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3:45 PM ET, June 27, 2007

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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.) …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and On Deadline
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Salon
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow
Discussion: First Draft
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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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
Gateway Pundit:
MASS RIOTING Against the Regime in Iran (Video!)  —  RIOTING IN IRAN!!  —  The latest gas crisis has the people rioting against the Regime!  —  ** Report: Upset crowds set fire to some 50 gas stations in Tehran!  —  ** Another Report: "The Situation is Out of Control!"  —  Video from a Leftist Iranian website.
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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.
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Giuliani Gets a Standing Ovation At a Christian College  —  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Mayor Giuliani's battle to win over social conservatives in the Republican Party may not be the impossible task that many political pundits have predicted.  —  That certainly appeared to be the case yesterday …
Discussion: race42008.com
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Wayne Barrett / Village Voice:   No Wafer for Rudy  —  Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God
hrc.org:
BUSH ISSUES VETO THREAT FOR D.C. APPROPRIATIONS BILL OVER DOMESTIC PARTNER REGISTRY  —  WASHINGTON — In what has become a typical political maneuver, President Bush, with approval ratings at an all-time low, has issued a veto threat of the Washington, D.C., appropriations bill because it allows …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Pam's House Blend
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Senate Judiciary Subpoenas OVP
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Giuliani Slams Bill Clinton on Terrorism  —  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.
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.
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 …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Cowardly Jonah  —  Jonah's book title is now: … The graphic at Amazon reflects the original title.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
National Review:
Pants Down  —  Here's something new.  The first true Internet-Age presidential campaign was in 2004.  The first major Internet-Age Supreme Court nomination was Harriet Miers, in 2005.  Now, in 2007, we've got what is arguably the first truly major down-and-dirty Roberts-rules …
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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Stabbed In the Back  —  Ross Douthat keeps giving credence to this …
Edward Epstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
GOP senators kill bid to unionize by card check
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Journeys of a shared life
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Jim Snyder / The Hill:
MoveOn depicts Dingell as a dinosaur
James Gerstenzang / Los Angeles Times:
Bush condemns radical Muslims in visit to mosque
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In Food Safety Crackdown, China Closes 180 Plants
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The Cheney Irony  —  I'm a longtime member of a pretty select group …
 

 
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