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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Stevens threatens to block ethics bill — Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic-drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week's end.
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Matt / Think Progress:
Cheney On Whether He Ordered Hospital Visit To Ashcroft: I Have 'No Recollection' — On Sunday, Josh Marshall pointed out that the New York Times editorial on the potential need to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that "Vice President Dick Cheney sent Mr. Gonzales and another official …
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White House:
Interview of the Vice President by Larry King, CNN — Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building — Q We're located in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office; it's in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, with the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Appears to Have Enough Votes to Clinch Deal — News Corp. is poised to win control of Dow Jones & Co., including its flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, after a key Bancroft trust changed its mind and decided to accept News Corp.'s $60-a-share offer for the newspaper publisher.
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New York Times:
Murdoch Seen to Win Control of Dow Jones — Rupert Murdoch appeared today to have gained enough support from the deeply divided Bancroft family to buy Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for $5 billion. — Family members and trusts representing about 32 percent …
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Lauren Rich Fine / The Huffington Post:The Devil You Know — One can forgive the Bancroft family …
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Romenesko
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
BREAKING... Home Depot dumps O'Reilly: "We will not... advertise on the Bill O'Reilly show" — Home Depot seems to have had a change of heart. They're now unequivocally telling their customers that they will not advertise on Bill O'Reilly's show. Oddly, however, they're now also claiming …
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Mike Stark / Daily Kos:
I just returned from Falafel Bill's house — After O'Reilly provided an "accountability moment" to the JetBlue CEO at his home, I decided to provide O'Reilly with his own accountability moment at his home. — I've just returned to home base. — I've got video of O'Reilly in his sleepwear (red shorts and a white t-shirt).
The Raw Story:
'Conflict' keeps Rumsfeld from Tillman hearing — Update: This story has been updated to reflect comment from the Oversight Committee's Republican staff. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will not testify at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday on the friendly fire death …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Ken Layne Needs To Drum Up Weak Traffic At Wonkette, So He Endorses Strong-Form of Tillman Assassination Theory — And of course the hits are flying in. — So annoying that a sissyblog like Wonkette can get all the traffic from the left any day they choose simply by deciding to be insane.
Matt / Think Progress:
Specter: McConnell Letter Doesn't Cut It, Waiting To Hear Directly From Gonzales — Yesterday, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, gave the Bush administration until noon today "to resolve the controversy over apparent contradictions in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's congressional testimony."
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Nicholas Wapshott / New York Sun:
Brown Disappoints Critics of Iraq War — Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, has disappointed American and British critics of the war in Iraq by declaring that he believes the West is involved in a "generation-long battle" against radical Islamic terrorism, that he believes …
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Gallup Poll:
Public Confidence in Presidential Hopefuls on Key 2008 Election Issues — No candidate has a clear edge on Iraq — PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Panel survey finds each of the five best-known 2008 presidential candidates scoring similarly in ratings of public confidence in their ability …
Matthew Sanchez / Matt Sanchez:
BEAUCHAMP — After a helicopter ride around Baghdad, this afternoon I arrived at Forward Operating Base Falcon, where the mood was somber. The Army has begun an official investigation into The New Republic articles of the "Baghdad Diarist", Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Why Pelosi Opposes Impeachment — If she were not in the House—and not Speaker of the House—Nancy Pelosi says she "would probably advocate" impeaching President Bush. — But given her current role as party leader, at a breakfast with progressive journalists today (named …
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Sister Toldjah, The Republic of T., DownWithTyranny!, Campaign for America's Future and Taylor Marsh
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