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10:40 AM ET, May 31, 2007

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ArkansasTimes:
It's official  —  The U.S. Justice Department has notified Arkansas's congressional delegation that Interim Eastern District U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin is resigning effective Friday, June 1.  Jane Duke will become acting U.S. attorney.  (This is the assistant in the office who the Justice Department once …
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Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Minnesota case fits pattern in attorneys flap  —  Republicans wanted more vigorous efforts to legally challenge questionable voters in state.  —  For more than 15 years, clean-cut, square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican prosecutor.
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Justice Dept. probes its hirings
Discussion: The Heretik and The Sideshow
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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Chris Mooney / The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed:
Of Idiocy and Optimal Climates  —  By now it's zinging around more or less everywhere.  NASA administrator Michael Griffin made this mind-boggling statement to NPR: … To be fair to Griffin, there's the germ of an interesting point here.  Climate has varied dramatically in past eras of the Earth's history.
sciencepolicy.colorado.edu:
Here comes the rain, kids. …
Discussion: The Intersection
Leila Fadel / Real Cities:
Lieberman talks to troops in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman.  Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" …
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Nico / Think Progress:   Lieberman Confronted By Troops In Iraq: 'When Are We Going To Get Out Of Here?'
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Iowa GOP could force Fred onto straw poll  —  DES MOINES — Whether he wants to be or not, former Sen. Fred Thompson will probably be on the ballot when thousands of Iowa Republicans meet on Aug. 11 at the Ames straw poll.  —  After months of speculation that the "Law & Order" …
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Washington Post:
Bush Reaches to Putin as Relations Continue to Slide  —  President Bush yesterday launched a high-stakes effort to repair the dramatically deteriorating U.S. relationship with Russia by inviting President Vladimir Putin to visit the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, after weeks of rhetoric reminiscent of the Cold War.
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Neil Buckley / Financial Times:
Litvinenko was British spy, says Lugovoi
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Litvinenko Was British Spy, Lugovoi Was Being Recruited
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Of Market Forces And Organ Donors  —  Until now, I have not commented on the story regarding the Dutch game-show giveaway of two kidneys, which may surprise CQ readers, since the issue is one that hits very close to home for my family.  Michael van der Galien's post about the television competition …
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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 …
James Meikle / Guardian:
Lecturers vote for Israel boycott  —  University lecturers threatened yesterday to provoke international condemnation by forcing their union into a year-long debate over boycotting work with Israeli universities.  —  Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union …
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.
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.
Discussion: The Sideshow
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.
New York Times:
Injustice 5, Justice 4  —  The Supreme Court struck a blow for discrimination this week by stripping a key civil rights law of much of its potency.  The majority opinion, by Justice Samuel Alito, forced an unreasonable reading on the law, and tossed aside longstanding precedents to rule …
Discussion: TalkLeft and QandO
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Giuliani Lashes Into Clinton Over 'Staggering' Tax Hike  —  BURLINGAME, Calif. — Mayor Giuliani is labeling Senator Clinton's plan to reverse President Bush's tax cuts "an astounding, staggering tax increase" that would turn back the clock and damage America's economy.
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Hopkins Aid Officer Was Paid More by Lenders Than Disclosed  —  Hopkins Official Paid by Lenders Was Seen as a Stickler  —  A former financial aid director at Johns Hopkins University who cultivated a national reputation as a stickler for ethics accepted more than $130,000 …
 
 
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Foreign Affairs:
Rising to a New Generation of Global Challenges
Discussion: MSNBC
Newsdesk / Chicago Tribune:
Americans to Bush: Exit Iraq
Discussion: Gallup Poll and Think Progress
Eric Krol / Daily Herald:
Physicist in running to replace Hastert
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ben LaBolt / obama.senate.gov:
Obama Calls for Hearing on Bill to Give Shareholders Vote on Executive Pay
Discussion: Washington Wire
American Prospect:
A Lack of Audacity … How Obama's health care plan resembles …
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Economy Has Worst Growth Since 2002
Gerard Baker / Opinion Journal:
Continental Drift  —  Europe shows signs of life …
Gateway Pundit:
Human Shields in Iraq
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USA Today:
MRAPs can't stop newest weapon
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
Jonathan Saltzman / Boston Globe:
Blogger unmasked, court case upended
Associated Press:
Lovers' Strife Over Religion Surfaces in Family Slaying Case
Josh White / Washington Post:
Death of Guantanamo Detainee Is Apparent Suicide, Military Says
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
F.D.A. Still Unsettled in Wake of New Questions
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Washington Post:
U.N. Council Backs Tribunal For Lebanon
Gordy Slack / Salon:
Inside the Creation Museum
Scott Lanman / Bloomberg:
Virginia's Kaine Warns Democrats Protectionism Is a `Loser'