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9:55 AM ET, June 13, 2007

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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Rivals try to deflate F. Thompson campaign  —  Fred Thompson has had a relatively easy ride as he has flirted with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.  His strategists have found traction promoting him as the heir to Ronald Reagan — and a conservative alternative to the top tier of the GOP field.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Thompson Wants to Be President  —  How much deeper can Fred Thompson wade into the presidential waters without actually announcing that he is a candidate?  —  He was up to his eyeballs tonight on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.  —  Asked directly if he would like the job of president …
Discussion: Don Surber
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: Fred on "The Tonight Show"; Update: Video added  —  If Karol's staying up for this, it must be a capital-"e" Event.  Likelihood of a surprise announcement: 20%.  His aides were whispering about early July, but that could have been a smokescreen to set up a surprise tonight.
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
McCain '08 bid losing steam
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: Who's a Fred Voter?
Discussion: Don Surber and ParaPundit
Charles Levinson / Telegraph:
Hamas bids for total control  — In pictures: 24 hours of fighting in Gaza  —  Ahmed al Afifi, the Palestinian intelligence chief, nervously fingered a .45 pistol in his Gaza City home hours after it was hit with two Hamas mortars.  —  The first round blew a crater in his driveway.
Discussion: Yourish.com and Jay Currie
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Guardian:
Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures  —  Envoy's damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war  —  The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has "pummelled into submission" the UN's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report.
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Hamas's Gaza and Fatah's West Bank
Discussion: Power Line and Mere Rhetoric
Nico / Think Progress:
New Justice Dept. Emails Reveal Top Rove Aides' Involvement In Attorney Scandal  —  Justice Department documents released tonight include new emails linking Karl Rove's top aides — former White House political director Sara Taylor, who resigned last month, and her deputy Scott Jennings — to the U.S. attorney scandal.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Bush Aides Helped Respond to Firings, E-Mails Show  —  Several high-ranking White House officials were closely involved in crafting a public response to the uproar over the firing of a group of U.S. attorneys, according to documents released late yesterday.  —  Then-White House counsel …
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
New Emails: Taylor, Griffin Gone, and McNulty Testifying Again  —  Just a super quick comment about the new emails released today.  These are all, AFAIK from a quick scan, emails listed on the list of documents not turned over.  This trend has actually been true for a while …
New York Times:
Silence in the Senate  —  The most remarkable thing about the debate …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Lynn Elber / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89  —  LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday.  He was 89.  Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
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Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
Don Herbert, 89; TV's 'Mr. Wizard' taught science to young baby boomers  —  Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Unfogged
CNN:
U.S. official: Mosque attack may have been inside job … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Authorities have evidence that Wednesday's bombing of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra was an inside job, and 15 members of the Iraqi security forces have been arrested, a U.S. military official said.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Graham Bowley / New York Times:   Minarets on Shiite Shrine in Iraq Destroyed in Attack
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Coleman faces challenge from his former adviser  —  An Iraq war veteran and former adviser to Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) yesterday said he is considering a primary challenge against the lawmaker in 2008.  —  Retired Lt. Col. Joe Repya (R) lost a race for the state Republican Party chairmanship last week …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
CBS blames sexism for bad ratings  —  Leslie Moonves, CBS chief executive, on Tuesday suggested that sexist attitudes were partly to blame for the faltering performance of Katie Couric, the news anchor he recruited to the network with a $15m annual pay package.  —  "I'm sort of surprised by the vitriol against her.
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Dan Rather Takes On Network News With His Tart Remark
Discussion: Norwegianity and NewsBusters.org
Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Investigator: Nifong privately acknowledged doubts in Duke lacrosse case  —  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a "bunch of hooligans" in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove and that the accuser's story was filled …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Betsy's Page
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Sylvia Adcock / Washington Post:
Prosecutor Opens Defense of Actions in Duke Case
New York Times:
Bush Lobbies G.O.P. Senators on Immigration  —  In an effort to revive a crippled immigration bill, President Bush visited the Capitol on Tuesday to try to assure wary Senate Republicans personally that border security was a driving force behind his push for changes in immigration law.
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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Bush presses GOP on immigration bill
Discussion: Associated Press, MSNBC and Tammy Bruce
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Vote-Fraud Demagogues  —  Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID.  Are they are all racists?  —  Appointments to the Federal Election Commission rarely draw attention.  But at a confirmation hearing today, there's likely to be some fireworks over Hans von Spakovsky.
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Iraqis Are Failing to Meet U.S. Benchmarks  —  Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreements on nearly every law that the Americans have demanded as benchmarks, despite heavy pressure from Congress, the White House and top military commanders.  With only three months until progress reports …
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Don't run, Al.  Don't!  —  The self-defeating Draft Al campaign is just the tip of the Democrats' woes.  Plus: Paris and Lindsay's mommy problems, and the heyday of Hollywood pizazz.  —  "Run, Al, run!"  —  This chant, according to media reports, is being heard from the crowd wherever former Vice President Al Gore speaks.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Database Is Tool in Deporting Fugitives  —  Police Officers Find Illegal Immigrants In Warrant Searches  —  Hugo Vinicio Hernandez knew that immigration agents could detain him at any time for having disregarded a deportation order in 2001.  But the Guatemalan man didn't think he would wind …
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Rightosphere Temperature Check For June
Discussion: Bad Example and Argghhh!
Nouri Al-Maliki / Opinion Journal:
Our Common Struggle  —  America had its civil war.
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Florida primary will not count, Dean warns
Discussion: TIME and MSNBC
White House:
President Bush Attends Senate Republican Policy Committee Meeting at U.S. Capitol
Discussion: Redstate
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
DON'T STARE AT THE APES  —  "The mental features discoursed …
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Judge Who Seeks Millions for Lost Pants Has His (Emotional) Day in Court
Rich Horton / Michael P.F. van der Galiën:
In Praise of Incivility  —  Note of the Editor: This column …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Andy McCarthy / National Review:
Law of the Sea: Do We Really Want to Create Another Mini-U.N.?
Timothy A. Canova / SSRN:
Closing the Border and Opening the Door: Mobility, Adjustment …
The Independent:
Simon Kelner: Would you be saying this, Mr Blair, if we supported your war in Iraq?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Bush no money magnet
Discussion: MyDD
Fox News:
Boehner: Republicans to Declare War on Democrats Over Earmarks
Discussion: Right Wing News
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Romney Steps Up Advertising Push