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9:00 AM ET, June 7, 2007

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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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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Cheney blocked official's promotion
The Blotter:
Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban  —  Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:  —  NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials …
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Cheney's Office Recycling The War Hype
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Immigrant Measure Survives Challenges  —  The plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system survived its most serious challenges yesterday, when the Senate defeated amendments to disqualify hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from legalization and to extend visas to hundreds …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   An Amendment Too Far  —  All this week, Republicans have tried …
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells  —  In a surprising advance that could sidestep the ethical debates surrounding stem cell biology, researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient's cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease.
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Financial Times:
Researchers make stem cells from skin
Discussion: Nature and The Strata-Sphere
Roy Sekoff / Huffington Post:
Obama To Beat Clinton In Second Quarter Fundraising  —  The Huffington Post has learned from sources close to both candidates that the Obama campaign will surpass the Clinton campaign in second quarter fundraising.  "It's a matter of pure mathematics," an Obama fundraiser told HuffPost.
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Matt Drudge / Drudge Report:   CASH TO HILLARY CONTINUES FLOWING IN Q2, SECRET DOCUMENT SHOWS
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.
newsweek:
I'm a McCain Man, Through and Through—Unless the Democrats Nominate Obama.  Then, Forget the McCain Thing  —  Barack Obama cultivates an image as a politician whose appeal reaches across party lines.  But even he might be surprised to learn that one of his biggest admirers works for GOP Sen. John McCain …
Discussion: Hot Air
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Campaign Funds for Alaskan; Road Aid to Florida  —  It is no secret that campaign contributions sometimes lead to lucrative official favors.  Rarely, though, are the tradeoffs quite as obvious as in the twisted case of Coconut Road.  —  The road, a stretch of pavement near Fort Myers …
Raphael G. Satter / Associated Press:
Report: 39 secretly imprisoned by U.S.  —  LONDON - A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday.  —  Information about the so-called …
Discussion: Liberty Street
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
Ben Lando / UPI:
ANALYSIS: OIL STRIKERS MET BY IRAQI TROOPS  —  On the third day of an oil strike in southern Iraq, the Iraqi military has surrounded oil workers and the prime minister has issued arrest warrants for the union leaders, sparking an outcry from supporters and international unions.
National Review:
Re: Flapdoodlery [John Derbyshire]  —  Andy: Someone once called New York City "the capital of a country that doesn't exist."  It's an odd sort of place.  Personally, I love it, and it's made a great contribution to the USA.  It is not, however, all by itself, the USA.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
A Contender's Worn-Out Welcome  —  The dynamic performance by John Edwards in Sunday's Democratic presidential debate, assailing his competitors for the nomination, got high marks from political reporters, Republican politicians and left-wing activists.  But not from the Democratic establishment.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Lynne Cheney, Susan Thomas floated as possible replacements for late Sen. Craig Thomas  —  Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, is being floated in Senate GOP leadership circles as a possible replacement for the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.), who died Monday night.
William Otis / Washington Post:
Neither Prison Nor Pardon  —  Justice in the Libby Case Lies With Bush's Third Option  —  Scooter Libby should not be pardoned.  But his punishment — 30 months in prison, two years' probation and a $250,000 fine — is excessive.  President Bush should commute the sentence by eliminating the jail term while preserving the fine.
Discussion: Firedoglake, Salon, al.com and TalkLeft
 
 
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe
Discussion: On Deadline
Michelle Malkin:
Who voted against the Cornyn amendment? …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
"Live Free or Die"
The Atlantic Online:
The Challenge  —  To me, the takeaway message of watching …
Aunt B. / Tiny Cat Pants:
An Open Letter To Patriot Boy (Aka Jesus' General)
Andrew Mangino / Yale Daily News:
Feds arrest dozens of illegal immigrants in New Haven raids
Discussion: Lonewacko and Left in the West
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
When Pardons Turn Political
Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org:
AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As 'Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qaeda'
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Washington Times:
CBO's misleading immigration $ numbers
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Porn king Flynt seeks information on sexual exploits of lawmakers
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
D-Day: On the Beaches, Over the Cliffs, and Behind the Lines
Discussion: Hot Air, Wizbang and Stop The ACLU
Guardian:
BAE accused of secretly paying £1bn to Saudi prince
Discussion: Tim Worstall
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Republicans' Hispanic Delusion
Discussion: ParaPundit
Bob Geiger:
Latest Intelligence Report Yet Another Smoking Gun On Bush
Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Thompson Raises $220K Online in 18 Hours
Discussion: Eunomia, Hot Air and IMAO
Jon Henke / QandO:
I'M WITH FRED — AND NEW MEDIA STRATEGIES
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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