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3:30 AM ET, June 1, 2007

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Washington Times:
RNC fires phone solicitors  —  The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.  —  Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Diane Sawyer Speaks to TB Patient  —  Sawyer Interviews Andrew Speaker, TB Patient in Isolation  —  Andrew Speaker has asked for forgiveness from the airline passengers he exposed to a rare strain of tuberculosis, and told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview …
Discussion: Tammy Bruce, Attytood and My Two Sense
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com ®:   Flying TB Infected Lawyer's Liabilities
CNN:
Border security scrutinized after TB patient's travels
Discussion: The RBC and Shakesville
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Awakening in Babil  —  The provinces of Iraq.  Click map to view.  —  A pro government tribal leader is targeted in Babil; the four provinces around Baghdad have established an Awakening movement  —  The formation of the regional Awakening movements—the groupings of anti-al Qaeda tribes …
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David Roberts / Gristmill:
Bush's 'new climate strategy'  —  Today's headlines are full of the news that President Bush is &;  quot;unveiling a new climate strategy.&;  quot; If your immediate reaction is cynicism, well ... looks like you learned something over the last seven years.  Let's look a little closer.
Discussion: Reuters, The Reaction and TomPaine.com
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
NPR Continues Kyoto Dishonesty  —  Two days ago, I pointed out that the layers of editors and fact-checkers at the AP managed to miss the fact that the Kyoto treaty got rejected almost four years before Bush took office.  Apparently, the fact-checkers and editors at NPR are no better than those at the AP.
White House:
President Bush Discusses United States International Development Agenda
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Senate Panel Questions C.I.A. Detentions  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday questioned the continuing value of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret interrogation program for terrorism suspects, suggesting that international condemnation and the obstacles it has created …
Henry A. Kissinger / Los Angeles Times:
The lessons of Vietnam  —  Iraq desperately needs a political solution in the short term to make the war more manageable for the next president.  —  THE IRAQ WAR has reawakened memories of the Vietnam War, the most significant political experience of an entire American generation.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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neo-neocon:
Breaking the big stick: removing the threat of war to achieve peace?
Discussion: GINA COBB
Michael Yon:
The Final Option  —  Left to Right: Lieutenant Colonel Doug Crissman; General Hamid; Sayed the interpreter.  Seconds after this photo, LTC Doug Crissman grabbed General Hamid's pistol.  (Note: the pistol was already unsnapped.)  —  Hit, Anbar Province, Iraq
Discussion: Fox News and Neptunus Lex
Media Research Center:
NINE DAYS AFTER PHOTOS RELEASED, NETS AND TOP PAPERS SILENT OVER AL-QAEDA TORTURE HOUSE  —  Yet Top Media Ran More Than 6,000 Stories on Abu Ghraib Abuses  —  "The elite media's liberal bias is abundantly clear in this case.  U.S. soldiers raided several al-Qaeda safe houses in Iraq …
Robert Shrum / Time:
Kerry's Regrets About John Edwards  —  After a day of filming at Edwards's summer home on Figure Eight Island in the Outer Banks, we went out to dinner.  Afterward, while Elizabeth drove the car home, John and I headed back on his boat; as the darkness closed in, we got lost in the tall grasses of the shallow waterways.
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Can Any Immigration Bill Be Saved?  —  Another day of interviews and calls, and my overwhelming sense is that the immigration bill as drafted is as dead as dead can be.  The president's speech on Tuesday had the effect of throwing gas on the flames, and the anger has multiplied, and it isn't nativist in the least.
National Review:
Rudy Blasts Hillary [Larry Kudlow]  —  Rudy blasted Hillary's tax hike plan yesterday calling it an "astounding, staggering tax increase."  Good for him.  —  Hillary's been out proclaiming her government redistributionist message of "shared prosperity."  Her growth-paralyzing solution?
Discussion: Brian Beutler and Cliff Schecter
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Too Bad  —  President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder.  —  What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration.  They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting …
Discussion: TBogg
Atrios / Eschaton:
Why Do We Stay In Iraq?  —  Josh Marshall heads down the path to madness in order  —  to try to answer that question.  —  The answer is unknowable because there isn't one.  There are a variety of powerful actors who have different motives.  It's as true, if not more true …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Baghdad embassy plans turn up online  —  WASHINGTON - Detailed plans for the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad appeared online Thursday in a breach of the tight security surrounding the sensitive project.  —  Computer-generated projections of the soon-to-be completed …
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.
 
 
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William H. McMichael / Army Times:
Odierno: U.S. reaching out to insurgents
Online NewsHour:
Gore's New Book Criticizes Bush Administration, Election Process
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Boston Globe:
Democrats press advantage in N.H.
TeddySanFran / Firedoglake:
Let's Help Chris Dodd End the Occupation
Associated Press:
Kyl Vows To Block Open Government Bill
John Diedrich / JSOnline:
Officer arrested; citizenship questioned
Ben McConville / Associated Press:
Man says he's got a new Loch Ness video
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
50 More Years in Iraq?  —  The White House, long irritated …
National Review Online:
Editors: The Editors Challenge  —  Will the WSJ editors come out of the shadows?
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
U.S. Economic Growth Weakest in Over 4 Years
Ben Smith / The Politico:
John Edwards: 'I read Iraq report'
Fred Thompson / Townhall.com:
Living in Terror  —  Let me ask you a hypothetical question.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Endgame Ahead  —  While the rest of us enjoyed our holiday …
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