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8:55 AM ET, July 2, 2007

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Daily Mail:
Two doctors held over bomb attacks  —  While police swoop on motorway to arrest woman in a veil  —  Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots in London and Glasgow.  —  One was one of two men who tried to drive a blazing Jeep packed with petrol …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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New York Times:
In Hunt for Bomb Plotters, Britain Sees a Qaeda Link  —  With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Telegraph:
Britain's terror crackdown  —  Cars were banned from approaching airport terminals last night as unprecedented security measures were enforced to combat a suspected al-Qa'eda bombing campaign.  —  The terrorist threat level was at "critical" - its highest - after two car bombs were found …
Discussion: Hot Air, Guardian, Sky News and Tim Worstall
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease  —  Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute  —  At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers.  One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians …
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama leads — in cash  —  $32 million in the second quarter will allow him to 'vigorously' compete in important early states  —  WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) beat chief rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in second-quarter fund-raising …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Taegan Goddard's …
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The Politico:
Obama, Clinton smash fundraising records  —  Hillary Clinton may be the one consistently coming out top when Democratic voters are asked who they want to be their presidential candidate, but Barack Obama seems to be the one they reach into their wallets for.
John Solomon / Washington Post:
Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised  —  Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
More London bombings on way, warns Muslim  —  UK Islamist leader claims Brits ready to carry out 'many attacks'  —  JERUSALEM - The thwarted car bombings in London last week and the terror attack this weekend against Scotland's busiest airport were "completely justified" …
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Observer:
My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror  —  As the bombers return to Britain, Hassan Butt, who was once a member of radical group Al-Muhajiroun, raising funds for extremists and calling for attacks on British citizens, explains why he was wrong  —  When I was still a member …
ABCNEWS:
Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned  —  Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11  —  A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
You don't say: U.S. captures top Hezbollah bombmaker in Iraq; Update: Video added  —  Not even the left will be surprised by this but they'll publicly scoff and attack the story anyway lest it give any more credence to Bush's complaints about Iran.  Greenwald used that same "reasoning" …
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Michael Ware / CNN:
Officials: Hezbollah agent helped plan Iraq raid
Discussion: Defense Tech
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Victory For Free Speech  —  If you believe most of the newspaper editorials and the outraged complaints from self-styled reform groups last week, the Supreme Court opened a huge "loophole" in campaign finance law that will enable corporations and unions to pollute the political process with their ads.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Don Surber
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Angelo M. Codevilla / New York Post:
THE REAL SINS OF THE CIA  —  THE CIA last week released a heavily redacted version of a 1973 report what it considers its fathers' sins.  There was nothing new: In the '70s and '80s, agency employees on all sides of the quarrels over what the CIA should do shopped their versions of the report …
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Times:
Virginia isn't for drivers  —  Starting today, Virginia drivers are in for one of the region's most egregious money grabs in a long time.  Authorities are slated to begin imposing a jaw-dropping $1,050 "abuser fee" on drivers registered in-state who are caught speeding 20 or more mph over the limit.
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey; Commanded Submarine Attacks on Japanese Shipping  —  Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey, one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses for his daring submarine attacks on Japanese shipping, died June 28 at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Richard Gray / Telegraph:
Babies not as innocent as they pretend  —  Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time.  Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Leahy: If Bush And Cheney Don't Cooperate With Subpoenas He Will Push To Find Them In Contempt Of Congress  —  Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy, (D-VT) was on "Meet The Press" this morning to discuss the ongoing DOJ and White House scandals. and clearly states …
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Bennett Roth / Houston Chronicle:
Local GOP on the Hill push own spending wish lists
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Associated Press:
GI's illegal immigrant wife gets amnesty
Andrew Martin / New York Times:
Labels Lack Food's Origin Despite Law
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Florida election mayhem for 2008
Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
School Choice, Yes; Racial Quotas, No
Discussion: Power Line and Joanne Jacobs
Michael Tomasky / New York Review of Books:
Can We Know Her?  —  A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
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StrategyPage:
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Rasmussen Reports:
Following Immigration Debate, Number of Republicans in USA Increases
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Bad For the GOP
The Corner:
Franchise operation  —  Tim Blair provides a fine example …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
CanadaJon / Progressive Daily Beacon Opinion Pieces:
Progressive Daily Beacon Opinion Piece
Discussion: The Newshoggers and CANNONFIRE
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Was campaigning against voter fraud a Republican ploy?
Jonathan Wynne-Jones / Telegraph:
Floods are judgment on society, say bishops
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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