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8:30 AM ET, June 1, 2007

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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 …
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 …
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad  —  Residents of Western Neighborhood Join Groups' Fight Against Al-Qaeda in Iraq  —  Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week …
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Month 50 of the Iraq War: The Surge That Isn't  —  Last month I took a break from my usual monthly Iraq war casualty roundup nomenclature — Month X of the War By the Numbers — and headlined that post The Month of Lowered Expectations.  —  Well, we're more or less back to the usual naming convention …
Discussion: Kiko's House
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 …
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.
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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 …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com ®:
Flying TB Infected Lawyer's Liabilities
Discussion: CBS News and Blogs of War
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.
Yahoo! News:
Brokeback Hill  —  Mike Rogers has outed so many closeted gay politicos, he's starting to make Capitol Hill look like Brokeback Mountain.  —  WASHINGTON - Members of the 110th Congress consider yourselves warned: Mike Rogers is making his list.  —  Rogers is a muckraking gay blogger …
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
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Raging Caging  —  WHAT THE HECK IS VOTE CAGING, AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?  —  Last week, in her testimony before the House judiciary committee, Monica Goodling referred several times to "vote caging" possibly done by Arkansas' soon to be ex-interim, never-confirmed U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin.
Discussion: Reason Magazine and The BRAD BLOG
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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 …
Ben McConville / Associated Press:
Man says he's got a new Loch Ness video  —  EDINBURGH, Scotland - The Loch Ness monster is back — and there's video.  A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Baghdad embassy plans appear on Internet  —  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 …
William H. McMichael / Army Times:
Odierno: U.S. reaching out to insurgents  —  U.S. commanders in Iraq are beginning to take a seemingly giant step in the effort to defeat extremist insurgents: negotiations with the enemy.  —  Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, said he has told other U.S. commanders …
 
 
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Online NewsHour:
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Boston Globe:
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
50 More Years in Iraq?  —  The White House, long irritated …
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National Review Online:
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Michael Yon:
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