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Fox News:
Inhofe: Clinton, Boxer Want to Squash Conservative Radio Talk Shows — Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer have big plans to rein in conservative radio talk shows, according to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. — He said Thursday on John Ziegler's evening radio show on KFI in L.A. that he overheard Clinton …
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Center for American Progress:
The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio — Despite the dramatic expansion of viewing and listening options for consumers today, traditional radio remains one of the most widely used media formats in America. Arbitron, the national radio ratings company, reports that more than 90 percent …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Barbara Boxer And Hillary Clinton Will Target Talk Radio: Inhofe — Senator James Inhofe told talk-radio host John Ziegler that Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton want to introduce legislation aiming to control talk radio. This sounds like the story he told on CQ Radio yesterday …
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Bookworm Room
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
In Aiding Poor, Edwards Built Bridge to 2008 — John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff. — Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that he had assets …
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Los Angeles Times:
'Sicko' leaves top Democrats ill at ease — Leading candidates are sidestepping direct comment on filmmaker Michael Moore's proposals for universal healthcare. — WASHINGTON — With the release of Michael Moore's "Sicko," a movie once again is adding sizzle to an issue that's a high priority …
Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
Cheney claims a non-executive privilege — He asserts he's exempt from showing an agency how his office keeps secrets because he's not fully part of the administration. — WASHINGTON — For the last four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has made the controversial claim that his office …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Cheney Defiant on Classified Material
Cheney Defiant on Classified Material
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
White House contempt — House Judiciary Committee Democrats warned yesterday they would pursue a contempt of Congress motion if the White House fails respond to subpoenas for testimony and documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys last year. — The deadline for a response is Thursday, June 28.
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Senate Adopts Energy Bill Raising Mileage for Cars — The Senate passed a broad energy bill late Thursday that would, among other things, require the first big increase in fuel mileage requirements for passenger cars in more than two decades. — The vote, 65 to 27, was a major defeat …
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Sholnn Freeman / Washington Post:
Senate Passes Energy Bill
Senate Passes Energy Bill
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
What's Not to Like — The soft side, and the underside, of Hillary Clinton's campaign. — Hillary Clinton doesn't have to prove she's a man. She has to prove she's a woman. — She doesn't have to prove to people that she's tough enough or aggressive enough to be commander in chief.
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Washington Post:
Guantanamo Splits Administration — Arguments Center on How to Handle Remaining Detainees — Senior Bush administration officials are engaged in active discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but deep divisions remain regarding the fate …
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TPMmuckraker, CNN, The Newshoggers, The Carpetbagger Report, Bradford Plumer, MSNBC and Salon
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Melinda Henneberger / New York Times:
Why Pro-Choice Is a Bad Choice for Democrats — I KEEP reading about a universe in which social conservatives are warming to Rudy Giuliani. But this would have to be a place where his estranged children and three wives and multiple appearances in fishnets were irrelevant to the Republican base.
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TalkLeft, The Newshoggers, Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Mahablog, GregsOpinion.com, Liberal Values and Wizbang
Boston Globe:
Romney aide is the focus of probe — Allegedly acted as State Police trooper — State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving …
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Washington Post:
CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry — Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed — The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses — the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century …
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National Review, mediabistro.com, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Wonkette, NION, Prairie Weather and Michael P.F. van der Galiën
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Research Finds Firstborns Gain the Higher I.Q. — The eldest children in families tend to develop higher I.Q.'s than their siblings, researchers are reporting today, in a large study that could settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
'The Left' Moves Front and Center — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Why can't the left get any respect? — Whenever you use the word "left" in American politics, you feel almost compelled to add quotation marks. Today's left is not talking about nationalizing industry, abolishing capitalism or destroying the rich.
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Graham's approval plunges on immigration — Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) approval rating is taking a pounding in his home state as a result of his strong support for a bipartisan immigration reform bill, a new poll showed Friday. — Graham's approval rating has sunk to 31 percent …
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Hot Air
Rick Lee / On Location With Rick Lee:
Julian Beever, the greatest sidewalk artist in the world... ... finished his piece for the Charleston (WV) FestivALL today. I was lucky to be able to be there. He's a great guy to talk to and he just works like a madman. — Julian hails from the midlands of Great Britain but now resides in Belgium.
McQ / QandO:
NANCY PELOSI IS ALL FOR INCREASING VETERAN'S FUNDING, IF THE VETS ARE CANADIAN (UPDATED) — ***UPDATE: It's been pulled from the Pelosi website. Details below. Really, this again points out how very little the Democrats know about our military. This is simply basic stuff …