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1:05 PM ET, July 1, 2007

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A Political Force With Many Philosophies  —  Survey of Independents, Who Could Be Key in 2008, Finds Attitudes From Partisan to Apathetic  —  Fred Wood, a Marietta, Ohio, retiree, voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and John F. Kerry in 2004.  In last year's midterm elections, he voted Republican for Senate and Democratic for governor.
Michael Yon:
Bless the Beasts and Children  —  Where did they go?  —  On 29 June, American and Iraqi soldiers were again fighting side-by-side as soldiers from Charley Company 1-12 CAV, led by Captain Clayton Combs, and Iraqi soldiers from the 5th IA, closed in on a village on the outskirts of Baqubah.
Lynne Olson / Washington Post:
Why Winston Wouldn't Stand For W  —  George W. Bush always wanted to be like a wartime British prime ministers.  He is.  But it's not the one he had in mind.  —  President Bush's favorite role model is, famously, Jesus, but Winston Churchill is close behind.
Curtis Raye / Political Radar:
Obama tops $30 million in second quarter  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: A source close to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says his presidential campaign raised more than $30 million during the second quarter, which ended yesterday.  —  That figure tops Obama's haul during …
Discussion: Upper Left and The Raw Story
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi lays blame for missed goals on Senate  —  (06-30) 04:00 PDT Washington — The problem for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't just President Bush.  It's the Senate.  —  Pelosi sounded more apologetic than celebratory Friday when she announced with her Senate counterpart …
NEWS.com.au:
Roswell aliens theory revived by deathbed confession  —  EXACTLY 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 3000m.  —  Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft.  —  Visibility was good and as pilot …
Discussion: Tim Worstall and Jules Crittenden
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Gangsta rap on death row as the US tunes out  —  To judge by their lyrics, gangsta rappers are adept at seeing off rivals with a bullet and their women with a slap.  —  But America's rappers are now trapped in a corner they don't seem able to shoot their way out of, with either weapons or words.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Lieberman Uses Foiled British Terror Plot To Push For Greater U.S. Domestic Spying  —  Appearing on ABC's This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States.  Lieberman said, "I hope these terrorist attacks …
Free Lance-Star:
Centenary a modern sci-fi giant  —  PRINCE WILLIAM County—When Robert A. Heinlein opened his Colorado Springs newspaper on April 5, 1958, he read a full-page ad demanding that the Eisenhower administration stop testing nuclear weapons.  The science-fiction author was flabbergasted.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Nicholas Watt / Observer:
Blair launches stinging attack on 'absurd' British Islamists  —  Tony Blair has launched a powerful attack on 'absurd' British Islamists who have nurtured a false 'sense of grievance' that they are being oppressed by Britain and the United States.  —  In his most outspoken remarks on Islamists …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and AMERICAblog
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Fire We Can't Run From  —  "Sometimes you just have to let a fire burn."  George Shultz, a former secretary of state who was trained as an industrial economist, is said to have made that remark about labor negotiations that have reached an impasse.  There is a growing sense among Americans that we must apply this precept to Iraq.
Freeman Dyson / New York Review of Books:
Our Biotech Future  —  1.  —  It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.  Two facts about the coming century are agreed on by almost everyone.
Thomas Catán / Times of London:
Waiters join the war on drugs as cocaine use soars in Spain  —  Madrid has unveiled its latest weapon in the war on drugs: the humble Spanish waiter.  —  Alarmed by soaring cocaine use, the Spanish Government plans to train waiters and barmen in the subtle art of spotting punters who may be using the lavatories too often.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Tim Worstall
New York Times:
Perspective on Her Side, Mrs. Edwards Enters Fray  —  Three months after Elizabeth Edwards said that her cancer had returned in inoperable form, her role and influence in John Edwards's presidential campaign is undiminished.  She has made a flurry of charged public appearances …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Bush Is Told to Justify Executive Privilege  —  The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees yesterday ratcheted up their fight with President Bush over documents on the firing of U.S. attorneys, sending the White House a barbed letter demanding that the president back down from a claim …
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