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5:30 PM ET, June 19, 2007

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Associated Press:
Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas  —  The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
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ZOA / Zionist Organization of America:
Mahmoud Abbas Is No Moderate & Deserves No Support  —  The Zionist Organization of America is opposing any Israeli and American support for Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah terrorist group.  ( Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2007).  —  Mahmoud Abbas in his own words:
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Israpundit
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Might Makes Right?  —  What kind of world leader would instruct the international community to engage with Hamas, even though it just committed an armed insurrection against the Palestinian Authority?  Who among the world's experts would argue that the coup d'etat legitimized their claim to speak for the Palestinian people?
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Battle of Baqubah II  —  The Baqubah region.  Click map to view.  —  Major offensive in al Qaeda's so-called capital of the Islamic State of Iraq  —  The Diyala Campaign is underway.  As part of major offensive operations throughout the belts regions of Baghdad …
Washington Post:
U.S. Forces Target Insurgents in New Operation  —  U.S. troops backed by helicopters and Bradley Fighting Vehicles launched a major offensive Tuesday to clear the Sunni extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq from its new stronghold in Diyala province north of the capital, the U.S. military said in a statement.
Multi-National Force:
Task Force Lightning strikes al-Qaeda
Discussion: Mudville Gazette
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
The Awful Truth About 9/11  —  The guerrilla reporters of Infowars—last seen being broken up and hauled out of the spin room at CNN's Republican debate—nailed Michael Moore at a screening of Sicko and got him to discuss 9/11 conspiracy theories.  (Sorry, other theories of the events of 9/11.)
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Gregg Goldstein / Hollywood Reporter:
'Sicko' leaks have studios crying malpractice  —  Clips uploaded to YouTube in 14 chunks  —  NEW YORK — YouTube has removed clips of Michael Moore's U.S. health-care expose "Sicko" that appeared on the site during the weekend, two weeks before the film's June 29 opening.
Kyle Smith / Movies:
Kyle Smith on Michael Moore's 'Sicko'  —  Tuesday's New York Post features my review of Michael Moore's "Sicko," a film that will be released in theaters on June 29 but has already been released nationwide, on many Web sites, free, with Moore's blessing.  What follows is a greatly expanded …
Discussion: Say Anything
Fred Thompson / Townhall.com:
Fred Thompson's Remarks to Policy Exchange in London  —  Thank you very much.  Charles Moore, Anthony Browne, Dean Godson, distinguished guests: I appreciate the cordial welcome to London.  I always look forward to visiting the United Kingdom, and this time around I couldn't ask for a better host than the Policy Exchange.
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Bob Geiger:
Here's How Fringe I Am, Fred Thompson  —  Did you know that former Senator and maybe, kinda, sorta Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has his own column on the ABC Radio Network's web site?  Neither did I until someone pointed out to me that he had written a piece bashing Senate …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The Runaway Train That Hit Scooter Libby  —  The attorney general called a meeting.  He assembled all the U.S. attorneys in the Great Hall of the Justice Department and told them, in essence, that their chief responsibility was to decide whom not to prosecute.
Craig Gordon / Newsday:
Rudy missing in action for Iraq panel  —  Giuliani's campaign fundraising kept him from commitment to panel studying Iraq.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph Giuliani's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group …
Austin Fenner / New York Post:
KERIK'S CRY OVER RUDY  —  LAMENTS LOSING HIS PAL  —  Disgraced ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik can't stop crying over his fizzled friendship with former BFF Rudy Giuliani.  —  "I accept the distance created by Giuliani.  I understand it, but inside, it's killing me," Kerik said.
WTVF-TV:
Track Star Killed By Suspected Drunk Driver  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee State University student died Saturday when another driver broadsided her vehicle on Old Hickory Boulevard.  —  Metro police said 24-year-old Victor Benitez was drunk as he ran a red light at the intersection …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
You're nobody until somebody pardons you  —  When he was 13 years old, Anthony Circosta shot another kid in the arm with a BB gun, which was not a nice thing to do.  —  And even though Circosta's shot did not break the kid's skin, Circosta was convicted of assault.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
OffTheBus: HuffPost's Citizen Journalism Project Gets A Name, and Gets Rolling  —  At the end of March, I told you about the exciting new citizen journalism project Huffington Post is launching in partnership with NYU professor Jay Rosen and his experimental site, NewAssignment.Net.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Scalia and Torture  —  The Supreme Court Justice cites Jack Bauer and the Hollywood torture show "24" as relevant background for constitutional jurisprudence: … Earth to Justice Scalia: Jack Bauer does not exist.  But the assumption that he does can lead to a lot of unusual places:
PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum involved in movie project  —  Rick Santorum is in early talks on a movie project with Hollywood producer Stephen McEveety.  —  Rumors have been buzzing throughout Harrisburg that Santorum was connecting with McEveety, who produced Mel Gibson blockbusters such as "Braveheart," …
Jennifer Hunter / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama finding new allies: Republicans  —  Many cite war in Iraq, spirit of political unity as issues  —  There is an interesting phenomenon that has arisen over the last few months: a trend of moderate Republicans who want to vote for Barack Obama.  It may seem counterintuitive …
Discussion: TIME, Taylor Marsh, MSNBC and safo2008.com
 
 
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Gallup Poll:
Seventy Percent of Americans Say Economy Is Getting Worse
Discussion: Think Progress and The Swamp
Rick Perlstein / commonsense.ourfuture.org:
Mike Gravel at Take Back America
Election Central:
Hillary's Campaign Song Originally Written For...Air Canada Ad
Kos / Daily Kos:
How relevant is Hillary's early national lead?
Discussion: TalkLeft and Townhall.com
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Iraq, 'Sinking Fast,' Is Ranked No. 2 on List of Unstable States
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
The Politically Incorrect Americanism of Alba, Pacino, and Arnold
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Casual Lawbreaking at the White House
Akiko Yamamoto / Washington Post:
Japan's New Public Health Problem Is Getting Big
Discussion: Cato-at-liberty
 Earlier Items: 
Donald L. Horowitz / Opinion Journal:
Unifying Iraq  —  Partition is the path to more war—multiple wars, in fact.
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Clinton Sings Soprano, Sort of
New York Times:
Question Time for Nominee Linked to Interrogations
Heritage Foundation:
How High Will Gas Prices Go?
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
US agencies disobey 6 laws that president challenged
The Politico:
Republican candidates begin snubbing Bush
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
Getting Lost in the Great Indoors
CNN:
House pet projects stay private despite promises
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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