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4:25 PM ET, July 2, 2007

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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: Libby Motion For Release On Bond Pending Appeal — DENIED  —  Breaking news from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion issued just moments ago, Judges Sentelle, Henderson and Tatel say the following: … It it a per curiam opinion issued on July 2, 2007, and initialled by all three of the judges.
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CNN Political Ticker:
Appeals court rejects Libby's bid for bail  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal appeals court Monday rejected former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby's request to remain free on bond while appealing his March conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
Cary O'Reilly / Bloomberg:
Libby, Ex-Cheney Aide, Must Go to Jail During Appeal  —  Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, must go to prison while appealing his conviction for obstructing a CIA leak probe, a U.S. appeals court said.  —  Libby may be behind bars within weeks …
Reuters:
Appeals court won't delay Libby prison term  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday lost his bid to delay serving his 2 1/2-year prison sentence while he appeals his conviction in the CIA leak case.  —  Conservatives have pressured President George W. Bush …
Discussion: Salon and Grasping Reality …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Court Denies Request to Delay Libby Sentence  —  A federal appeals court ruled today that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, must report to prison shortly to begin serving his 30-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about his role in leaking a CIA officer's identity.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LIBBY LOSES ANOTHER APPEAL....If Scooter Libby is counting …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Wilson: Proponents Of Libby Pardon Are 'Accessories To An Ongoing Crime'
Discussion: Firedoglake
ABCNEWS:
McCain Shakes Up Campaign  —  McCain, Trailing in Fundraising and Polls, Shakes Up 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  John McCain's campaign, trailing top Republican rivals in money and polls, is undergoing a significant reorganization with staff cuts in every department, officials with knowledge of the shake-up said Monday.
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Ryan Sager / Latest Politics:
McCain Watch: Watch This Space  —  Watch this space, as we'll be coming to you live with the details of today's 2 p.m. McCain conference call, where we should find out his 2nd quarter fundraising total and hear a bit about these staff trims...  2:00: Pre-call, I hear: The campaign …
Discussion: Reason Magazine and Townhall.com
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain camp raises $11.2 million in 2Q
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney, McCain address secretive group
Opinion Journal:
Jihad in Britain  —  The terrorists don't seem to care that Tony Blair is gone.  —  Barely 48 hours on the job, Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown got a lesson in the realities of the post-9/11 world.  —  Terrorist plots in London and Glasgow pushed the U.K.'s security alert …
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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 …
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Bill Schneider / CNN:   Obama's cash shakes up race
isna.ir:
ISNA - Tehran  —  TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.  —  This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.
Discussion: Kamangir, Hot Air and theneweditor.com
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Presidential Pity Party  —  The WaPo is hosting a Presidential pity party this morning — but a closer read shows some significant cracks in the sympathy and hand holding facade.  To wit: … How, exactly, can you learn from the study of history when you refuse to apply history's lessons to yourself …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s  —  Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.  —  Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran
Discussion: SteveAudio and TalkLeft
MSNBC:
Deadly blast at Yemen tourist site  —  7 Spaniards, 2 Yemenis dead in apparent al-Qaida-linked suicide bombing  —  Security guards inspect the scene of a car bomb attack Monday in the Yemeni province of Marib.  —  MSNBC video  —  Blast kills tourists  —  July 2: A suicide bomb attack in Yemen kills at least eight people.
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Associated Press:   9 die in Yemen suicide blast, officials say
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Staying Calm and Carrying On  —  The worrying aspect of the British terror-rash is that it's obviously an amateur effort, inspired rather than organized by al Qaeda.  This means we are likely to face more of these things, but that most of them are not going to be massively successful.
Risa Goluboff / Slate:
HOW CONSERVATIVES APPROPRIATED BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION.  —  The Supreme Court's decision in last week's school desegregation cases represents the culmination of a 50-year-old debate about the meaning and content of Brown v. Board of Education.  The conservatives have now taken over Brown, no question.
Discussion: The Corner
Brian Katulis / Center for American Progress:
Iraq Four Years Later: From "Bring 'Em On" to Bait and Switch  —  Today marks four long years since President Bush goaded militants in Iraq to attack U.S. troops, telling them to "Bring 'em on": "There are some that feel like if they attack us, that we may decide to leave prematurely.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Voting Rights Turnabout  —  A victory for disfranchised Mississippi voters—and they happen to be white.  —  Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
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Jon Soltz / The Huffington Post:
B.I.O. Day  —  For those of us in the military, and Americans …
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Nigel Hawkes / Times of London:
Q&A: Mohammad Asha and foreign doctors
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Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
Jets shredded, kept away from 'bad guys'
Michelle Malkin:
The diminished credibility of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity
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