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3:35 PM ET, June 20, 2007

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Hillary Clinton Booed Again — Sen. Hillary Clinton was booed again this morning at the Take Back America conference, sponsored by the lefty activist group Campaign for America's Future here in Washington. At this same conference last year, Sen. Clinton was booed for her position on the war in Iraq.

Discussion: Firedoglake, BobGeiger.com and Wizbang

Bill Scher / commonsense.ourfuture.org:

What The Boos Were About — Sen. Hillary Clinton being booed during her remarks is likely to be the big story coming out of Day 3 of Take Back America. What the boos were actually about is likely to be misreported. — Byron York at the National Review writes that the boos began after Clinton said …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Hullabaloo, MyDD, TIME: Swampland, Seeing the Forest, The Carpetbagger Report, Hot Air and JammieWearingFool

Patrick Healy / The Caucus:

Clinton Gets Better Reception on Iraq — Here's a totally unscientific but not unimportant measure of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's evolution from Iraq war supporter to antiwar partisan in the last year: She was booed more lightly and gently at this morning's Take Back America gathering of liberal activists than she was a year ago.

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Wonkette, Ian Schwartz and AMERICAN DIGEST

Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:

U.S. Seeks to Block Exits for Iraq Insurgents — In more than four years in Iraq, American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have often slipped away only to fight another day. The war in Iraq has been likened to the arcade game of whack-a-mole, where as soon as you knock down one mole another pops up.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Newshoggers, The Atlantic Online, The Strata-Sphere, The Heretik, American Footprints, Kiko's House and The Swamp

USA Today:
Tribes help U.S. against al-Qaeda

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere

Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Battle of Iraq - 2007 — Baghdad and the Belts.

Discussion: Multi-National Force

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

GIULIANI FOLLOWUP....Remember that Newsday story from yesterday about Rudy Giuliani getting kicked off the Iraq Study Group because he couldn't find the time in his busy schedule to attend their meetings? You could be excused if you don't, since apparently no one in our press corps considered either …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Atlantic Online, TalkLeft and TBogg

Media Matters for America:

Politico largely ignored Giuliani-ISG story, still flogging Edwards' haircuts — The Politico, which purports to cover "the politics of Capitol Hill and of the presidential campaign ... with enterprise, style, and impact," largely ignored a June 19 Newsday article reporting that former …

Discussion: TalkLeft and Suburban Guerrilla

New York Times:

Bloomberg Severs G.O.P. Ties, Fueling Talk of '08 Bid — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Tuesday that he was dropping his Republican affiliation, a step that could clear the way for him to make an independent bid for the presidency. — The announcement was released during …

Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg Leaves GOP

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Boston Globe, New York Post, Dick Polman's American Debate, City Room, The Politico and New York Times

Ahmed Yousef / New York Times:

What Hamas Wants — THE events in Gaza over the last few days have been described in the West as a coup. In essence, they have been the opposite. Eighteen months ago, our Hamas Party won the Palestinian parliamentary elections and entered office under Prime Minister Ismail Haniya …

Discussion: A Blog For All, Israel Matzav, CNN, Wizbang, FP Passport and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Little Green Footballs:

New York Times Shills for Hamas (Again) — Hamas terrorist or op-ed contributor to the New York Times? — Ahmed Yousef is both! — The newspaper that never seems to hit bottom shills for a murderous, genocidal terrorist group with fresh blood on its hands: What Hamas Wants.

Discussion: Pajamas Media and The Jawa Report

The Blotter:

Slim Chance Of Finding an Arabic Speaker at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad — Jonathan Karl and Maddy Sauer Report: — Of the 1,000 U.S. employees at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, only 10 have a working knowledge of Arabic, according to the State Department.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Carpetbagger Report

Los Angeles Times:
Passports, answers in high demand

Discussion: Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and Captain's Quarters

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

Bush Will Pair Veto With New Cell Initiative — President Bush will issue an executive order intended to encourage scientific advances in regenerative medicine, according to senior White House officials who said Mr. Bush would announce the initiative on Wednesday, just as he vetoes a measure promoting embryonic stem cell research.

Discussion: The Gavel, The Carpetbagger Report, Redstate and Washington Post

Michael Cook / TCS Daily:
Will a Disruptive Technology Mothball Therapeutic Cloning?

Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG

Alan Finder / New York Times:

Some Colleges to Drop Out of U.S. News Rankings — The presidents of dozens of liberal arts colleges have decided to stop participating in the annual college rankings by U.S. News and World Report. — The decision was announced Tuesday at the end of an annual meeting of the Annapolis Group …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Inside Higher Ed, The Quick and the Ed, Althouse and The RBC

Yochi J. Dreazen / Wall Street Journal:

The Prison Poets Of Guantanamo Find a Publisher — Military Security Clears 22 — After Checking for Code; — What's Lost in Translation — Inmates at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, used pebbles to scratch messages into the foam cups they got with their meals.

Discussion: Jules Crittenden and SamSederShow.com

Agence France Presse:

French officials want their BlackBerrys despite security warning — Top French government officials are ignoring warnings to ditch their cherished BlackBerrys — smartphones with e-mail capacity — despite warnings their messages may be intercepted by US spy agencies, a report said Tuesday.

Discussion: Roger L. Simon, Say Anything and Pajamas Media

Heritage Foundation:

The Senate Immigration Bill: A National Security Nightmare — by Kris W. Kobach, D.Phil., J.D. — WebMemo #1513 — Proponents of the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill are attempting to rhetorically recast the massive amnesty proposal as national security legislation.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Macsmind, michellemalkin.com and National Review

Associated Press:

Venezuelan TV chief eyes possible deals in Mexico … MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — The head of an opposition-aligned Venezuelan television station that was forced off the air by that nation's government said he has received offers to co-produce and transmit programming from Mexico.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and QandO

Steve Herman / Associated Press:

Simulation finds 9/11 fireproofing key — INDIANAPOLIS - A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.

Discussion: NION, On Deadline, Blue Crab Boulevard and Truthdig

Maddy Sauer Reports / The Blotter:

New Taliban Leader Had Been in Afghan Custody; Released in Hostage Deal — Maddy Sauer Reports: — The Taliban military commander who led the "graduation ceremony" for 300 suicide bombers was one of five men released from an Afghanistan prison earlier this year in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist.

Discussion: AMERICAblog

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:

In N.C., GOPer Raises, Then Lowers, Voter Fraud Alarms — On June 5, less than thirty minutes before the North Carolina State Senate was scheduled to vote on a bill that would allow voters to register up until three days before an election (down from 25), the Republican state auditor sent …

Discussion: Charlotte Observer, Talking Points Memo, Facing South and The BRAD BLOG

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:

The World In America — Here's a great map from a great blog, Strange Maps. Each state is represented by a foreign country with the same GDP. I'm struck by one obvious thing. The District of Columbia has the same GDP as New Zealand. Now imagine if no one in New Zealand were allowed …

Discussion: The Newshoggers and Outside The Beltway

Quinnipiac University News and Events:

June 20, 2007 - Clinton Tops Giuliani, Bloomberg In New York State, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Thompson Tops McCain Among Republicans — In a hypothetical all-New York presidential race, Sen. Hillary Clinton wins with 43 percent of voters statewide, followed by former …

Discussion: The Swamp, culturekitchen, City Room and TIME

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

What "truly motivates" George W. Bush? — Salon this morning has published a somewhat lengthy excerpt from my new book, A Tragic Legacy. The excerpt is here, and it concerns the root premises which have led this country so explicitly to embrace the very policies and practices …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Interesting Times, DownWithTyranny!, Corrente and Firedoglake

Edelfenbein / CrossingWallStreet.com:

Paul Krugman Four Years Ago Today … And. … June 20, 2003 — From a reader:

Discussion: Chronicle of the Conspiracy

John Steele Gordon / Opinion Journal:

Racial Role Reversal — What the Scottsboro Boys and the Duke lacrosse players have in common. — Imagine this: In a Southern town, a woman accuses several men of rape. Despite the woman's limited credibility and ever-shifting story, the community and its legal establishment immediately decide the men are guilty.

Discussion: INSTAPUTZ and Brendan Nyhan