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8:30 AM ET, June 6, 2007

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Elizabeth Wilner / The Politico:
The thrall of the drawl  —  In parsing the Fred Thompson boom …
Discussion: Hot Air and The American Mind
Washington Post:
McCain Sets Self Apart in Debate
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Who, Me?  —  Bush evades his responsibility with respect to Libby. … I FEEL TERRIBLE for Scooter Libby's family.  Millions of Americans feel terrible for Scooter Libby's family.  But we can't do anything about the injustice that has been done.  Nor can we do anything to avert …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
In the White House, Pardon Is A Topic Too Sensitive to Mention  —  The sentence imposed on former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby yesterday put President Bush in the position of making a decision he has tried to avoid for months: Trigger a fresh political storm by pardoning …
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Libby Given 30 Months for Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case
Discussion: TalkLeft
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Debate winners!  Guaranteed accurate!  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Here are the winners and losers of Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate, accurate to three decimal places.  —  FIRST PLACE: Mitt Romney  —  Analysis: Strong, clear, gives good soundbite and has shoulders you could land a 737 on.
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Conservative Candidates All Support Banning Gays From The Military  —  At CNN's Democratic presidential debate on Sunday, host Wolf Blitzer asked the candidates, by show of hands, to say whether they would get rid of the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' ban on gays in the U.S. military.
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:   The "gay stuff" from the GOP debate
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Steven Gilliard Jr., 42, Dies; Founder of Liberal Political Blog  —  Steven Gilliard Jr., a political journalist who found his calling as a combative and influential blogger on the left, died on Saturday in Manhattan.  He was 42.  —  He died after having been hospitalized …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Associated Press' Crappy Reporting Makes Obama's Rhetoric Sound Racially Threatening  —  This is some really, really rank journalism.  The Associated Press is badly distorting a speech Barack Obama gave today, giving his words a scary and racially-threatening cast that they simply didn't have in reality.
Discussion: Lynn Sweet and Prometheus 6
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Matt Browner-Hamlin / Chris Dodd for President:
GOP Debate Talk Clock  —  Want this on your site? copy the code below!  —  I love you guys.  Keep it up.  — reply  —  June 5, 2007 - 6:23pm — Anonymous  —  online?  —  Is the debate by chance streaming online? :)  — reply  —  June 5, 2007 - 6:24pm — Anonymous
Discussion: TIME: Swampland and Eunomia
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Fox News apologizes for tape goof  —  NEW YORK - Fox News Channel apologized on-air Tuesday for running tape of a different congressman while reporting Monday on the indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson on bribery charges.  —  The network ran footage of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
AlterNet.org:
Exclusive: Iraqi Lawmakers Pass Resolution That May Force End to Occupation  —  War on Iraq: While Washington lawmakers play procedural games with an out-of-control executive branch, Iraqi legislators are working to bring an end to the occupation of their country.
Discussion: Eunomia and Rook's Rant
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
House votes to investigate indicted lawmaker  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives, prodded by Republicans, voted on Tuesday to possibly consider expelling indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana before he even stands trial.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
McCain's Night  —  On immigration, he stood his ground.  On the war, he's sadly wrong, I think.  But I don't doubt his good will and conviction.  He's not a saint and he's made compromises (I can't forgive him for giving Bush the power to torture).  But in the interaction above …
sessions.senate.gov:
Sen. Sessions Releases List of 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a list of 20 loopholes in the comprehensive immigration bill today which reveals that the bill is fatally flawed and will not establish a functioning immigration system in the future.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
 
 
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Andrew Grice / The Independent:
Blair and Bush: the final reckoning
Discussion: Guardian and AMERICAblog
Laura McGann / TPM Muckraker:
Schlozman And Iglesias Conflict On Donsanto
Times of London:
Muhammad to top boys' names list
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Robert Feder / Chicago Sun Times:
Retired anchor Shaw laments effects of Fox on his beloved CNN
Sen. Mike Gravel / The Huffington Post:
Don't Ask Hillary: She Still Doesn't Get It
New York Times:
Talk to the Newsroom: National Editor Suzanne Daley
Daily Mail:
PC brigade ban pin-ups on RAF jets - in case they offend women and Muslims
Reuters:
Winnie Mandela barred from Canada
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Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Scores Up Since 'No Child' Was Signed
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Sridhar Pappu / Washington Post:
Ron Paul's One-Man Band in the Granite State
Steve Sailer / iSteve.com Blog Archives:
Mexican mediocrity  —  A chart in the NYT graphically illustrates …
Nadia Abou El-Magd / Associated Press:
Arabs blame problems on 1967 war defeat
National Review:
Rudy Wins  —  If any pro-choicer can win the Republican …
Gateway Pundit:
Garri Kasparov Joins Democracy Leaders at Press Gathering
Discussion: White House and Chicago Boyz
Rasmussen Reports:
Arizona Poll: 24% Support Immigration Bill, 51% Have Unfavorable Opinion of McCain
Kevin Cullen / Boston Globe:
Graying duo keep passenger in check
 

 
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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