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2:40 AM ET, June 7, 2007

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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Cheney's Office Recycling The War Hype
Hindrocket / Power Line:   Bedfellows  —  We wrote here about the capture, in Afghanistan …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps  —  Stand-In for Ashcroft Alleges Interference  —  Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Goodling In Private Email: 'Send Directly Up To Me, Outside The System'  —  New Justice Department communications released tonight include an email from Monica Goodling, former counsel to Alberto Gonzales, directing another official to draw up a directive giving her unprecedented authority to hire and fire political staffers.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Rook's Rant
Washington Times:
Bush 'surprised' by conservative anger  —  President Bush did not intend to single out his conservative supporters for criticism in a speech on immigration reform last week and was "surprised" that his remarks angered Republicans, White House spokesman Tony Snow said today.
Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
GOP Lawmakers Demand Probe of ABC News Story  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  A group of House Republicans are calling for an investigation into "the release of sensitive information" in a recent ABC News report on CIA covert activities against Iran.  —  In a carefully worded request …
Discussion: Don Surber and Wizbang
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Cheney blocked official's promotion
Joe Klein / Time:
Beware the Bloggers' Bile  —  A strange thing happened to me the day the House of Representatives voted to pass the Iraq-war-funding bill.  Congresswoman Jane Harman of California called as the debate was taking place.  "Look, I would love to have cast a vote against Bush on this," she told me.
Des Moines Register:
Giuliani will skip August straw poll  —  New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run  —  Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.
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Associated Press:   Officials: Giuliani to skip Iowa straw poll
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   Giuliani, McCain Skipping Ames Straw Poll
Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards  —  "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night.  But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added.  —  Mr. Murdoch hosted …
Matt Drudge / Drudge Report:
CASH TO HILLARY CONTINUES FLOWING IN Q2, SECRET DOCUMENT SHOWS  —  And the money kept rolling in from every side...  Numbers from a top-secret spreadsheet show the former first lady and senator from New York on track to exceed money she raised in the first quarter, over $27 million, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!
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Roy Sekoff / Huffington Post:
Obama To Beat Clinton In Second Quarter Fundraising
Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Turkish officials say troops enter Iraq  —  ANKARA, Turkey - Hundreds of Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq on Wednesday pursuing Kurdish guerrillas who stage attacks on Turkey from hideouts there, Turkish security officials and an Iraqi Kurd official said.
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ABCNEWS:
'Homosexuality Isn't Natural or Healthy'  —  Bush's Choice for Top Doc Compared Human Genitalia to Pipe Fittings and Said Homosexual Practices Can Cause Injury or Death  —  President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., wrote a paper in 1991 that purported …
Discussion: The Reaction
Jon Henke / QandO:
I'M WITH FRED — AND NEW MEDIA STRATEGIES  —  It's been six months since I last posted here at QandO to announce that I'd taken a position as New Media Advisor to the Senate Republicans.  I believe we accomplished a great deal over the past six months and gave the Senate Republicans …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
When Presidential Pardons Turn Political  —  President Bush has pardoned 113 people during his presidency, including a Tennessee bootlegger and a Mississippi odometer cheat.  —  But none has drawn the public scrutiny, nor posed the same political challenge, as the candidate that many conservatives hope …
Discussion: Washington Post and TalkLeft
Bob Geiger:
Latest Intelligence Report Yet Another Smoking Gun On Bush  —  When Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 25, 2003 to discuss preparations for a possible invasion of Iraq, he was asked by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) …
Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Thompson Raises $220K Online in 18 Hours  —  Sources close to the Thompson campaign have passed along the following first-day results for ImWithFred.com: … We'll see what traffic measuring services like Alexa say in a day or so, but this has to be considered a powerful shot across the bow.
Discussion: Hot Air, Eunomia and IMAO
Washington Times:
CBO's misleading immigration $ numbers  —  The new Congressional Budget Office report on the Senate immigration bill is a textbook illustration of how advocates of massive new spending programs (and the tax increases that will be inevitable to pay for them) hide the true cost …
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo to change direction of his campaign  —  Rep. Tom Tancredo plans to change direction in his long-shot presidential campaign so he can pressure fellow Republicans into rejecting an immigration reform plan he considers "amnesty."  —  Before a debate tonight on CNN, Tancredo, R-Littleton …
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
D-Day: On the Beaches, Over the Cliffs, and Behind the Lines  —  I watched "Band of Brothers" this weekend.  All 10 hours of it.  It was just about the perfect thing to spend a weekend doing, especially the weekend between Memorial Day and D-Day.  I would recommend it to anyone.
Discussion: Power Line and Wizbang
 
 
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Andrew Mangino / Yale Daily News:
Feds arrest dozens of illegal immigrants in New Haven raids
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Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org:
AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As 'Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qaeda'
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Researchers make stem cells from skin
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Immigrant Measure Survives Challenges
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Campaign Funds for Alaskan; Road Aid to Florida
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Porn king Flynt seeks information on sexual exploits of lawmakers
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A Favor For Sen. Leahy...  Sen. Pat Leahy needs you to make a …
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Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls, 49% Prefer No Bill At All
 

 
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