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2:40 PM ET, June 27, 2007

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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
White House, Cheney's office, subpoenaed  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free eavesdropping program.  —  Also named in subpoenas signed …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Wonkette
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dems force Cheney to flip-flop on secret docs  —  Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives.  —  Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney Aide Explains Stance on Classified Material  —  Vice President Cheney's office offered its first public written explanation yesterday for its refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified material, arguing that the order makes clear that the vice president …
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and First Draft
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Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Giuliani Gets a Standing Ovation At a Christian College
Discussion: race42008.com
Wayne Barrett / Village Voice:   No Wafer for Rudy  —  Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God
New York Times:
New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left  —  Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll.
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CBS News:
Poll: Young Voters Favor Obama, Clinton  —  CBS/NYT/MTV Poll: More 17- To 29-Year-Olds Paying Attention To 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  (CBS) Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the favored presidential candidates of younger Americans, according to a poll conducted by CBS News, The New York Times and MTV.
Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
The Cheney Irony  —  I'm a longtime member of a pretty select group: the Dick Cheney Fan Club.  Chapters gather in phone booths, refrigerator boxes and, at the annual convention, we take up three whole booths in the back of a nearby Arby's.  —  Why do I like Dick Cheney?
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Ben Quinn / Telegraph:
Protests rage over petrol rationing in Iran  —  Angry Iranians have torched petrol stations in protests against the sudden imposition of fuel rationing in one of the world's most oil rich nations.  —  The rationing was announced on Tuesday only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight …
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The Atlantic Online:
Too Little, Too Late  —  It's frustrating to see this level of attention given by the MSM and the Huffington Post alike to the theory that GOP Senators are taking on Bush over the war.  I was writing about this yesterday and have a Guardian column out about it but we're way past the point for this kind of B.S.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP preps for talk radio confrontation  —  House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.
National Review:
Senate Sausage  —  Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the Heritage Foundation, e-mails:
Discussion: Redstate and Macsmind
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Michelle Malkin:
Shamnesty on the Senate Floor 6/27
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Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton's pushy pollsters?
Discussion: MSNBC and Betsy's Page
blog.washingtonpost.com:
Leaving No Tracks  —  Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001.  A phone message awaited her.  —  "This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview.
John Leo / City Journal:
Bowling With Our Own  —  Robert Putnam's sobering new diversity research scares its author.  —  Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so.  His five-year study shows that immigration …
Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Ms. Edwards asks Coulter to stop attacks  —  RALEIGH, N.C. - Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks," a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards' husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.
Tomoeh Murakami Tse / Washington Post:
Buffett Slams Tax System Disparities  —  Speech Raises at Least $1 Million for Clinton Campaign  —  Warren E. Buffett was his usual folksy self Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as he slammed a system that allows the very rich to pay taxes at a lower rate than the middle class.
Jim Snyder / The Hill:
MoveOn depicts Dingell as a dinosaur  —  MoveOn is paying for radio advertisements depicting Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) as a dinosaur whose views on global warming haven't kept pace with the times.  —  In the ads, which begin running today in Ann Arbor, Mich., a father tests his son's knowledge of dinosaurs.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
John Mackey: Libertarian Fascist?  —  Jonah Goldberg's much-delayed Liberal Fascism used to be subtitled "The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton."  It's got a new subtitle: … Whole Foods was co-founded by current Chairman and CEO John Mackey, who in a 2005 reason …
 
 
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James Gerstenzang / Los Angeles Times:
Bush condemns radical Muslims in visit to mosque
Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Paulson Details Plan to Review U.S. Regulatory System
David Barboza / New York Times:
In Food Safety Crackdown, China Closes 180 Plants
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Key Criteria For Ensign on the Immigration Bill
Pete Wells / New York Times:
Chef Sues Over Intellectual Property (the Menu)
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House GOP rebukes Senate bill
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USA Today:
Under new Baghdad plan, U.S. is a careful referee
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Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
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Agence France Presse:
Blair not my poodle, Bush says
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Israel lets Hamas member enter Gaza
 

 
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