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11:25 AM ET, June 11, 2007

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New York Times:
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 …
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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 …
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
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Tensions Within the Sunni Coalition Against al-Qaeda
Discussion: Brian Beutler
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 …
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Standing by the Wrong Guy
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Democrats to Push Vote on Gonzales
Laura McGann / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read
Discussion: The Caucus and Firedoglake
Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:   Bush Calls Vote on Attorney General `Meaningless' (Update1)
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: Central Sanity
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Is Colin Powell An Obama Advisor?
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.
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:   IQ debate unsettled in death penalty cases
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 …
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Hitting the Wall  —  Reagan's prophetic Berlin speech, 20 years later.
Discussion: Power Line
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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Dennis Miller goes nuclear on Harry Reid  —  The e-mails are flooding in.  You want it?  You got it.  —  If Rasmussen's right, this should resonate broadly.  —  Blowback
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and BLACKFIVE
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to hear cocaine sentence case; issues five unanimous rulings.  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up at its next Term the long-standing dispute over the fairness of punishing crack cocaine crimes far more severely — 100 to 1 — than those involving cocaine powder under federal Sentencing Guidelines.
Marcus Baram / ABCNEWS:
Free Porn Threatens Adult Film Industry  —  More Porn Viewers Are Getting It For Free On The Web; Industry Sales Start to Slip  —  "Free porn" just might be the two most exciting or frightening words in the English language, depending on your point of view.
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
Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
An awkward ad by Fred Thompson  —  He promotes the firm of a man once accused of deceiving consumers.  —  Possible presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson is lending his voice to radio commercials for a company that says it fights identity thieves and that was co-founded by a man accused …
Discussion: MSNBC
Stacey Stowe / New York Times:
Marijuana Law in Connecticut Gains Ground  —  Seventeen years ago, Mark Braunstein dived 60 feet off a footbridge into a river, landed wrong and became a paraplegic.  A librarian at Connecticut College, Mr. Braunstein, 55, walks with the aid of crutches and leg braces.
Discussion: TalkLeft
 
 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

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