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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 …
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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 …
leahy.senate.gov:
U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY — CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242 — VERMONT — Senate Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas — For Legal Basis Of Bush Administration's — Domestic Surveillance Program — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
SJC Wants WH, DOJ's Own "Family Jewels" — The CIA's declassification of its "family jewels" — decades-old files on scandals past — may have attracted a ton of attention, but the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon subpoenaed the Bush administration's family jewels …
James Risen / New York Times:
Senate Issues Subpoenas in Wiretapping Investigation — The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a series of subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Cheney's office, and the Justice Department today related to the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program …
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Rioting In Iran — Here's some video: — For some reason, this isn't front-page news. It should be. You can see more photos from a Tehran blogger here. Australia's ABC News is on the case. FT has a story here. Gateway Pundit has gone cable on it. Blogger Winston opines: … Know hope.
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Boston Globe:
Journeys of a shared life — Raising sons, rising expectations bring unexpected turns — The five Romney boys each had their own profiles within the family. As Tagg would later describe his brothers, Matt was "the jokester, always pushing people's buttons" and Josh was "the typical middle child …
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Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Romney's Shaggy Dog Story — I can't be the only one who finds, in this anecdote, something else entirely besides, "emotion-free crisis management": … Unless by "emotion-free" you mean, "the kind of cold fish who could feel no emotion about strapping his dog to the roof of his car."
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.
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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.
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Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Clinton Surpasses Obama in Site Traffic Race, Paul Rockets to First
Clinton Surpasses Obama in Site Traffic Race, Paul Rockets to First
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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.
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Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Romney in Deep Doo-Doo? — I'll have a more formal version of this story up in a bit, but: it turns out that strapping your dog to the roof of your car might actually be against Massachusetts state law, which says anyone who … Not that we can lock him him up.
National Review:
Senate Sausage — Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the Heritage Foundation, e-mails:
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Leader's Journal releases of democrats:
Senate Republicans: The "Grand Obstructionist Party" — While Senate Democrats are determined to move America in a new direction, Senate Republicans are doing their best to stop change at every turn. Senate Republicans are forcing the Senate to waste hours upon hours debating meaningless motions …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Meet The Press Roundtable To Feature Christian Broadcasting Network Blogger — ThinkProgress has learned that this Sunday's edition of NBC's Meet the Press will include a journalist roundtable featuring David Brody, a blogger and news correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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White House:
President Bush Rededicates Islamic Center of Washington — The Islamic Center of Washington, Washington, D.C. — Fact Sheet: Strengthening Our Friendship with the Muslim Community Worldwide — THE PRESIDENT: Imam, thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me. I bring my personal respect to you, sir.