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1:30 AM ET, June 16, 2007

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Michael Kinsley / Time:
The Quiet Gay Revolution  —  When William F. Buckley Jr. revived American conservatism by founding National Review in 1955, he said the magazine's job was to stand "athwart history, yelling stop."  At that time, history did seem to be moving in the wrong direction if you were a conservative, and Buckley was gutsy to admit as much.
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The Atlantic Online:
Contingency? Irony? Solidarity!
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Eschaton
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
We Win  —  That was quick, wasn't it?  Mike Kinsley writes …
Discussion: Pandagon and Kevin Sullivan
Ezra Klein:
Do Philosophies Matter to Political Parties?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
DoJ Purge Figure Resigns  —  Nothing like a Friday afternoon resignation to end the week.  —  From the AP: … Update: Some highlights from Elston's tenure at DoJ:  — He allegedly called three of the fired U.S. attorneys and made an implicit threat that the Justice Department …
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Official close to attorney firings quits  —  WASHINGTON — A senior Justice Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors said Friday he is resigning.  —  Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, is the fifth Justice official …
Discussion: Think Progress
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Conservative bloggers revolt over immigration … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Different conservative blogs have different pet issues — government transparency, federal judges, Fred Thompson, to name a few.  —  But no issue in recent memory has united conservative bloggers like the debate over immigration.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Conservative Blogger E-mails Tell The Story
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Clinton Spokesman: Drudge Version Misses a Detail About Pay Day  —  Drudge is taking Bill Clinton to task for giving a $100,000 speech via satellite to a group of investors in Hong Kong on the 5th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.  —  But Clinton's press office now says that although …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
The Backstory on Obama-Clinton Attack Memos
Discussion: Prairie Weather, MSNBC and Taylor Marsh
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Inside the Ring  —  China arming terrorists  —  New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.  —  U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the arms shipments …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
The Best Days Of My Life  —  After spending all week trying to think of a poignant way of making this announcement, and drawing nothing but blanks, I have decided to just say it as plainly as I can.  Today, after more than three years, I am stepping down as the lead writer and managing editor of MyDD.
New York Times:
Duke Case Prosecutor Says He Will Resign  —  Durham County district attorney Michael B. Nifong said today he plans to resign his job, after admitting that he had "crossed the line" of ethical standards in some of the public statements he made about the Duke University lacrosse players he charged with rape.
Discussion: The World Wide Rant and QandO
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Watergate's 35th Anniversary: Would That Story Have Been Broken Today?  —  Who knows, someone with a cell phone camera working in the parking garage might have snapped a photo of Woodward chatting with this unknown source.  Or a blogger would have blown the whistle.  —  Sunday will be a memorable day for me, for two reasons.
Discussion: CBS News, First Draft and Attytood
Economist:
Vote for me, dimwit  —  How the electorate is irrational  —  ANYONE who follows an election campaign too closely will sometimes get the feeling that politicians think voters are idiots.  A new book says they are.  Or rather, Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University …
Chris Barge / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo wins surprise immigration vote  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted to withhold federal emergency services funding for "sanctuary cities" that protect illegal immigrants.  —  Anti-illegal immigration champion Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. …
James Risen / New York Times:
Senator Blocks Vote on Subpoenas Over Eavesdropping  —  A Republican senator blocked a vote in the Judiciary Committee on whether to authorize subpoenas to the Justice Department to obtain secret legal opinions and other documents related to the National Security Agency's program of domestic eavesdropping.
Matthew Levitt / Counterterrorism Blog:
Palestine's Party of God  —  As the world watches the Hamas coup in Gaza unfold, it is worth considering that Hamas's emulation of the Hezbollah was not unexpected.  Consider the following, from the concluding section of my book HAMAS: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad:
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Kos / Daily Kos:
Leading  —  Atrios writes: … One of the most dismaying artifacts of modern politics is how little leadership we actually see from our top Democrats.  And by "top" Democrats, I mean those who can get on TV at the snap of a finger, or who are "serious" presidential candidates …
Michelle Malkin:
www.trentlott.com  —  ***update: Rush on Lott—"You've got Republicans talking about talk radio like liberals talk about talk radio.  That tells you something."  Yes, it does.  It tells you that the Republican Party is in deep, deep doo-doo.  Speaking of doo-doo, the literal kind apparently turned up in the Capitol today.
 
 
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New York Times:
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Oliver Willis:
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Discussion: Think Progress
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
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