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9:55 AM ET, June 21, 2007

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Gallup Guru:
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low  —  Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.  —  This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973.
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New York Times:
For 2 Years, Bloomberg Aides Prepared for Bid  —  The announcement by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent was made after nearly two years in which his aides had laid the groundwork for a potential independent run for president.
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Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg '08: a Real Long Shot
Discussion: TIME
Michael Powell / New York Times:   Giuliani May See a Rival in Successor
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Unity08 and Bloomberg: Perfect marriage?
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:
U.S.: Attacks kill 13 GIs in Iraq  —  Bomb claims lives of 5 GIs and 4 Iraqis, U.S. military says; mayor's office hit  —  BAGHDAD - The U.S. military announced the deaths of 14 American troops, including five killed Thursday in a single roadside bombing that also killed four Iraqis in Baghdad.
Discussion: Reuters, Eschaton and All Spin Zone
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CNN:   16 die in Iraq suicide truck bombing
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Nader ponders run, calls Clinton 'coward'  —  Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice to voters.  —  "You know the two parties are still converging …
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Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Gatekeepers of Hillaryland
Discussion: Associated Press
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  MR. SNOW: Just getting organized.  Hello.  Questions.  —  Q Tony, does the executive order allow researchers to do anything they couldn't do under current guidelines?  —  MR. SNOW: Well, what it does …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and First Draft
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed  —  Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common.  They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division.  And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago …
Fred Dalton Thompson / ABC Radio Networks:
Good News about CAIR  —  I've talked before about the Council on American-Islamic Relations — most recently because it filed that lawsuit against Americans who reported suspicious behavior by Muslims on a U.S. Airways flight.  Better known just as CAIR, the lobbying group has come under …
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Hot Air
National Post:
Read the sunspots  —  The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling  —  Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
A Leader of Hamas Warns of West Bank Peril for Fatah  —  Mahmoud Zahar, perhaps the most influential Hamas leader in Gaza, warned Wednesday that Fatah's effort to repress Hamas in the West Bank could lead to Fatah's downfall there as well.  —  In an interview here, Mr. Zahar …
Discussion: A Blog For All
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CBS News:
Missing Soldier's Wife Faces Deportation  —  As Military Searches For Kidnapped Soldier In Iraq, U.S. Threatens To Send Wife Back To Dominican Republic  —  (CBS/AP) While the U.S. military searches for a soldier missing in Iraq, kidnapped by insurgents possibly allied with al Qaeda …
Discussion: Shakesville and KnoxViews
Jonas Parker / fred2008.org:
...Fred Thompson's politics:  —  That about says it all!  —  This music makes my day!  Go Fred!  —  Sorry honey, Fred? already has a trophy wife — and her boobs are bigger than yours!  —  by Jefferson's Child 2007-06-20 12:57:24  —  How about a Fred Thompson/Newt Gingrich ticket?!
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael Yon:
Operation Arrowhead Ripper: Day One  —  The first day of operation Arrowhead Ripper was intense.  The Army is giving full access to the battlefield, and while on base full access to the TOC (HQ) which means I see the raw truth on the ground, and as it feeds through the TOC.  They are hiding nothing.
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
The CIA's torture teachers  —  Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with the approval of the Bush White House.  —  A detainee is escorted by military police at Camp 4 of the maximum security prison Camp Delta …
Arthur C. Brooks / American Enterprise Institute:
Happy for the Work  —  It is vacation season once again, giving occasion for the usual homilies about how Europeans are having a much better and healthier time of it than we are when it comes to work.  You've heard it a thousand times: Americans "live to work," while Europeans "work to live."
 
 
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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
List of journalists taking sides
Discussion: Romenesko
Washington Post:
Top Iraqi Officials Growing Restless
Discussion: Needlenose and On Deadline
Hilary Leila Krieger / Jerusalem Post:
Congress to condition Egypt's aid
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Shiite Rivalries Slash at a Once Calm Iraqi City
Ian Black / Guardian:
Medical staff held in Libya 'could be freed in weeks'
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
J. Grant Swank, Jr / MICHNEWS.COM:
BIBLE PREDICTS MIDDLE EAST BLOOD FLOW
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
British hostages held by 'Iran-backed' killers
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Los Angeles Times:
Abused orphans found in Baghdad
Discussion: Informed Comment
 Earlier Items: 
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: In Which Dr. Freud Demands a Retraction
The Atlantic Online:
Defining Extremism Down  —  It's two days old, but this whole …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Orders That Diplomatic Jobs in Iraq Be Filled First
Chicago Tribune:
The drip, drip, drip on Obama
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Precedents Begin to Fall for Roberts Court
Discussion: TalkLeft
The Age:
Is Osama a hero? …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
The fights on the right  —  WHAT DO liberal Democrats think about the war in Iraq?
Discussion: Crooked Timber
Brendan Carlin / Telegraph:
BBC 'risked safety of troops'
 

 
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