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7:50 PM ET, June 25, 2007

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court decides endangered species, religion, student speech, campaign finance cases; four new grants  —  Amid several 5-4 rulings on the merits, the Supreme Court on Monday granted four cases for review next Term, including a significant test case on the use of references to the O.J. Simpson …
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Bill Mears / CNN:
'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case tightens student speech … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled against a former high school student Monday in the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner case — a split decision that limits students' free speech rights.  —  Joseph Frederick was 18 when he unveiled …
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Loosen Restrictions on Campaign Ads  —  The Supreme Court today loosened the restrictions on what companies and unions can spend on television advertisements just before elections, and in so doing may well have affected the thinking of political strategists for the 2008 elections.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Eases Limits on 'Issue Ads'  —  The Supreme Court today substantially weakened the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act's restrictions on the kinds of ads corporations, unions and special interest groups may run in the days before an election.  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Tightens Limits on Student Speech
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Liberal Values
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Court Tightens Limits on Student Speech
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Joshua Muravchik / Opinion Journal:
Winds of War  —  Iran is making a mistake that may lead the Middle East into a broader conflict.  —  Several conflicts of various intensities are raging in the Middle East.  But a bigger war, involving more states—Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the Palestinian Authority and perhaps …
Amanda / Think Progress:
REPORT: Stop Training Iraqi Security Forces And Redeploy U.S. Troops
Discussion: Norwegianity
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 22% Favor Stalled Immigration Bill  —  As the Senate prepares to resume debate the "comprehensive" immigration reform bill, the legislation continues to face broad public opposition.  In fact, despite a massive White House effort, public opinion has barely moved since the public uproar stalled the bill just over two weeks ago.
Discussion: Hot Air and Middle Earth Journal
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Rasmussen: Likely Voters Likely To Oppose Immigration Compromise
Klaus Marre / The Hill:   Sessions says support for immigration bill is eroding
Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Kurtz on Undercover Journalism: "The horror!"  —  Earlier this year, when I was working with my editors to plan out a story about lobbyists willing to work for the Stalinist regime in Turkmenistan, I predicted that after the story was published Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz would write …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
McCain could pull out of race by autumn  —  Presidential hopeful drops campaign staff as Republican consultants predict he'll be gone by September  —  THE former presidential front-runner, John McCain, may drop out of the 2008 race by September if his fundraising dries up and his poll ratings continue …
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CNN Political Ticker:
Poll: Bloomberg could have Perot-like effect
Discussion: Hot Air and Pollster.com
Michael Yon:
Drilling for Justice  —  Army officers have been pleased with Michael Gordon's portrayal of the events in Baqubah.  —  On 19 June American forces sealed off Baqubah and began attacking targets within the city.  The immediate goal of Arrowhead Ripper was to free Baqubah of al Qaeda …
Washington Post:
Plaintiff Gets Nothing in $54M Case of Missing Pants  —  Ruling for Dry Cleaner May Spell Bigger Woes for D.C. Judge Roy Pearson  —  The D.C. administrative law judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost pants found out this morning what he's going to get for all his troubles.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Look Forward to Anger  —  IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SATISFY "RAGE BOY" AND HIS ILK.  IT'S STUPID TO TRY.  —  If you follow the link, you will be treated to some scenes from the strenuous life of a professional Muslim protester in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar.  Over the last few years …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Bookworm Room
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Democrats tear into Fred Thompson  —  Even before his expected July announcement, Fred Thompson's all-but-declared entry into the Republican presidential stakes has prompted the Democratic National Committee to attack him as a potential GOP front-runner and to use his prospective candidacy to raise money.
Michael Kranish / Boston Globe:
Mormon church obtained Vietnam draft deferrals for Romney, other missionaries  —  As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof and MSNBC
 
 
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Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
"For a Mohammedan-Free Denmark"
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Amity Shlaes / Wall Street Journal:
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The Raw Story:
Rep. labeled 'chickens**t thief' for 'borrowing' Dem sign
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Schumer: Gonzales not fit to rule on Cheney's role
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Fortune:
Who business is betting on  —  In a wide-open race …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Iranians Aren't About to Overthrow the Mullahs
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Kathleen Parker / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Do we really want our President to be hip?
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
A Shadow on the Human Rights Movement
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
True or False: We Are Losing The War Against Radical Islam
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Murdoch Reaches Out for Even More
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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