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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Court Tightens Limits on Student Speech — The Supreme Court affirmed wide authority for school administrators to regulate students' speech today, allowing principals to punish pupils who make any in-school speech or demonstration that may "reasonably be viewed" as promoting illegal drug use.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court decides endangered species, religion, student speech …
Court decides endangered species, religion, student speech …
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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.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rasmussen: Likely Voters Likely To Oppose Immigration Compromise — As backers of the compromise immigration bill move to resuscitate it on the Senate floor, the American voter remains overwhelmingly opposed to it. In the latest Rasmussen poll conducted this weekend, only 22% …
Nico / Think Progress:
Lugar: U.S. Must Reduce Military Presence In Iraq — Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, tonight announced his support for an immediate shift in Iraq policy, calling on President Bush "to downsize the U.S. military's role in Iraq and place …
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Matt / Think Progress:
Matthews explains Coulter segment: 'She sells books.' — MSNBC is heavily promoting an appearance by Ann Coulter on tomorrow's Hardball. Coulter hasn't appeared on Hardball since July 27, 2006 when she called Vice President Al Gore a "total fag." Tonight, host Chris Matthews …
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Agence France Presse:
Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report — Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday. — Britain's defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on "intelligence matters".
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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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White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino — White House Conference Center Briefing Room — MS. PERINO: Good afternoon. A schedule update for you from this morning. The President spoke this morning with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki via secure video teleconference from the Situation Room.
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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 …
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.
Bob Geiger:
McCain To Hold Fundraiser With Swift Boater — To what depths is John McCain willing to go to bring money into a presidential campaign that is to a large extent based on the perception of him as a man of honor and integrity? — On Tuesday, McCain will attend a $1,000-per-person fundraiser hosted …
Amity Shlaes / American Enterprise Institute:
The Real Deal — The late Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was a true liberal—a man who welcomed debate. Just before he died this winter, he wrote, quoting someone else, that history is an argument without end. That, Schlesinger added, "is why we love it so." — Yet concerning Schlesinger's own period …
Media Matters for America:
ALERT: PBS Selects Luntz for Democratic forum analysis... Email from David Brock, June 25, 2007. — Dear Friend: — I'm sure you've already heard that PBS will be hosting the next Democratic presidential forum on Thursday, June 28, at Howard University in Washington …
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
"For a Mohammedan-Free Denmark" — I mentioned on Saturday that a group in Denmark was planning to burn an effigy of Mohammed (instead of a witch) at the traditional midsummer festival. — Since then the group that burned the Prophet has contacted SIAD, who kindly uploaded the video for us.
Associated Press:
Scholars urge Bush to ban use of torture — WASHINGTON - President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Rudy's New SC Co-Chair Has History Of "Racially Charged" Remarks — At this point, we can make it official: Rudy Giuliani really, really, really has bad luck with members of South Carolina's Ravenel clan. — Earlier this month, Rudy's former South Carolina chair, Thomas Ravenel …
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.