memeorandum: 'Meet the Press' transcript for June 10, 2007 (MSNBC)

U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies — With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups …

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast, KnoxViews, The Heretik, BlueGrassRoots and Real Cities

MSNBC:

'Meet the Press' transcript for June 10, 2007 — Colin Powell on the war in Iraq, Decision 2008 and much more — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: February 5th, 2003, then Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before the United Nations to lay out the case against Saddam Hussein.

Discussion: Dick Polman's American Debate, About Liberal Politics, Liberal Values and Find Habeas

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:

Her Way — On Meet the Press yesterday, Tim Russert asked Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta what was the most important thing in their new book, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. — Gerth: "She's now running for president, and we felt that people needed to understand how …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

Washington Post:

Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling — U.S.-Backed Group Has Fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq — A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and The Mahablog

Eli Lake / New York Sun:

GOP's Powell Is Now Advising Obama — WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, who only a decade ago was being discussed as a possible Republican presidential nominee and who more recently served as President Bush's first secretary of state, is advising a Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama of Illinois.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Central Sanity

Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantanamo

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, The Democratic Daily and Truthdig

Farah Stockman / Boston Globe:
No signs of phaseout for Guantanamo

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Richardson: I'd leave no troops in Iraq

Discussion: The American Street and Talking Points Memo

Robert Stacy McCain / Washington Times:

Reagan's famous line nearly clipped from Berlin speech — SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Top administration officials said the speech was all wrong. Too provocative, said the National Security Council. Too tough, said the State Department. — The president overruled his advisers and …

John Fund / Opinion Journal:

Hitting the Wall — Reagan's prophetic Berlin speech, 20 years later. — Rip Van Winkle has nothing on Jan Grzebski, a Polish railway worker who just emerged from a coma that began 19 years ago—just prior to the collapse of communism in his country. His take on how the world around …

Discussion: Power Line

Washington Post:

Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties — Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped — The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants …

Discussion: All Spin Zone, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Suburban Guerrilla and ImmigrationProf Blog

Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Standing by the Wrong Guy

Discussion: Middle Earth Journal and New Pairodimes

Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:

Romney's Run Has Mormons Wary of Scrutiny — LOGAN, Utah — In this wide valley where the twin spires of the Mormon temple dominate the landscape and some neighborhoods have a Mormon chapel every few blocks, Mitt Romney's bid for president is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation.

Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Outside The Beltway

Opinion Journal:

General Retreat — Secretary of Defense Levin picks a new war leader. — There's a rumor going around that Robert Gates is the Secretary of Defense. We'd like to request official confirmation, because based on recent evidence the man running the Pentagon is Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan.

Discussion: Brendan Nyhan

Liz Lightfoot / Telegraph:

'Political meddling' ruining learning in schools — The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank. — It warns of the educational apartheid opening …

Discussion: Dr. Sanity, Bookworm Room and Tim Worstall

Los Angeles Times:

U.S. relies on Sudan despite condemning it — The nation accused of aiding the killings in Darfur provides spies in Iraq. In return, it gets access in Washington. — WASHINGTON — Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S …

Discussion: Informed Comment

Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:

THAAAT'S What We Were All Waiting For? Angry 'Sopranos' Fans Crash HBO Website — The line to cancel HBO starts here. What a ridiculously disappointing end lacking in creativity to The Sopranos saga. But if you're one of those who found it perversely interesting, then don't bother to read on.

Discussion: Political Punch

TheOnlineWire:
The Sopranos Finale: will Tony live or will he get whacked?

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys, TMZ.com and Taylor Marsh

Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
Will Tony sing like a soprano?

Discussion: Tim Worstall, Observer, Captain's Quarters and The Moderate Voice

Robert Tanner / Associated Press:

Studies say death penalty deters crime — Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.

Discussion: Michael P.F. van der Galiën, Liberal Values, The Jawa Report, Sister Toldjah, Secular Blasphemy and Blue Crab Boulevard

Chris Barge / Rocky Mountain News:

5 questions for journalist and author David Sirota — Al Franken calls him "My Sirota - the sexy, sexy wonk." — The late columnist Molly Ivins said he "is a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed?' and 'Who's doing the screwing?' "

Discussion: WorkingForChange

ABCNEWS:

EXCLUSIVE: Hilton Calls Barbara Walters from Jail — She 'Was Severely Depressed and Felt as if I Was in a Cage,' but now Has 'New Chance' — In jail serving out the remainder of her sentence for violating parole on reckless driving charges, Paris Hilton phoned ABC News' Barbara Walters Sunday …

Discussion: Althouse