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8:55 AM ET, June 28, 2007

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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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Bloomberg:
Immigration Measure in Doubt Over Senate Defections  —  The fate of U.S. immigration legislation was cast into doubt when at least six senators who helped revive the proposed overhaul said they either oppose or are leaning against a move to permit a vote on final passage.
Washington Post:
Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again  —  Defeat of Amendments Briefly Raised Hopes  —  The Senate yesterday turned back a series of amendments from both parties aimed at substantially altering controversial immigration legislation, but the bill shed supporters as it became mired …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
New Senators Resist Overhaul of Immigration
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Rob Bluey / Bluey Blog:
Earmarks in the Amnesty Bill: Trading Votes for Pork
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
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 …
Discussion: the talking dog and Obsidian Wings
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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
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.
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.
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots and Althouse
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
A guide to Thursday's session
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: Edwards says Coulter's 'crazy'  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro  —  A day after his wife Elizabeth called in to MSNBC's "Hardball" to confront conservative commentator Ann Coulter, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards made his own appearance on the show.
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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.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and On Deadline
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Paris Hilton, Free To Speak Her Mind (Such as It Is)  —  Guilty pleasure?  No, not really.  It was more just guilty guilt — though Paris Hilton, the subject of the interview seen round the world on CNN last night, kept insisting that she had passed a crossroads in life and is a better person because of it.
Discussion: New York Times and NewsBusters.org
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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: Althouse, Hot Air 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 …
Melissa Nelson / Associated Press:
Fla. sheriff targets illegals  —  PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective — and controversial — way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.
 
 
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Laylan Copelin / Postcards from the Lege:
High court upholds dismissal of indictment against DeLay
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Redstate
Jeannette Walls / MSNBC:
PETA blasts Michael Moore for eating meat
Discussion: Don Surber
Donna Smith / Reuters:
U.S. Senate heads for crucial immigration vote
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Heather Hollingsworth / Associated Press:
A.G. clears Planned Parenthood
Discussion: Majikthise
MZollinger / Five Brothers Blog:
Some Video From America's Calling
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
Global Unease With Major World Powers
Discussion: Riehl World View
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National Review:
Cloture Tomorrow  —  A Senate source with well-established …
CNN Political Ticker:
Tancredo sends head of lettuce to Chertoff
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