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9:40 AM ET, June 2, 2008

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Fafnir / Fafblog:
The Audacity Of Hope  —  So now everybody's all “oh, Hillary Clinton can't win the nomination” and “oh, Hillary Clinton can't be president” and “oh, Hillary Clinton, haven't they sedated her yet.”  Well that's just talking crazy talk!  There's tons a stuff that can happen between …
Discussion: The Sideshow
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Winning Again, Clinton Weighs Her Options
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:   Clinton Ponders Next Move in Marathon Race
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama-Clinton marathon near the line
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:   Clinton seeks to go after Obama superdelegates
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Wins Easily in Puerto Rico
Discussion: marbury
The Politico:
Clinton wins big in Puerto Rico
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Popular Vote Total After Puerto Rico
SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:
[VIDEO UPDATE] BREAKING NEWS on “Whitey” Tape from Fox News: A TV Network HAS the Tape  —  Here's the text version at TVEyes.com:  —  FNC 06/01/2008 14:43:30: ...>>>  welcome back to our special coverage live coverage from puerto rico. just before the break, roger stone the republican strategist …
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Booman Tribune:
The Michelle Tape  —  My old friend, Larry Johnson, knows about manipulating elections from his training with the Central Intelligence Agency.  He doesn't want Obama to win the nomination for whatever reason, and he's in full propaganda mode to do everything he can to frighten the superdelegates.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton camp converging on New York Tuesday, and shedding staff  —  Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes.
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Boston Globe:
Senator Kennedy to have brain surgery this morning  —  Senator Edward M. Kennedy is undergoing surgery for his malignant brain tumor at Duke University this morning, his office announced today.  —  The surgery is to begin about 9 a.m. and will last approximately six hours.
Discussion: Pam's House Blend and Truthdig
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CNN:
Kennedy to have brain surgery Monday  —  BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) — Sen. Edward Kennedy announced Monday he will undergo surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor.  —  “Over the past several days, Vicki and I, along with my outstanding team of doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital …
Mike Baker / Associated Press:   Kennedy to undergo surgery at Duke for brain tumor
William Kristol / New York Times:
What Obama Left Out  —  Commencement speeches are hard.  —  I gave one at a college about seven years ago.  I labored over it, consulting orations from years past, writing and rewriting drafts.  I ended up with remarks that struck me — even while I delivered them — as banal and platitudinous.
Guardian:
US accused of holding suspects on prison ships  —  The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.
Oliver Burkeman / Guardian:
Hillary: my part in her downfall  —  As Hillary Clinton's doomed presidential bid draws to a painful close, one man has been cast as the scapegoat.  In his first interview, Mark Penn, the candidate's former chief strategist, talks to Oliver Burkeman about what went wrong
Jaketapper / Political Punch:
Rev. Pfleger: “America is the Greatest Sin Against God”  —  In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger's sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama's now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side of Chicago, the longtime Obama associate condemns America for racism in fairly harsh terms.
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Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Cuts Ties With Church
Discussion: Don Surber
New York Times:
Mr. Rove Talks, but Doesn't Answer  —  In a recent appearance on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Karl Rove was asked if he had a role in the Justice Department's decision to prosecute Don Siegelman.  The former Democratic governor of Alabama was convicted and sentenced to more than seven years …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
In Louisiana, Inklings of a New (True) Champion of the Right  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — Religion and fiscal stringency have a friendly home at the state Capitol here, with a conservative, Bobby Jindal, in the governor's office, a host of straight-arrow novice legislators eager to please …
Discussion: TIME.com
Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Muslim seminary issues fatwa against terrorism  —  A Muslim Indian seminary which is said to have inspired the Taliban has issued a fatwa against terrorism, insisting that Islam is a religion of peace.  —  Senior clerics from the 150-year-old Darul Uloom Deoband issued the edict saying they wished to wipe out terrorism.
Discussion: Mercury Rising
 
 
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Fox News:
Large Explosion Rocks Danish Embassy in Pakistan, at Least 5 Killed
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, “Partially Jewish, As Was …
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Annie Groer / The Huffington Post:
After Buyouts, The Goodbyes: Washington Post Staffers Gather …
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Libertarians Dream of Being the Tie-Breaker
Stuart Silverstein / Top of the Ticket:
McCain proposes squeezing Iran financially
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Favor President Meeting With U.S. Enemies
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Stephen Farrell / New York Times:
Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful Few
Hindrocket / Power Line:
A STRATEGIC RETREAT?  —  We wrote here about Barack Obama's Iraq dilemma.
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Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
State Dept. Reinstates Gaza Fulbright Grants
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Associated Press:
Marine, back from Iraq, shot dead in his home town
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
William E. Odom, 75; Military Adviser to 2 Administrations
David Harrison / Telegraph:
Christian preachers face arrest in Birmingham
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The day the Democrats lost it  —  From Dana Milbank's coverage …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Scripting News
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Look Who's Tough on Iran Now
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
It's All About Leverage  —  Barack Obama is getting painfully close …
 

 
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Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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