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BarbinMD / Daily Kos:
Subpoena Issued for Sara Taylor: Updated — CNN is reporting that the first subpoena has been issued in the U.S. Attorney purge: … Bring it on. — Update: Former White House counsel and one-time Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will also be receiving a subpoena today. — From the AP:
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Nico / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal — Former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, who served as White House political director before resigning last month, have been issued subpoenas over their connections to the U.S. attorney scandal.
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Nico / Think Progress:
New Justice Dept. Emails Reveal Top Rove Aides' Involvement In Attorney Scandal
New Justice Dept. Emails Reveal Top Rove Aides' Involvement In Attorney Scandal
New York Times:
Silence in the Senate — The most remarkable thing about the debate …
Silence in the Senate — The most remarkable thing about the debate …
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Prairie Weather
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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: Fred on "The Tonight Show"; Update: Video added; Update: GOP oppo researchers start digging — 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.
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.
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Washington Post:
Blasts Destroy Remnants of Samarra Shiite Shrine — Early morning blasts Wednesday destroyed two minarets at the same Shiite shrine in Samarra where an attack last year demolished the mosque's gilded dome and plunged the country into a wave of deadly sectarian violence.
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
Minarets on Shiite Shrine in Iraq Destroyed in Attack — Left, a file photo from Dec. 2003 shows intact the two minarets and the Golden Dome of the al-Askari mosque in Samarra. At right, the mosque today after the attack on the minarets. The dome was destroyed in the 2006 attack.
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Hot Air
Avi Issacharoff / Reuters:
14 Palestinians killed as Hamas nears complete Gaza conquest — At least 14 Palestinians were killed by Hamas fire Wednesday, including 13 members of Fatah, as Hamas was on the verge of completing its conquest of the Gaza Strip. — Hamas is now in control of southern, central …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Hamas's Gaza and Fatah's West Bank — Jamal Abu Jadian, a top Fatah commander, fled his home in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening dressed as a woman to avoid dozens of Hamas militiamen who had attacked it. He and several members of his family and bodyguards were lightly wounded.
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 …
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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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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 …
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Nouri Al-Maliki / Opinion Journal:
Our Common Struggle — America had its civil war.
Our Common Struggle — America had its civil war.
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Macsmind
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.
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Lynn Elber / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89
TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89
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Jon Swift, Comments From Left Field, Wizbang, The World Wide Rant, Shakesville and Pharyngula
Agence France Presse:
US Democrats preview new Iraq showdown — Anti-war Senate Democrats Tuesday plotted a new showdown with US President George W. Bush over Iraq, but admitted they had erred by making supporters think they could end the war. — "On Iraq, we're going to hold the president's feet to the fire …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Harry Reid's Sham
Harry Reid's Sham
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Cliff Schecter, Blue Crab Boulevard, UNCoRRELATED, The Swamp, New Pairodimes and Moonbattery
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 …
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Yemeni Languishes at Guantanamo Long After U.S. Approved Release — Dispute Over Citizenship Leaves Saudi-Born Detainee in Legal Limbo — SANAA, Yemen — The word came in May 2006: Ali Mohammed Nasser Mohammed, a slight, 24-year-old Yemeni with curly black hair and a wispy beard …
Lori Kurtzman / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Money pinch to close Antioch — Yellow Springs college hopes to reopen in 2012 — digg us! del.icio.us! — When Steve Duffy was a high school student in the 1960s, his history teacher told him that one of the most utopian places on the planet was in Yellow Springs, Ohio, at a college called Antioch.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Casting Ballot From Abroad Is No Sure Bet — Over the last six years, the Defense Department has spent more than $30 million trying to find an efficient way for American soldiers and civilians living abroad to vote in elections back home. — But with the presidential primaries approaching …
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.
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 …
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.