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9:55 AM ET, June 28, 2007

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Bruce Fein / Slate:
Impeach Cheney  —  THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS RUN UTTERLY AMOK AND MUST BE STOPPED.  —  Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak.  In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability …
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Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:
The imperial vice presidency  —  New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip.  —  Vice President Cheney speaks about the war in Iraq on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Cheney and the National Security Secrets Fraud
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Illegals bill loses support in Senate  —  The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning's showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.
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James Risen / New York Times:
White House Is Subpoenaed on Wiretapping  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the Justice Department after what the panel's chairman called "stonewalling of the worst kind" of efforts to investigate …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Bush facing GOP mutiny over immigration  —  The bitter fight over a comprehensive immigration overhaul has pushed President Bush and his fellow Republicans to the brink of divorce — and, for the first time, the opportunities for reconciliation appear severely limited.
Discussion: Donklephant
Donna Smith / Reuters:
U.S. Senate heads for crucial immigration vote
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
New Senators Resist Overhaul of Immigration  —  In narrowly winning her seat last year, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri ran hard against what she saw as a flawed approach in Congress to dealing with illegal immigration.  Ms. McCaskill, a Democratic newcomer, says she is not about to change her view now.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog:
NBC's David Gregory thinks we just need to "strip away" Ann Coulter's inflammatory rhetoric to listen to her points  —  Not kidding.  According to NBC's David Gregory we're all missing the very important points that Ann Coulter makes because we get caught up in her hate speech.
Discussion: Eschaton
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USA Today:
Bloomberg: Neither party 'stands for anything'  —  NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who became an independent last week, showed his non-partisan colors Wednesday by criticizing both political parties.  —  Bloomberg, who left the GOP and is asked almost daily about running for president …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Bloomberg: Both Parties Have Become Meaningless
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts  —  $2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million  —  The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.
Ana Marie Cox / Time:
Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation  —  The reporter intended the anecdote that opened part four of the Boston Globe's profile of Mitt Romney to illustrate, as the story said, "emotion-free crisis management": Father deals with minor — but gross — incident during a 1983 family vacation, and saves the day.
Evan Coyne Maloney / Brain-Terminal.com:
New York Times Covers Indoctrinate U  —  27 June 2007 @ 8:28AM >> Today's New York Times contains a discussion of Indoctrinate U and the issue of free speech on campus.  —  Most of the article was spent addressing cases that weren't in the film, rather than addressing what was in the film.
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Bloomberg:
Thompson's Backers Check His `Fire in the Belly' for 2008 Race  —  Fred Thompson looks the part, and usually gets it.  —  Long before he became a Hollywood actor, people offered him roles tailor-made for his imposing stature, his rich baritone and his homespun dignity.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
CQ Radio Scoop: Fred Thompson Statement
David Adesnik / OxBlog:
STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO MICHAEL MOORE: To what extent does criticism, no matter how harsh or how justified, only build Moore up into a bigger celebrity?  If one wanted to completely marginalize a public figure, how would one go about it?  The answer is not that if you ignore him, he'll go away.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Jeannette Walls / MSNBC:
PETA blasts Michael Moore for eating meat
Discussion: Don Surber
Robert M. Dunn Jr / TCS Daily:
How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself  —  As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration's reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory.
Hal R. Varian / New York Times:
An iPod Has Global Value.  Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It.  —  Who makes the Apple iPod?  Here's a hint: It is not Apple.  The company outsources the entire manufacture of the device to a number of Asian enterprises, among them Asustek, Inventec Appliances and Foxconn.
Discussion: EconLog
Eric Pooley / Time:
Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Speaks  —  "They're taking five billion dollars out of me and want to keep control," Rupert Murdoch was saying into the phone, "in an industry in crisis!  They can't sell their company and still control it — that's not how it works.  I'm sorry!"
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Even in Agreement, Scalia Puts Roberts to Lash  —  It's not every day that one Supreme Court justice, even one as rhetorically unrestrained as Justice Antonin Scalia, characterizes another justice, let alone the chief justice of the United States, as a wimp and a hypocrite.
Sharon Begley / Newsweek:
How your brain makes political decisions  —  Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the polls—while appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold?  A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.
Discussion: Hot Air, Althouse and TPMCafe blogs
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Fired Prosecutor Says Gonzales Pushed Death Penalty  —  Figures Show Attorney General Often Overrules U.S. Attorneys' Arguments Against Capital Charges  —  Paul K. Charlton, one of nine U.S. attorneys fired last year, told members of Congress yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales …
 
 
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Immigration Bill Prompts Some Menacing Responses
Julian Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq strategy geared to U.S. pullout
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bill Had His Al, and Hillary Might Have Her Bill
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Immigration Stance Is Costly for McCain
CNN:
Report: Iraqi force training producing 'mixed results'
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Paris Hilton, Free To Speak Her Mind (Such as It Is)
Heather Hollingsworth / Associated Press:
A.G. clears Planned Parenthood
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Melissa Nelson / Associated Press:
Fla. sheriff targets illegals
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Global Unease With Major World Powers
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