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Nico / Think Progress:
Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He's Creating A 'Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind' — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol defended Vice President Cheney's decision to exempt himself from an executive order designed to safeguard classified national security information.
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A New Dick Cheney-Alberto Gonzales Mystery — Tricky Dick: Cheney is refusing a government review of his office — A new battle has erupted over Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to submit to an executive order requiring a government review of his handling of classified documents.
Cheney:
'A Different Understanding With the President' … Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once a week. Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE VEEP'S OFFICE....Yesterday I wondered if National Review would take notice of Dick Cheney's laughable theory that the vice president is both a legislative and an executive officer and therefore bound by the rules of neither. My money was on Mark Levin to make some kind of bizarre …
Michelle Malkin:
The human rights outrage in Iran...and a challenge to Rosie O'Donnell and her ilk — Today I am joining blogs Gateway Pundit, Ali Eteraz, and Iran Focus in reprinting the latest batch of Iranian repression photos being distributed by the regime's state-run FARS News agency and ISNA.
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate returning to immigration bill — WASHINGTON - Senators pushing a new immigration policy appealed Sunday to wavering supporters ahead of renewed debate on securing the borders and dealing with 12 million undocumented immigrants. — A fragile compromise was pulled from the Senate in early June …
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Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:Immigration bill ignites grass-roots fire
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Old girlfriends cast their vote for Thompson — IN the battle for the women's vote, Fred Thompson has a secret weapon against Hillary Clinton - the legions of former girlfriends who still adore him and who want him to be president. — The Hollywood actor and former Tennessee senator racked …
Associated Press:
'We Will Try to Form an Islamic Society' — Mahmoud Zahar — a founder of Hamas, and one of its most militant hardliners — has called for an Islamic state in the Gaza Strip. After the Hamas takeover of the territory last week, he's also threatened Fatah with more violence in the West Bank.
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Charles Levinson / Telegraph:Fatah vows to wipe Hamas from West Bank
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
We've replaced Rushdie in hiding — A year or so after the Ayatollah Khomeini took out an Islamist mob contract on Salman Rushdie in 1989, the novelist appeared, after elaborate security arrangements, on a television arts show in London. His host was Melvyn Bragg, a longtime British telly grandee …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Aussie hired by state GOP embroiled in immigration lawsuit — Michael Kamburowski, the Australian immigrant hired as a top official in the California Republican Party, was ordered deported in 2001, jailed three years later for visa violations — and has filed a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit …
TigerHawk:
Complaining about the "Public Editor" — Last month, the New York Times appointed a new public editor, Clark Hoyt. Judging by today's column, he will carefully defend the Times from the grave risk that it tilts too far to the right. — Hoyt considers the torrent of criticism the Times …
Brian Braiker / Newsweek:
Poll: What Americans (Don't) Know — We asked Americans about current events, history and cultural literacy. And we got some pretty disheartening results. — For our What You Need to Know Now cover story, we asked our polling firm to test 1,001 adults on a variety of topics …
Matt / Think Progress:
Russert: ISG Commissioners Say Giuliani's Excuse For Leaving Is Untrue — Earlier this week, Newsday reported that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani quit the Iraq Study Group after co-chairman James Baker offered "him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit."
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
On Iraq: John Warner To the Rescue? — Two weeks ago, Frank Rich berated persons like me because: … Rich professed faith in John Warner to come to the rescue. This week Rich writes: … Who can stop them? Rich says it is up to John Warner: … Not again. We wait for the Godot Republicans.
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