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8:10 PM ET, June 8, 2007

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Lolita Baldor / Associated Press:
Pace retires as head of Joint Chiefs  —  WASHINGTON - Bitter divisions over the Iraq war, particularly on Capitol Hill, led the Bush administration to change course and replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a grim Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
"New Broom" To Head Chiefs Of Staff  —  Pace is out as Chief of Staff, in an unexpected move. … Mullen is obviously intended to repair bridges with America's European defense partners so damaged by Rummie's "Old Europe" policies.  In his bio, his experience in working with NATO and European officers is the big stand-out point.
CNN:
Pace to be replaced as Joint Chiefs chairman … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Anticipation of a "contentious" confirmation process on Capitol Hill prompted the decision to replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when his term ends in September, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
MSNBC:
Top Joint Chiefs of Staff leaders being replaced  —  Citing war and Congress, Gates to change chairman and vice chairman  —  The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, is being replaced after six years as chairman and vice chairman of the top military command.  —  MSNBC video
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
David Stout / New York Times:
General Peter Pace to Retire as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff  —  Gen. Peter Pace is being replaced as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a move that reflects a feeling among top civilian officials at the Pentagon and in the White House that the American military needs new leadership …
Josh White / Washington Post:   Pace to Step Down as Chairman of Joint Chiefs
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Defections to Fred Thompson Pose a Major Threat to McCain  —  John Dowd represented Sen. John McCain in his darkest hour, the "Keating Five" scandal.  He supported McCain the first time he ran for president in 2000 and signed up to be a major fundraiser for him in this year's presidential race.
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John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Fred Thompson plans late-June trip to NH  —  MANCHESTER - Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson will make his first visit to New Hampshire as a potential presidential candidate later this month, a high-ranking Republican says.  —  State Senate Minority Leader Ted Gatsas, R-Manchester …
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Taking New Hampshire for granite  —  Relevance of the first-in-the-nation primary never more in doubt  —  Have you captured a candidate on camera?  We want to see it.  Click here to send us your pictures and videos, and we'll post the best on MSNBC.com.  —  Political Director
Discussion: National Review
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Thompson Considering Ames?
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Fred Thompson to pay first visit S.C.
Discussion: Wizbang and The Palmetto Scoop
Philip Klein / American Spectator:
Newt Says He May Be Able To Do More on Sidelines - Friday …
Discussion: Power Line
ACSBlog:
Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages  —  Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City.
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Ted Frank / Overlawyered:
BORK SUES THE YALE CLUB
TMZ.com:
Hilton Ordered Back to Jail!  —  Paris Hilton was just ordered back to jail in Lynwood to serve out the remainder of her sentence!  She'll get credit for at least 5 days already served.  —  Hilton left the courtroom in tears, screaming, "Mom, Mom, Mom."  Hilton was also heard saying "It's not right."
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CNN Political Ticker:
White House: Bush wants immigration bill back  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush considers it premature to declare the immigration reform bill dead in the Senate, White House adviser Dan Bartlett said Friday.  —  A motion to cut off debate on the measure failed Thursday night, stopping the proposal from coming up for a vote.
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New York Times:
Immigration Bill Sponsors Vow to Press On
Discussion: TalkLeft
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Lies, Sighs and Politics  —  If early campaign reporting is any guide, the bad media habits that helped install the worst president ever in the White House haven't changed a bit.
Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle:
Happiness and the Ideological Mediation of Adaptation  —  The truly delicious bits of this new NBER working paper by Di Tella, Haisken-De New, and MacCulloch on adaptation to income and status is the stuff on political leanings: … That is (in case you're confused), folks on the left get used to money …
Discussion: National Review
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   WEALTH AND STATUS....Via Tyler Cowen, Will Wilkinson summarizes …
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
"His Personality Cult is All Personality and No Cult."  —  I pick on John Edwards a lot, possibly too much, and have (luckily) been asked to explain why.  OK, here's why: There's no reason for him to run and several reasons for him not to run.  Edwards entered politics as a Clintonite Southern psuedo-populist.
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Robert Schmidt / Bloomberg:
Justice Official May Revise Voter-Fraud Testimony, People Say  —  A Justice Department lawyer under fire for bringing criminal voter-fraud charges on the eve of the 2006 election may revise his Senate testimony about the case, which angered other U.S. prosecutors, officials familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Austin Bay Blog:
The end of Putin's anti-missile tantrum — and thoughts on Russia's real dilemmas  —  The Cold Spell ended quickly.  Despite the sensationalist "Cold War" revival rhetoric, the mutual interests bind the US and Russia -and Russia and Europe.  The Russian threat to "re-target" missiles and point them at Europe was bluster and threat.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Professors Back Libby on Appeal
Joseph Carroll / Gallup Poll:
Public: Candidates' Positions on Iraq Very Important to '08 Vote
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Times-Picayune:
Rep. William Jefferson's statement
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Senate set to take politically charged vote on Gonzales
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Discussion: Wonkette
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Two Years of Humble Pie