts, with the outcome of cases influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a new study has found.
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Philip G. Schrag / SSRN:
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication
Discussion: Reason Magazine
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Time for 'Plan B-H' in Iraq?  —  President Bush said publicly last Thursday what his top aides have been discussing privately for weeks.  He talked about a transition to "a different configuration" in Iraq after the surge of U.S. troops is completed this summer.
Gateway Pundit:
Human Shields in Iraq  —  Looking for safety.  —  A young Iraqi seeks shelter behind a U.S. soldier following a suicide blast.  (RofP)  —  These human shields are not exactly your Code Pink variety.  —  ** I am thinking that I have seen this photo before- But I don't really care.
Lou Dobbs / CNN:
An answer for my critics  —  Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com.  This commentary is a transcript of a commentary Lou delivered on "Lou Dobbs Tonight"  —  NEW YORK — I've been — over the years, because of our reporting on controversial issues and my strongly held beliefs …
Josh White / Washington Post:
Death of Guantanamo Detainee Is Apparent Suicide, Military Says  —  A Saudi detainee at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide yesterday afternoon, military officials said.  He would be the fourth detainee to take his own life at the facility in the past year.
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Ex-Clinton FBI chief pushing Prez Rudy  —  Louis Freeh, Democrat Bill Clinton's FBI director, is going over to the other side in a big way today - endorsing Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, the Daily News has learned.  —  The high-profile endorsement is a boon to the former mayor …
DefenseLINK:
Air Force Academy Commencement  —  On the Web:  —  Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131/697-5132  —  Public contact: or +1 (703) 428-0711 +1  —  Air Force Academy Commencement  —  Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Discussion: CJR and Early Warning
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
What Would Americans Tell President Bush to Do About Iraq?  —  Majority would tell president to bring troops home from Iraq or develop exit strategy  —  PRINCETON, NJ — What would Americans say to President Bush if they could talk to him about the situation in Iraq for 15 minutes?
Des Moines Register:
Yepsen: Biden's vote for war funding a profile in courage  —  Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden is the only Democratic presidential candidate to have voted for the recent supplemental war-funding bill.  —  That's not a very popular thing to do in a party where anti-war passions run high.
 
 
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OF ASHES AND SASHES  —  Vacancy Signs Point to a Very "Special" Summer
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jules Crittenden:
About That Pajamas Thing  —  Reader Salty Dog correctly notes …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"
Associated Press:
Donor gives $100 million for low-income scholarships
Murray Waas / National Journal:
The Scales Of Justice  —  In the closing weeks of Missouri's …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Washington Post:
A Presidential Daughter Gears Up for the Next Chapter in Her Life
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American Prospect:
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Gerard Baker / Opinion Journal:
Continental Drift  —  Europe shows signs of life …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Of Market Forces And Organ Donors
James Meikle / Guardian:
Lecturers vote for Israel boycott
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