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10:50 AM ET, June 7, 2007

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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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Rob Bluey / Bluey Blog:
Amnesty Opponents Making Progress in Senate
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and PoliPundit.com
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   An Amendment Too Far  —  All this week, Republicans have tried …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Lindsay Graham Melting In Dark
Discussion: Associated Press and Hot Air
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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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 …
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Cheney's Office Recycling The War Hype
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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The Politico:   Obama's quests for 'eye-popping' cash
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Goals Are Both Met and Missed in Clinton Fund-Raising
Discussion: MSNBC and TIME
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Defends Climate and Missile Plans  —  As leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies began their annual summit meeting today, President Bush defended his plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and tried yet again to dismiss Russian concerns over a missile defense plan, saying it is …
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International Herald Tribune:
As G-8 convenes, U.S. holds firm against greenhouse gas targets  —  ROSTOCK, Germany: As leaders of wealthy nations converged Wednesday at a Baltic resort for their annual summit meeting, the White House held firm against long-term targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions …
Discussion: Shakesville and Guardian
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
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Rights Groups Call for End to Secret Detentions  —  Six human rights groups on Wednesday released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the United States and whose whereabouts are unknown, calling on the Bush administration to abandon such detentions.
Discussion: Unfogged and Rook's Rant
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe  —  Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared …
Discussion: MSNBC and On Deadline
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.
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Giuliani and McCain to Skip Straw Poll in Iowa  —  Bucking a ritual for Republican presidential candidates, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Senator John McCain announced Wednesday that they would skip participation in what has been a significant early test of candidate strength, the straw poll in Ames, Iowa, this summer.
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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: Blog P.I. and 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 …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
When 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: Power Line
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
To Be an American  —  For many, illegal workers are a rebuke to dutiful citizenship.  —  People tend to regard the idea of "democratic" politics with high reverence, when in practice it consists most of the time of the right of any citizen to describe one's opponent as an idiot, or worse.
Discussion: Heading Right
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.
 
 
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Germany Taking Hard Line to Foil Disruption at G-8
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Ken Dilanian / USA Today:
Past as lobbyist may play into future as candidate
Robert E. Rector / Heritage Foundation:
Amnesty Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers at Least $2.6 Trillion
Discussion: American Thinker
Israel Today:
Fred Thompson coming to Israel
Dr. Helen:
Your Right to Leer  —  When I look at my husband with affection, am I leering?
Discussion: Althouse
National Review:
Re: Flapdoodlery [John Derbyshire]
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Lynne Cheney, Susan Thomas floated as possible replacements …
Ben Lando / UPI:
ANALYSIS: OIL STRIKERS MET BY IRAQI TROOPS
Andrew Mangino / Yale Daily News:
Feds arrest dozens of illegal immigrants in New Haven raids
Discussion: Lonewacko and Left in the West
Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org:
AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As 'Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qaeda'
ABCNEWS:
'Homosexuality Isn't Natural or Healthy'
Discussion: The Reaction
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Republicans' Hispanic Delusion
Bob Geiger:
Latest Intelligence Report Yet Another Smoking Gun On Bush
Joe Klein / Time:
Beware the Bloggers' Bile
 

 
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