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6:45 AM ET, June 29, 2007

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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration  —  With competing blocs of justices claiming the mantle of Brown v. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court declared Thursday that public school systems cannot seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures …
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Justices End 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors  —  Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled today that it is no longer automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on setting minimum retail prices.  —  The decision will give producers …
New York Times:
Resegregation Now  —  The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation's schools to integrate.  Yesterday, the court switched sides and told two cities that they cannot take modest steps …
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked  —  Enforcing its edict against execution of the insane, a split United States Supreme Court today overturned the death sentence of a delusional Texas murderer who insisted he was being punished for preaching the gospel.
Discussion: TalkLeft
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John Edwards responds....  John Edwards followed Coulter a day later and said that we need to fight back against attacks like Ann's on Hardball.  —  Download (1746) |  Play (1981) Download (946) |  Play (1304) … MATTHEWS: OK.  Yes, Senator Edwards now, I guess the question last night …
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TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Crashing
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Press Release by C&L concerning Brent Bozell's attack on Elizabeth Edwards
MSNBC:   'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for June 27
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Fairness Doctrine hammered 309-115  —  The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
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Michelle Malkin:
Fairness Doctrine Watch: Pence on the House floor...amendment accepted...Rep. Obey derides talk radio and "yap-yap TV;" "Let right-wing talk radio go on just as it is now.  Rush and Sean are just about as important in the scheme of things as Paris Hilton."  Update: Amendment passes!
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:   The "Fairness Doctrine" Loses
Guardian:
Car bomb found in London  —  A car bomb was today defused in central London after a member of the public alerted Scotland Yard to a suspicious vehicle.  —  A police source said: "The indications that we have got so far are that it was certainly a big device."
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Associated Press:
Police Discover, Defuse Bomb in London  —  LONDON — Police defused an explosive device found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack.
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Do Idiots Run Washington?  —  I don't blame any American for wondering.  Did you see the NYTimes picture of the illegal immigrants immigration-bill proponents brought to the Senate??  —  As a Senate friend said to me about it: "all they did was remind people what the problem is.
Discussion: alicublog, Done With Mirrors and TBogg
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pelosi, Reid plan new push to end war  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders.
Discussion: The Belmont Club, Redstate and QandO
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who's behind Hot Air's attack ads?  Update: WSJ issues correction  —  It's come to this, my friends.  Having been routed this morning on the Senate floor, the open-borders shills at the WSJ turn, as they must, to vengeful, vintage-nutroots conspiracy smears.
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Daily Mail:
Putin's Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic - so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
Discussion: Daimnation! and Wizbang
Fred File:
A Good Day  —  This has been a good day for America.  —  For a while, it didn't look like Washington was going to listen to us regarding real immigration reform.  Thankfully, we've been spared a serious mistake, but I wonder if things would have turned out the way they did without the work done …
Discussion: IMAO, Instapundit.com and Hot Air
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low  —  NEW YORK — Americans are giving bad grades all around.  President Bush's job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president's job performance.
 
 
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Mark Leon Goldberg / UN Dispatch:
Budget Crunch at IAEA = Scary
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Charles / Pollster.com:
WHAT TO DO ABOUT AL GORE?  —  Despite his repeated assertions …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Dems denounce court desegregation ruling
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Michael Moore denied entry into the NYSE
BBC:
Valleys soldier killed in Iraq
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Imagines Cuba After Castro's Death
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
Fox Poll: More Americans Trust Dems to Handle World War III Against Islamofascists!
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Europe's Beleaguered Drug Companies
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and The RBC
Jim Romenesko / Poynter Online:
Why WSJ reporters didn't show up for work Thursday
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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